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in the course of a few hours I got a notice from UPS that I owed over $500 in duties (on books from the UK) and then another notice that everything is cool and my packages have been released 🙃

So the idea of D&D "Universes Beyond" is an attempt by wizards of the Coast to capture as much of the non-fantasy TTRPG market as possibly under their centralized corporate umbrella

Last estimate I heard had for the size of D&D's business is at around a ~$400M. The Coastal Wizard's latest SEC filing basically confirms it. MTG + D&D + Digital: approx $2.2B MTG is now a $1.7B business 🤑 leftover $500B split across D&D and other digital products (Monopoly GO, etc)

Guess what's about to be back in stock 🧛‍♂️

Oh my @montfordtales.com 😍🤯

i've talked about this before, but every once in a while, the shop levels up. it's been a lesson in the power of the slow build and incremental growth. you hit tipping points. it's happening again.

The artwork in this one... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Nie...

Kay Nielsen - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

sprinkling some reorder fairy dust across the TTRPG scene tonight

"I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth." — Sylvia Plath

"what I saw gave me an indescribable sense of mysterious elsewhere—a distant architecture, ethereal… an endless supernatural world more spiritual of the earth but created out of it."

"Sanding at the crossroads, Dignity echoes the interaction of earth, sky, and people. She brings to light the beauty and promise of the indigenous peoples and cultures that still strive on this land....

"We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks." — Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Saying mm

"Good things from the garden in the valley... of the Jolly Green Giant."

"The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise..."

taking the family westward in the wagon tomorrow, crossing the Mississippi. Provisions are packed, I'll be posting dispatches along the way 🛣️

Dear publishers: stop relying so much on discounts to move your product. It's expensive. It erodes brand value. In many cases it only "pulls forward" sales that you would've gotten later.

Picking and packing today! Another copy of VOID from @kenlowery.bsky.social and The Librarian's Apprentice from @almostbedtime.bsky.social going out the door!

Reforest was on the menu tonight. Cool little engine-building game with lots of different interactions and paths to victory. Recommend!

I ran the adventures in these in my MB campaign. Goblin Grinder had big moments, Bloat was gross and challenging. Cool to have in physical form finally.

I think the way I'll approach this is just to share on what's working and what's not working. The number one tip I have is to learn how to present your games to different audiences, especially people who have never heard of a "TTRPG" or even a "roleplaying game." There's lots of them.