Tavern Watch Podcast: Danger from Diamond Comic Distributors (and more tabletop news)

In this week’s Tavern Watch Podcast, we dig into the disaster of Diamond Comic Distributors, which filed for bankruptcy in January and is now trying to claim books in its inventory are its property, to be sold to pay off creditors. This includes comics and books it was holding on consignment, to distribute for companies that aren’t paid until the books are sold in retail stores — and the loss could be crushing for small press publishers who could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of books. Green Ronin Publishing is crowdfunding to cover legal fees to fight the move, which it calls “a dire financial threat to our company.” Let’s hope small press can score a victory here.

In brighter news, we discuss the recent trend of “rules light” games, the delay to D&D’s upcoming Eberron book, and Evil Hat continuing to work on a Tomb Raider-style game after parting ways with Crystal Dynamics. Add that to the list of games we’re looking forward to playing (which is already pretty long).

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