D&D General Multiple Officially Licensed Dungeons & Dragons Accessories Announced

Book tabs, pocket lore books, and new dice coming in 2024/2025

Several partners announced new licensed accessory products for Dungeons & Dragons for release this year and early next year.

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Penguin Random House announced the release of Dungeons & Dragons Pocket Expert, a pocket-sized book of facts and lore about D&D. From the product description:

Become an instant expert on all things Dungeons & Dragons with this handy pocket-sized guide!

What’s the difference between a rogue and a ranger? What exactly are the Forgotten Realms? Can a wizard cast more spells than a sorcerer? How many tentacles does a Mind Flayer have?

From mighty dragons to powerful bards and magical elves to fearsome monsters, this pocket guide is just the beginning of your adventure. Packed with facts, stats, and interesting info about the incredible Dungeons & Dragons universe, the Pocket Expert gives young D&D fans a one-stop source of amazing facts to wow their friends with!

Key locations, magic, monsters, and characters in your pocket:
  • GROW YOUR D&D KNOWLEDGE: Discover everything you ever needed to know about the world of D&D, whether you’re looking to boost your role-playing ability or simply learn about the lore.
  • HELPFUL GUIDE: Factual and lore-based breakdowns of heroes, villains, monsters, and locations, accompanied by stunning official images.
  • COMPARE CHARACTERS: Data files containing info such as classes and skills allow young readers to compare their favorite heroes and monsters.
A bitesize guide to the characters and locations of D&D, Dungeons & Dragons Pocket Expert is the perfect compact starting point for anyone looking to dive into the gorgeous, rich world of the Forgotten Realms. The perfect gift for Dungeons & Dragons fans, this is one that those interested in action and fantasy worlds will not want to miss.

With this book as your companion, you’ll be ready for an epic adventure!
The book, written by Stacy King, will be released on October 8, 2024 with a retail price of $7.99

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WizKids announced the release of updated Book Tabs for the 2024 revised editions of the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide. Each set comes with pre-printed acrylic tabs ready to affix to your copy of the relevant books so you can thumb directly to relevant sections like Character Classes, Feats, Spells, and more. The PHB version includes 12 large tabs (11 printed and 1 blank) plus 160 blank tabs for subchapters and sections of interest. The DMG version has 24 large tabs (21 printed and 3 blank) and 140 small tabs. Each tab collection will retail for $9.99 and is expected for February 2025.

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Fanroll announced the D&D Beholder Inclusion Dice Set. This polyhedral dice set includes seven dice, each with a tiny beholder as a 3D inclusion in the center of the dice. The set comes with the standard d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and D20. The set will release for a retail price of $24.99 on November 15, 2024.

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Darryl Mott

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Those beholder dice... They look good in this picture, but if you follow the link and go to gallery, you can see the actual dice and they look pretty horrible (and not in a good way)...
We will have to agree to disagree on this one. I found the pictures in the link much more interesting. They seem possibly difficult to use as dice, but much more interesting just to look at.
 

Oofta

Legend
Supporter
We will have to agree to disagree on this one. I found the pictures in the link much more interesting. They seem possibly difficult to use as dice, but much more interesting just to look at.
I would have preferred black ink in the numbers to make them stand out a bit more.

We had a guy at our AL game that had clear dice with the ink "worn off". He'd roll, squint a bit and then say what he got. Whether he was just making up the number or not nobody could tell.
 




Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
I… I love these types of books…
Yeah, but you're not a middle schooler who goes through moments of "wait, I'm actually super-mature and grown-up" with no warning, when they're not spending their allowance on stuffed animals and bubble gum at the grocery store.

I've owned nearly all of WotC's YA D&D books at one time (and am still sad that the Knights of the Silver Dragon never came back, including a kid-friendly setting book) after it shut down in late 3E/early 4E.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
We will have to agree to disagree on this one. I found the pictures in the link much more interesting. They seem possibly difficult to use as dice, but much more interesting just to look at.
I bought a lot (too many?) of dice during the pandemic, including a lot of inclusion ones off of Etsy. It all depends on how well the numbers are inked. I don't think it's clear from this one shot to be able to say how legible they'll be. Red ink on black-ish translucent should be good, though.

I have some dice with inclusions that are hard to use and some that are as good as any other.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
As a teacher running a middle-school D&D Club . . . . .

Yes, the club would love a copy!

The maturity level of middle-schoolers is all over the place. Some of the kids are already practically in college, others seem like they got lost on the way to elementary school.

Familiarity with D&D is also all over the place. Some kids grew up playing with their uncles and have more lore in their brains than I do. Others don't know what an "elf" is . . . .
Cool, I appreciate that.

I'll likely grab this and maybe a POD copy of Through Dungeons Deeper off of DriveThruRPG for them.
 

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