Hello everyone! Calzone here, with a new section for !tabletop I’m calling “Last Week in Tabletop” where I will be going over the news of the past week. If you don’t see something mentioned that you really think aught to be, please add a reply with a short description and a link to where you found it. Without further ado, let’s get into the news!
RPGs
The biggest news this week was Paizo announcing the final version of their Open RPG licence called the ORC Licence. If you’ll remember, this was in response to Wizards of the Coast attempting to change their Open Game Licence to make it harder for 3rd party groups to profit off of their work back in January. Paizo decided to take matters into their own hands, and have developed a new Licence that they are garunteeing anyone can use forever. If you want to read more about the ORC Licence or would like to download it, the article and link is here.
If you haven’t seen the releases from Dimension 20, they’ve started a new actual play over on Dropout titled Dungeons and Drag Queens. Should be an absolute blast, knowing how their actual plays tend to go. It does require paying for Dropout if you want to watch, so keep that in mind. If you’re on the fence, maybe wait until they put the first episode up for free on their Youtube channel before diving in. I certainly will be keeping up though.
Board Games
There’s been a couple attempts at an Avatar: the Last Airbender board game, and this week Funko Games/Prospero Hall announced their take on it here. The game looks interesting, if only because it’s a cooperative board game rather than a competitive one. Feels on-theme!
For those who play Tapestry, it’s getting a new and final expansion in Fantasies and Futures. The game is receiving a number of new civilizations, tapestry cards, etc. that are more focused on future tech interacting with magic systems. You can read their dev diary here, where they go into greater detail on some of the new additions and their design philosophy for the expansion.
War Games
Games Workshop has been doing their latest round of Warhammer 40K (sorry, NOT Warhammer 40K) previews for their upcoming 10th Edition release, and the models look absolutely gorgeous! Ever wanted to get into Adeptus Titanicus, but didn’t want to shell out for old Forge World models? You will no longer have to with the release of a Cerastus Knights line coming with the 10th Edition updates. In addition, you can now field Angron in both Primarch and Daemon Primarch forms! Glory to Chaos!
Card Games
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the state of your wallet at the moment), the 1/1 One Ring has been found and apparently already been graded. No more shall we have to scour those pesky Lord of the Rings packs! Well, maybe we will anyways, but that’s besides the point. The person who found it is currently looking to get around $1 Million for it, which if sold would make it the most expensive playing card in history. Good luck to them, I certainly will not be making a purchase like that any time soon.
That’s all for this week, folks! If you have any recommendations as to good sites to browse and colate news from, or I forgot to mention something, let me know and I would be much appreciative. Otherwise, I will see you all next week!
Out of curiosity, do people feel that Kickstarter projects should be on the list for news? I was avoiding it this week, but there are a LOT of board games and card games being Kickstarted right now.
I’m not sure, to be honest. I feel like only very few crowdfunding projects constitute “news” (and how do you decide what to include and what not?), and there’s plenty of people who don’t care for crowdfunding at all.
Perhaps better, the person who did an excellent weekly crowdfunding roundup on r/boardgames is also on lemmy. Perhaps we could include their posts here?
Check out
Perry@kbin.social’s excellent Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup thread that I’ve just cross-posted.