Tavern Watch Podcast: Thundercats and other TTRPGs we can’t wait to play

There are a lot of games we’re excited to play — and excited to watch! — on this week’s Tavern Watch Podcast. A Thundercats game by Dynamite Entertainment will be launching Kickstarter soon (you can join us in watching for the campaign by clicking “notify me” on the Kickstarter campaign). It’s a 5e game, which could make it an easy sell to play with friends since 5e is so well-known, so this may be a better bet than coming up with a unique system. But we may be even more excited for what this game means about other properties in the Dynamite catalog, which publishes comics for Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Army of Darkness, Barbarella, and a whole lot more. Could we be getting other interesting games from Dynamite if Thundercats does well? We’re excited to find out.

This is hardly the only game on the horizon, as we’re also looking forward to the release of Sword World 2.5, a wildly popular 35-year-old Japanese TTRPG that’s getting its first English language release. You can download a quickstart now by signing up for the game’s newsletter. But if you’re looking for a game that’s already available, we have only good things to say about the new D&D Starter Set, Heroes of the Borderlands. It’s a great introduction to the game and it comes with tons of accessories you can use for future games, with 18 maps, hundreds of cards and tokens, dice, three adventures, and quickstart game rules — everything you need to play. Our only question is why Wizards of the Coast didn’t put this out when the 2024 edition first released.

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Music from this episode is “Midnight Tale” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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