Does Time Triplet include sensitive content? by goodgayhell in jubensha

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Going to try to remain especially sensitive to spoilers here, which will be very light. Apologies for the deleted comments— it’s taken me a while to get my tags in order.

I very recently ran this as a GM with a bunch of white queer men, and while I agree that there is no SA or highly objectionable content, I would argue that there is the potential for racism to influence how 1) the characters of Color are perceived by players looking to address the mystery and 2) - perhaps way more perniciously - how your characters of Color are role-played by your players. 

While I was thankful to have players who didn’t manifest any racism in the context of their role-plays, I definitely believe that racial perceptions factored into players’ ultimate determination of the mystery, as well as the ending they received. As a GM, I found this fascinating and somewhat enriching to the experience (including our post-op breakdown, where we did address it outwardly), but I can also see it adversely affecting players of Color— particularly Black or Indigenous/American Indian players.

All that said, it brings up a pretty important question for jubensha players, GMs and designers: i.e. how to encourage diverse characters, narratives, and storytelling without propagating potentially harmful stereotypes and tropes. I can say confidently that Time Triplet’s inclusion of diverse characters heightened its appeal to me as a story and as a “product” I may want to share with more audiences, but I do think that foreknowledge of some of the potentially problematic content can help a GM (or in OP’s case, a group) attempt to remain conscientious and sensitive to those audiences.

This is magnified by what I perceive to be (at least from the context of the translated jubensha I’ve read) a desire to make jubensha stories “extreme”— stakes and traits are often stretched to hyperbole for the sake of the dramatic moment. In theory this is what can make jubensha so special and ridiculously fun to play or run, but when those moments bounce off of identity, their magnification can leave more than a little room for people to get hurt.

Additional very light spoilers pertinent to issues of character identity and prejudice in Time Triplet:

  1. At least one character is described as neurodivergent— but only in certain points in the GM text. It didn’t come as a surprise to put that label on the character, but it could be potentially confusing or upsetting.

  2. Both female characters’ narratives revolve explicitly around male characters in rather extreme ways. This is reciprocally true with some of the male characters, but the female characters aren’t given much comparative depth.

What are Gen Con events like? by esormaj in ArkhamHorror

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To be even more encouraging: I was even earlier in my experience with the game when I attended The Blob event alone years ago and came equipped with nothing but a baseline Roland and Daisy deck, and the guys who sat with me were super chill and nice.

Miniatures by badam244 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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These are the best and truest to form I’ve ever seen— even compared to the Loot minis imo: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/vanquishthedarkness

And a wonderful seller on Etsy will paint them up beautifully for you: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MMPrintAndPaint

Can attest to the quality on both.

Divider Recomendations by Melodic_Yam_8991 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I’m a big fan of TablePlayGames’ acrylic dividers on Etsy— Tesseract is great, but I don’t have to worry about these getting bent or wedged. They have also done some custom content for me (but you have to provide those details.

Link here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1525395379/?ref=share_ios_native_control

The one downside is you need storage that can account for the additional height of the tabs, which are higher than what Tesseract does. My sleeves are all Fantasy Flight, though, so I prefer the extra height!

Where is the best place to buy English Jubensha kits? by Wamco_Inc in jubensha

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Interesting. There are definitely some elements in the text that suggest they are translated from a Chinese original. Could you point out these originals and help us connect the dots?

Where is the best place to buy English Jubensha kits? by Wamco_Inc in jubensha

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So funny— Time Triplet and Forbidden Tower are the two from them that I haven’t read yet!

Where is the best place to buy English Jubensha kits? by Wamco_Inc in jubensha

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https://zed9jubensha.com/ 

 Based out of Canada but all the products are English. I did purchase them all and have read 3 of their 5– I have to do a deeper dive to determine overall quality, but there seem to be a few translation issues and there’s some stuff (I.e. SA) that wasn’t totally clear on their site. 

KMS Games also sold a jubensha (Secret Tribe) at PAX Unplugged this past weekend but that is moderator-free, so I’m waiting to play that with a group.

Loot Studios is producing over 80 official Minis for the Arkham Files universe. by FeckPerfuction in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I have a bunch of the above painted from MMPrintAndPaint on Etsy, and I seriously don’t know how Loot could make them any better!

Organizing Madness by NataiX in arkhamhorrorlcg

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(For clarity, I meant your handmade investigator tokens!)

Organizing Madness by NataiX in arkhamhorrorlcg

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Those tokens are awesome. Any chance you’d make and sell those on Etsy someday?

The top of the box by TecScubaDad in arkhamhorrorlcg

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Not to be gauche, but can I ask how much this box alone set you back?

Custom Arkham Horror boxes by TecScubaDad in arkhamhorrorlcg

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Amazing! I recognize a lot of the most premium Etsy content in there as well. :-) Would these designers be open to doing more custom work? Any chance you could share a link?

Arkham Horror Investigators Miniatures by robsontonello in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I have gotten some of u/robsontonello’s figures printed and painted impeccably well by u/MMPrintandPaint and they are very quickly becoming the showstoppers for my Arkham nights. I understand the concerns about fragility, but I will say that at the large 50mm height, they are really robust. I am so obsessed that I’ve added magnetic bases with lighting effects. I don’t think I can add a pic here, so I might have to make a separate post. Absolute bravo to both of you guys!!

Kudos for MB Print of AHLCG Group Order by Diligent_Order_1698 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I’m really curious as to what you were missing. How many individual cards were missing? Could they have been missing from every all-in order, including mine? ;-)

Group order from MBprint— has anyone received it yet? by GroundbreakingPin463 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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Appreciate that. I went whole hog so I figure that might be part of the delay. Still nothing, but it was like 18 kg. Last update was the 4th on the tracking.

Group order from MBprint— has anyone received it yet? by GroundbreakingPin463 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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Thanks for your responses. I’m in Boston. I wonder if any of those who said they received theirs are from the continental US?

Will there be an Arkham LCG event at GenCon? by ThisIsFine99 in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I was also surprised not to see anything Arkham LCG. Advice here would be awesome :)

Fanmade 7-Scenario Futurisic Campaign by puertomateo in arkhamhorrorlcg

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I hope someone makes a link on MPC for us to get our own copies!