Catching up with the Geek Native news after Tabletop Gaming Live in a week in which The Washington Post looked at racism in the RPG publishing community. It’s Audio EXP, the Geek Native highlights podcast.
Wizards of the Coast u-turn on Adventurers League suspension
WotC also recognises that the designer community is worried about the changes. As a result, the plans to remove these individual titles from the DMsGuild have been scrapped.
2022 IGDN Diversity Sponsorship opens applications and funding
The IGDN is a volunteer network of pen-and-paper, card game, LARP, and board game designers who aim for quality.
Audio EXP: #164 – NuTSR faces legal action and other highlights
WotC unleashes the lawyers, Paizo’s co-founder retires, and things get Python surreal. It’s Audio EXP, the Geek Native highlights podcast.
Audio EXP: #163 – Wizards of the Coast foul up, Fandom flees, and Tabletop Scotland booms
This is Audio EXP for the 3rd of September 2022, and the title of this episode is “Wizards of the Coast foul up, Fandom flees, and Tabletop Scotland booms”.
Virtual tabletop Role opens its marketplace
Role attracted nearly 3,000 backers on Kickstarter and in a relaunch of Logan Dwight and Ian Hirschfeld’s original 2015 iOS app.
Publisher Spotlight: October vote open to Patrons
Battleaxes and Brimstone were picked by Patrons, another perk, for the RPG Publisher Spotlight for this month.
Audio EXP: #162 – One D&D announced as WotC takes Dungeons & Dragons after computer games and out of edition wars
Learning from computer games about avoiding edition wars and moving to subscription models, Wizards of the Coast may have ditched D&D 6 or 7 forever. But was that this week’s biggest news? I don’t think so.
D&D Beyond deny price rise and leaked slides
Squinting at the fuzzy photograph, you can see that the price of D&D Beyond, bought by WotC for nearly $150m in April, would rise to $30 a month.
Audio EXP: #160 – Evil grows and darkness blooms
A busy week of news with Free League announcing a new old game, new tech making live shows like The Twenty-Sided Tavern possible and other geeky highlights of the week just gone.
