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.

 

[Dire Bare]

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.

I'm fairly certain that if you subscribe within a certain window, you can start with issue #1. Don't quote me on that, however.

 

[Alzrius]

I'm fairly certain that if you subscribe within a certain window, you can start with issue #1. Don't quote me on that, however.

You can, I checked.

 

[darjr]

@Morrus will ENWorld review it?

 

[Professor Murder]

I always think dice towers are a complete waste of money but the one they are offering looks VERY cool!

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

 

[Noddy Beholder]

Since my last post on this I've gathered a bit of intel on this mag. I was bothered that I'd not seen any references to it anywhere, I mean with part works like this there's usually a TV ad for it at least.
So I popped into town and checked out that fine purveyor of bagged tat with a magazine, W.H.Smiths. There was no sign of it, nor in any of the other shops I checked.
I then paid a visit to my FLGS and asked the owner about it. Bingo! He had heard of it. From what he said it is being released in select areas as a trial, if it's a success it will get a wider release.
A bit of a pain, as I only wanted the first issue to see if it was any good and get a new set of dice in the process.
If I see issue #1 I'll pick it up out of curiosity.

 

[darjr]

Since my last post on this I've gathered a bit of intel on this mag. I was bothered that I'd not seen any references to it anywhere, I mean with part works like this there's usually a TV ad for it at least.
So I popped into town and checked out that fine purveyor of bagged tat with a magazine, W.H.Smiths. There was no sign of it, nor in any of the other shops I checked.
I then paid a visit to my FLGS and asked the owner about it. Bingo! He had heard of it. From what he said it is being released in select areas as a trial, if it's a success it will get a wider release.
A bit of a pain, as I only wanted the first issue to see if it was any good and get a new set of dice in the process.
If I see issue #1 I'll pick it up out of curiosity.

Thanks for the intel! Please let us know if you get ahold of one and what you think.

 

[Von Ether]

I don't own a dice tower yet but I see the appeal. In fact, I'm surprised we don't see more transparent ones, that's kinda cool.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

That's a really cool idea, and I'm glad that there will be an official D&D magazine somewhere in the world.

But is it just me or does the gnome ranger miniature look really, really small? Like knee-high on everyone else?

 

[Birmy]

I'd be curious to try this out as well, though as a heathen colonist I am ruled out. Perhaps Diamond/Alliance will pick it up for distribution Stateside, like they did with Eaglemoss.

There's this alternate world of UK-only D&D ephemera that I should really check out. Were those "Annuals" any good?

 

[darjr]

I'd be curious to try this out as well, though as a heathen colonist I am ruled out. Perhaps Diamond/Alliance will pick it up for distribution Stateside, like they did with Eaglemoss.

There's this alternate world of UK-only D&D ephemera that I should really check out. Were those "Annuals" any good?

I think you can get the annuals via Amazon US.