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DDO Players News Episode 348- The One With Lanterns Crossbows And Sabertooth

Posted by on Oct 19, 2024

  This week we discuss update 70, Crossbows Changes, Cormyr, Lanterns in the Mist, and much more! 0:00 Start 00:38 Update 69.4 Release Notes 02:02 Update 69.4.1 Release Notes...

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DDO Players News Episode 348- The One With Lanterns Crossbows And Sabertooth

Posted by on Oct 19, 2024

  This week we discuss update 70, Crossbows Changes, Cormyr, Lanterns in the Mist, and much more! 0:00 Start 00:38 Update 69.4 Release Notes 02:02 Update 69.4.1 Release Notes...

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Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering and D&D: A Deep Dive into Q3 2024 Results

Posted by on Oct 25, 2024

  Despite the highly anticipated release of the 2024 Player’s Handbook, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) appears to be struggling to make a significant impact on...

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Dive into the Depths of R’lyeh: New Arkham Horror: The Card Game Expansions Announced

Posted by on Oct 31, 2024

  Prepare to submerge yourself in the Lovecraftian horror of R’lyeh with the upcoming expansions for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. Fantasy Flight Games has unveiled...

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Drac’s Gen Con 2024 7 Most Anticipated Games

Drac’s Gen Con 2024 7 Most Anticipated Games

Jul 24, 2024

  Welcome to the End of July! As of this posting, we have a short 8 days to Gen Con 2024! This is the 57th anniversary. Our coverage of Gen Con is shaping up well. I have over 11 interviews scheduled with game companies, plus I plan to stop by many other booths and do interviews, so it’s going to be a busy time! As it always is 🙂 This year, we have no...

Dracula And Werewolf By Night Coming To Marvel Crisis Protocol

Dracula And Werewolf By Night Coming To Marvel Crisis Protocol

Jul 23, 2024

  Marvel Crisis Protocol is about to spooky!  With a few horror themed sets hitting your FLGS in November.   Dracula Step into the shadows with Dracula, the legendary vampire lord, in Marvel: Crisis Protocol. n Dracula excels in sustainability and control. His life-draining abilities allow him to recover health while dealing damage, making him a...

Spiel Des Jahres 2024 Winners

Spiel Des Jahres 2024 Winners

Jul 23, 2024

  The Spiel des Jahres jury has announced the winners of the 2024 awards for Game of the year, Children’s Game of the Year, and Connoisseur Game of the Year.     Spiel Des Jahres is one of the biggest awards in board gaming, identifying games that become modern-day classics – Catan, Ticket to Ride, Agricola, Dixit and many more. The awards...

Space 1999 RPG Coming From Modiphius Entertainment

Space 1999 RPG Coming From Modiphius Entertainment

Jul 22, 2024

  Modiphius Entertainment has teamed up with Anderson Entertainment to produce a tabletop role-playing game based on the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999.  The new game will launch later this year, shortly before the show’s 50th Anniversary in 2025.     Running for two seasons starting in 1975, Space:  1999 was one of the most...

Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player Handbook Limited Early Sales At Gen Con 2024

Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player Handbook Limited Early Sales At Gen Con 2024

Jul 22, 2024

  Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast announced a Gen Con 2024 special edition of the Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Player’s Handbook, which will be on sale during the show at the Lucas Stadium Northwest Concourse from August 1-4, 2024.   WotC will bring the first 3,000 copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook to Gen Con 2024 for collectors and fans to...

Beadle & Grimm’s Announce Six Dungeons & Dragons Classic Module Dice Sets

Beadle & Grimm’s Announce Six Dungeons & Dragons Classic Module Dice Sets

Jul 18, 2024

  Beadle & Grimm’s have announced they will be releasing, six D&D Classic Module Dice Collectors Sets. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of D&D     Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, Vecna Lives!, White Plume Mountain, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.   Each limited edition classic module dice...

Revelations of the Dark Mother Coming For Vampire: The Masquerade RPG

Revelations of the Dark Mother Coming For Vampire: The Masquerade RPG

Jul 17, 2024

  Renegade Game Studios revealed Revelations of the Dark Mother, a new accessory book for Vampire: The Masquerade RPG, which will release in November 2024.   Lilith. Mother of the Damned, the Dark Queen who will arise and usher in the end of the world. Feared by the Children of Caine and adored by her followers Bahari, the mere existence of Lilith...

UK’s Royal Mail Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of Dungeons & Dragons With Stamps

UK’s Royal Mail Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of Dungeons & Dragons With Stamps

Jul 17, 2024

  Royal Mail celebrates the 50th anniversary of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which is enjoyed by around 64 million fans globally.   Fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year and the Royal Mail is celebrating by unveiling a set of 14 stamps, featuring monsters and characters from D&D. The tabletop role-playing...

Warcrow Available Now From Corvus Belli

Warcrow Available Now From Corvus Belli

Jul 17, 2024

  Corvus Belli has announced that  Warcrow, a new combat miniatures game, is available at retail now.     Warcrow is a miniatures game set in the fantastical world of Lindwurm. In this setting you control a small military force made up of warriors, creatures and wizards, who fight skirmishes pursuing the interests of your faction. Before starting...

DDO Players News Episode 343 – The Squirrels Of Cthulhu

DDO Players News Episode 343 – The Squirrels Of Cthulhu

Jun 23, 2024

  Evil Beeker joins Drac to talk about Magic of Myth Drannor Expansion Pre Orders and MUCH MUCH More! Buckle up folks! it’s a longer show! But with Beeker you know that was going to happen!!!   0:00 Start 01:22 Magic of Myth Drannor Expansion Pack Pre Orders Are Live 07:01 Magic of Myth Drannor FAQ 14:29 Update 68.0.1 Release Notes 21:30...

HASBRO/WOTC Announce Release Dates For D&D 2024 Books

HASBRO/WOTC Announce Release Dates For D&D 2024 Books

Jun 21, 2024

  For those care about such things, we now know when all the books for Not D&D 6E, but D&D 2024! Will be released.   On September 17, 2024, the first two products for D&D 2024 will hit FLGS shelves.  The 2024 Player’s Handbook and the 2024 Character Sheets will be the first items out.  This now larger Player’s Handbook has been...

Free RPG Day 2024 Is June 22 2024

Free RPG Day 2024 Is June 22 2024

Jun 21, 2024

  Established in 2007, Free RPG Day works with participating hobby game retailers and RPG publishers to bring new and exclusive RPG quick-start rules and adventure modules into the hands of gamers. Consumers WORLDWIDE will be able to grab brand-new material for a variety of RPGs — no overstock, retail-priced or dead product here. The goal of Free RPG Day...

Army Painter Announce Gamemaster: Adventure Starter Role-playing Paint Set

Army Painter Announce Gamemaster: Adventure Starter Role-playing Paint Set

Jun 21, 2024

  The Army Painter have announced a brand new set of paints, Gamemaster: Adventure Starter Role-playing Paint Set Combo, a new Warpaints Fanatic paint and miniatures set, into retail on August 17, 2024.   The Warpaints Fanatic line is a very popular set of paints for the beginner, featuring a paint formula with high pigmentation and the Flexible Triad...

Cthulhu Come To Horrified In World Of Monsters

Cthulhu Come To Horrified In World Of Monsters

Jun 20, 2024

  Ravensburger revealed a new Horrified title this week, as Horrified: World Of Monsters will be released for retail this August.     Horrified has brought us The Universal monsters, American folklore, and Greek mythology. Launching August 1, World of Monsters will have you face H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos, Cthulhu. The game will take some of the...

Fallout 76 Gets Skyline Valley Map Update Out Now

Fallout 76 Gets Skyline Valley Map Update Out Now

Jun 13, 2024

  Bethesda Game Studios  is launching the patch (around 27GB on Steam) on live servers.     This is the first expansion to the open world map. Whereas previous new locations, such as Pittsburgh and Atlantic City, brought players elsewhere, Skyline Valley introduces a whole new area to the Appalachian map. More specifically, Bethesda has added the...

HeroQuest Jungles of Dethrak Pre-Order Live

HeroQuest Jungles of Dethrak Pre-Order Live

Jun 13, 2024

  HeroQuest Jungles of Dethrak brings players into the dense jungle surrounding the mountains at World’s Edge. In this jungle, an ancient dwarven civilization has found new roots. But a sacred artifact held in Kellar’s Keep, prized by the dwarven refugees, has been stolen.     Because of this, a blight has infected the jungle to its...

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Stamps To Be Released At Gen Con Indy 2024

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Stamps To Be Released At Gen Con Indy 2024

Jun 13, 2024

  DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, brought a bold new type of game to tabletops all over the world, one in which players collaborate by telling an open-ended story guided by books, dice and their own imaginations. By inviting participants to imagine themselves as wizards, warriors and other adventurers in exciting and...

Magic of Myth Drannor Expansion Pack Pre Orders Are Live

Magic of Myth Drannor Expansion Pack Pre Orders Are Live

Jun 12, 2024

  The upcoming expansion Magic of Myth Drannor, is now available for pre-purchase, and different bundles available as always. Pre-purchase the latest update hitting Dungeons and Dragons Online that brings us deep within the Forgotten Realms to make our way through the ruins of Myth Drannor. There are three different Bundles to choose from, including...

Spiel Des Jahres Nominations 2024

Spiel Des Jahres Nominations 2024

Jun 12, 2024

  The nominees for the Spiel des Jahres, the German “Game of the Year,” were unveiled alongside nominations for the Kennerspiel des Jahres and Kinderspiel des Jahres.  winners will be announced July 21. Kinderspiel des Jahres Große kleine Edelsteine by Wolfgang Warsch Magic Keys by Markus Slawitschek & Arno Steinwender Taco Kitten Pizza by...

Conan Trading Cards Coming From Cryptozoic

Conan Trading Cards Coming From Cryptozoic

Jun 12, 2024

  Cryptozoic Entertainment will release Conan the Barbarian Trading Cards, with decades of comic art from Marvel Comics and Dark Horse Comics, sketch cards, and more, in Q4 2024, the company announced. The set will be produced with a limited production run, sold in five-card booster packs, 24-pack displays, and 12-box cases.     The Base Set of...