WANDERING MONSTERS | JULY 17, 2019 | EPISODE IX | SUMMER SESSION

Show Notes

 

Wandering Monster July 17, 2019

 

1. Intro It’s Wandering Monsters for July 17, 2019. I’m Stephen Twining, on Twitter at VonCorellon with the latest from the greatest roleplaying game in the world. In This week’s Summer Session the young at heart go adventuring with ‘Monsters & Creatures” +"Warriors & Weapons," we hit the arcade for a mobile Waterdhavian delve in Warriors of Waterdeep and cast off with the Ghosts of Saltmarsh - Call of the Kraken live spectacular on Twitch. But first, the news …

 

2. Young Adventurers Guides Ten Speed Press, publishers of Dungeons and Dragons, Art and Arcana: A Visual History, delivers the summer reading for vacationing elves and the young at heart with Monsters and Creatures and Warriors and Weapons, the initial releases in a line of introductory Young Adventurers Guides for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Authors Jim Zub, Stacy King, and Andrew Wheeler provide the script for a charming and dangerously accurate series of bite-size tomes for younglings eager for an introduction to the fantasy races, character classes, and essential weapons and tools for adventurers new to Dungeons and Dragons. Warriors and Weapons is a one of a kind guide to brave and bold heroes, along with their weapons, armor, raiment, and dungeoneering equipment, lavishly illustrated by award-winning art studio Jetpack7. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/198...http://www.jimzub.com/dd-young-advent...http://www.jimzub.com/the-dd-young-ad...https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Creat...

 

3. Warriors of Waterdeep New from Wizards of the Coast and Ludia, Warriors of Waterdeep, is a mobile turn-based RPG game app, based on the city of splendors in the forgotten realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Available now worldwide, after being showcased at DNDlive 2019, Warriors of Waterdeep allows players to build an adventuring party from a collection of archetypal classes and races, such as the dragonborn ranger, elf cleric, halfling rogue, tiefling warlock and half-orc barbarian. Explore dungeons and ruins, pursue rewarding challenges, and Battle against other parties in real-time Player-vs-Player (PvP) mode.

 

 

4. This summer, follow the continuing adventures of the haughty crew of the Second Chance as they chart a course across the treacherous Azure Sea in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Call of the Kraken. Join the exploits of the daring and unusual crew, featuring Lahunna P’hascarian of the merfolk, JaggerJaw the Sharkaan ranger, the sea elf druid Indigo Diomedea, Flick the Seabold, and smuggler, Captain Victor Salt. The compelling tale of Call of the Kraken is told by How to be a Great GM’s Guy Sclanders, a GM with decades of experience in role-playing games + Dungeons & Dragons and Ghosts of Saltmarsh airs on the official D&D twitch channel [twitch.tv/dnd]. A cinematic soundtrack by Soundsmith and remarkable cartography from Till Lammer accentuate the intriguing storytelling of Guy Sclanders and distinguish the exemplary live-play group from the teaming masses of twitch streamers lost in the undertow. Great GM’s ensemble cast brings an international and cosmopolitan dimension to the DND channel, as Players from the UK, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, + Australia assume the roles of the crew + represent the very best of the hobby – from a full-time cartographer to an opera singer + from a Youth centre manager to a full-time LARP and cosplay queen. Creator of Call of the Kraken How to be a Great GM’s Guy Sclanders offers game masters guides for the apprentice and the master, player character guides for acolyte, knight and lord, the Campaign Creators series, ebooks, and and how to be a great GM paraphernalia on the greatgamemaster.com. twitch.tv/dnd

 

 

5. That’s all for this abbreviated Summer Session from Wandering Monsters, we’ll be back in August and we look forward to seeing you all at GenCon. Catch up at Uncaged Anthology seminar, Writers Symposium events, The Ennies, and the Diana Jones Awards—be sure to grab a Wandering Monsters badge for your cloak of elvenkind! Until August, it’s your moment of Xen’drik.