eBay has moved to place restrictions on many adult themed items in an update that targets anime and manga, but exempts Playboy.
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Competition: Doctor Who comic book – Alternating Current
Volume One of Doctor Who: Alternating Current collects the first four volumes of the comic book series in which the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors battle the Sea Devils.
Geek Native Patron gift: Buzzard! #1 and Buzzard! #2
Andrea has kindly made digital copies of Buzzard! #1 and #2 available as a limited giveaway. Rather than run a competition, Geek Native’s Patreons or anyone who is a Patreon before the 30th will get a copy.
RPG Smart Box: Smonex offers up an all-in-one player storage box
The idea behind Smonex’s “RPG Smart Box” is that it has everything you need to be a player on D&D night. There’s a space for dice, pencils and a character mini. There are drinking coasters, obviously, and notebook space.
Leo Carrasco’s Half-Tiefling Barbarian
Artist Leo Carrasco shared this Half-Tiefling Barbarian to Reddit. It sparked interesting conversions around half-Tieflings and, most of all looks amazing.
Audio EXP: #96 – Imagine being the idiot who got Pokemon banned from Walmart and Target
News from the tabletop hobby community on the week armed squabbles got Pokemon banned from Target, Paradox announced a competing Werewolf: The Apocalypse game and Games Workshop a new Age of Sigmar.
Knight of the Sun: The gorgeous moral dilemma of wicked 5e module
Knight of the Sun is an adventure that fully embraces that your party of so-called heroes could go the evil route.
The Orwell Youth Prize recognises games as storytelling
While the Orwell Prize rewards writers, journalists and campaigns for writing which helps with this push, the Orwell Youth Prize focuses on young people. It’s run by The Orwell Foundation, a UK charity.
Roll20 expands into virtual board games with MonsDRAWsity
MonsDRAWsity, a game about memory and monsters, is available on Roll20. It’s the virtual tabletop’s first officially supported board game.
Target and Wal-Mart place short term bans sales of Pokemon and trading cards
It’s not a contamination problem, not a ban designed to reduce the transfer of biological material as we battle against a stubborn pandemic.
