Torn between playing D&D and not supporting a company that’s constantly in the news for its bad business ideas? We’ve got Wolfgang Baur on from Kobold Press to talk about “Tales of the Valiant”, a D&D5e alternative game that’s still compatible with all the books you already have. Plus, we’ve got MTG news for 2025, super cool squat models for Necromunda, and a 2 player version of Azul??

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News

Azul duel??

https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/166647/michael-kiesling-transforms-azul-into-azul-duel-an

New Edition of Mission: Red Planet coming soon

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58076/matagot-heads-back-mission-red-planet

OMG Lots of cool squat stuff coming for Necromunda!!

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/necromunda-ironhead-squat-prospectors-are-bringing-all-the-old-school-units.html

A look in the new Kill Team Starter Set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58043/games-workshop-unveils-warhammer-40-000-kill-team-starter-set

Here's what's coming in 2025 for Magic

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58118/magic-the-gathering-2025

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It was mentioned briefly last time, but that MTG Commander Committee fired itself? Between that, Essen, Warhammer Day, there’s a ton of News to go around and we are guest-less so we take these stories on. Plus, Philip’s got a review of Heroes of Barcadia and Chris talks about Halo: Flashpoint.

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News

Follow up: Commander Committee fires itself

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57919/magic-the-gathering-commander-rules-committee-fires-itself

I figured out why One Piece is selling so much

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57945/tcgplayer-top-25-sealed-products-chart-september-2024

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide: The Video Game: The Card Game

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57940/cubicle-7-reveals-warhammer-40-000-card-game

More Halo Flashpoint stuff coming

https://www.beastsofwar.com/news/pre-order-wave-2-mantic-games-halo-flashpoint/

Dungeon Crawler is a word now. Two actually...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/dungeon-crawler-officially-enters-the-lexicon-now-your-rpg-adventures-are-linguistically-correct.html

New Kill Team models look super cool

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/warhammer-day-kill-team-brutal-and-cunning-expansion-coming.html

Christmas boxes for Warhammer

https://frontlinegaming.org/2024/10/06/40k-christmas-battleforces-announced/

New Star Wars Unlimited set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57969/new-star-wars-unlimited-set-incoming

Dinosaurs coming to Conquest

https://www.beastsofwar.com/fantasy/cool-dinosaurs-para-bellum-games-conquest/

Extra Life 2024 Magic the Gathering Cards

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57997/wizards-coast-announces-extra-life-2024-magic-the-gathering-drop-set

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A Lord of the Rings trick taking game? A Gundam TCG - has someone been listening to our bonus bits?? Regardless, we’ve got Sam Nolton here from Eldritch Foundry to talk about printing custom miniatures…in COLOR!

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News

New Space Marine 2 intro set for Warhammer

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/warhammer-40k-snag-lt-titus-mini-in-space-marine-2-recruit-edition.html

Middle Earth....the trick taking game?

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/165540/can-you-deal-with-the-challenges-of-middle-earth-i

A new Gundam TCG?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57951/bandai-unveils-gundam-tcg-edition-beta

Play as the old D&D cartoon characters

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/the-dd-cartoon-characters-star-in-5-5es-first-adventure-uni-and-the-hunt-for-the-lost-horn.html

Drama in the MTG Commander Community

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57874/magic-the-gathering-fans-launch-petition-fire-commander-rules-committee

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57885/popular-magic-the-gathering-commander-advisory-group-community-leader-resigns

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Hasbro doesn’t know when to read the room, Netflix is “gathering” a new animated show, and Slimer is coming to Magic the Gathering. Plus, we’ve got Whistler, creator of the Rapscallion RPG here to talk rowdy pirates, ghost ships, and running away from “The Law”

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News

Asmodee to release Flatiron

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57754/asmodee-will-release-flatiron

Daggerheart coming soon from Darrington Press

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57849/darringtons-daggerheart-revealed

Netflix getting Magic animated show

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/magic-the-gathering-animated-series-headed-to-netflix.html

Magic the Gathering & Ghostbusters??

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57799/slimer-haunts-magic-the-gathering

Another week, another stupid quote from Hasbro

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/hasbro-ceo-says-ai-is-something-youre-going-to-see-more-of-in-dd.html

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Chris went to the GW reveal and all he got was COVID-19! There was also this little con called Nova Open 2024 happening too. Also, there’s too many Cyberpunk games, Wizards messed up again with D&D, and Warhammer decided to try out this rotation thing Magic The Gathering keeps talking about.

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News

Cyberpunk doing really well

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57730/new-cyberpunk-2077-the-board-game-passes-2-million-day

Three new board game items from Capstone

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57685/capstone-games-announces-three

Magic still on top and strong

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57722/tcgplayer-top-25-sealed-products-chart-august-2024

Wizards already regretting D&D Beyond decision

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/08/dd-beyond-walks-back-2024-changes.html

Kill Team going the Magic route...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/warhammer-40k-kill-teams-get-classified-for-competitive-play.html

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What were the ups & downs of Gen Con? Pretty standard, but I doubt you really want to hear about Chris’ elevator rides. Instead, we go through the highlights of Gen Con 2024 and all the cool stuff that was there.

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The best thing about HeroQuest...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/08/heroquest-becomes-a-pvp-arena-battler-with-against-the-ogre-horde-quest-pack.html

Power Grid...IN SPAAAAACE

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57540/colonize-new-planet-next-power-grid-game

D&D + Influencers = um what??

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57441/xcrawl-classics-rpg-hits-preorder

Unmatched: TMNT is coming

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57520/gen-con-2024-news-unmatched-adventures-tmnt-heads-kickstarter

Union wins Diana Jones award

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57489/gen-con-2024-news-diana-jones-award-winner-announced

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Wizards of the Coast now has a video game centric CEO - I’m sure that will fix all of their problems </sarcasm>. Also, play D&D in a Victorian era, and the Mistborn book series gets a new deckbuilding game. Then, we’ve got Carol Mertz, one of the lead game designers for Exploding Kittens on the show!

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News

Mistborn board game coming soon

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57382/brotherwise-unveils-mistborn-the-deckbuilding-game-retail

Victorian era D&D RPG?

https://www.beastsofwar.com/role-playing-games/cubicle-7s-new-victoriana-5e-roleplaying-game/

Get a dice set based on the adventure Philip killed everyone in!

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57370/beadle-grimms-offers-classic-d-d-module-dice-sets

New Necromunda box set releases soon

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57358/battle-necromundas-ruined-hive-city

This totally gives me a lot of confidence in Wizards of the Coas

thttps://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57388/hasbro-names-new-wotc-president

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Are we past the COVID boom of Board Games? People say Magic is dying, yet the sales numbers claim otherwise, and if apocalypses are your thing, we’ve got a wargame for you! Plus, Brad Talton from Level 99 Games joins us to talk about these things and show off Spooktacular, their upcoming horror Kickstarter!

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News

New edition for post-apocalypse war game!

https://www.beastsofwar.com/pulp-punk-horror-weird/pre-order-this-is-not-a-tests-new-edition-black-site-studio/

Back to pre-COVID numbers?

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57248/hobby-game-sales-flat-down-spring-2024

Magic on top again?

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57285/tcgplayer-top-25-sealed-products-price-shifts-june-2024

What is Warcrow?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57291/corvus-belli-announces-launch-warcrow

Speaking of Magic...

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57238/wizards-coast-drops-previews-new-magic-the-gathering-horror-set

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X-Wing flies off into the sunset, we get a look at the new books for D&D, and apparently you all are buying a lot of toys. No guest this week, so we take a look at all the stuff that released during Free RPG Day! Also, apparently there’s a Renshaw Rant about 40K.

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News

Origins Awards

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57193/origins-award-winners-announced

Adults be buying toys

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57108/adults-now-largest-segment-toys

Halo card came?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57178/upper-deck-will-release-halo-mission-command

Behold the new edition...err books for D&D...!

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57159/wizards-coast-reveals-full-dungeons-dragons-2024-lineup

No more X-Wing

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57137/atomic-mass-ends-development-two-star-wars-miniatures-games

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We had a lot of stuff to talk about at the end of Episode 242 of Boards & Swords, and we decided to keep streaming live and make our "Bonus Bits" free to non-patrons as well! Enjoy this? Then check out our Patreon below!

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Privateer Press sold the Warmachine IP? Adepticon is changing cities? And there’s a Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG coming? Plus, Andrew Fischer from Earthborne Games (https://earthbornegames.com/) is here to talk about making board games with as little environmental impact as possible. We don’t need no stinking shrink wrap here!

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News

There's a FF14 ttrpg coming?

https://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/final-fantasy-xiv-ttrpg-starter-set-scheduled-for-early-reprint-due-to-demand/

RIP Privateer Press?

https://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/steamforged-acquires-warmachine-and-iron-kingdoms-titles-partners-with-privateer-press/

Adepticon is moving?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56889/adepticon-moving-milwaukee

New Pathfinder board game

https://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/paizo-announces-new-cooperative-board-game-pathfinder-quest/

For the few people who still haven't played Star Realms...

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56931/star-trek-star-realms-hits-preorder

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