On using dip on prepaints: might depend on the quality of the paintjob as unless I’m mistaken, some prepaints can have trouble ‘staying within the lines’ so you might have to neaten them up first.

On Shade vs Dip: instead of @dignity sacrificing a mini, why don’t you guys buy a bunch of boosters for a prepaint game? You’re bound to get loads of duplicates so can use the two methods on multiples of the same mini each which should give you a better idea of the effect/eliminate the chance of a fluke, and you’d also have a variety of sculpts/paint jobs so you can judge if that has an impact on which you prefer/think is better.

On the Heroquest vid: I think the word you’re looking for Ben is ‘bombastic’ 😉

On the AoS campaign: will it actually have an impact, or will it be another SoC where they fudge the results to try and get the one they want?

On AoS points: I agree with @warzan, it makes sense for them to keep points free. It also means that part of the compendium won’t become out of date/redundant when a points change occurs and inserting points onto the free scrolls means they can do a points adjustment for balance easier and on a mini-by-mini basis rather than having to wait for a new book to be published. It also means that people won’t have to buy the latest book to keep up with points changes, just check the free download scrolls or the app from time to time to see if a change has been made.

On campaigns: to try and avoid results spam, could you have something where a report has to be confirmed by the opponent, eg Player A reports to the system that they played Player B and inputs the result and their fluff report. Player B then gets a notification asking them to confirm the game took place and then gets to add their own fluff report. It’s not perfect but it might cut the spam a bit as some people won’t want to bother going through the hassle of creating two accounts and having to switch between them. Also don’t know how the AI historian works, so you might already have this in place, but how about having it check to see how often a player is playing another and beating them, eg if Player A is regularly playing Player B and massacring them, then there’s probbly something up. As for the AI Historian changing the result of who wins, you could spin it as having been propaganda by that faction trying to claim they were doing better than they actually were.

On WD and releases: I think they’ll keep releases weekly and just list all that month’s releases in WD with what date they’re released on. Iirc that’s how it was done before – WD listed that months releases and things were released throughout the month rather than all at once.

On Scooby Doo 2: @warzan have you considered getting in touch with Hanna-Barbara or whoever it is that owns Scooby Doo these days to licence it and run a Kickstarter to get it out there. You could even draft your daughter’s class as playtesters 😉

On traps: how about instead of trying to squeeze icons onto the bottom of the item cards, you instead have special themed trap cards which need to have specific items, but if you do you get a bonus?

On Justin’s idea of guessing who the monster is: maybe borrow some ideas from Cluedo and have cards that hint at who the monster (or monsters) could be and have the kids try and guess which one it is from the clues. Iirc one thing that happened in the cartoon is that sometimes they’d think it was Mr Haversham the lighthouse keeper bu when they unmasked the monster it’d turn out to be Mr Daversham the hotel owner or whatever. Of course that’d have to wait until your kids are older as it might be too much for them at the moment.