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Yea they've done other stuff before. I think the platform makes more sense for stuff like the crazy 60" tall $600 Unicron transformer they did.

So if they are adding OOP boardgames into their crowdfunding stream, what other vintage gems do they have?

jason10mm wrote: So if they are adding OOP boardgames into their crowdfunding stream, what other vintage gems do they have?

A lot of older Avalon Hill games. Up Front and Magic Realm spring to mind.

Msample wrote:

jason10mm wrote: So if they are adding OOP boardgames into their crowdfunding stream, what other vintage gems do they have?

A lot of older Avalon Hill games. Up Front and Magic Realm spring to mind.

Fair enough. I wonder how many copies gotta sell for them to even bother. Seems like anything that had big plastic/vacuform pieces or crude electronics would be most successful with this model.

I'm still waiting on a grand reprint of all of the Dragonlance Modules, including the 2 or 3 that were war games with hundreds of chits. I'm still amazed WOTC has been sleeping on this for so long. Maybe the rights are tied with with Weis and Hickman somehow?

They did a reprint of of the nonwargame modules a few years ago...they were in "mini-size"

We played the War of the Lance module with all the chits (Dragons of Glory)...definitely a product of the time, but we enjoyed it. It seemingly influenced War of the Ring as you have to try to activate allies to join your cause.

Dragonlance games are underrated (I am still a fan of the both the boardgame and Magestones)

I remember having that huge Dragonlance game. Not certain how that thing would hold up now though. I remember it being fun, but I was also knee deep into reading all the books at the time.

I fell hard for Dragonlance. Bought and read the first trilogy of books, and bought the first several rpg modules to run for my friends. But my friends really, really didn't want to read the books or play pre-gen characters. But I was their favorite local DM, so they reluctantly played. I bought DL1-8, but I think we only got through the first two modules. By then, TSR was spamming out lots of lower-quality Dragonlance books and tie-ins, and I lost interest. So of course that was when some of my friends started reading the books and pestering me to run more Dragonlance. We played DL3 and then we were done with it all. Other games were calling, and Chaosium in particular was cranking out an amazing quantity of Call of Cthulhu adventures, and most of it was better than anything Dragonlance.

Although my main career is accounting, my current job requires me to do a lot of HR work as well, including screening entry-level candidates in three states. Last year, I had a terrible applicant named Raistlin apply for a job in a state in the Northeastern part of the U.S. He was a high school dropout with literally no work experience and no drivers license. But maybe he was a high-level magic-user. I didn't call him.

No time for high school when you have to study for the Test in the Tower.

the_jake_1973 wrote: I remember having that huge Dragonlance game. Not certain how that thing would hold up now though. I remember it being fun, but I was also knee deep into reading all the books at the time.

That the one where you stacked plastic poker chits under dragon minis to represent altitude? Played that a bit back in the day, frequented a game store in savannah that had a copy.

I don't how how well Conquest of Nerath did for WOTC (probably not that well) but you could reappropriate that system (area control plus hero's doing quests) for a DL battle of krynn game pretty easily IMHO. Hunting down Dragon Orbs, caches of dragon eggs to turn into draconians (spoiler), etc.