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The RPG/minis industry is not immune to Chinese manufacturing problems.

There’s no reason, in fact, why anybody should think that this:

The China Law Blog (previously) reports on the kinds of questions that western businesses operating in China are raising; China’s serious economic downturn and rising authoritarianism have turned the site’s normally businesslike posts into a glimpse of a kind of cyberpunk stranger-than-fiction dystopia (for example).
A new post on the site describes the consequences of a sharp downturn in the Chinese economy: a new mood among many Chinese businesspeople that they are at the end of the long Chinese boom and that there’s no reason not to burn their bridges with non-Chinese firms, because they’re not going to be doing business with them for much longer no matter what.

25% Tariff proposed on Chinese RPG/gaming pieces. Also: is that stuff coming out of a concentration camp? Could you confirm that ‘No,’ please?

This is grey zone at best, I know. Sorry. – ML

So. They’re talking about a potential 25% tariff on Chinese goods used in the RPG and board game industry. Tabletopwire:

Board games and dice are included under the subheading: 9504.90.60. “Chess, checkers, backgammon, darts and o/table and parlor games played on boards of a special design and parts thereof; poker chips and dice.”
Toys are under 9503.00.00. “Toys, including riding toys o/than bicycles, puzzles, reduced scale models.”

F*cking ChiComs set Call of Cthulhu supplement print run on fire. Allegedly.

No, this totally counts because it’s gaming-related*. The short version: folks did a Kickstarter (The Sassoon Files) that was based on 1920s China. And they apparently made the mistake of using a printer from the People’s Republic of China, which allegedly promptly burned the entire print run just after it was completed.

Because that, my droogies, is how Commies do. Allegedly. Well, allegedly in this case. God knows it’s well-documented that the only things that Commies like to burn more than inconvenient books are entire regions full of inconvenient peasants.

My locked/unlocked Patreon RPG campaign worlds.

With handy links!

Arcadia (locked):
Crossroads of the Commonwealth (unlocked):
The Fermi Resolution (locked):
Shoppers for the Ghoul Lords (locked):
War of the Mountain King (unlocked):

I have at least one more to collate

Quiet day today here.

Prepping for the playtest. First RPG I’ve run in months, in fact. I should run more campaigns, though. Heck, I should play in more campaigns.

Update on the Swords of the Serpentine playtests.

Swords of the Serpentine: sword-and-sorcery RPG from Pelgrane Press, using the GUMSHOE rules. Very Conanesque.

I’m going to do two sessions; one is this Friday, and it’s going to be in meatspace (I haven’t seen some of these folks in a while). The online session is tentatively being blocked out for the weekend of either February 9th or 16th: I actually have to figure out who is available for that. If you are interested, or you were interested and want to remind me, drop me a line via Contact. You’ll need a computer that can handle Google Hangouts.

Ever have a project that you wanted to do…

…but you weren’t sure if it’d sell? I got one of those, for the Day After Ragnarok RPG: I have this idea, and it fascinates me. And I think that it’d work as a impetus for campaigns (heh). But I don’t know if I can sell it. I’d like to decide that, quick, because the campaign idea keeps making me take notes for it when I could be working on stuff that people might buy.

Yeah, yeah, that might be diagnostic, but then there hasn’t been any new Day After Ragnarok stuff lately anyway. Which is a shame. It’s real easy to create material for that game world.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m not mentioning the idea for a reason. Trying to keep it as undeveloped in public as possible.

Short story and gaming material up at Patreon!

Only a dollar a month! I’m practically giving this away. I mean, I could have cut Frozen Out In Cin City out short at only 3K words and fulfilled my obligations, and it went to 5K because the story required it. The latest installment of Shoppers for the Ghoul-Lords could have also been hacked back, but I didn’t, because I respect my patrons. And if you sign up for my Patreon, then I’ll show you that same respect.

My Non-Player Gentry Cards from the Good Society RPG.

Specifically, the Pride, Prejudice & Practical Magics expansion for it.

Continue reading My Non-Player Gentry Cards from the Good Society RPG.

Looks like Cubicle 7 is revamping the Laundry RPG game line.

The Laundry, of course, is the RPG based on Charles Stross’s Laundry Lovecraft-spy series*; and based on this blurb at their website the company is in the process of converting everything to a new rules set. Which is interesting. I mean, it looked like they were using a variant of an older version Call of Cthulhu, which is pretty standard for horror gaming (particularly Lovecraftian gaming). Are they switching to a newer version? Converting to GUMSHOE or one of the other, more recent systems? Creating their own? I have no idea, but I look forward to seeing what they do. Continue reading Looks like Cubicle 7 is revamping the Laundry RPG game line.