Episode 94 - Update-a-Palooza

Jamie’s had some bad OJ and they are recording later than usual. How will this affect your favourite tabletop news show? The only way to know is to find out as they cover Nebula awards, sales completing, more updates than you can shake a stick at and rock bands getting into RPGs.

 

Headlines

 

Four tabletop RPGs up for nebula award

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/03/four-tabletop-rpgs-are-up-for-a-nebula-award.html

 

Embracer Group completes acquisition of Asmodee and Dark Horse

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50703/embracer-completes-acquisition-dark-horse-asmodee

https://twitter.com/Asmodee_USA/status/1503722163731378182

 

Updates

 

US Man jailed for pokemon card buy with covid funds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/pokemon-coronavirus-relief-loan-scam-georgia

 

TSR Vs Wizards round 364

https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1469816863655874561?s=20&t=Biu3uFVhFNZ7zjAU_VpCiw

 

JR Honeycutt sues

 

Episode 39

https://giantbrain.co.uk/2019/11/25/episode-39-conventional-wisdom/

 

Original Medium Post

https://medium.com/@victoria.mann11/coming-forward-to-move-forward-8608e9c27e74

 

Fandomentals piece including JR apology

https://www.thefandomentals.com/abuse-allegations-lead-board-game-industry-to-distance-itself-from-prolific-designer/

 

Victoria’s GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/being-sued-by-jr-honeycutt-after-me-too-article?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

 

Gaming Goat Strikes Again

Episode 82

https://giantbrain.co.uk/2021/09/20/episode-82-green-awards/

 

Episode 83

https://giantbrain.co.uk/2021/10/04/episode-83-financial-insults/

 

Original Page Address - This has since been taken down

https://tgg-games.com/products/creature-comforts-sjw-racist-publisher-pre-order?_pos=2&_sid=f47d36037&_ss=r

News

 

Heroquest petition

https://www.change.org/p/hasbro-re-release-the-heroquest-commander-of-the-guardian-knights

 

Games Workshop pulls out of Russia

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/16/an-important-note-on-russia-and-ukraine/

 

Football’s Coming Home

 

Patreon Shoutouts

James Naylor

https://naylorgames.com/

Shaun Newan

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facebook.com/gamealotboardgames

Our Patreon

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https://metallicdicegames.com/

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Tabletop Scotland

https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/

Outro

 

Have Faith in the Future of RPGs

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/the-real-thing/news/faith-no-more-rpg-the-real-thing-kickstarter

 

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