WotC Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Is A New UK Magazine To Teach D&D

As reported on the Mastering Dungeons podcast, Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer is a weekly magazine from D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast and UK magazine publisher Hachette Partworks, designed as a magazine run to teach you D&D and serve as an adventure kit.

Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer is a brand new partwork that teaches you how to play the world’s most popular tabletop roleplaying game, with an exclusive adventure, easy step-by-step instructions and all the background information you need to start creating your own characters and becoming a D&D expert. Collect the specially designed dice given throughout the collection and join us on a wild ride through the D&D journey of a lifetime!


Each of the first four issues also comes with a free dice set, along with bigger goodies every few deliveries, inclusing dice towers, binders, keyrings, even a DM screen. A premium subscripiton throws in miniatures, too. It's kind of a combination of loot box and magazine.

There are currently 80 weekly issues planned. The first issue is £1.99, with subsequent issues costing more at £4.99 for issue #2, and then $7.99 onwards (and the premium subscription versions more at £9.49 per week). As they're weekly, that comes to about £32 per month, or £38 for premium.

The magazine is available in UK stores or via subscription.


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A premium subscription that includes miniatures.

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Thank you for posting that review. I wish this quality of papercraft terrain was available a few years sooner and I might have saved a fortune in Dwarven Forge! This stuff looks great!
 

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My third package arrived today with issues 7 – 10. The adventures and articles I worked on will start appearing from issue 14 onwards – exciting! :)
 


I keep seeing posts and videos from so many new people digging into these. It’s cool.
That’s great! I haven’t seen that much but I don’t really spend time on YouTube etc.

For anyone that’s interested, there’s (inevitably) a Black Friday offer on now for new subscribers
 

Huzzah! My latest package of D&D Adventurer magazines have turned up, featuring my first adventure for the magazine, Haunted Tomb of the Dragon Slayer in issue 14
🎉
. Good to see a battle map, spell booklet & plastic stand up minis as well as dice with these
😀


If you play the adventure I’d love to know how it goes!
 


Huzzah! The latest package of D&D Adventurer magazines have arrived featuring my adventure The Sewer Stalkers and lots more cool stuff 🎉😀
 

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I don't have a copy of pre-release issue #2, but this thread reminded me to comment on the first quarter of the main series (issues #1-20).

The content is better than I expected. I'm enjoying the gradual building up of each section, and the presentation of each micro-topic is good. Other than the adventures, there isn't a lot of new material here, but that's probably not the point. So far it seems that the 80-issue set will provide a comprehensive version of the D&D core rules, organized in an interesting way and with some solid adventure content to play.

Which version of D&D rules subscribers are getting is another matter. The magazine series seems to be based on the 2014 core rules, but it has some 2024isms, like using the species terminology. The timing of this magazine is awkward; when issue #80 ships to subscribers in mid-2025, the collected set will no longer match the current version of the rules.

The hope may be that by then, magazine subscribers will be so overwhelmed by their dice options that they won't notice any rules discrepancies. Because, boy do subscribers get a lot of dice!

Here is what you'll have after subscribing for the first 20 issues:
  • 482 pages of magazine content
  • a 16-page Spell Booklet
  • an 8-page Introduction to Combat booklet
  • 26 pages of character sheets
  • two magazine binders
  • a four-panel DM Screen
  • a poster map of Phandalin
  • a double-sided terrain map
  • two sheets of plastic character and monster figurines
  • a set of five inspiration tokens
  • a dice tray
  • five dice tins
  • three dice bags
  • 15 sets of dice
  • a large d20
  • a large d10
  • a coin (but only if you are a "premium" subscriber)
At the current rate, D&D Adventurer subscribers will have sixty sets of dice to choose from by the time the series finishes!
 


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