Tabletop & Pokemon Journalist for Hire. Current: @enworld, @AboveTheTableYT; Former Co-host of @PokemonPodCB and voice of @DNDSheet. Ohio sports fan.
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As I embark on the next stage of my news coverage, wanted to let folks know that I have a public email now - hofferttrpg@gmail.com. Send me tips, PR, or just say hello!
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All this man wants to do is talk about Warhammer with someone. The disappointment when he discovers that the interviewer isn't versed in Warhammer and his request to talk with the dude who came up with the question is hilarious.
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Hasbro has announced a new line of "Dicelings," toys that transform from D20s to monsters.
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My Cat: REMEMBER THE PACTS FORGED BETWEEN OUR PEOPLES LONG AGO.
Me: Stop it, it's 6 in the morning.
Cat: YOU PLEDGED ETERNAL SERVITUDE.
Me: I did not.
Cat: IN EXCHANGE WE WOULD COME TO YOUR AID IN YOUR HOUR OF NEED.
Me: I'm not feeding you.
Cat: REMEMBER THE PACTS.
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Hasbro Reveals Dicelings, New Toys That Transform From Dice to Dungeons & Dragons' Monsters:
comicbook.com/gaming/news/du…
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Hasbro's new version of Clue officially comes out today and I look forward to a generation of kids pointing to the new Chef White as their sexual awakening.
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“Baldur’s Gate 3 universe” both accurate and a little soul-killing.
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Lance Reddick will voice Thordak in The Legend of Vox Machina S3. Per Sam Riegel on the Beacon discord, he recorded the season before his passing.
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New Wizard character art from the 2024 Player’s Handbook by Billy Christian. Each class gets a big key art page, all 48 subclasses also get artwork in the Player’s Handbook.
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Seems that @DnDBeyond's Subscription Management page is down as a movement grows to cancel subscriptions to protest reported OGL changes. This comes up when you try to use the Subscription Management page.
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The redesigned red dragon and bronze dragon, courtesy of Game Informer. Art by Alexander Ostrowski
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My D&D group deserves nothing, except for emotional pain and the slow realization that every bad choice they've made in the campaign will come back to haunt them in the end.
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For the record, I have interviewed various Critical Role cast members for like two years and every time I asked about the Mighty Nein, they looked increasingly like the cat who ate the canary.
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Folks laid off at Wizards of the Coast include:
Dan Dillon, game designer
Mike Mearls,
Chris Lindsay, who helped architect the DMs Guild,
Liz Schuh, head of licensing and publishing for D&D
Bree Heiss, art director for D&D
Natalie Egan, product manager
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Critical Role Is Getting Funko Pop!, Action Figures, and More: comicbook.com/gaming/2019/09…
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Here is some product art of Themberchaud, the chonky red dragon who will appear in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
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NPR is reporting that owls are done with our shit and are now attacking people at random.
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I see that some people are apparently upset that Dungeons & Dragons is introducing a magical school setting for Fifth Edition because it's a mandatory campaign that everyone has to play through or else Wizards of the Coast confiscates your Player's Handbook and dice.
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Behold: the re-design of the gold dragon for @Wizards_DnD's 50th anniversary. I had a deep dive with @DroidsForSale about what went into reinventing one of the iconic creatures of D&D. Link in the subsequent tweet:
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Hoo, this is a take. Let’s keep in mind that WEBTOON is home to multiple award-winning comics and this is how some folks in comics are framing it.
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Here’s the new green dragon from D&D. Courtesy of @Gizmodo. Art by Campbell White and concept art by Alexander Ostrowski
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First look at Elder Brain Dragon, which will appear in next month's Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.
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Cannot wait to get tapped to interview Henry Cavill during his Superman 2 movie press tour so I can ask him 20 minutes worth of mini painting questions and his thoughts on hard plastic Horus Heresy miniatures.
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Weirdos, mad about D&D art: THERE’S NO SUSHI in my EUROPEAN FANTASY GAME.
Actual D&D players: I need gold to finance resurrection spells. DM, what do I need to roll to open a food truck with a cuisine not found in this city have never eaten so I can build a capitalist empire?
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Critical Role announcing that they're developing a campaign-length fantasy RPG system sure is interesting.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 has risen 70 spots on the Steam Best Sellers list since Larian Studios revealed you could fuck a bear in the game.
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This beholder (from the 2024 Core Rulebooks) has a beard and I have so many questions.
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Me: One of the things I like about beholders is that it's one of the few monsters that the players don't want to fuck.
Matt Mercer: Hold my beer.
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New artwork from the 2024 Player's Handbook, confirming that the rules allow you to romance a kobold whenever you roll a 12. Art by John Grello.
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Via @CBR, a new look at the blue dragon that will appear in the 2024 D&D Core Rulebooks.
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"First of all, I do not use artificial intelligence (NOT AI) for my work and no one but you and my director have asked me." Nestor Ossandón said in an email to me. "And that image is completely painted. It is one of my favorite recent jobs that I have been able to do." (cont)
I have inquired about the D&D 2024 artwork and asked for the artist credit and response to criticism that it was AI generated/enhanced.
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Ancient Copper Dragon redesign for the 2024 Core Rulebooks. Note the longer beck, the change in the green copper coloring, the white underbelly, and the changes in spikes on cheeks and chin. Art by Svetlin Velinov
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Me: "Here's what Hasbro said during their investor call."
Someone on this here website: "What's your source?"
Me: THE SOURCE IS ME AND MY EARS THAT HEARD CHRIS COCKS SAY THESE THINGS AND MY EYES THAT READ THE FUCKING FINANCIALS.
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Have a statement from Wizards over the AI enhanced artwork in Glory of the Giants. To summarize, they were unaware of the use of AI until the story broke and the artwork was turned in over a year ago. They are updating their Artist guidelines in response to this.
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More new 2024 Core Rulebook art by Katerina Ladon. Please note that the cat has a prosthetic leg.
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D&D Live cast is Anjali Bhimani, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Samantha Beart, and Neil Newbon. Beart is playing Karlach and Neil is playing Astarion.
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I did not receive a review copy of Clue, so I cannot confirm whether "Stepping on Me" is now a potential weapon. Gonna presume so until stated otherwise.
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Chapter art for the Sorcerer (I'm guessing Aberrant Sorcery) by Evyn Fong, appearing in the 2024 D&D Player's Handbook.
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In very important tabletop news, @quiddie is becoming a mass-produced tabletop miniature. Part of the upcoming Crown Keepers miniatures set.
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It is hugely disappointing that the writer of a line of popular D&D books is sharing memes that attack one of the key franchises that led to the game's resurgence and likely helped contribute to him getting a new book deal.
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Please enjoy this photo of the D&D Live cast with @quiddie giving off big Galadriel energy as she is wont to do.
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There are rumors and speculation that One D&D will be "paywalled" entirely or mostly behind D&D Beyond, with no physical copies of the new book. At this point, I'm not disbelieving anything but I can only imagine the riots from FLGS owners if they roll something like that out.
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Brass Dragon from the 2024 D&D Player's Handbook. Previous design for comparison.
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Open Letter about the OGL, signed by numerous D&D designers, including several who have worked for Wizards of the Coast. opendnd.games/
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So, @mattcolville just said on Twitch that @helloMCDM will start working on its new TTRPG next week. Described as cinematic and tactical, will have an open license.
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In very important D&D news, WizKids is making an adult red dragon in the style of the 2024 redesign. It's referred to as the Red Dragon Tyrant. Comes out in July 2025.
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Today in D&D plush news, WizKids has announced a 16-inch Tiamat plush, so that you can better commune with the evil goddess of dragons as she plots her escape from the first level of Hell. She'll be out this November. No retail price listed.
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Just as an FYI, I have reviewed the legal documents in question and there is some very sad, very sickening stuff in there. Please be mindful over the coming weeks and months that this involves real people (including folks who have nothing to do with CR).
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First look at the 1980s D&D cartoon characters as they appear in the 2024 Player's Handbook. Courtesy of Game Informer.
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Now that I have access to WiFi, here is the Copper Dragon redesign, art by Campbell White.
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WizKids is making an actual @matthewmercer miniature, on sale this November as part of the Characters of Tal'Dorei Box Set.
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Wow - people definitely seem to relate to cats calling upon the ancient pacts when demanding food.
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Critical Role Announces New Amazon TV and Film Deal, Mighty Nein Series in Development: comicbook.com/gaming/news/cr…
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Wylie Beckert’s alt-art cover for the 2024 D&D Player’s Handbook. Courtesy of @Polygon
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Some new artwork from the upcoming Spelljammer: Adventures in Space Dungeons & Dragons boxed set, both by Robson Michael. Yes, that is a pie on a catapult. Space Clowns don't mess around.
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First big change in the One D&D playtest. Bardic Inspiration is no longer passed around like candy by the Bard. It costs a Reaction to use, but can also be used to Heal immediately after a creature takes damage.
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And finally, halflings for the 2024 Player's Handbook. Art by Jane Katsubo. More pages later!
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Just to be really clear, the freelancers employed by Wizards to do art for D&D and MTG have all signed contracts prohibiting AI use. Not only would they be breaking that contract, Hasbro would also likely never work with them again.
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Penguin Random House is publishing a @CriticalRole anthology of stories in celebration of the show’s 10th anniversary. Includes the following stories, all tied to Vox Machina.
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Big news: @GabeJamesGames is the new senior game designer at Steamforged! toyworldmag.co.uk/gabe-hicks…
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Some more new artwork from the Player's Handbook - the wild magic sorcerer (a halfling). Also tiefling artwork.
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Art of skeletons from the 2025 Monster Manual (with a new kind of skeleton monster - the one with glowing eyes and hands). Art by Andrey Kuzinskiy
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Dragonlance art in the new Player's Handbook, featuring Caramon, Raistlin, and Kitiara. Art by Antonio Jose Manzanedo.
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For those who care about these things, the D&D movie is outperforming initial box office estimates. The movie was originally estimated to do $25-$30 million this weekend and it's now on pace to make $40 million and beat John Wick 4.
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Not sure where this first came from, but this is the Ancient Green Dragon statblock we saw at yesterday’s press event.
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"And if you see other old works, you can see that my tendency is very similar when it comes to painting. I always play with warm and cold ones on my face. Thanks to the work together with the art director. They give me the freedom and appropriate time to develop it." (cont)
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"This character is completely painted from scratch with a gray and superimposed color technique. Then I paint the cold tones to give atmosphere and light. It took me more than two weeks and my director was very happy with this work." WIP pieces attached to these two tweets.
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I see the new Daggerheart playtest removed the rule where the Game Master takes a dagger and plunges it into the heart of any player whose character dies.
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One other tidbit of news regarding Critical Role - PR mentions that Metapigeon, CR's new production banner, will continue "to partner with talented creatives on a new slate of projects, both in and outside of the Critical Role universe" while developing TV, film, and new content.
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Key art for the Eldritch Knight and Battlemaster from the 2024 Player's Handbook. (Source was D&D Beyond's YouTube page, no artists named.)
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Courtesy of IGN, the cover to the Monster Manual. No artist credited in article.
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Amy Dallen, D&D Beyond host/producer
Jesse Hill, community manager for Magic: The Gathering
Larry Frum, senior communications manager
These are just the folks who have publicly mentioned they were laid off.
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Looking back, I am fascinated by the supposed decision to aggressively pivot away from D&D as “lifestyle brand” to a microtransaction-based model built around an unproven digital platform.
It seems so…counter to everything that has made D&D a success in recent years.
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I’m curious how Wizards of the Coast will ultimately frame the new version of D&D in terms of marketing. They’ve got a slew of new players who have never been through an edition change and I wonder how you frame the new core rulebooks in such a way to not turn those folks off.
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One side effect of the new D&D trailer: I’ve had about a dozen friends/acquaintances ask if I could run a D&D game for them.
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