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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 2513182" data-attributes="member: 3586">Well, a big Thank You! to everyone at GenCon who has been sending back reports, and to all the DDM R&D team who were there and sharing their knowledge. It's been a fun time here in Australia reading about what happened. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've been trying to gather together the news on my DDM News page - <a href="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/mini.htm" target="_blank">http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/mini.htm</a> - but if you know something I haven't picked up on yet, tell me about it!Here are the highlights:Underdark* 8 Epic figures* Elminster* Drow Arachnomancer* Guenhwyvar* Dark Naga * Spiders! (perhaps a swarm)* Balor* Rikka, Angelic Avenger (the epic wife of Kiddoc. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)* Drider Wizard* Half Fiend Ogre (on box)* Grey Render (on box)* Dark Creeper (on box)* Deep Dragon* X’endrick Champion (an Eberron drow)War Drums* Xorn* Chimera (pictured on FL: Keep of Fallen Lords)* Arcane Ballista - the first siege engine construct* A commander will be in every booster* The starter contains two preset common minis (Orc Mauler and Wood Elf Ranger) along with 10 random minis, one of which is rare.Fantastic Locations* 4 maps in each product, but in some of them, only 3 are legal for DDM.* One of the maps is designed for Epic play (with huge figures) and is marked as such.* The reverse side of the "Fane of Lolth" map is the "Tomb of Queen Peregrine", an Epic map* "Fane of the Drow" ties into the Underdark expansion* "The Keep of Fallen Lords" ties into the War Drums expansion, and features outdoor maps.* One map has a Wizard's Laboratory* Teleportation squares!* A crashed airship is on one of the maps* "Hellspike Prison" - maps of deep caverns (2 of magma complex) - these are very different which can be used in the game. 3 of the 4 maps are designed to be tournament legal for miniatures play.* "Keep of the Fallen King" - ties into mini set 9, War Drums - that mini set has strong war themes - siege engines, cool stuff). This product will be about battlefields and fields of ruin, and other surfaces to play on. Two maps are ruins, two are battlefields.Maps* Apart from the Maps in Fantastic Locations, there will be 3 released in Dragon magazine each year.* There are 4 maps in the War Drums starter* Aquatic areas are coming, along with lava tubes.General* There will be no errata/replacement cards for existing figures* Epic cards for older figures will be released through the Retailer Kits, and also online. The cards will start appearing in January 2006* King Snurre may be getting a non-Epic card. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />* The Colossal figure is currently in development* Epic rares are of standard rarity* There will be an Epic championship next year!* The next huge set is in 2006. Or not. (Reports vary, I say yes, there will be).* The tournament format is changing: Assault will stay, but there will be two new scenarios in Triad.2006 - the Year of the Dragons* From War Drums onward, Dragons are going to be more aggressively costed, and should be much more part of the game.Cheers!</blockquote>

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