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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 8805912" data-attributes="member: 6680772">It's not an actual play show, they just got some rather well-known voice actors to do the character voices for the promo. They're introducing these original characters as sample characters in the Starter Set. The character designs are by Hisashi Momose, a well-known illustrator.The characters (in order of appearance) are:Ray - Wood elf fighter - In the promo, he says, "I'll find it -- my own destiny."Alissa - High elf wizard - She says, "Burn away, Flaming Sphere!"Morgano - Hill dwarf cleric - She says, "May the holy grace be with us!"Dion Garrix - Human paladin - He says, "I'll show you my beautiful blade of justice."Marshkarot - Lightfoot halfling rogue - He says, "Well, let's take it easy while we're alive."The designs are very much Japanese-style western fantasy. In Japan, male dwarves are pretty much like male dwarves in the West, but female dwarves are essentially imagined as short girls.It's very cool that they're putting up some coin to localize the game somewhat, and get relatively well-known (in otaku circles) artists involved. But I find the "D&D finally arrives in Japan!" stuff a little rich, considering that it was already in Japan, licensed by Hobby Japan, before WotC pulled the license and brought everything in-house.There is a tabletop games event called Game Market that is starting on Oct. 29. There will be an opportunity to take place in a trial session of D&D, and participants will get free gifts: stand-up character tokens, character sheets for the original character (with artwork), a D&D totebag and a D&D file folder.Edit: I didn't check before, but these are the races and classes of the Dragon of Stormwreck Isle pregens. I do find it interesting that they actually went ahead and gave the pregens names, designs, and personalities. That's not usually a thing here.</blockquote>

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