![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now things have gotten worse as, after inquiries from customers, a spokesperson for Roxley Games announced on Facebook on March 16 that the campaign for their game Brass received no group pledge from Boarders and therefore did not ship any games to the service as they themselves had not been paid. The complaints started earlier this year with several people getting their shipments late with a Facebook group starting in January for customers to keep track of who received what. The premise for the company was simple: A customer in their Southeast Asian region would pay them for Kickstarter pledges for games such as Cthulhu Wars, Darkest Night, or Gloomhaven, who would then contact the game company in order to facilitate shipping, like a smaller version of wholesale warehousing. Unfortunately, there’s a risk as well, as some who used the Boarders Tabletop Game Studio have learned after the company has not delivered on promised shipments for several months. One method some have turned to is fulfillment services in their region, which place bulk order pledges in order to reduce shipping costs. Shipping heavy paper across an ocean costs a lot of money, and there aren’t many solutions in place for companies or customers to reduce costs. One of the biggest struggles in crowdfunding games is the high cost of international shipping. The Pathfinder Playtest Adventure: Doomsday Dawn will be available in paperback for $24.99 as well as a flip-map multipack also for $24.99. The Pathfinder Playtest Rulebook will be available on August 2 with a retail price of $44.99 for the hardcover and $29.99 for the softcover or as a free PDF download. Different designers also went into detail on the approach Paizo is taking to playtesting. The playtest won’t focus specifically on Golarion, but will treat it “the same way the AD&D 1e DMG sort of defaulted to Greyhawk”, implying that there will be setting-based examples to use as a frame of reference but not any in-depth lore. We also got a first look at Elves and Dwarves in the new edition, along with a lot of information on what will actually be included in the playtest book. Earlier, we got information on some of the new Ancestries coming to the new edition, starting with the Goblin Ancestry (and Jason Bulmahn’s comments on the Goblin Ancestry. This week, we got our first preview of the updated Alchemist Class including a list of some of the class features and class feats. ![]() Of course, if you need to catch up from the start, Morrus has helpfully compiled all the info released to date in the Pathfinder Second Edition Wiki thread. Pathfinder Second Edition news still continues to come out at an agonizingly slow pace as we wait impatiently for the playtest's Gen Con launch. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire will release on PC, OSX, and Linux on May 8 with a retail price of $49.99 for the base edition. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is an isometric roleplaying game heavily inspired by games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gate, the sequel to the crowdfunded Pillars of Eternity which released in 2015 to strong reviews and several Game of the Year awards. Oh, and Liam O’Brien handled voice direction duties for the cast as well. Taliesin Jaffe will voice Eothas, the god of light, redemption, and rebirth. Ashley Johnson will voice Ydwin, an expert in the metaphysics of Eora and a practitioner of animancy. Sam Riegal will voice Rekke, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who has no problems speaking his mind (even if it is in a language no one’s heard before). Laura Bailey will voice Zoti, a half-meadow, half-savannah folk priestess who shepherds losts souls to the Beyond. Travis Willingham will voice Tekēhu, a marine godlike and watershaper who is also looking to enrich Huana culture and spearhead an artistic revival. Liam O’Brien will voice Serafen, a psychic shiphunter who aids pirates in finding merchant vessels to plunder. Marisha Ray will voice Maia Rua, an elite sharpshooter with the Royal Deadfire Company. In addition, the Critical Role dungeonmaster will also voice a new character, Aloth, a wizard from Aedyr and an old ally. Matt Mercer will return to voice his role from the first Pillars of Eternity, Edér. Not only that, but a tease was posted on the Obsidian forums that lists the characters each will be playing. At least, until the announcement from Obsidian this Monday that the entire cast will play voices in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. While it’s no secret that the cast of Critical Role have extensive careers in voice acting, I don’t believe that they’ve ever worked on a video game under that banner. ![]()
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