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My Look at "The Adventures of Tennessee James"

8/9/2021

I did a thing, in a car, because that's the only place I have privacy where I'd want to set up a camera...

So here is my preview/overview for Variable Outcomes' new Kickstarter: The Adventures of Tennessee James.

I didn't design this one, but I have been watching the game grow and change over the past year, so I do feel part of it as it's getting ready to enter the world all on its own.

For the record, I only caught my kids running around outside unsupervised twice in the filming of this video.

They had a father around somewhere, I think...

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Outlander Game Box Sneak-Peek!

8/6/2021

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Things are busy over at Variable Outcomes with their Tennessee James game on Kickstarter (link here), so I get to be the first to announce the new developments for Outlander: The Series -- The Board Game.

The digital files for Outlander have been approved, and it has been a number of back and forths trying to account for any possible mishaps that could occur during the final printing of the game at the manufacturers.

The following images are what were sent to us from the manufacturer, as they printed their first edition of Outlander: The Series -- The Board Game.

The picture quality is a little fuzzy, but it is our first glimpse of how things look on their end. Next, of course, is sending us a completely packaged copy for us to hold in our hands and approve.

You'll notice that the components here are just the printed ones: from the box to the cards. What's missing are the non-printed parts, specifically the Meeples and Wit cubes. Apparently there has been some difficulty colour matching my precious Wee Jamie. I can't be surprised by that. All of my Meeples that we've been using for our home-printed prototype were hand-painted by me. I had to play around with a few blends to get the bronzed effect I wanted. And I'm quite fond of Wee Jamie as he is, so I am going to be watching very closely to see how he looks when he pops off the assembly line. Fingers crossed that he is as bronzed and beautiful as I have dared to imagine him.

One of the things I am very excited to see here are the Victory Tokens and the 1st Player marker, seen here as the Clan Fraser Sigil. Those are components we haven't printed out ourselves and have used convenient substitutes during our playtests and demos. It's starting to look like a real game, and I want to unwrap and punch-out so badly right now.

The countdown is on for the physical prototype, and you can bet that I'll be posting the HELL out of that unboxing!

In the meantime, I will continue to annoy everyone on social media about both games, and pursue my crush on Jamie Fraser -- the Wee Jamie, of course... Sorry, Mr. Heughan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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My Look at "The Adventures of Tennessee James"

Outlander Game Box Sneak-Peek!

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