On this episode we address controversy withing the RPG community, the nature of randomness in dice, head to France for some awards, Glasgow for some games cafe action and feature more news than you can shake a reasonably sized game at!
Headlines
Wizards issue statement regarding Zak Smith
Wizards Statement - http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/news/dndstatement
Mandy Morbid's Statement - (Content Warning for descriptions of abuse) https://m.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252
Awards Season comes to France
http://www.festivaldesjeux-cannes.com/en/asdor/winners
How random are your dice?
http://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/
http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389
News
Keyforge Expansion announced
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/2/12/age-of-ascension/
Funko gets into board games
Root expands again
https://twitter.com/LederGames/status/1095448085809905664
D&D Stranger Things
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/02/dd-breaking-new-stranger-things-dd-starter-set-revealed.html
Ancient Game Books
http://librojuegos.org/2019/02/hallazgo-impresionante-librojuegos-del-siglo-xv/
https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/
The Giant Brain on Tour
Outro - The monopoly news returns!
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/barns-shelters-replace-hotels-houses-new-monopoly-game-679180
https://techraptor.net/content/hasbro-announces-overwatch-board-game-overwatch-monopoly
https://www.geeknative.com/64637/talisman-monopoly-agreed-by-usaopoly-and-games-workshop/
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