Don't Be Suspicious with Alex from Hootenanny Games - Boards & Swords #283
BackerKit has a huge selection of great RPG campaigns this month, speaking of crowdfunding, CMON might be back? And also, time to get dangerous in your D&D games! Plus, we have Alex Kimerling from Hootenanny Games on the show to talk about one of their newest board games, Sneaky Scallywags!
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Mega Dungeon Month (via BackerKit)
BackerKit is doing something really cool and innovative in the TTRPG crowdfunding space - a “Themed” month of campaigns, this time surrounding Megadungeons. If you go back at least 2 of the larger campaigns during this month, you will get a free bonus PDF with content from all of the companies participating! What a great way to foster some good campaigns and cross-support from all of the awesome companies participating.
Fantasy Flight calls time on Descent: Legends of the Dark, saying rising costs mean it was selling at a loss (via BoardGameWire)
FFG, apparently deciding that only LCGs and CCGs are worth their time, has pulled the plug on Descent: Legends of the Dark. According to them, they state that the costs of the game were rising too fast and that they were selling at a loss. However, we discuss how that can’t be the entire story, as if they really wanted to sell the game, there are other ways to go about this while still making a great product.
CMON eyes crowdfunding return after annual losses spiral to almost $20m (via BoardGameWire)
Even though CMON’s financials show them having a $20m loss last year, the company has announced that it will be rejoining the crowdfunding space later this year (or maybe, because of the loss??). The real question is, who is going to be backing any of their new campaigns? They still have multiple campaigns unfulfilled and several preorders of games that haven’t been delivered yet - not exactly the best situation to be in to when you go to launch a new crowdfunding campaign.
Fentasy Games looks to help complex game publishers avoid ‘strangulation’ of trad distribution with P500-style platform launch (via BoardGameWire)
More innovating options in the board gaming space! Fentasy Games, a French publisher, has launched the website “Board Game Commerce”, where people can pre-order upcoming games in a style similar to the “P500” method that GMT Games does with their wargames. Once a game has reached a certain threshold of pre-orders, Fentasy Games will put the game into production. The company claims that due to the niche nature of more complex board games, this type of system will allow more of these games to get put into production without companies having to worry about only focusing on games that will be super successes.
Villainous Options (via D&D Beyond)
Shiny, let’s roll some bad guys? Wizards of the Coast, on their “Unearthed Arcana” column, has thrown up a PDF of new D&D5.5 content surrounding creating evil characters. Unearthed Arcana is official 1st party content, but typically is what WotC uses to demo out new content before it becomes published in a sourcebook at a later time. So if you have ever wanted to make a lich, or a demonic summoner, or a death knight, now is your chance!
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