Comments on: CPSIA, board games and hobby gaming

By: CPSIA, board games and hobby gaming, cont’d

CPSIA, board games and hobby gaming, cont’d — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:58:15 +0000

[…] If you’re interested in older board games you may have gotten into the habit of haunting thrift stores, but over at leading gamer site Board Game Geek, they’re noticing that things are changing for the worse as shelves empty at many stores. Our earlier coverage of CPSIA’s likely impact on gaming is here. […]

By: Trask

Trask — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:38:56 +0000

Only the government could create a situation where blogs about role-playing games and legal excesses agree! Amazing how stupid, ill-considered laws really bring people together. 😉

Thanks for the links.

Trask
http://www.livingdice.com/

By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:37:07 +0000

Better to fix the law than “fix” the language by making words mean what they don’t mean.

By: Rob Crawford

Rob Crawford — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:42:25 +0000

There are some companies that still sell the molds for cast-your-own.

Most of the pre-cast figures are made from “lead-free” mixes. Unfortunately, those mixes are rather expensive and (IMHO) have some properties that make them less than ideal. For example, a piece of lead can be bent many, many times before it breaks, but the new alloys break after maybe a half dozen bends — a big problem when things get bent in shipping.

At least one US manufacturer of miniatures has made an attempt to return to a lead-based alloy, primarily because of the cost of tin, but also because lead-based alloys “capture every subtle detail as well as allow for maximum metal flexibility for straightening and posing”.

By: deputyheadmistress

deputyheadmistress — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:44:00 +0000

My mother tells me a Federal Judge of her acquaintance (they grew up together attending the same small school system) as a youngster used to make lead soldiers- he melted the lead, poured it in the molds, and later painted the soldiers (I wonder if the paint also had lead in it?).

By: M

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:56:32 +0000

The RPG industry is notoriously low budget and filled with many small companies. They usually do not have much to pay their writers and artists, much less testing books.

Wikipedia says most “lead figures” are made using non-lead alloys now. But I’m sure I played with those as a kid.

By: kimsch

kimsch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:30 +0000

What are the lead figures made of now? I used to paint lead figures (as an adult admittedly, but I painted them…)

By: The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : More on the Scary Toy Story

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : More on the Scary Toy Story — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:04:33 +0000

[…] on the same subject I wrote on yesterday, while Walter Olson continues his sterling coverage here. In short, a “consumer product safety” bill that goes into effect next week, supposedly protecting […]

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:37:13 +0000

Sadly, this is going to be a major problem with game publishers. As a wargamer, most games have an age listed on it. Yet, the industry can only continue to thrive by getting kids to play the simpler games. Most wargames have small print runs in the 1000’s. This would dramatically increase the price and force many smaller companies to close.