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D&D and Magic to get a new boss: Wizards of the Coast’s President, Chris Cocks, is promoted to CEO of Hasbro

January 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chris’s appointment marks the culmination of an extensive and thoughtful candidate review and selection process led by the Board.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: chris cocks, Dungeons & Dragons, hasbro, magic: the gathering, wizards of the coast

TSR try again to strike down Wizards of the Coasts trademarks and legacy disclaimer

January 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The crowdfunding campaign to pay the lawyers is still running with some 100 gamers worldwide, offering $40 or so, on average, in support. WotC estimated in 2020 that over 40 million people play D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, legal, TSR, wizards of the coast

Magic: The Gathering marketings taps hoax conspiracy meme

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is the world flat? Are there nanobots in medicine? Could vapour trails be alien smoke signals and what if birds aren’t real?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magic: the gathering, marketing, wizards of the coast

The best selling DMsGuild products of 2021

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s here you’ll find Wizards of the Coast’s 5e content along with community content created by third parties within the guidelines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, Keith Baker, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, stats, the wild beyond the witchlight, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Official D&D “Dragon of Icespire Peak”

December 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The following download contains a special preview version of material presented in the D&D Essentials Kit, and is meant as a new group’s first Dungeons & Dragons experience.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

Wizards of the Coast urge people to actually read the latest D&D errata as they update it again

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I urge all of you to read the errata documents for yourselves. A lot of assertions about the errata we’ve noticed in various online discussions aren’t accurate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Ray Winniger, wizards of the coast

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2021

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, kevin crawford, m20 technocracy reloaded, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, sine nomine publishing, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The Design Mechanism, warhammer, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Wizards of the Coast begin a legal counter-attack on TSR

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 11 Comments

Wizards of the Coast have filed papers to get the rights to use TSR stripped from TSR.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: legal, TSR, wizards of the coast

TSR drops case against Wizards of the Coast but keeps Indiegogo campaign running

December 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Legal documents appear to show that TSR has dismissed their legal action against Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legal, TSR, wizards of the coast

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