Evil Dead 2: The Official Board Game

EvilDeadFan89 said:
Just saw this on Evil Dead Uproot’s Facebook Page:
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/05/28/kickstopped-space-goat-evil-dead-2-terminator-board-games/
I hope refunds are in order if it’s officially canceled.
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No chance for a refund. I backed this game at about 150 dollars and have been following it's progress for two years. After months of false updates and lies from Space Goat, we found out that the company is out of money. They still owe BoDA (the company that made the molds for the minis) 15,000. This campaign has been one huge train wreck for the past six months or so.
 
Yeah they pretty much flushed everyone's money down the drain. Including a famous YouTuber who is pretty pissed.
 
What a mess.

If i had to make a guess based on the timing of how everything went down, they used the Kickstarter money to fund the last wave of comic releases that were delayed for ages. My guess is the comics undersold and they couldn't pay back into the Kickstarter, so they tried to reorganize the company but couldn't find more willing suckers.

It's a shame, their Evil Dead 2 comics were pretty good and the game looked interesting. Unfortunately it looks like the fish rotted from the head judging from the ugly crap that SB said to various employees of theirs.

Which youtuber, Elise?
 
I lost a shitload of money on this, and am now genuinely hesitant to go near the Army of Darkness Kickstarter because of it.
 
MaidOfKandar said:
What a mess.

If i had to make a guess based on the timing of how everything went down, they used the Kickstarter money to fund the last wave of comic releases that were delayed for ages. My guess is the comics undersold and they couldn't pay back into the Kickstarter, so they tried to reorganize the company but couldn't find more willing suckers.

It's a shame, their Evil Dead 2 comics were pretty good and the game looked interesting. Unfortunately it looks like the fish rottedfrom the head judging from the ugly crap that SB said to various employees of theirs.

Which youtuber, Elise?
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Angry Joe
 
MaidOfKandar said:
What a mess.

If i had to make a guess based on the timing of how everything went down, they used the Kickstarter money to fund the last wave of comic releases that were delayed for ages. My guess is the comics undersold and they couldn't pay back into the Kickstarter, so they tried to reorganize the company but couldn't find more willing suckers.

It's a shame, their Evil Dead 2 comics were pretty good and the game looked interesting. Unfortunately it looks like the fish rottedfrom the head judging from the ugly crap that SB said to various employees of theirs.

Which youtuber, Elise?
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I don't have enough to go on about this .. on one hand, I've worked inside organisations where women are treated badly .. on the other hand, I've worked inside organisations where women have very skilfully pretended to be treated badly .. we'd only have accusations to go on at the moment (the allegations of violent and sexual language used) but, yes, his frank apology does lend weight to these allegations .. I'm leaning towards him having immature management skills although he could also being told now what to write by a lawyer ..

An earlier poster in this thread stated that he managed to raise $90,000 when he was only originally asking for $15,000 seed money so I think Elise's suggestion that he was probably 'juggling' that money to invest in his comic books sounds very likely .. it's a shame for all concerned, the game itself looked good .. perhaps one of the prototypes will end up for sale one day ?
 
Swofty said:
he managed to raise $90,000 when he was only originally asking for $15,000
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Are you talking about the kickstarter? He asked for $70,000 and managed to raise a whopping $722,622 on that one. That was to produce a boardgame that's already been confirmed will never be produced and delivered to the 6,000 people who paid for it. There was also another simultaneous kickstarter for a boardgame based on The Terminator that raised more than $200,000. That one won't ever see the light of day either. If you add the two together you get nearly $1,000,000 taken from over 8,000 backers who will never get what they paid for. Now they're saying there's no money left to refund the backers, so God knows what he did with all that money. Wanna add insult to injury? Not too long ago he also started another campaign to get the public to invest in his company and help save it. Given the mess going on with the kickstarters, it's no surprise that campaign failed miserably. Add to all of that the abuse and sexual misconduct accusations and the future of the company/his career is starting to look pretty grim.
 
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@Guy - Dynamite's pretty reputable, so you shouldn't have to worry!

@Elise41 Eesh, that sucks for him!

@Swofty That was my suggestion, actually!
 
Lynnvander Studios revisits the Evil Dead 2 universe with an all-new tabletop roleplaying game!
The Evil Dead 2 RPG Supplement is 250+ pages of new mechanics, settings, and gnarly adventure modules designed to crank your D&D game up to eleven. This is survival horror, Evil Dead style—complete with deadite possession, supernatural corruption, and even a splash of PvP paranoia. Gear up, because you’re going to need every ounce of luck and every boomstick you can find.
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Kain said:
Is this related to the previous ED2 board game?
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Besides being made by the same company... no. This is a proper full-blown roleplaying D&D-like game with classes and campaigns. The "5e" in the title means that it uses the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition system, so players who are already familiar with that can use this as kinda like an add-on to their pre-existing games (at least, I'm pretty sure. I'm not an RPG guy).
 
They've already lost me at using the D&D system. That subclasses list is enough to make one cringe... Really seems like they're trying to force a square peg into a round hole there, or rather trying to mix two flavors that don't taste so good together simply because both are popular separately.
 
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One week left in the campaign. For anyone who hasn't been following along, five of the seven stretch goals have been unlocked (additional art, virtual tabletop tokens, spot uv/foil cover upgrade, custom character sheet, and more monsters).
 
The campaign has officially ended. With the original goal of $7,500 (which was quickly passed within the first 24 hours), 704 backers brought the final total up to $68,562! All seven of the original stretch goals were unlocked, with the special bonus goal ("Shemps & Improvised Weapons") failing to hit its target of $75,000.
 
After almost two months of silence, we've finally got an update on this thing. Apparently they're working on setting up the Backerkit page while they're waiting for the new version of the Open Game License. That's about it. And they shared a piece of art that will be in the book:
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DyD said:
They've already lost me at using the D&D system. That subclasses list is enough to make one cringe... Really seems like they're trying to force a square peg into a round hole there, or rather trying to mix two flavors that don't taste so good together simply because both are popular separately.
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Our evildeadchansaws secured me a beautiful ED2 cabin at 32 scale that was originally built to be used in a D&D system of use. It's a work of art and the walls at the back are removeable for this purpose although I've never used it for D&D gameplay. I've also recently painted a 32 scale Ash and severed hand so one day I'll get round to getting a few local old school D&D fellow nerds and see how we get on. I'll try to remember to post some pics of it all here.

To D&D an evil dead board game just needs someone to be the games master, a ruler, dice and activity cards.
 
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Alright... I'm resurrecting this thread to take another shot in the dark at finding something from a recently stirred up memory. Does anybody here remember (or even own) the tabletop/board game magazine had the Evil Dead 2 board game as the cover story? I remember it used the Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead By Dawn #1 cover as the art, but it had a white rectangular boarder (like a National Geographic magazine) and white text. I distinctly remember the title of the magazine was in white, too. I want to say the magazine had "game" in the title, but I'm not 100% on that.
 
Finally got another update. They're still waiting on the new D&D System Reference Document, which was due out "within weeks" all the way back in February (according to someone who works on D&D). Once that comes out, they'll be able to commit full-time to working on the ED2 RPG. We also got a new piece of art with some generic fantasy people and a disguised Deadite doing something devious.
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Another update has finally been posted:
The Evil Dead 2 D&D 5e (2024) book is still very much alive (or…undead?), and work continues behind the scenes. Our writers are still writing, our artists are still illustrating, and we’re actively working with the new 5e SRD 2.0 material, which has finally been revealed and allowed us to really dive into the final version of this project.

That said, we know the silence has been frustrating. We don’t yet have major visuals or content previews to share, and we’re currently quite backed up on several overlapping projects. This has slowed our pace more than anyone would like.

On a more personal note, our project lead recently experienced the sudden and unexpected loss of their father. It’s been a heartbreaking and disorienting time, and we want to acknowledge the human impact that’s had on our timeline and team capacity.

We’re not looking for sympathy, just understanding. This project is progressing, even if that progress is slower than hoped. We’ll aim to share a more content-rich update as soon as we’re able.
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Not gonna lie: I literally forgot about this project until I saw the notification that there was an update today...
 
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