Feb 9, 2022

  Hasbro once again looked to Microsoft for the hire.     Hasbro has hired Microsoft executive Cynthia Williams as President of Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming, taking over when current WotC CEO Chris Cocks ascends to become CEO of Hasbro on February 25. Williams was General Manager & Vice President at Microsoft, most recently of the...

Feb 8, 2022

  Well, it appears that COVID-19 was good for something in 2021, and that would be WOTC.     Wizards of the Coast amassed $952 million in tabletop game sales in 2021, leading the company to over $1 billion in total sales (including digital gaming revenues) for the first time, parent Hasbro revealed in its Q4 and full-year earnings release and...

Dec 2, 2021

  WizKids has announced the next Paint Night Kit,  D&D Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures: Paint Night Kit #8 – Ice Troll, which will hit stores in January 2022.       The all-in-one-event kit features an Ice Troll miniature for customers to try out their painting skills on. This kit comes with access to an expert step-by-step...

Nov 4, 2021

  WizKids is teaming up with Kidrobot for the first wave of the Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition Monsters, releasing in August 2022. The 3-inch vinyl miniatures depict classic monsters from the original first edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as depicted in the artwork from the gamebooks. The first wave of models features a total of 13 different...

Oct 12, 2021

  Free RPG is this coming Saturday and Wiz Kids has announced what they will be bringing to the table.       In the Grim Cottage Encounter, the Night Hag has discovered a long-abandoned cottage made of moldy sweets and rotting gingerbread men. She doesn’t care about the decaying walls and roof; she just likes the privacy…and that big, roomy...

Oct 12, 2021

  WizKids announced the D&D Icons of the Realms: Gargantuan Tarrasque figure for release in September 2022.   The new figure is over 11 inches tall and 15.5 inches (final dimensions subject to change) from its gnashing maw to its tail. The Tarrasque is one of the most terrifying legendary monsters on the Material Plane. It is a gargantuan...

Jul 20, 2021

  WizKids unveiled Dungeons & Dragons: Efreeti Premium Statue for release into retail in November.     One of the most iconic images in all of Dungeons & Dragons is the cover art of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 1E by David C. Sutherland. It depicts a menacing efreeti staring down a wizard and a knight as he clutches a thief in his...

Jun 9, 2021

  Do you have a good amount of cash lying around? Want to own a piece of D&D History? Well, I have the item for you!     The manuscript is currently going for US $12,300.00 (As of this post)  https://www.ebay.com/itm/384211836524     The photos in the listing, show a stack of slightly yellowed typewriter paper full of text, stat...

May 24, 2021

  60 Minutes, covered the game at the height of the Satanic Panic.  D&D co-creator Gary Gygax defends the game that supposedly caused kids to commit suicide and summon demonic spells. Also features Patricia Pulling, whose son committed suicide, and blamed his death on D&D. Gary Gygax handles himself well and refutes all the claims thrown his way....

Apr 6, 2021

  The newest WizKids premium miniature is a Gargantuan Tiamat, the five-headed draconic goddess who first appeared in the Greyhawk supplement by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz.     “Gargantuan” is a massive understatement when describing this “miniature”  because it is roughly the size of a small dog or cat. It comes fully...

Jan 4, 2021

  Seldom is the name of Vecna spoken except in a hushed voice. Vecna was, in his time, one of the mightiest of all wizards. Through dark magic and conquest, he forged a terrible empire. For all his power, Vecna couldn’t escape his own mortality. He began to fear death and take steps to prevent his end from ever coming about. Orcus, the demon prince of...

Sep 9, 2020

  We take a look at the latest set from 1985 Games Dungeon Craft Series, Hell & High Water Have you ever wanted to Sail the High Seas? or Escape the bowels of hell? Well, this Dungeon Craft companion book contains an additional Hundreds of reversible game pieces to further enhance your tabletop RPG experience! Contains: Ships, Demons, Ancient Evils,...

Aug 18, 2020

  Take your game night to the next level, with the official D&D cookbook.     From the same team who brought the world Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History, comes a cookbook that will be sure to make your game night one to remember. Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Michael Witwer, as I like to call them the Geek Dream...

Aug 2, 2020

  D&D Icons of the Realms: Curse of Strahd Premium Box Sets are on the way from Wizkids.   Covens & Covenants and Legends of Barovia, into retail in October. These miniature sets are for use with Dungeons & Dragons latest release Curse of Strahd Revamped which we told you about all ready.   The Covens & Covenants Premium Box Set...

Jul 27, 2020

          Happiest of birthdays to the late Gary Gygax, Father of Dungeons and Dragons! In 1974, Gygax, along with co-creator Dave Arneson, gave us the first edition of Dungeons and Dragons! Gygax and his co-creators worked to produce something that at the point didn’t exist – a fantasy role-playing game. Gygax was a lover of fantasy...

May 4, 2020

  The Dungeons & Dragons design team has a new head, with former head Mike Mearls having been off the team since sometime last year. Senior story designer for D&D Christopher Perkins confirmed on Twitter that Ray Winninger is now an executive producer and the head of the D&D team, while lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford added that Mearls...

Apr 5, 2020

  Brian J. Blume, the co-founder of Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR who helped fund the tabletop RPG’s original print run, has died.     Alongside Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax and his childhood friend Don Kaye, Blume played a key role in founding Tactical Studies Rules in the early 1970s. After meeting Gygax and Kaye at the...

Feb 13, 2020

    Hasbro released their earnings during a call to investors and its good news all around for the company and the brands and games we, and readers of this site love.     The TLDR Bullet point version for you D&D grew again for the sixth year in a row. Streaming D&D content was up nearly 50% on last year. Substantial new (digital)...

Jan 6, 2020

  Ultra Pro may be best known for making those products that protect your gaming goodies like sleeves for cards or folios for character sheets, but they also are good are taking D&D monsters and making that gosh darn cute. There will be four new Figurines of Adorable Power in this wave of figures. The collection will feature the following fierce...

Dec 26, 2019

A little while back we reported that Cubicle 7 was losing the license to the Lord of the Rings franchise for publishing RPG’s, both for their The One Ring, and the Adventures in Middle Earth 5E system books.  You can refresh your memories here.   But for a limited time the awesome folks at Humble Bundle are offering up a giant pile of the Adventures...