Phil Ulrich

It's time for a brand new game on Tavern Watch, called See You Space Cowboy; this one takes place in a solar system that looks a lot like famous anime Cowboy Bebop's but with the serial numbers...

Patch 12.0.5 launched Tuesday in World of Warcraft, and while there were a lot of features players were excitedly looking forward to -- Decor Duels, Abyss Anglers, or even helping Decimus help us by finishing the Voidforge -- the patch also launched with one major thing players were not expecting or looking forward to: critical bugs that caused the Player Housing system to be disabled, at least in the US and Oceania.

One of the new features coming in WoW patch 12.0.5 on April 21 is something new called the Voidforge.

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.

World of Warcraft's newest expansion, Midnight, just launched, but Blizzard is not content to bask in the success of what is, by all accounts, a well-received expansion launch, and the developers are already hard at work on patch 12.0.5.

It's just another average day in Ternion City: four agents of the Triangle Agency, paragons of order keeping reality safe from anomalous activity that wants to rend it asunder, find themselves confronted with the job of what to do with the remains of a Wuhan-Baxter corporate killsquad, while their final member comes face-to-face with her biggest challenge so far: an extremely well-presented business pitch slide deck.

Welcome back to serene Ternion City, where things are heating up in the case of the missing-then-returned-but-boneless Zbarro renovators.

I definitely did not authorize it to be Monday already. The dilemma of weekends: the more I do on the weekend, the more I feel like I need a second weekend after my weekend because I used the first one up doing stuff, but the less I do on the weekend, the more I feel like I need a second weekened because I wasted the first one.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Grab your favorite morning beverage (I have an iced coffee, unlike the fine captain up here) and let’s get to answering some questions.

On Monday nights, after our raid ends, I like to park myself right at the Great Vault so that when I get home from work Tuesday afternoon I’m ready to log in and hopefully secure a piece of shiny new loot. This week, for the first vault of the season, I decided to wander over to the Horde-only side of Silvermoon City and see if we had a bank over there with our own Great Vault. We do, as it turns out, and I thought — you know, it’s silly, but maybe as a Horde character, I’ll have slightly better luck if I use the Horde-only Vault.

I did get some Hero-tier gloves that I can catalyze next week, and I managed to continue to evade the bug where people are getting nothing but the same item slot over and over (example: eight sets of bracers), so I guess it worked? I’ll probably continue to do this on Mondays. If baseball players can be superstitious, so can I.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions, and we probably have answers, but we have to do a little ritual first. Just in case.

Welcome back to beautiful Ternion City, where the agents of the Triangle Agency are looking out not just for your best interests, but all of reality.