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.

Home - Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer

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A premium subscription that includes miniatures.

 

[Bagpuss]

• two sheets of plastic character and monster figurines

Considering the initial posts advertising has about 20+ full 3D plastic minis in the first four issues, that is a bit of a disappointment in comparison.

 

[dgl3906464]

This series has been translated to Italian. Recently the first issue has come out.

Really?!?!?! Are the dice the same?

 

[dgl3906464]

Following up: yes, the Italian version #1 ships with the same #1 dice as the UK version. Hachette also publishes in 38 countries in 16 languages, so other editions might follow.

I'll be keeping an eye on these: Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer, il più grande gioco di ruolo del mondo - Hachette Fascicoli

 

[Echohawk]

Here is what you'll have after subscribing for the first 20 issues:

I am now half-way through my 80-issue subscription, so here's a running count of everything you get with issues #1-40

• 962 pages of magazine content
• a 16-page and two 12-page Spell Booklets
• an 8-page Introduction to Combat booklet
• 72 pages of character sheets
• three magazine binders
• a four-panel DM Screen
• a map of Faerûn
• a poster map of Phandalin
• a double-sided terrain map
• a double-sided tactical map of the Underdark
• four sheets of plastic character and monster figurines
• fifteen inspiration tokens
• a dice tray
• a dice jail
• nine dice tins
• four dice bags
• 30 sets of dice
• a large d20
• a large d10
• a large d8
• two coins (if you are a "premium" subscriber)

I note that we're still on track to hit a total of sixty sets of dice with the full run, or maybe 61 once a full set of those oversized dice has shown up.

 

[mearls]

How are they handling the edition change? If I read this right there are 40 more issues to go

 

[RichGreen]

How are they handling the edition change? If I read this right there are 40 more issues to go

There are 18 more to go - issue 62 is out. The magazine is based on the 2014 rules.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I am now half-way through my 80-issue subscription, so here's a running count of everything you get with issues #1-40

• 962 pages of magazine content
• a 16-page and two 12-page Spell Booklets
• an 8-page Introduction to Combat booklet
• 72 pages of character sheets
• three magazine binders
• a four-panel DM Screen
• a map of Faerûn
• a poster map of Phandalin
• a double-sided terrain map
• a double-sided tactical map of the Underdark
• four sheets of plastic character and monster figurines
• fifteen inspiration tokens
• a dice tray
• a dice jail
• nine dice tins
• four dice bags
• 30 sets of dice
• a large d20
• a large d10
• a large d8
• two coins (if you are a "premium" subscriber)

I note that we're still on track to hit a total of sixty sets of dice with the full run, or maybe 61 once a full set of those oversized dice has shown up.

60 sets of dice is wild. Clearly cheap to stuff in.