Tavern Watch Podcast: From cozy robots to wizard colleges

On this episode of the Tavern Watch Podcast, we’re talking about the return to Strixhaven (where their undergraduates can now prepare spells like D&D Wizards), some of our upcoming favorite crowdfunding projects — among them the multiplayer expansion to Ion Heart, Austin Walker’s debut game Realis, and the genre-straddling Cypher System megadungeon Jewel in the Sky — and also how when you leave fans alone with high-quality free products they’ll do things like convert the core rules of Ars Magica into the easy to read and use Markdown format. Plus there’s a four-part Ravenloft comic coming soon with some big names attached to it; which cover is your favorite? (Team TWP is pretty solidly fans of the Hammer movie poster vibe of Cover C, just for the record.) The D&D cartoon from the 80s is up for you to check out on YouTube for free (and I’ll be watching it too, since somehow it bypassed me in the 80s); are you or were you a fan?

We also tackle a pretty interesting reader question that delves into the line between tabletop RPG history and missing your favorite properties, which can be summed up as: where’s Dragonlance?

You’ll find all that and more on this week’s Tavern Watch podcast! You can listen to the podcast directly from this post or click on download icon in the upper right corner of the player below to listen on your own device.

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

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