Box Breaking 188 Tyrants of the Underdark

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Jul 272016
 

Tyrants of the Underdark is a deck construction area control game.
After reading the rules it sounds wicked! It’s produced by Gale Force 9 and Wizards of the Coast.

When I first heard about this game at the Alliance open house I thought oh sweet some cool minis for D&D – don’t think that.  Think I’m Drow instead.

Please check out my Gofundme to help with Gen Con expenses.  Thanks in advance!

D&D Icons of the Realms: Rage of Demons Figures Series Available Now in North America

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Sep 112015
 

17aaf4c5-58cd-4e20-9afe-f00fd25d507bD&D Icons of the Realms: Rage of Demons Figures Series Available Now in North America

Hillside, NJ — September 9, 2015 – WizKids is pleased to announce the North American retail availability of their latest D&D pre-painted figures line – D&D Icons of the Realms: Rage of Demons. The Rage of Demons series includes well-known and beloved creatures such as the Beholder, Djinn, Nightmare, Rust Monster, Roper and more! Fantastic adventures await in the Underdark, and you’ll be front-and-center for them with this fantastic series of figures.

In the Rage of Demons storyline, Demon Lords are invading the Underdark, a deadly, subterranean realm inhabited by the most dangerous monsters of D&D lore. The demon lords have been summoned from the Abyss and have been wreaking havoc across the Underdark, causing madness and destruction on the drow, duergar and deep gnomes who already struggle to survive. Will you help thwart the rise of the demon lords before their madness bubbles to the surface of Faerun?

Word with Jeremy Crawford @ Gen Con 2015 on D&D 5th ed

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Aug 052015
 

Gen Con 2015 356In this round table of questions Jeremy Crawford chats with us about the following.

The history of Sword Coast

How Wizards of the Coast uses several tabletop genres to tell its story.

His favorite 5th ed mechanic.

The fundamentalism of skills.

How vast Forgotten Realms is.

The possibility of Eberron.

The presence of Wizards at Gen Con,

The biggest surprise in 5th ed both in play testing and post release.

Con Player

 

It looks like D&D has a promising future.

 

 

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The Undercity: Iron Kingdoms Adventure Board Game

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Jul 222015
 

undercity1The Undercity: Iron Kingdoms Adventure Board Game

$94.99

 

Evil lurks beneath the city of Corvis. Burdened by the growing tide of corruption, the desperate and undermanned City Watch turns to a mercenary company for help investigating a rash of smuggling activity and strange disappearances. But beneath the soot-filled streets of the metropolis a sinister plot unfolds, greater and more dangerous than anyone has dared imagine.

 

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The Ed Greenwood Group & Twin Fire Productions Creative Coterie: TEGG and Twin Fire Join Forces

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Jul 082015
 

The Ed Greenwood Group

Twin Fire Productions

Creative Coterie: TEGG and Twin Fire Join Forces

 

TORONTO and DETROIT—The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG) and Twin Fire Productions (TFP) today reached a creative coterie, a partnership, with The Archmage himself, Mr. Ed Greenwood.

 

In 2014, TFP unveiled an ingenious board game called Folklore: The Affliction, a release that was received with great critical acclaim as well as broad public support. As TFP finishes polishing and tweaking the game in time for a spring 2016 release, creative director Will Donovan will be working with Ed Greenwood on initializing two new aspects to the game: first, a series of roleplaying game (RPG) adventures; second, a series of novels from TEGG authors tied to the setting Folklore: Tales of the Affliction. Both aspects will use characters from the existing board game and also feature new characters in new adventures from the TEGG Sessorium of Creatives. Greenwood and Donovan will work together to guide the continuing folklore adventures in both the fiction and RPG lines.

 

“I grew up reading books and playing adventures written by Greenwood… That he loved what we created was awesome…that we now get to create together is incredible! The creative opportunity to extend our realm’s reach by adding novels and RPG adventures by working with Steven Schend and Ed Greenwood is fantastic,” said Will Donovan, creative director at TFP. “We’ve already got some great ideas flowing—the fans are going to be well pleased.”

 

The Ed Greenwood Group, a new transmedia publishing company from the creator of the Forgotten Realms®, launches this fall with its first novel, a brand-new Ed Greenwood title. Your World Is Doomed is the first novel in an urban fantasy setting called Hellmaw; 6 story arcs, 86 novels, 14 anthologies, 5 games, and 9 Artifacts are planned between Mr. Greenwood’s first novel in 2015 and the end of the sixth story arc, projected for October 2022. Next year (2016) will see the launch of a more traditional sword-and-sorcery setting code-named Pony Island Adventures. More settings in more genres will follow over the next ten years—For Wolf & Empire (steampunk), Lost Princesses of Mars (space opera), and In So Deep (sex fantasy), to name only a few. Quickblade, designed by TEGG head of game development Steven Schend and Ed Greenwood, is The Ed Greenwood Group’s RPG house rules and will serve as a master rules set for all adventures from all settings.

 

“I love what the gang at Twin Fire have done thus far,” said Ed Greenwood, president and publisher at TEGG. “It’s really beautiful stuff all around, and I am very much looking forward to working and creating both stories and adventures with them. This is going to be fun!”

 

For more information, please visit:

o   Twitter: @TwinFireGames | Facebook: www.facebook.com/FolkloreTheAffliction

o   Twitter: @TheEdVerse | Facebook: facebook.com/TheEdVerse

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Ed Greenwood Group raeches traditional licensing agreement

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Jul 072015
 

For Immediate Release

 

The Ed Greenwood Group

ACD Distribution

Traditional-Formats License Agreement Reached,

Sales and Distribution Deal Struck

 

TORONTO and MIDDLETON, WI—The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG) and ACD Distribution (ACD) today reached a traditional-formats licensing agreement that will allow readers and fans to obtain all TEGG literary works in both hardcover and trade-paperback formats. This subsidiary license deal also extends to TEGG’s game division, for which ACD will be producing traditional-format roleplaying and other games. ACD will provide sales, distribution, and fulfillment to both large and small retailers and individuals wishing to order TEGG Works in traditional formats anywhere in the world. For TEGG’s line of handcrafted artisanal projects (managed through the TEGG Artifacts division), ACD will provide cataloging and order-collection services for the individual artisans.

 

The Ed Greenwood Group, a new transmedia publishing company from the creator of the Forgotten Realms®, launches this fall with its first novel, a brand-new Ed Greenwood title. Your World Is Doomed is the first novel in an urban fantasy setting called Hellmaw; 6 story arcs, 86 novels, 14 anthologies, 5 games, and 9 Artifacts are planned between Mr. Greenwood’s first novel in 2015 and the end of the sixth story arc, projected for October 2022. Next year (2016) will see the launch of a more traditional sword-and-sorcery setting code-named Pony Island Adventures. More settings in more genres will follow—For Wolf & Empire (steampunk), Lost Princesses of Mars (space opera), and In So Deep (sex fantasy), to name only a few.

 

“This agreement with ACD is great news for us,” said Ed Greenwood, president and publisher at The Ed Greenwood Group. “ACD ‘gets’ creative individuals like few other large companies do…and our partnership with them means we can follow both of our goals: to serve our Creatives, and to serve our readers, players, and fans!” The ACD traditional-format editions will all be available simultaneously with TEGG’s other formats and editions, allowing readers and players to choose whichever format suits them best without having to wait a year or more between formats.

 

ACD is one of the world’s largest distributors of game and hobby products, representing more than 350 publishers and thousands of products from their Madison, Wisconsin, headquarters and three warehouses across the United States. ACD brings more than 20 years of market experience and knowledge to Mr. Greenwood’s new venture. “It’s amazing to be working with Mr. Greenwood and his Sessorium of Creatives, said Bob Maher, president and owner of ACD. “I’ve been a fan of Mr. Greenwood’s work for a long time. Watching him take talented new and established creatives from the literary, gaming, and arts worlds, add a dozen or so new and original Ed Greenwood worlds, and shake them together to form a brand-new transmedia company is incredible. For myself and all of us at ACD, it’s a joy to be able to join his creative team.”

 

For more information, please visit:

o   Twitter: @acddistribution | Facebook: www.facebook.com/ACDDist

o   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/acd-distribution

oTwitter:@TheEdVerse

Facebook: facebook.com/TheEdVerse

 

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Dungeons and Dragons Under the Influence

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Jul 072015
 

The Ed Greenwood Group

Dungeons and Dragons Under the Influence

TEGG and DnDUI a gathering of gamers…

 

TORONTO—The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG) and Dungeons and Dragons Under the Influence (DnDUI) are pleased to announce DnDUI will become an official TEGG Gaming Group. Game Master Marco Butruzzo and his gaming group—Nick Etherton, Adriano Burtuzzo, CJ Bosco, Daniel Moscato and Raf Giancola—will assist Ed Greenwood, and TEGG head of game development Steven Schend, by advance play-testing TEGG games. The team will provide feedback and insight that will be used to improve all aspects of the games from concept to playability to design look and feel.

 

Over 200+ episodes DnDUI has become quite the established, and fan loved podcast. What started out as a group of friends just gaming together in-front of a laptop has turned into one of Toronto’s top podcasts and one of the biggest Dungeons & Dragons® podcasts in North America. Weekly podcasts treat audiences to laugh-a-minute content with Marco leading his mischievous group playing not just Dungeons & Dragons® but other games—roleplaying and table top. While DnDUI informs audiences about the games, the artwork and the rules, etc…they also do an amazing job of showing audiences just how much fun each of the games are to play too. And now DnDUI is bring their great skills of game evaluation and assessment to The Ed Greenwood Group.

 

“Holy Crap! We’re working with Ed F*cking Greendwood!” said Marco Burtuzzo, the group’s charismatic leader. “Can’t wait to get started,” said Nick Etherton, DnDUI’s illustrator, “This is going to be so incredible, it’s like a childhood dream.” Ed Greenwood, who first met members of the gang at a 2014 convention, was taken by the group’s energy relaxed attitude. “Marco and his DnDUI group are fun guys to game with. While their pod cast is definitely for adults only, that’s okay by us,” said Ed Greenwod president and publisher. “It’s important when reviewing games that they be honest, and of course, be themselves.”

 

The Ed Greenwood Group, a new transmedia publishing company from the creator of the Forgotten Realms®, launches this fall with its first novel, a brand-new Ed Greenwood title. Your World Is Doomed is the first novel in an urban fantasy setting called Hellmaw; 6 story arcs, 86 novels, 14 anthologies, 5 games, and 9 Artifacts are planned between Mr. Greenwood’s first novel and the end of the sixth story arc, projected for October 2022. Next year (2016) will see the launch of a more traditional sword-and-sorcery setting code-named Pony Island Adventures, and Quickblade—the TEGG roleplaying game “house rules” system from Ed Greenwood and TEGG head of game development Steven Schend—which will serve as a master rules set for all adventures from all settings. More settings in more genres will follow over the next ten years—For Wolf & Empire (steampunk), Lost Princesses of Mars (space opera), and In So Deep (sex fantasy), to name only a few.

 

For more information, please visit:

o   Twitter: @dndui | Facebook: www.facebook.com/dnduipodcast

o   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dndui

o   Twitter: @TheEdVerse | Facebook: facebook.com/TheEdVerse

To schedule an interview:

 

D&D 5th: Princes of the Apocalypse

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Feb 122015
 

PrincesD&D 5th: Princes of the Apocalypse

$49.95

 

Called by the Elder Elemental Eye to serve, four corrupt prophets have risen from the depths of anonymity to claim mighty weapons with direct links to the power of the elemental princes. Each of these prophets has assembled a cadre of cultists and creatures to serve them in the construction of four elemental temples of lethal design. It is up to adventurers from heroic factions such as the Emerald Enclave and the Order of the Gauntlet to discover where the true power of each prophet lay, and dismantle it before it comes boiling up to obliterate the Realms.

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Wizards Announces Elemental Evil

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Jan 252015
 

Sorry guys I missed this announcement.

From WotC

Today, Wizards of the Coast announced the latest Dungeons & Dragons storyline, Elemental Evil, which includes new product offerings for both digital and tabletop RPG players.

 

The Elemental Evil storyline will begin this March and run through mid-summer allowing players to explore the Forgotten Realms and defeat the secret cults that threaten to wipe out the Sword Coast.

 

Some of the exciting new product offerings tied to the Elemental Evil story line includes:

 

  • Neverwinter: Elemental Evil, a new module for the MMORPG
  • Princes of the Apocalypse  tabletop RPG adventure, including new options and spells for players
  • Player content including more new races, plus the content found in Princes of the Apocalypse, available as a free downloadable PDF
  • Elemental Evil-themed Dungeon Master Screen and unpainted resin miniatures from Gale Force Nine
  • Temple of Elemental Evil adventure system board game and pre-painted collectible miniatures that support the Elemental Evil storyline from WizKids Games

 

We encourage you to share this news with your readers. To support your piece, you can download high-res images here and view the full press release below.

 

Learn more about the Elemental Evil storyline at DungeonsandDragons.com.

WizKids Dragons November 12th Tiamat and Bahamut

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Sep 282014
 

WKTD&D Fantasy: Icons of the Realms Tiamat

$59.99

 

Tiamat, the queen of evil dragons comes alive on the tabletop with this latest release from the D&D Icons of the Realms fantasy miniatures series!

WizKids Games, the industry leader in quality pre-painted plastic miniatures, is pleased to bring one of the best known dragons from the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe to life with this latest release, the D&D Icons of the Realms Tiamat Premium Fantasy Miniature Figure!

This fantastic pre-painted premium figure stands several inches tall and towers over all of the other D&D Icons of Realms fantasy miniatures. The perfect adversary for your next adventure, The D&D Icons of the Realms Tiamat Premium Fantasy Miniature Figure is a beautiful display piece as well

 

 

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