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.

Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer

danddadventurer.hachettepartworks.com

A premium subscription that includes miniatures.

 

[Noddy Beholder]

Blackfire make a lovely transparent dice tower. It has 12 internal rotating steps that clatter alarmingly when you drop a die in it. It doesn't work with D4s though. I ended up using 12 sided d4s as they had more weight.
For sheer cool looks, I highly recommend it.

 

[Birmy]

I think you can get the annuals via Amazon US.

Yeah, I actually looked them up after I posted. Might be worth taking a flyer on for novelty's sake.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I also thought that way until i got one. Saves so much table space for me as a GM.

How? I can roll my dice on any small flat surface, even if that’s an open book or the battlemat.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It’s funny how the UK market seems to love partworks magazines more so than any other market.

 

[GreyLord]

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.

Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer

danddadventurer.hachettepartworks.com

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A premium subscription that includes miniatures.

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WOW, for what they are offering, it sounds like a steal!

 

[Ghal Maraz]

80 numbers, published weekly... if it ever really reaches number 80, it will already be full One D&D time. Scratching my head on this.

And it will be quite an amount of money. £ 630,20 for the full collection, £ 747,20 if you go premium. I wonder how many dice sets can justify that!

 

[Professor Murder]

How? I can roll my dice on any small flat surface, even if that’s an open book or the battlemat.

Good for you

 

[MinisGallery]

As a pre-painted miniatures fan, and host of a miniatures fan-site, I would really like to get the miniatures, however I live in Canada.

If anyone in the UK is only interested in the Magazine and other premium items that are not pre-miniatures, I would be happy to make an arrangement in which we would both benefit -- please PM me.

 

[John R Davis]

Had a big search and not seen it in any major shops selling magazines. The Warhammer one was pretty good and gots lots terrain n minis in the 40 or so I got.
My concern is that it's rules will rapidly become out of date.

 

[darjr]

Had a big search and not seen it in any major shops selling magazines. The Warhammer one was pretty good and gots lots terrain n minis in the 40 or so I got.
My concern is that it's rules will rapidly become out of date.

It’s a trial balloon product.

It’s rules are not suppose to go out of date.

 

[robus]

Magazine culture in the UK is on another level. I always love browsing the newsstands when I go back to Blighty.

 

[AkeishaRoberts]

It really is a pity that this is only available in the UK...I would love to get these magazines for the content as well as the extra goodies.

 

[John R Davis]

Have decided not to go for it. The extra shinies just don't enthrall or offer great value. For the same price Mortal Realms gave you an item every issue.

 

[Kris]

I managed to get #1 delivered (which wasn't a straight forward process)...

...and, as is usual for this kind of thing, #1 is usually a bargain (and worth picking up even if you don't intend on collecting the whole thing).

I did a bit of a review HERE if anyone is still interested.

 

[darjr]

I managed to get #1 delivered (which wasn't a straight forward process)...

...and, as is usual for this kind of thing, #1 is usually a bargain (and worth picking up even if you don't intend on collecting the whole thing).

I did a bit of a review HERE if anyone is still interested.

Cool! You have video too! Thanks!

 

[Kris]

Yeah, unfortunately the video seems to have been compressed horribly after upload though

 

[darjr]

Yeah, unfortunately the video seems to have been compressed horribly after upload though

It’s still cool! Thanks!

I’d update the OP but that’s mess with Russ ordering.

 

[Noddy Beholder]

They seem to have really fumbled the ball with this one. Possibly they were worried after the Eaglemoss affair, that a big launch would fail.
If they do relaunch this, I hope they do a more concerted job, i.e. telling people about their product ^_^

 

[Dire Bare]

They seem to have really fumbled the ball with this one. Possibly they were worried after the Eaglemoss affair, that a big launch would fail.
If they do relaunch this, I hope they do a more concerted job, i.e. telling people about their product ^_^

Small targeted launches often go like this, with Hachette and other companies. The Warhammer partworks had similar launches.

The issue isn't a small, targeted test launch, it's the inability to handle obsessive fans who FIND OUT and then get frustrated when they can't participate. Hachette doesn't seem to get this about the community, Star Trek, Warhammer, or D&D.

But, eventually, their Warhammer partworks ended up being really cool. Hopefully the same will be true for their D&D series.