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

danddadventurer.hachettepartworks.com

A premium subscription that includes miniatures.

 

[darjr]

An overview of issue two of the UK hacchette magazine. The adventure in it is in Phandalin. Note this was from last year when they did the test run. #dnd5e

 

[darjr]

Here is another video with the subscription version of issue 1.

they flip through it as wel.

 

[John R Davis]

I guess if you get an original adventure each time it's not bad, but weekly seems a bit on the expensive/rapid side. I guess that model works well for them.
I did get the first 40 of the Soulbound subscription as that was chock full of bargain minis n paint

 

[The Grinning Frog]

I review it here

https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-and-dragons-adventurer-issue-1-review.699910/

It isn't good

 

[The Grinning Frog]

I guess if you get an original adventure each time it's not bad, but weekly seems a bit on the expensive/rapid side. I guess that model works well for them.
I did get the first 40 of the Soulbound subscription as that was chock full of bargain minis n paint

I've picked up some of the Warhammer ones even though I don't play any GW games anymore. Sometimes the gifts are good. I don't see that being the case here from my first issue experience.

 

[Noddy Beholder]

Due to a lot happening here, I've not had much chance to get a look at issue 1, so I sat down today and had a quick look through. The one thing that struck me was that the pages are all detachable. I saw a youtube review that mentioned this and they said that was so all the sections, lore, adventure, etc could be filed together. I have severe Monstrous Compendium style worries about that!

 

[John R Davis]

I took the Warhammer ones apart. All looked good arranged in the folders

 

[darjr]

An unboxing

 

[Kris]

This just turned up on the doorstep:

Basically, if you signed up for the trial last year, they are sending you the first packet for free as a way of a thank you I guess (which is nice... though in truth, they do auto-resubscribe you, send you the first delivery for free, and then hope you stick with it).

So, I'll delve a little deeper later on, and maybe post a few more pic's if folks are interested.

 

[Bagpuss]

According to their site this is already on issue 3 here (UK). This is the first I've heard of this magazine. Someone in the advertising department needs a poke with a sharp stick methinks.

• Issue 1 will be available to buy in UK stores on 13th September.
• Issue 2 will be available on 27th September.
• Issue 3 will be available on 4th October.
• Issue 4 will be available on 11th October.