Phil Ulrich

The World of Warcraft content train shows no sign of slowing down as we start to head into the end of the first set of patches for Midnight.

This week on the Tavern Watch Podcast, we wander very naturally into one of the most age-old discussions among tabletop players and GMs alike: do you have a preference for crunchy systems or streamlined ones?

Introduced with patch 12.0.5, Decor Duels brought the idea of "prop hunt" gameplay to World of Warcraft -- the game, ostensibly an old training exercise revived by the newly-united elves, had players split into teams of hiders and seekers; the hiders would assume the form of ordinary inanimate objects, while the seekers would have to find the disguised players.

Turbulent Timeways has returned during World of Warcraft's patch 12.0.7, and is live through August 11.

In the final episode of our Legend in the Mist actual play, the Inkwell Club has managed to calm down the frenzied (and cursed) Spring Renewal Festival, only to see that several townsfolk are still caught in the thrall of something sinister and being led down the narrow switchback paths to the bottom of Skunk Glen Ravine.

Our Legend in the Mist actual play continues!

Today's WoW maintenance is is actually extremely short in length for most of the realms, only being an hour long or so.

The Legend in the Mist TTRPG has finally released, and Tavern Watch is here to dip our toes back into the world of rustic fantasy adventure!

This week on the Tavern Watch Podcast, we discuss one of the favorite pastimes of tabletop GMs: stealing borrowing very liberally from our favorite movies, books, and even other games for our own tabletop games.

Do you ever read a word so many times that it ceases to look like a real word? Lately, for me, that’s been “Void.” We’ve been combating the forces of the Void for years now. We fought a Voidlord. We’ve visited their home turf in Voidstorm. We’ve empowered Voidforges to get Voidshards we can make into a Voidcore, and then there’s the other Voidcore that’s a bonus roll. We’ve got Void Invasions, Void Assaults, and Void Rituals in ritual sites. Now we’re off for a Void Showdown on other planets.

I guess if there’s one thing you can say for the Void, it’s got consistent branding.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and the answers, like your Voidwalker used to complain, are void where prohibited.