When this post first went live, the data says that most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”. Does it matter?
Archives for June 2021
Not a vanity purchase: Death on the Reik Companion review
The Companion itself extends the “director’s cut” metaphor to describe the re-release of the Warhammer Fantasy RPG adventure by using terminology such as “Deleted Scenes”, “Guest Commentaries”, and “Behind the Scenes”.
The secret history of Monopoly is as relevant today as it ever was
Hasbro has taken down an official timeline of the origins of Monopoly.
Computer RPG Scarlet Nexus shows off an action-packed trailer for its anime
Scarlet Nexus’ story gets into courage and heroism against a futuristic Japanese landscape inspired by anime and Western sci-fi. As you’d expect, it’s getting an anime of its own.
Genre Police: Towards a shared language
People had been using words in game with each other and only sort of even been in the same ballpark.
Geek culture discounts and discoveries include Appa lunch box
It’s Father’s Day, and weirdly that means sales. I’ve learned to notice this, not because I’m a good son, but because my blogging radar often tingles with good geek culture discounts and discoveries.
East Coast Trolls changed my mind on the $162,000 Copernia 5e Kickstarter
And here’s the rub; $40 for a campaign setting and anthology is adventures, with all digital stretch goals, is good value.
The confusing re-return of TSR Games and a potential dinosaur theme park
So we’re left to unearth these clues found scattered over their social media activities and one very sketchy press release.
Grading took more than a quarter of a million dollars off Detective Comics Batman auction
A copy of Detective Comics #27 has sold at Heritage Auctions for $1.125 million dollars. That’s a lot, but less the $1.5 one of the other 17 remaining copies went for late last year.
Cannibal Sector One Miniature Skirmish Game shuttered by Nightfall Games
A former “project we love” on Kickstarter, Cannibal Sector One Miniature Skirmish Game has had a tough life. Now it’s over.
