Iain and Jamie dust off their hats, strap on a pen and paper, and venture into the wild west of tabletop news to bring you only the chunkiest nuggets. This time they cover abuse allegations at Broken Token, the Zenobia awards finalists, global shipping problems, sad passings and more.    Headlines Broken Token abuse allegations https://medium.com/@ashrtaylor13/speaking-up-to-protect-others-73f152bcb772   Iello Comment https://twitter.com/IelloUSA/status/1428747934078685188?s=20   Pandasaurus https://twitter.com/Pandasaurusgame/status/1428421753919901709?s=19   Broken Token Statement https://twitter.com/tbt_gaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor   RAINN (US) https://www.rainn.org/   Rape Crisis (UK) https://rapecrisis.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/   Women’s Aid (UK) https://www.womensaid.org.uk/   Femicide Census https://www.femicidecensus.org/   Brissaud Assault https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41392/security-camera-footage-brissaud-gen-con-incident https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41222/brissaud-statement-gen-con-incident   Zenobia Award announces nominees https://zenobiaaward.org/finalists/   Global Shipping problems https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427281645275582466 https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427347558129676289?s=19 http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/August_10_2021/Freight_An_Extinction_Level_Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/restorationgames/return-to-dark-tower/posts/3273565   News   RIP Steve Perrin https://twitter.com/Chaosium_Inc/status/1426433090415562752?s=19   Knizia terminates all planned releases with a variety of publishers https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/board-game/news/knizia-games-terminates-releases   Gencon requiring masks, maybe vax proof https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/49012/gen-con-reverses-course-maskless-attendance   Patreon Shoutouts Shaun Newan game-a-lot.fun/en facebook.com/gamealotboardgames Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thegiantbrain   Support Us https://giantbrain.co.uk/support-us-new/   Metallic Dice Games https://metallicdicegames.com/ Promo Code: ROLLWITHBRAINS   Sir Meeple https://sirmeeple.com/collections/the-giant-brain   Outro   Monopoly Restaurant https://www.foodandwine.com/news/monopoly-restaurant-top-hat-london https://www.thetophatrestaurant.com/menus   Our Links   Thanks very much for listening. If you like what you’ve listened to then the best way to help us out is to share the podcast and drop us a review and rating on itunes.  You can also follow us on   Discord: https://discord.gg/3bMx2HK75r Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegiantbrain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain Website: https://giantbrain.co.uk/ Email: giantbrainuk@gmail.com

Iain and Jamie dust off their hats, strap on a pen and paper, and venture into the wild west of tabletop news to bring you only the chunkiest nuggets. This time they cover abuse allegations at Broken Token, the Zenobia awards finalists, global shipping problems, sad passings and more. 

 

Headlines

Broken Token abuse allegations

https://medium.com/@ashrtaylor13/speaking-up-to-protect-others-73f152bcb772

 

Iello Comment

https://twitter.com/IelloUSA/status/1428747934078685188?s=20

 

Pandasaurus

https://twitter.com/Pandasaurusgame/status/1428421753919901709?s=19

 

Broken Token Statement

https://twitter.com/tbt_gaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

 

RAINN (US)

https://www.rainn.org/

 

Rape Crisis (UK)

https://rapecrisis.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/

 

Women’s Aid (UK)

https://www.womensaid.org.uk/

 

Femicide Census

https://www.femicidecensus.org/

 

Brissaud Assault

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41392/security-camera-footage-brissaud-gen-con-incident

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41222/brissaud-statement-gen-con-incident

 

Zenobia Award announces nominees

https://zenobiaaward.org/finalists/

 

Global Shipping problems

https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427281645275582466

https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1427347558129676289?s=19

http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/August_10_2021/Freight_An_Extinction_Level_Event

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/restorationgames/return-to-dark-tower/posts/3273565

 

News

 

RIP Steve Perrin

https://twitter.com/Chaosium_Inc/status/1426433090415562752?s=19

 

Knizia terminates all planned releases with a variety of publishers

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/board-game/news/knizia-games-terminates-releases

 

Gencon requiring masks, maybe vax proof

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/49012/gen-con-reverses-course-maskless-attendance

 

Patreon Shoutouts

Shaun Newan

a-lot.fun/en/">game-a-lot.fun/en

facebook.com/gamealotboardgames

Our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/thegiantbrain

 

Support Us

https://giantbrain.co.uk/support-us-new/

 

Metallic Dice Games

https://metallicdicegames.com/

Promo Code: ROLLWITHBRAINS

 

Sir Meeple

https://sirmeeple.com/collections/the-giant-brain

 

Outro

 

Monopoly Restaurant

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/monopoly-restaurant-top-hat-london

https://www.thetophatrestaurant.com/menus

 

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