D&D General The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 Coming In June

[Lanefan]

Between this and his videos for the Deck of Many Things, I feel like they should advertise every product by having Jason Tondro talk about it for 30-40 minutes.

Except that would be intelligent marketing, something to which WotC have proven themselves allergic over the years...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Word on the street is that there'll be a series of 12 D&D themed collectible LEGO minifigures ('CMFs' is LEGO jargon) released in September.

Each will be blind boxed but if the current series of CMFs is any guide, you should be able to use the data matrix on the base of the box to identify what's inside.

The dirty dozen are:

1. Tiefling sorcerer with baby red dragon
2. Gold dragonborn paladin
3. Tasha with cauldron
4. Aarakocra ranger with dog
5. Mindflayer with intellect devourer
6. Dwarf barbarian
7. Strahd
8. Gith warlock
9. Halfling druid with bird
10. Half-elf bard
11. Lady of Pain
12. Szas Tam

The source is Promobricks which has always been reliable.

Just when I thought I was out ...

 

[Reynard]

This was posted today. I definitely want the book, and I will definitely not be spending anything remotely close to $100 for it. Libraries, sales, and used book stores are wonderful.

We want nice things, yet refuse to pay fair price for them.

 

[el-remmen]

Between this and his videos for the Deck of Many Things, I feel like they should advertise every product by having Jason Tondro talk about it for 30-40 minutes.

Deck of Many Things was the last (and literally may be the last) WotC game book I bought

 

[jdrakeh]

Well, this looks like something I'll need to own.

 

[Dire Bare]

Of course. I wouldn't expect anything less from WotC. I'm honestly surprised they don't have blind boxes of races, classes, subclasses, skills, spells, etc for 5E. At least that cancer has stayed in MtG and not quite seeped into D&D yet.

This is a LEGO standard release for this sort of thing, not WotC.

Not that WotC likely has any problems with the idea. No more so than for WizKids blind packaging for collectible miniatures . . .

Sheesh. Sure, WotC makes plenty of missteps, but . . . folks sure are quick to attribute all sorts of nonsense to the company.

 

[Superchunk77]

They started doing this in 2014

So they already lied about it back then.

 

[bedir than]

So they already lied about it back then.

They're using the same game engine now as they did then. There's been iterative improvements over the years, but nothing like a new edition.

 

[Von Corellon]

Word on the street is that there'll be a series of 12 D&D themed collectible LEGO minifigures ('CMFs' is LEGO jargon) released in September.

LEGO DND

 

[Yaarel]

So, turns out to be in full:

• Chainmail, 2nd printing
• Outdoor Survival
• an early rough 100 pahr draft
• Brown Box rules With Hobbits, Ents, and Balrogs
• Greyhawk
• Blackmoor
• Eldritch Wizardry

And a bunch of personal documents and letters, and various magazine and zine articles.

The contents are the origin story for six classes: Wizard, Fighter, and Cleric, then Rogue, Psion, and Druid.