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Is this a new initiative or something? WotC social media just sent out a teaser about something called "D&D Direct" with a link to this webpage on the WotC D&D site. There will be some sort of announcement event one week from today, apparently.

I think the whole conversation about Starship Troopers isn’t very pertinent here, because that film is a case of an avowedly leftist and anti-fascist artist who had at least a passing familiarity with left intellectual theories of avant-garde art (Brecht) making a work of art that’s too easily...

Just a point of correction (I presume it's OK to respond to a mod note if I'm not responding to the moderation part?): the Silver Legion wasn't a neo-Nazi group. They were a Nazi sympathizer group contemporaneous with Nazism itself. They officially disbanded after the USA entered WWII, though...

He has worked on some pretty good stuff in the past, including B&G boxes of Strahd and Eberron (no, I haven't seen these in person, but they look great). He also designed or codesigned some of the best supplements (IMHO) on the DMs Guild, including Elminster's Candlekeep Compendium. Perhaps...

Broke the news on Twitter. Mentions hoping to be a good steward of D&D, so that's definitely what he'll be working on. Edit: I originally said I didn't know his previous work. Turns out I do, and it's great.

Very common. The window (of whatever length) is to give outlets a chance to prep their own news stories about the announcement, so that these can all come out on the same day for a media blitz.

I'm somewhat skeptical that OAR7 could be Against the Giants. If it's true, that would be the first time that Goodman Games has been granted permission to work their magic on an adventure for which WotC has already published their own 5e update (in Tales from the Yawning Portal). Of course...

We may have a winner here. Good work!

Forget those—where's Zardoz? Oh, wait, he's in Waterdeep running a carnival, apparently.

Anyone recognize that circle sigil in the middle?

One thing I haven't seen discussed yet: I think it's probably only a matter of time before WotC publishes a true solo D&D adventure book with no DM required. But whatever Liz Schuh was hinting at in the Dragon Talk podcast isn't that.

I'm not saying it's going to be mind-blowing, or even really innovative, though I think it could be. I'm saying that the transcript clearly demonstrates that at least part of what Ray Winninger means by "new format" is, in fact, some actually "new" (at the very least, new to WotC-published 5e...

Nope. In the Nov. 3, 2021, Dragon Talk podcast linked earlier in this thread, it's clear that cohosts Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito, and Director of Product Management Liz Schuh, are all thinking about one or more specific upcoming physical products they can't yet discuss publicly, when they...

During the lockdowns my 5e group started playing outside on my backyard deck, since that was considered COVID-safer than playing inside. And I absolutely love it—it's by far my favorite way to play an RPG. So what I want in a game space has changed completely, and now consists in sunshine, mild...

Not weird. I've only ever pinned a few metal minis, but assembling plastic sprue minis is a real joy for me too.

For me at least, the appeal of these is to get high-quality miniatures of WotC IP stuff—but that's a strong enough appeal that I'll be buying at least a few of them. For example I won't be getting any Frameworks orcs because as others have pointed out, there are much cheaper, comparable options...

Almost ten thousand people have pledged $500 apiece for the top tier, where the majority of that money goes toward the almost totally unspecified swag boxes, not the novels. I'm not saying the product won't live up to expectations. But it speaks volumes (to me anyway) that tens of thousands of...

Literally all he has revealed so far is “one of the four books is completely new, the other three are in the Cosmere universe but set on new worlds.” That’s it, that’s all the deets you get. Plus the premium editions backers are paying for aren’t even KS exclusive! They merely “might not” be...

I do expect there to be some questions based on the official settings, but I would be shocked if they divide up the categories by setting. Maayyybe the Forgotten Realms would have its own category, but I think it's more likely that any setting-specific questions will be peppered throughout other...

Ultimate Trivial Pursuit: Dungeons & Dragons coming August 31. Definitely a legit preorder listing, theough the release date should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm looking forward to filling my pie wheel with wedges representing my superior knowledge in the categories of Procedurally...