D&D 5E A Peek At Witchlight's WARDUKE!

We've known for a while that next month's Wild Beyond the Witchlight features a number of 80s D&D characters, including Warduke the evil fighter. We now have a clear view of what he looks like in his 5E incarnation!

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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D&D 5E - Wild Beyond the Witchlight Features Warduke & More!

While we've had the back cover text for some time, Amazon has revealed more information about the Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The adventure includes Warduke, a figure dating back to the 1980s, and indicates that all encounters can be resolved without combat. The book also includes two new races...

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[darjr]

Same helmet. Just all the blue scraped off.

 

[aco175]

I see that he is also left-handed, if we can still call that the sinister hand.

I do like the artwork better than the blue.

I always thought this one was good as well.

 

[Parmandur]

My 7yo, seeing the illustration: "I remember that guy! But since when does he have a flame tongue?"

Parenting done right.

 

[Dragonhelm]

I'm glad to see that Warduke got an armor upgrade.

Looking forward to seeing the other action figure characters.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

A head's up: Mike Gray, who authored the only D&D adventure to feature Warduke, has co-designed the homeworld of Warduke and all the LJN Action Figures. He calls it MOTHERLAND. Hoping to release this aficionado-crafted work in the coming weeks. There are previews here:

MOTHERLAND: The World of ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS™ Action Figures! - The Piazza

 

[Wycen Adamantite]

Yay! My friend Monte wrote the Stink adventure in that issue!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

My 7yo, seeing the illustration: "I remember that guy! But since when does he have a flame tongue?"

You need to explain to your 7yo about killing things and steeling their stuff.

More significantly, how come he is suddenly left handed?!

 

[Ath-kethin]

You need to explain to your 7yo about killing things and steeling their stuff.

More significantly, how come he is suddenly left handed?!

The kid is remarkably tame and innocent in dungeon crawling. For example: in the very first adventure, we came across a goblin guarding a door.

The solution: jumping over the guard to get to the door, since that's how Bilbo got past Gollum in the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit movie.

We all draw from our experiences and consumed media to inform our choices while playing. It's not the kid's fault that their breadth of influences is not very wide yet.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The kid is remarkably tame and innocent in dungeon crawling. For example: in the very first adventure, we came across a goblin guarding a door.

The solution: jumping over the guard to get to the door, since that's how Bilbo got past Gollum in the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit movie.

We all draw from our experiences and consumed media to inform our choices while playing. It's not the kid's fault that their breadth of influences is not very wide yet.

I was joking. I don't think it's appropriate to introduce children to murder-hoboing until at least 9.

 

[Ath-kethin]

I was joking. I don't think it's appropriate to introduce children to murder-hoboing until at least 9.

Alas, I fear I've failed you then, my friend. We started playing the old HeroQuest boardgame when the kid was 4 or 5, No Thank You, Evil! at 5 or 6, and D&D (well, technically Basic Fantasy Roleplaying, which we morphed into Rules Cyclopedia D&D after a few months) at 6.

Now we play Dungeon Crawl Classics, which for my money is the best of them all.

I stress the heroics of the situations, but since I started the whole thing with Conan stories and the '84 Schwartzenegger movie (plus Beastmaster, Krull, et al), the hoboing was gonna happen no matter what I did.