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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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Dungeons & Dragons 5E

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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Tabletop Games

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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Avalon Hills Game Nights Coming To Your FLGS

Avalon Hills Game Nights Coming To Your FLGS

Jun 12, 2024

  Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast launched Avalon Hill Game Nights, a new pilot program for WPN organized play.     Avalon Hill Game Nights program offers up OP events for select Avalon Hill lines to WPN stores.  These demo events coincide with evergreen titles that WotC is increasing availability for to WPN stores via distribution.  These titles...

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaevel Reenactment Programme RPG Coming This Fall

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaevel Reenactment Programme RPG Coming This Fall

Jun 12, 2024

  Exalted Funeral revealed Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaevel Reenactment Programme, a new roleplaying game, which will hit stores in October 2024 after a successful crowdfunding campaign.   Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme consists of a core book featuring an original rules-lite gaming system; guidance on designing...

Adults Spending More On Toys Then Children.

Adults Spending More On Toys Then Children.

Jun 12, 2024

  Adults bought more toys for themselves than for any other age group last quarter for the first time ever, surpassing toys for even the historically-dominant preschooler market. Consumers 18 years of age and up spent $1.5 billion in toy-related purchases in the period from January through April, overtaking the three-to five-year-old demographic as the...

DDO Players News Podcast 342 – Collector Intervention Needed

DDO Players News Podcast 342 – Collector Intervention Needed

Jun 10, 2024

This week Drac is joined by Shaba Jade From The Damsels Game! We Talk The Eladrin, Chasomancer, Wild Mage And Much More! 0:00 Start 03:15 Eladrin 13:25 Eladrin Chaosmancer Iconic Hero 22:05 Store Sales 24:09 Talisman Fifth Edition 28:04 Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars 30:03 Dawn of Defiance 32:52 Universal Monsters Figures 36:53 Week In Gaming 52:27 Support Us On...

Talisman Fifth Edition Is On The Way

Talisman Fifth Edition Is On The Way

Jun 9, 2024

  A new edition of Talisman, the classic adventure board game, is coming from the publisher behind Betrayal at House on the Hill.     This is a new publisher for the title, which in addition to its original publisher Games Workshop, has also been published by Fantasy Flight Games.  The most recent edition, 4th Edition, was first released by Games...

Neca Unleashes Some Classic Horror Figures

Neca Unleashes Some Classic Horror Figures

Jun 9, 2024

  Neca has put the tenth collection of Toony Terrors figures up for pre-sale and for the first time with the four classic Universal Pictures monsters reimagined as cartoon characters. The Universal Monsters Toony Terrors 6-Inch Action Figures Series 10 set comes with stylized figures of the 4 main classic movie monsters, as if they were in a cartoon: the...

Greek-Myth Survival Game “Dawn of Defiance” Coming Aug. 15 to PC Early Access

Greek-Myth Survival Game “Dawn of Defiance” Coming Aug. 15 to PC Early Access

Jun 8, 2024

  Independent video game studio Traega Entertainment was thrilled to announce during IGN Live today that Dawn of Defiance, the open-world, survival-crafting game inspired by ancient Greek mythology, launches into early access Aug. 15, 2024, on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The news coincided with an all-new trailer highlighting the game’s incredibly...

Free League Publishing Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars In Retail Now

Free League Publishing Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars In Retail Now

Jun 8, 2024

  Following a successful Kickstarter, Free League Publishing has released the Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars miniatures game. Set in the world of the popular roleplaying game, Zone Wars brings skirmish level action to the tabletop. The core box set is arriving in stores and carries an MSRP of $69.99.     Stake out your claim in the post-apocalyptic...

Steamforged Games Acquires Warmachine And More From Privateer Press

Steamforged Games Acquires Warmachine And More From Privateer Press

Jun 8, 2024

  Steamforged Games has acquired the Warmachine, Formula P3, and Iron Kingdoms brands from Privateer Press. The partnership deal will bring one of the most renowned miniatures brands, Warmachine, under the SFG banner.  One of the major factors that Privateer Press stated for the change is that Steamforged Games has the resources and infrastructure to carry...

Amazon Prime Gaming Free Games For June

Amazon Prime Gaming Free Games For June

Jun 8, 2024

  One of the many advantages of being an Amazon Prime subscriber is the possibility of redeeming monthly free games from Prime Gaming — giving players even more options to expand their digital game libraries.   The retail giant revealed, this Wednesday (29), the free games coming to Prime Gaming in June 2024. There will be no less than eight titles...

DDO Players News Episode 341 – The One With Coffers And Fallout

DDO Players News Episode 341 – The One With Coffers And Fallout

May 11, 2024

  This week we cover The Astral Traveler Patrons Coffer, Vip Loyalty, Fallout And More! 0:00 Start 02:06 Astral Traveler Patrons Coffer 13:18 VIP Loyalty Reward 15:30 Year Of The Dragon Curate Your Xpack Cache 20:15 Store Sales 21:26 Planet Of The Apes RPG 26:01 Arkham Horror RPG 30:32 Embracer Group Restructuring 35:25 Fallout Miniatures: TV Figures 36:44...

Arkham Horror RPG Coming From Edge Studios

Arkham Horror RPG Coming From Edge Studios

May 11, 2024

  Edge Studio will launch a new Arkham Horror RPG with Starter Set – Hungering Abyss in August. The game is designed to be an introduction to roleplaying games, with a complete set of everything needed to play, a system that requires no previous knowledge of roleplaying or Arkham Horror, and a scenario divided into scenes that can be played in one to two...

Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Movie In Development

Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Movie In Development

May 11, 2024

  Andy Serkis is going back to Middle-earth to play Gollum in two new “Lord of the Rings” films.     Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy said Thursday that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the Oscar-winning team behind the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, will produce and Serkis will...

Fallout Miniatures: TV Figures Coming To  Fallout Wasteland Warfare

Fallout Miniatures: TV Figures Coming To  Fallout Wasteland Warfare

May 10, 2024

Modiphius is releasing Fallout Miniatures: Hollywood Heroes, a special set for its Fallout Wasteland Warfare wargame tied to the Fallout series on Amazon Prime this month; the box and miniatures use TV show imagery.  The set includes 32mm minis for Lucy, The Ghoul, Maximux, and CX404, with 3 30mm Scenic Bases, and 1 40mm Scenic Base, along with Instruction...

New Two Player Starter Sets Coming To Conquest

New Two Player Starter Sets Coming To Conquest

May 10, 2024

  Para Bellum will release Conquest Two Player Starter Set – Sorcerer Kings vs. City States, a new boxed set, into retail on May 31, 2024.     Para Bellum will release Conquest Two Player Starter Set – Sorcerer Kings vs. City States, a new boxed set, into retail on May 31, 2024.     The new boxed set comes with everything...

Shadowdark RPG Launches On Fantasy Grounds

Shadowdark RPG Launches On Fantasy Grounds

May 10, 2024

  Shadowdark RPG, the immersive and thrilling tabletop role-playing game, has officially launched on Fantasy Grounds Virtual Tabletop (VTT), offering players a seamless and dynamic digital gaming experience. New game design ideas have emerged in the last 50 years, and Shadowdark brings favorite concepts together into a nostalgic but new adventuring system....

Margot Robbie In Talks To Star In Avengelyne Comic Book Movie Adaptation

Margot Robbie In Talks To Star In Avengelyne Comic Book Movie Adaptation

May 2, 2024

  Avengelyne isn’t exactly a well-known heroine. That’s largely because she’s had a sporadic publishing history since her debut in 1995. However, Avengelyne’s co-creator, Rob Liefeld, is reportedly near a deal that will bring his character to the big screen, potentially Margot Robbie in the title role. Liefeld, who is best-known for co-creating Deadpool...

Sandkheg’s Hide New Whiskey From Quest’s End

Sandkheg’s Hide New Whiskey From Quest’s End

May 2, 2024

  Whiskey and D&D. They pair up great (for those over 21, of course). Find Quest’s End, the super-premium spirits company founded by celebrity actor/gaming entrepeneur Matthew Lillard and screenwriter Justin Ware, along with Blue Run Spirits co-founder Tim Sparapani advising, began their Quest’s End series of whiskeys last year with the release...

Fanatical’s Fallout Bundle Includes All Seven Games For Just $25

Fanatical’s Fallout Bundle Includes All Seven Games For Just $25

May 2, 2024

Did you watch the Fallout tv series, and are not itching to jump in the wasteland yourself? Whether they be returning after years away or trying them for the first time. If you need the games to play them for the first time, or you want to revisit Fallout’s world but need to buy the games again, Fanatical has all seven of them for just $24.99.  ...

Planet of the Apes TTRPG Announced by Magnetic Press

Planet of the Apes TTRPG Announced by Magnetic Press

May 2, 2024

  An official Planet of the Apes TTRPG is coming. Magnetic Press, the company behind the Carbon Grey RPG, has announced that they will be bringing the long-running sci-fi franchise to gaming tables, using their Magnetic Variant of the West End Games D6 system.   The Planet of the Apes TTRPG brings players into the titular sci-fi setting. It is based...