It's my understanding that the podcasting equipment will be heading to Fort Wayne, IN to attend the show, record the assorted seminars - and that those seminars will be uploaded for all to enjoy after the fact.
Now, I don't know if this will be happening during the show (as I, personally, REALLY hope for) or if this will be happening sometime next week - but my sources make it sound like each seminar will be a podcast unto itself - and in its entirety.
So keep your ears peeled for all the news trickling out of DDXP. I know I'll be looking for those podcasts as soon as they become available.
Here are my summary notes.
D&D Product line for 2010
Underdark book is out
Dragonborn - 32p, softcover book
D&DI will continue with shorter, focused articles, goal of something for everyone
Martial Power 2 - many new builds, new weapon style, martial practice, similar to rituals, as enabling heroic feats (not the game term feats) which are not combat related.
Three Dragon Ante expansion
March - PH3, with psionics, some races, hybrid class system
Hammerfest - a 32p softcover adventure site (adventure ideas)
Harrowing Halls - dungeon iles with 3-D
April/May
Planes Above (Astral Sea)
Players Strategy Guide
May
Dungeon Magazine Annual
The Slaying Stones, 32p softcover adventure, L1-3, w/poster map
June
Monster Manual 3 - w/ a bit more flavor
Limited Edition miniature of Orcus. price 74.99
Tieflings book
Desert of Athas dungeon tiles (good for any desert setting)
Demonomicon
July
Tomb of Horrors, Superadventure, L10-22
Orcs of Stonefang Pass, 32p, softcover adventure, L4-6
Vor Rukoth adventure sites (paragon tier)
starts D&D Essentials (a new 10 piece, continued entry point for D&D, always to be in print)
D&DE Master Dungeon tile sets - classic dungeons
August
Psionic Power
Lords of Madness, miniatures, back to 60 minis in collection, 6 in booster pack, non visable, 21.99 each
Dark Sun Campaign Setting
Dark Sun Creature Catalog
Game Dice
Marauders of the Dune Sea, adventure, L2-5
Castle Ravenloft board game, 1-5 players, fast, easy, unpainted minis, 13 sheets of tiles.
September
D&DE new basic set (The Red Box), yes like original box for D&D w/o crayon
D&DE Rules Compendium
D&DE Heroes of the Fallen Lands (races & classes)
October
D&DE DM Kit
D&DE The City (dungeon tiles ) --- Yeah!
October
Gamma World box, uses D&D rules
November
D&DE Heroes of the Fallen Kingdoms (more classes and builds)
Dungeon of Dragonfire Mountain board game
D&DE Monster Vault
December
Humans (book)
Gamma World - Famine in Far-Go, expansion box
D&DE Wilderness tiles
All other mini sets are cancelled.
The three D&DE dungeon tiles - dungeon, city and wilderness which each have 10 sheets of common, core tiles which will remain in print and solve most of the access problem. Some special dungeon tile sets will be still printed, but for more unique scenes.
Keith
review of 2009 accomplishments
2010
LFAR
More community driven, more (Global) admin driven, less top down direction
Expanding play experience
- more story forcus and accessible -- Global Admins will figure out what that means
- Special convention events
- visit new places
- planning for a few LFR adventures to go to Ravens Bluff, plan for Gencon Indy. Expect some forum discussion of what you want to see/do.
WW Game Days - more, PH3, Dark Sun, D&DE Red Box, Gamma World
Con play - classic style play
Ultimate Delve
highlight new product
DM Support
Larger Wizards Show List -- DDXP, Pax East, Origins, SD Comic con, Gencon, Pax Prime, NY Comic Con
D&D Encounters
a weekly (non LFR) play experience at local game store, on Wednesday nights.
1 encounter per week, runs for a season, first season is 12 weeks
start at 1st level,
First season is Undermountain. In this case only, PCs may be exported at end to LFR
adventure is searching for the last apprentice of Halaster, written by Erik Scott de Bie
standard PR about Community sites.
couple of questions
- No info on Q1 LFR adventure release dates...when Chris has a solid list
- Not sure about availability of BI from DDXP, ADCP2-1, due to its size.
That is it folks.
Keith
Especially all the D&DE
So the D&D Essentials represents the core of what 4e D&D is, and will remain in print. If a player or DM want to buy more books, PH1, PH2, PH3, DMG1, DMG2, etc., etc., all good, but the core gets the gamer new to D&D started.
If you want more details, I suggest looking for the podcast. Also, the D&DE products are at a lower price point.
Keith
Thanks!
That was asked. The store can elect to run on another night, BUT there is a sexy on-line component (I think it may involver tweeter) that would be lost. They say, try hard.
Keith
That was asked. The store can elect to run on another night, BUT there is a sexy on-line component (I think it may involver tweeter) that would be lost. They say, try hard.
Keith
I really hope that it isn't a TWITTer thing. As much as I love giving my players the best experience I'm able to, I just can't bring myself to jump on that bandwagon.
That was asked. The store can elect to run on another night, BUT there is a sexy on-line component (I think it may involver tweeter) that would be lost. They say, try hard.
Keith
I really hope that it isn't a TWITTer thing. As much as I love giving my players the best experience I'm able to, I just can't bring myself to jump on that bandwagon.
I got in touch with my WPN rep on this subject because the store my gameday is based out of has a robust Warhammer program on Wednesday, there is no way the owner is going to shift that cash cow to another day for an untested WotC program (and let's be frank, WotC has a track record for yanking things pretty damn quick).
So, here is what was said:
QUESTION:
Brian,
Angel and I are very interested in running D&D Encounters but Wednesdays are already filled at her store location. We have some questions:
1) How soon before the Wednesday do we get the kits for the gameday. This will help us prep our judges.
2) I have heard that we can shift the day to another. Is this true? If so, can we running it one day early on Tuesday? If not how far out can we run the event and still report it. One day, a week?
Thanks,
Bryan Blumklotz
ANSWER:
Bryan,
Kits are going to ship on 3/10, so you should have it around 3/15. You can shift the day to another if you wish, Tuesday is fine. All advertisement and social networking marketing will point to Wednesdays, so we suggest that, but it is not required. You can run that week’s session more than once if you wish, you would just need to schedule more than one session for that week. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks.
Brian Larabee
Wizards of the Coast
I hope this helps.
Bryan Blumklotz
AKA Saracenus
WPN Organizer and LFR DM