Dragonlance D&D Game Blog

Big news in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons over the last week. Wizards of the Coast made a number or announcements, each one seemingly more impressive than the last. First up. Details on what products for D&D will be released in the upcoming months. Check out this page for more details (You may need to click on the TRPG link on the page to see the info): D&D Product Info .      Highlights for me included info on a Starter Set in July, and the PHB in Aug (probably available starting GenCon weekend).      Unlike previous Starter Sets, this one will include info on playing characters through 5th level (clearly someone took a look at the Pathfinder Starter Box). If that wasn't enough, a few days later, they released info on the future of their Organized Play program. This is the umbrella for such in-store programs as D&D Encounters, and the defunct D&D Lair Assault.      Going forward, the program will be know...

Seems the D&D Next events for GenCon are finally viewable in the GenCon system. Time to go update those wish lists before Sunday. 

So, with GenCon Event Registration this Sun, I've been frantically pouring over the event catalog that was made available just last week , plotting out this event, and that seminar and while everything started out smoothly, I soon hit a snag. It seems none of the WotC events (D&D or MTG) were on the event list. The reason for this, I won't even begin to speculate, but WotC did soon post event names and a brief description on their site . Looking over this list, you'll see many of the events don't have listed times. But have no fear, Baldman Games, the company that actually runs the D&D events at GenCon (and a few other cons) posted info about when events will be running. Check out this forum post for more details. Not the best solution, but at least I was able to know when the events would be running to plot other events around those. Hopefully the events will go live before Sunday, so I can get my Wish List in order!

If you're not on the GenCon mailing list, you may have missed this recent press release . Item number two on the list states that the Event Listing will be available starting Friday at 9pm ET. The event registration is still Sun May 18th (starting at noon). Having access to the catalog now just helps everyone plan out what they want to do, and when they want to do it. I know it can take me hours to pour over everything, build a master list of events and then try to distill it down into something manageable over the four days. <self promo plug here> And if you have some time in your schedule, you may want to check out SEM1459558, a seminar I'm running about using Lego-like products into your game. If you've checked out any of my lego-themed posts , you'll have some idea what to expect.

So, if you're like me, and waiting for the next edition of Dungeons and Dragons to be released, you probably have some free time on your hands. Time that might have been spent pouring over the latest game release, or Dragon magazine, is now time you have nothing to do. Or is it? There are plenty of ways to spend time with your favorite hobby, even during this rare lull in gaming material. Check out some of the great products from past editions at Dungeons and Dragons Classics . Over the last sixth months, I've been really impressed at the amount of old material on the site. Have a favorite setting? There's certainly some older edition products available, and often at great prices. For example, the site currently has the first 6 modules in the original Dragonlance series (the basis for the Chronicles Trilogy of novels). Each is priced at only 4.99 each, and playing through the original trilogy could be a fun way to pass the time.      These modules are for first e...