Mar 21, 2023

  Chaosium  has announced the upcoming release of Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine. This release marks an update to the core BRP system, which has been praised for its intuitive and accessible mechanics.     Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine contains all the essential rules for character creation, combat, magic, psychic...

Mar 11, 2023

  This week we talk Update 58.1 release notes, VIP perks proposed changes, And more!   Audio Only Listen And Download Link http://subvertedmadness.com/ddo/playersnews/DPN325.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (85.3MB) YouTube Watch Links   Game News Update 58.1 Release Notes Proposed VIP perks could launch mid-year DDO Store Sales: March...

Mar 8, 2023

  Free League Publishing has announced the release of a new expansion for its award-winning role-playing game, The One Ring™. The expansion, titled Tales From the Lone-Lands, is based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and contains six new adventures set in the lone-lands of north-western Middle-earth. Players can choose to play each adventure separately, or...

Mar 8, 2023

  Larian Studios announced via a new gameplay trailer that Baldur’s Gate 3 will ship on PS5, PC and Mac on August 31, 2023.     The latest Baldur’s Gate 3 trailer also includes several gameplay-related reveals: Split-screen Co-op: Play with up to two players on one PS5 using split-screen co-op, or play online with up to four players! Controller...

Mar 7, 2023

  The first expansion is Midnight Storm, which features the ninja master Storm Shadow as a boss. It also allows players to play new JOE heroes Jinx and Mutt/Junkyard. The game box comes with 2 Hero figures, 2 Character cards, 12 Foot Soldier figures, 10 Foot Soldier Enemy cards, 2 Lieutenant figures, 2 Lieutenant Deployment cards, 16 Lieutenant Enemy...

Mar 5, 2023

  Community Manger Cordovan joins us this week, as we talk 17th Anniversary, Update 58: Unlikely Heroes Release Notes,Update 58.0.1 Release Notes Dungeons & Dragons Online: LIVE at PAX East! And much more!   Audio Only Listen And Download Link http://subvertedmadness.com/ddo/playersnews/DPN324.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (89.0MB)...

Mar 2, 2023

  Avalon Hill will release HeroQuest: The Mage of the Mirror Quest Pack, a board game expansion, into retail in Q1 2023. We told you and showed you some shots of this expansion at Gen Con 2022.     In this expansion, players will battle the archmage  Sinestra who has kidnapped Princess Millandriell.  A player will need to navigate the Elf...

Mar 1, 2023

  It`s every adventurer’s rite of passage to encounter a Mimic in combat; now, you can have one with you in the room while you play! This life-sized Mimic chest is 20″ tall and made from soft foam that`s painted to show off each eye and tooth, not to mention that long tongue! This replica creature is incredibly lifelike and stands mid-lunge toward...

Feb 2, 2023

  We talk Producer Letter, Update 58 Preview 2 and Gen Con News and Much more!   Audio Only Listen And Download Link http://subvertedmadness.com/ddo/playersnews/DPN323.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (70.4MB) YouTube Watch Links   Game News Producer’s Letter: January 2023 Free Transfers Available to Orien and Sarlona February...

Feb 1, 2023

  Introduction to Everyday Heroes Everyday Heroes TTRPG is a role-playing game designed by Evil Genius Games. It is set in a world of superheroes and villains, and players take on the roles of those heroes and villains in order to save the world. The game is designed to be fast-paced and action-packed, with a focus on story-telling and player-driven...

Feb 1, 2023

  he Doomed:  Apocalyptic Horror Hunting will invite players to engage monstrous logic-defying “Horrors” in a science fiction setting by fielding small warbands of “hunters” equipped with high-tech weapons.     The game is scenario based, with encounters defined by the setting and the nature of the Horror involved.  Many Horrors break the rules...

Jan 30, 2023

  Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (see below).  The trailer showcases a few of the monsters that will appear in the new movie, including a displacer beast, an owlbear, and a red dragon.  And has more action than the first trailer.     This movie will open the SXSW festival, and then...

Jan 28, 2023

Special Note – this is a NON DDO show this week, Evilbeeker and I discuss the OGL controversy in a very long in-depth conversation. So, if you normally only listen to the show for DDO news and talk, there is none this week, this is a D&D/RPG focused episode. As I said in the add-on at the start of the show, I did not get this show edited in a timely...

Jan 28, 2023

  Gen Con, the largest and longest-running tabletop gaming convention in North America, today announced badge registration information for its upcoming 2023 convention. Gen Con Indy 2023 will run August 3-6 in the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium, celebrating 20 years of events in Indianapolis since the convention moved to the city in 2003....

Jan 21, 2023

  Were back!! This week we cover UPDATE 58 PREVIEW 1 On Lamannia, we also take a look back at 2022 in DDO and our gaming goals, and much more! NOTE – We had some audio issues this week, I tried to fix as much as I could in post, I’m sorry the show audio quality is not as good as it normally is, should be fixed by next show!   Audio Only...

Jan 19, 2023

  More OGL News.     What we know so far, the full OGL is supposed to be released tomorrow.   The core D&D mechanics are being made available through a Creative Commons license. Other “quintessentially D&D content from the SRD such as owlbears and magic missile” will be made available through OGL 1.2. OGL 1.2 is perpetual and...

Jan 19, 2023

  The fall from the OGL Leak is rolling along.     Wizards of the Coast has announced a new process for revisions of the Open Gaming License beginning January 20. The new process is the result of the firestorm created by the leak of the original draft of OGL revisions “Starting now, we’re going to do this a better way: more open and transparent,...

Jan 9, 2023

  Kosmos revealed The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom, a new cooperative roll-and-move board game, for release into retail in Q2 2023.     Players head off on Frodo’s quest to destroy the One Ring in the fiery belly of Mount Doom. The players assume the roles of the Fellowship and move each individual member across the landscape...

Jan 4, 2023

  Wizards of the Coast will re-release D&D Tyranny of Dragons, a classic 5E adventure campaign collected into one volume, into retail on January 17, 2023, For the 4th time for those keeping score at home!   This was one of the first 5E adventures originally released as the Tyranny of Dragons series of adventures back in 2014. It was later...

Jan 4, 2023

  Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, has canceled at least five video games, this is coming from Bloomberg. They had no comment on the name of the titles that were canceled, only saying “We remain committed to using digital games as a cornerstone of our strategy for bringing our games to players around...