Zardnaar
Legend
Since late 2017 I have kind of been a bit oblivious to a lot of D&D things. This is due to RL stuff, and I do not use social media much, ENworld if it counts Facebook once in a blue moon. I have heard of these legendary things known as "twitter" and "instagram" whatever they are.
I knew a few D&D products have come out due to people talking about them here. Logged into facebook for the 1st time since forever.
New D&D Group, D&D Home city, ok cool, 100 members hmmn this is a bit more interesting, the naitonal one has a similar number wtf (we have a university here but still). Quick chat and there is a new gamestore in town, I kind of new about one shop selling D&D along with EB Games which is more console gaming. Normally I use Amazon or rarely directly from the publisher.
Quick conversation,. leave work early go and have a look, not a massive amount of material but a few recent additions and books I have not seen- Dungeon of the Mad Mage, another Waterdeep book, tile packs etc along with various minis that were a lot better looking than the old 3.5 ones. Also a lot more expensive oh well D&D has never been cheap here. Books were very reasonably priced by NZ standards, only $10-$15 dollars more than what you could source them for on Amazon.
Turns out D&D has been doing really well, he sold 6 copies on the premium core book set in one day. Had 2-3 copies of most of the adventures except HotDQ and Curse of Strahd. Turned out 2 other places also sell D&D books (we've usually had 0-2 places to buy from). He had sold out of the Ravnica ones (MTG store as well).
Went back that night for D&D, 3 groups playing, one of the other stores also does D&D, but this store is Tues, Wednes, and Thursday nights. The tables he was using were some old MtG tables I helped acquire 10 years ago for a defunct game store and a couple of old magic mates had sorted that part out. I think we chipped in a few dollars all those years ago and that is where they have ended up. Planned on hanging around an hour or so went home at 10pm. I took my Bag of Holding along with me with the 5E Kobolds, stuff and some AD&D books (1E,2E PHB, 1E DMG, some old adventures), and people loved the Kobold Midgard stuff and got a new game to play in Tuesday night, probably start DMing again.
One of the younger players his bucket list was to play the original Tomb of Horrors. This was before I pulled out my AD&D books and of the adventures in my bag that was one of them, along with Keep on the Borderlands and a few others. His expression was interesting, once the gaming finished a few quick conversations, turns out one of the ladies also had a purse with bag of holding on it along with a d20 zipper. There were jokes about knowledge of algebra being required to play AD&D but pointed out 2E and a Castles and Crusades book (1E that new players can understand) so looks like I get to run AD&D for the new generation (age 19-35 or so, most were 5E new or 3.5ers, no 4E players).
Checked out the other 2 stores, a dad was shopping for his daughters birthday. I recommended the PHB and Basic set (popular item all stores along with the PHB and Ravnica one), and he thought she had them already. She was at high school was going to recommend Xanathars but the shop had sold out, thy had SCAG+ adventures so I recommended ToA and PotA. Last I saw as I was leaving he had both of them under arm the other options were the rest of the adventures minus Curse of Strahd. I bought the Ravnica book.
My final destination was the mainstream store that was also the most expensive. They didn't have a lot but they did have a 20% off sale. Quick look nothing exciting except for Curse of Strahd which I don't own (one of my players does so if I really want to get it....). Art and Arcana that is gonna be pricey, it wasn't to bad and the 20% off made it mildly overpriced instead of excessively over priced. Temptation kicked in and I bought that one as well.
So that is my last 2-3 days of D&D stuff. Been a bit of a crap week over here all things considered but yeah got a smile. New game to play, a potential new group, new AD&D players perhaps for special occasions (no one wanted to witch but I wasn't trying to pull that off just wanna play AD&D sometime).
I knew a few D&D products have come out due to people talking about them here. Logged into facebook for the 1st time since forever.
New D&D Group, D&D Home city, ok cool, 100 members hmmn this is a bit more interesting, the naitonal one has a similar number wtf (we have a university here but still). Quick chat and there is a new gamestore in town, I kind of new about one shop selling D&D along with EB Games which is more console gaming. Normally I use Amazon or rarely directly from the publisher.
Quick conversation,. leave work early go and have a look, not a massive amount of material but a few recent additions and books I have not seen- Dungeon of the Mad Mage, another Waterdeep book, tile packs etc along with various minis that were a lot better looking than the old 3.5 ones. Also a lot more expensive oh well D&D has never been cheap here. Books were very reasonably priced by NZ standards, only $10-$15 dollars more than what you could source them for on Amazon.
Turns out D&D has been doing really well, he sold 6 copies on the premium core book set in one day. Had 2-3 copies of most of the adventures except HotDQ and Curse of Strahd. Turned out 2 other places also sell D&D books (we've usually had 0-2 places to buy from). He had sold out of the Ravnica ones (MTG store as well).
Went back that night for D&D, 3 groups playing, one of the other stores also does D&D, but this store is Tues, Wednes, and Thursday nights. The tables he was using were some old MtG tables I helped acquire 10 years ago for a defunct game store and a couple of old magic mates had sorted that part out. I think we chipped in a few dollars all those years ago and that is where they have ended up. Planned on hanging around an hour or so went home at 10pm. I took my Bag of Holding along with me with the 5E Kobolds, stuff and some AD&D books (1E,2E PHB, 1E DMG, some old adventures), and people loved the Kobold Midgard stuff and got a new game to play in Tuesday night, probably start DMing again.
One of the younger players his bucket list was to play the original Tomb of Horrors. This was before I pulled out my AD&D books and of the adventures in my bag that was one of them, along with Keep on the Borderlands and a few others. His expression was interesting, once the gaming finished a few quick conversations, turns out one of the ladies also had a purse with bag of holding on it along with a d20 zipper. There were jokes about knowledge of algebra being required to play AD&D but pointed out 2E and a Castles and Crusades book (1E that new players can understand) so looks like I get to run AD&D for the new generation (age 19-35 or so, most were 5E new or 3.5ers, no 4E players).
Checked out the other 2 stores, a dad was shopping for his daughters birthday. I recommended the PHB and Basic set (popular item all stores along with the PHB and Ravnica one), and he thought she had them already. She was at high school was going to recommend Xanathars but the shop had sold out, thy had SCAG+ adventures so I recommended ToA and PotA. Last I saw as I was leaving he had both of them under arm the other options were the rest of the adventures minus Curse of Strahd. I bought the Ravnica book.
My final destination was the mainstream store that was also the most expensive. They didn't have a lot but they did have a 20% off sale. Quick look nothing exciting except for Curse of Strahd which I don't own (one of my players does so if I really want to get it....). Art and Arcana that is gonna be pricey, it wasn't to bad and the 20% off made it mildly overpriced instead of excessively over priced. Temptation kicked in and I bought that one as well.
So that is my last 2-3 days of D&D stuff. Been a bit of a crap week over here all things considered but yeah got a smile. New game to play, a potential new group, new AD&D players perhaps for special occasions (no one wanted to witch but I wasn't trying to pull that off just wanna play AD&D sometime).
