Category Archives: Wizards Watch

Wizards Watch: DnD Next Release

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Tolrendordm

Well it’s official!! Everyone had assumed anyway I think the DnD Next (or whatever they will actually call it…) would be released for GenCon 2014, and Thursday’s press release seems to support that! A lot of chatter across about this … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: The End of the Beginning…

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Tolrendordm

Well now we have it! 15 months after the first eagerly awaited D&D Next play-test pack, Wizards of the Coast have now released the last public pack!! It’ s over … although of course it isn’t. The current pack is … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: Tidbits…

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Tolrendordm

I thought there’d be a whole raft of posts up on the happennings at GenCon over the weekend, but it seems those people lucky enough to be there are still travelling/catching up on sleep! 🙂 The one obvious update I … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: De Planes, De Planes

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Tolrendordm

I’ve been musing about the subject of this article for sometime now, without it coming to the boil! Finally I’ve managed to collect my thoughts on this, so here goes! 🙂 The original trigger was Chris Perkins’ editorial in Dragon … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: Deep Magic

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Tolrendordm

I’m sure a lot of you have seen the latest Kickstarter project from Kobold Press: Deep Magic. It’s pitched as a setting-neutral tome of all kinds of magical goodies: new spells, class features, magical academies etc, for all types of spell-casters. … Continue reading →

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Wizard’s Watch: Subclasses!

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Tolrendordm

Mike Mearl’s latest Legends and Lore column touched on a topic from my previous Wizard’s post, here; namely the variability within the class structure possible to achieve the flavour of character desired. As I said last time, I am impressed … Continue reading →

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Wizard’s Watch: Embers Stirring?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Tolrendordm

Well, stimulated by some good vibes about DnD Next on a number of blogs I follow (here being one key example), I downloaded the recent Playtest packet (April 1st!) for the first time since about August last year. Things have … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: Phew!

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Tolrendordm

Work and (work) travel have pretty much blown March away so far! So this Wizard’s Watch post is bit random, and just based on some of the things I’ve been keeping up with on the internet!! Have they finally clicked!? … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: DnD Classics dot com!

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Tolrendordm

It’s been foreshadowed on many blogs for several days, and now it has come to pass: a new website (dndclassics.com run by DriveThruRPG) is now live offering a large range of TSR and Wizards of the Coast products in PDF … Continue reading →

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Wizards Watch: One Tale Ends…

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Tolrendordm

Sad news this week that Kobold Quarterly is to stop after more than 5 years of publication. Thankfully this only means the actual quarterly magazine, not the excellent PRG products published under the Open Design/Kobold Quarterly (and now Kobold Press) banner. … Continue reading →

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