Gotcha. Again, not an RPG person, so my only frame of reference is the AOD one, which had a large map with several points of interest, and detailed map of the castle. When I saw the Campbell's Cove one, I just kinda assumed that maps are kind of a standard thing for these games to have.
So did you guys have to adhere to StudioCanal's "no breaking the canon" rule that the ED2 comic writers did, or was it always the plan to have stories that are (what I assume) unrelated to the events at the cabin?
I was not given any sort of framework, although the boardgame approval was apparently pretty easy (though before my time) and current approval is still pending. Having said that, I didn't really try to "break" canon... At least I don't think I did. We'll see, hopefully sooner than later!
That was the phrasing the ED2 comic writer used, meaning no doing anything within the frame of ED2 that would impact something in Army of Darkness (not like a complete catastrophic "breaking"), or trying to do something with a post-AOD Ash (which was a big no-no for them). I was just curious what the rules were (if any) they gave before you writers started crafting your stories.
They killed an entire already-announced and partially written/drawn comic series when someone got wind that they were going to include the post-AOD version of Ash. That, and when the official Evil Dead 2 escape room was being put together, they had to set it post-ED2 but before AOD (with Ash in the time rift) specifically to work around that rule. I didn't know if they still enforced that/passed that message along to anyone that wanted to create new stories with the license.
Interesting, I hadn't heard that. Was this before Space Goat imploded otherwise?
The Kickstarter had closed, they missed the November, 2016 deadline, but things were still "in production". The comic was announced in February of 2017, so this was right before everything went downhill for them.
I've been curious about that too, but we really haven't had any product come out since the unification that would make sense to test the waters with. I thought maybe you guys would be able to pull from the other entries, but I assume you're still working with whatever licensing deal was made a few years ago for the board game revival project.
I mean, right after that deal happened Fright Rags put out an official Evil Dead 1 shirt that has what is clearly Ash's hand from Evil Dead 2 on it, so they've been doing a little bit of experimenting with "mixing" the entries (though that's a unique case where Fright Rags already had both ED1 and 2 licenses prior to the unification). Never say never, but I guess we'll just have to see!
A few escaped. I've seen a few "complete" ones (probably the demo ones they used for conventions or testing) go up on eBay. There was one on there for about $50 several years ago that I was really tempted to snag, but I didn't.
So there's no plan for a regular retail release?
My ignorance of the process is a major factor here; we're well past the stage where I know anything concrete about the ins and outs of the actual business of the book.
Gotcha. Do you know anything about the AOD Board Game? Here I thought it was manufactured and shipped and ready to go, and now Dynamite has pushed it back (AGAIN) to August.
