Iain and Jamie dust off their hats, strap on a pen and paper, and venture into the wild west of tabletop news to bring you only the chunkiest nuggets. This time they cover abuse allegations at Broken Token, the Zenobia awards finalists, global shipping problems, sad passings and more.
Headlines
Broken Token abuse allegations
https://medium.com/@ashrtaylor13/speaking-up-to-protect-others-73f152bcb772
Iello Comment
https://twitter.com/IelloUSA/status/1428747934078685188?s=20
Pandasaurus
https://twitter.com/Pandasaurusgame/status/1428421753919901709?s=19
Broken Token Statement
https://twitter.com/tbt_gaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
RAINN (US)
Rape Crisis (UK)
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/
Women’s Aid (UK)
Femicide Census
https://www.femicidecensus.org/
Brissaud Assault
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41392/security-camera-footage-brissaud-gen-con-incident
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41222/brissaud-statement-gen-con-incident
Zenobia Award announces nominees
https://zenobiaaward.org/finalists/
Global Shipping problems
https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427281645275582466
https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427347558129676289?s=19
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/August_10_2021/Freight_An_Extinction_Level_Event
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/restorationgames/return-to-dark-tower/posts/3273565
News
RIP Steve Perrin
https://twitter.com/Chaosium_Inc/status/1426433090415562752?s=19
Knizia terminates all planned releases with a variety of publishers
https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/board-game/news/knizia-games-terminates-releases
Gencon requiring masks, maybe vax proof
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/49012/gen-con-reverses-course-maskless-attendance
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Outro
Monopoly Restaurant
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