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    D&D 5E Chris Perkins Lays Down Some Lore: Who Was Vecna?

    Video interview goojg into the background for the Big Bad of the upcoming book:
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    D&D (2024) In Interview with GamesRadar, Chris Perkins Discusses New Books

    Chris Perkins did an interview with GamesRadar about the direction and goals for the new books, how it is not a "new edition," amo g other things: "This is not a vanity press we're doing," says Perkins. "This is not me trying to prove myself as a designer to the world. We're trying to answer...
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    D&D General Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth Coming to GaryCon 2024

    Notices going out with details about the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth for 5E being run at GaryCon: "50th Anniversary Special Event: Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, brought to you by Wizards of the Coast! Deep in the Yatil Mountains lie the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, formerly occupied...
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    D&D (2024) Survey is Live for Unearthed Arcana PHB Playtest 8

    Survey is live now: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/ua/ph-playtest-8
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    WotC Reveal Exodus, a New Video Game from the Decelopers of Mass Effect and Neverwinter Nights

    New trialer just dropped at the Game Awards, with a press push, for Wizards of the Coast upcoming cider game from their Austin studio, from James Ojlwn and a bunch of other BioWare veterans. Huge Mass Effect energy here, looks cool. "Founded in 2020 under Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of...
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    D&D General Official Dungeons & Dragons 50th Anniversary logo and an Official Forgotten Realms Symphonic Suite titled "Bardic Inspiration"

    So, stopping by Target for diapers and batteries on Black Friday (as one does), I decided to sneak a peek at the new 5E artbook, Legends & Lore. I haven't gotten it yet as it is on my Christmas list, but I was curious to see if there was anything interesting and new in the back...and there was...
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    Meta Shows off an AI DM played by Snoop Dogg

    So, Zuckerberg was showing off virtual reality AI chat bots for the Metabwrse, and this one jumped out a bit. Seems like exactly the sort of thing that WotC claimed to be worried about with the new OGL shenanigans. "So far, so standard, I thought—then, whiplash. Zuckerberg starts talking about...
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    Planescape WotC Posts Real Estate Liating for Walking Castle in the Outlands

    So, this is a pretty fa tactic ad on Instagram, for a "3 bed, 1 bath 1850 square foot" walking castle in the Outlands, a steel at 500,000 Gold Piecea:
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    D&D (2024) One D&D Survey Feedback: Weapon Mastery Spectacular; Warlock and Wizard Mixed Reactions

    Jeremy Crawford discusses the results of the Packet 5 Survey: Weapon Mastery at 80% approval, and all options except for Flex scored similarly. Crawford says that Flex is mathematically one of the most powerful properties, but will need some attention because people didn't feel like it was...
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    D&D 5E I Found an RPG Book at the Grocery Store

    So, this morning I went to Safeway (one of the big regional grocery stores in Northern California) for some milk and chicken. When I got in the checkout line, I saw something on the magazine rack that I had to get: A 96 page magazine style sourcebook written by Jeff Ashworth and illustrated...
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    D&D 5E New Magic Items in Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

    Makenzie De Armas & James Wyatt gives some details on new magic items in the upcoming book:
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    D&D 5E 5E Lifetime Sales in North American Big Box Stores Revealed

    Roll for Combat recently put up a video with guest Professor Dungeon Master, taking a look at professional book sales information they have access to as publishers. The data is limited to big box stores like Target, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, or Books a Million im the US only, so this is excluding...
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    D&D 5E New backgrounds & Feats in Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

    Makenzie De Armas goes over the new Backgrounds (Raised by Giants & Rune Scribe) and new feats in the new book:
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    D&D 5E Dan Dillon Details 18 Giant Enclaves from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

    Dan Dillon dscusses the 18 locations described and mapped in the new book:
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    D&D 5E WotC Staff Interview: How to Run Giants

    Another interview about how to use Giants from the new book:
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    D&D 5E Everything You Need to Know about Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants

    Another new video, interview about the upcoming book. James Wyatt says his mission statement when designing the book was "Re-mystifying Giants" and making them bigger than life and truly mythic 18 full page maps with full page key descriptions, such as the root of the World Tree or a Star...
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    D&D 5E Glory of the Giants 'First Look'--Giant Ticks, Player Options, Tables, & Tools!

    Game designer James Wyatt and art director Emi Tanji talk about the upcoming book, which comes out on August 15th. James Wyatt: We're here today to talk to you about Bigby Presents... Emi Tanji: ...Glory of the Giants! James Wyatt: I'm James Wyatt. I write D&D books. Emi Tanji: And I'm...
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    D&D (2024) Unearthed Arcana Playtest Packet 6 Video

    Alright, Crawford discusses an overview the next packet, deep dives intonspecifics coming in more videos tomorrow: new packet is the biggest UA ever, bigger than last time 7 Classee revised Spells and 1 new Spell multiple Subclasses per Class some revised old Subclasses some new Subclasses...
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    D&D (2024) New One D&D Playtest Includes 5 Classes & New Weapon Mastery System

    The latest playtest packet for One D&D has just landed, and features five classes (Barbarian, Fighter, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard) and the new Weapon Mastery system. In this new Unearthed Arcana document for the 2024 Core Rulebooks, we explore material designed for the next version of the...
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    D&D (2024) Jeremy Crawford Gives an Overview of the New Unearthed Arcana

    The upcoming Unearthed Arcana playtest packet for One D&D gets a preview from WotC's Jeremy Crawford. This is apparently the largest of these playtest packets so far, and the biggest Unearthed Arcana they have ever done, at 50 pages long. It contains 5 classes, new spells, new feats, a revised...
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