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This month! Fantasy Fantasy Baseball contest
Give us your starting 9 kinda 6 degrees of GAS
Extra points for why they are at what position
Then also Who are we playing Starting 9 in Game Designers
Well pick our favorite to win a copy of Fantasy Fantasy Baseball! And prob even a runner up to grab a prize from the prize closet.
KS—
Sprawlopolis— Button shy Games Tagmire -co-op and solo city building, think mini urban Honshu
Dungeonrunner (solo dungeon crawl card) Dave remind us of legality of making your box look like an already existing thing like old school Red box DnD
Empyreal:Spells and Steam— Level 99 from creator of Argent
News
Slay the Spire– Amazingly fun Steam Game
Acram Digital caught faking Reviews kicked off steam ( creators of 8min empire– and steam rails to riches)
(Still waiting semi patiently for Terraforming Mars on Steam)
Origins Preview is now Live on BGG (Next show likely our Origins preview)
Among the Stars App Released ($5)
Z-Man Acquires Love Letter from AEG
SDJ chat
SDJ
- Azul, by Michael Kiesling from Next Move Games
- Luxor, by Rüdiger Dorn from Queen Games
- The Mind, by Wolfgang Warsch from NSV
KDJ
Nominations for the Kennerspiel des Jahres
- Ganz schön clever, by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele
- Heaven & Ale, by Michael Kiesling and Andreas Schmidt from eggertspiele
- Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg, by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele
BGG Announcement (From Eric Martin)
PS on SDJ– Head honcho says Rule books suck?
Also hard part for SDJ is we have no idea what games are actually eligible each year b/c it’s from german releases
Talk About Origins Fiasco with them Rescinding an invitation to Larry Correia, author guest of honor?
- Also FWIW, registration and hotels have been a hot mess, as the admin team apparently struggles with growth again.
- Accused by third parties of being racist, sexist, etc.
- His reaction piece was highly critical of Origins leadership but more indicative of how being outspoken and political online can create enemies and issues that persist over time in our highly politicized world.
What we have been playing
Dan
Lorenzo il Magnifico with expansion
Adds–
Special tokens
New Leaders (speaking of Rule books snafu)
New Tower (5th tower all colors, top rewards for going last 2 spaces are special tokens)
Adaptation Tile — Makes it more expensive for one tower each turn 5-6-7-8
Family Tiles (Player powers!!)
Also starting goods bidding randomized with the families)
Dave
Star Trek Ascendancy: Borg Ascension expansion
Tons of Hearthstone – recent single player mode innovations
Tesla vs. Edison: Duel :)
No Thanks
Chris
Legends of Sleepy Hollow – With the Fleeples at Camp Ben! Playing through the whole game
Thurn and Taxis – my first time!
Glen More – my first time!
Lots of No Thanks
Arboretum – my first time!
Voyages of Marco Polo with TC
The Bloody Inn with Carnies expansion with TC
Wonderland (for ITTD)
CHARTERSTONE CHAT / Spirited Discussion with Dan and Chris
Law/Fitzy Stuff
Yarrington/ Zev Update
LAW Topics
- Don’t forget to promote upcoming IP law seminars for game designers at Origins and GenCon!!!
- Boarders Tabletop Game Studio scam related to Kickstarter (questions about whether this Asian fulfillment company and middle man is more troubling than KS campaigns gone bad based on creators)
- Legal Geek segment on point: http://legalgeekfitz.blogspot.com/2018/04/legal-geek-no-132-kickstarter-scam-for.html
- News Article: https://www.boardgameprices.com/articles/boarders-tabletop-game-studio-defrauds-thousands-in-kickstarter-scandal
- Compare to Palladium Robotech campaign issues, and the eventual suicide of the designer and dropping of the license ($1.4M backer funds gone with very little fulfillment), and other campaign failures/frauds.
- Sabacc Card Game App in court vs. Disney/Lucasfilm
- Comic-Con (the SDCC one) stands alone thanks to ™ wins in court
- Mage Company double-dipping with another Kickstarter campaign to fund shipping for the first sleeves campaign https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/8jllm8/fraudulent_kickstarter_creator_asks_backers_to/
- Space Goat Productions running a Wefunder campaign for people to invest in the company with a $5mil valuation https://wefunder.com/spacegoat
- Reddit chimes in, of course https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/8g4a1c/space_goat_productions_is_asking_2016_backers_to/
OTHER topics
- Lost in Space reboot
- Westworld
- Star Trek Discovery (because we have to bring some Trek just for Fitzy)
- Asmodee for sale?
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