Dual’s & (Mana) Dorks - an MTG podcast

The Dungeon Bros dip there toes into the Daggerheart Beta playtest materials! Critical Role released the Daggerhear Beta materials mere minutes before the recording of the podcast, so we go over the major mechanics and unique features we like, and ones we are skeptical of... We also talk about the MTG banlist update, Altered TCG record breaking kickstarter, and are thrilled that we can now offer t...

Magic Con Chicago has come and gone and we have a LOT of new information to go over for this years releases! Fallout Commander Decklists, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Commander... I mean Modern Horizons 3, Assassin's Creed mini boosters (BOOOOOOO) and Bloomburrow!!! Too much to say and too little time!

Check out https://www.critawards.org/ for information on the awards, voting, and how you can support!   On this Bonus Action, we have on Ivy, CEO and Founder of the CRIT awards (Creator Recognition In TTRPG's). She discusses the creation, and success of the first annual awards show, changes and improvements for this years awards, and even announces a new category exclusively on the podcast!!!

At long last! Wizards of the Coast announced the release dates for the core 3 rulebooks for One D&D! But they aren't releasing at the same time? Or even near one another! We also squash the rumors that Hasbro was looking to sell the D&D IP to Tencent, a massive chinese communist media conglomerate. We also take some time to touch on Joe Manganiello's dead on arrive live action Dragonlance...

In our second episode of the Dual's & Mana Dork's supplement podcast Bonus Action, we talk to our friend an fellow creator The Bearded GM! We discuss playing D&D, playing offline at your own pace D&D with the Orsak Narrative Universe Discord, and the Live Play D&D series he is a part of Dice Soup!

This week's episode was shaping up to be just talking about the Karlov Manor Set Spoilers, then 2 hours before recording we get some juicy news about One D&D AND Wizards of the Coast collaborating with VR game developer Resolution Games! Are we finally getting our VR VTT?! if Resolution Games previous game Demeo is anything to go off on, we certainly think so!

Surpise! You get a Bonus Episode!!!  It's been a while since we've had on a guest and we thought what better way to start the year than debuting our rebranded bonus episodes, "Bonus Action"! We have our friend and fellow creator Randy Sackett (AKA The Forged Realm) on to talk about a variety of topics stretching from his partnership with Loot Studios and their upcoming Relics Untold that we playte...

You gotta love a classic Twitter outrage. WotC has yet again been caught using A.I. generated art in promotional materials for the now released Ravnica Remastered Magic the Gathering set! They even DOUBLED DOWN that it wasn't A.I. art, until they admitted it was and deleted the tweets... We also discuss the aforementioned Ravnica Remastered MtG set and if it is even worth it to buy, the upcoming p...

Check out www.theproxyforge.com and use code "Dungeon Bros" to get a FREE Artist Collab Sol Ring with any Proxy Pack order! Thanks for sponsoring the podcast! The Dungeon Bros start out going over an interview with a recently ex-employee of Wizards of the Coast and hear what they have to say about the recent layoffs and the state of WotC today. They then dive deep into the year that was for Dungeo...

In a massive yet oddly unsurprising move, Hasbro has laid off 1,100 employees two weeks before christmas. Even more perplexing, among the layoff's include may at Wizards of the Coast, the subsidiary that is actually profitable, including some employees who are the leads of the teams that produce Hasbro's most profitable products. The Bros are not happy. But we do like the newly announced MCDM RPG...

The Dungeon Bros breakdown all the changes in the latest One D&D playtest 8 Unearthed Arcana! Barbarian, Druid, and Monk changes abound, New spells, better healing and so much more! We also go over the newest D&D book announceents, an upcoming Dungeons and Dragons video game for 2026, D&D Beyond partnering with 3rd party developers, and the newest Magic the Gathering Banlist! Plus ques...

It's Thanksgiving week!! The Dungeon Bros discuss the proper way to consume the Thanksgiving meal, the plagiarized art and theft from an artist in Lost Caverns of Ixalan, more AI Art controversy, the D&D TV channel, and we take some questions from the audience!

Is Wizards of the Coast on the mend?! It seems they are actually caring about their products a little bit and are willing to delay them if the quality isn't up to snuff! The physical release of the Deck of Many things and Book of Many things have been indefinitely delayed until the production samples are of a high enough quality. (If only they would treat their premium Magic the Gathering foil pri...

MASSIVE crossover announcement from Wizards of the Coast! Magic the Gathering and Marvel will be releasing multiple products and SETS starting in 2025, a proposition we thought not possible given Disney's newest TCG Lorcana having released earlier this year! What are the implications of this newest MTG Universes Beyond project? The elemination of Set and Draft boosters in favor of the new "Play Bo...

One D&D has dropped a brand new playtest! This time for the Dungeon Masters Guide. We dive into the new Bastion system for making fortresses and bases, and compare it to the popular MCDM Fortresses and Followers 3rd party supplement. We also have gone through a wave of Rebranding!!! and will it a new wave of psychosis has found us....

We celebrate an amazing milestone for the podcast... 50 Episodes! Don't worry, we are still the same dummies we've always been. This week we discuss the highly reviewed Phandelver and Below, the Shattered Obelisk, with some light spoilers (we make it clear when we start talking spoilers). Magic Con Vegas 2023 previews for the fall Lord of the Rings Tales of Middle Earth holiday edition release, th...

The newest One D&D playtest 7 is a rehash of the Barbarian, Fighter, Sorcere, Warlock, and Wizard from the 5th playtest, but updated with feedback and lots of stuff reverted back to thee 2014 players handbook state. We honestly think it's looking REALLY good now!

We are one week from the release of the newest Magic the Gathering set, the Wilds of Eldraine! Love some fairytale creatures, love enchantments, but most of all we LOVE an MTG set that is AFFORDABLE!!! We also preview Phandelver & Below, the Shattered Obelisk, Fall Secret Lair Super Drops, and D&D Whiskey from Matthew Lilliard?!?

It was not even two weeks ago that we were talking about the applications of A.I. for Dungeons and Dragons, and not two weeks later, A.I. controversy! A D&D artist using A.I. to "enhance" their work for Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants. We also have to talk about our trip to GenCon 2023, the news and crazy events of that convention, Baldurs Gate 3 reception, the newly announced slate of rel...

Hasbro has just partnered with Artificial Intelligence company Xplored, and A.I. Dungeon Masters are going to be in our future... How bad could it be? The Dungeon Bros discuss the positives and negatives of A.I. for D&D, discuss previewed cards for the Doctor Who Magic the Gathering commander decks, Anime-art reprints in Wilds of Eldraine, a possible future where Dungeons & Dragons movie 2...

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants is getting first looks and the Sliver Swarm Precon deck has been revealed! Both to a very resounding... thud... The prices are high, the quality is questionable, and the releases are too frequent; oh my! Also, Critical Role is wiping Brian W. Foster from all of their content after abuse allegations towards his former partner and CR cast member Ashley Johnson......

The Dungeon Bros take a look at the new One Dnd playtest material going over the Monk class as well as some other newly refined options for subclasses for the Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Druid, and Bard. Stick with us as we go slightly insane while we pick apart these updates to favorite Dungeons and Dragons options.  

The controversial return of TSR seems to have finally come to an end, as they have filed for chapter 7 BANKRUPTCY after only having $621 in revenue for 2023 so far! Economists are saying that the TTRPG industry is going to DOUBLE in value by 2028, There is a new D&D cookbook, a Secret Zelda TTRPG, and Dimension 20 is going DRAG!

Please allow us to gush about the amazing Magic the Gathering set spoilers for Lord of the Rings Tales of Middle Earth! We go over some of our favorite cards from this upcoming set, talk about leaks for the bonus Lord of the Rings x MTG set in November, Pathfinder 2e Remastered removing the Drow, and the Critical Role RPG systems for Daggerheart and Candela Obscura

Wizards of the Coast LOVES hiding bad news inside of announcements, and this is no different. We get the full titles and release dates for the remaining book releases ahead of One D&D's release, and of course they have to sneak in a price increase announcement to.... $60-70?!?! Yikes...