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Send us Fan Mail You Heard it Here Last Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. Let’s talk business. In 2023 exports from Poland to the US reached the highest levels in history. 2% of all those exports…...was the video game Cyberpunk 2077. What makes these numbers interesting is that the rollout of Cyberpunk 2077 was a massive failure and the Computer Gamin...

Send us Fan Mail “Teamwork makes the dream work” was quoted by leadership expert John C. Maxwell in his book by the same name. The actual quote read: “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”  What does this have to do with adventuring in our table top games? Well, actually, everything. A team is a group of individuals working...

Send us Fan Mail Last Week Mike hit us up in a group email about CHAT-GP4 release and how it has basically solved all his solo roleplaying issues. Christina follows up with expressed excitement and some questions about service plans I responded with [Insert Raspberry Noise] A long email thread latter and here we are. An episode on AI Gaming. I wanted to start by pointing out that Mike is and has b...

Send us Fan Mail You Heard it Here Last Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/2024-diana-jones-award-finalists-announced.704637/ We are going to start this week off with the Diana Jones Award Finalists. The Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming was founded in 2000 and presented at the first ceremony in 2001, It is awar...

Send us Fan Mail With this episode we wrap up the Pirates of Drinax Campaign.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another edition of You Heard it Here Last, where we talk about news you’ve already heard. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/dandds-new-rules-will-be-available-under-a-creative-commons-licence/ We are kicking off today with yet more D&D News. It’s funny how much we talk about a game we don’t play. But that’s a topic for another day. Today we are talking about the fac...

Send us Fan Mail Before we get started, I want to give a shout-out to Distaff over on our Discord server. They hit us up asking for more in our Anatomy of a Campaign series. Thanks for listening and for the feedback Distaff. That was one we forgot about. Christina and I had recorded Episode 3, but the audio quality was just too bad to release. We put it in the queue to get back to it, and then wit...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of You Heard it Here Last, Christina and I talk about the upcoming D&D 2024 and the opening of Kickstarter Season. Check it out for news you have already heard.

Send us Fan Mail I don’t remember if it was my first visit to the public library, a Carnagie Public Library of course, but it was definitely the first time I strayed away from the children’s section and started looking for books to read. The adult side of the library was very different. No cartoon covers in bright colors, just rows and rows of big fat books, they all looked the same. And they all...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last. We are going to start this week with some good news for D&D 5E, or at least for the Dungeon Dudes. https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-dungeon-dudes-notch-up-another-million-dollar-kickstarter.703873/ Unless you have been living under a rock you heard that Cynthia Williams the president of WOTC has resigned. https://www.enworld.org/threads/wo...

Send us Fan Mail For me it started with Blade Runner. I remember being blown away by the majestic sweeping images while Vangelis played in the background. It was that mixture of noir and sci-fi, dark tech and it just oozed attitude. Snow Crash was next, the 1992 novel that really opened my eyes to the full cyberpunk experience. Ghost in the Shell, Altered Carbon, Akira, Battle Angel Alita, the Mat...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of You Heard it Here Last, Mike and I talk TTRPG sales and the new Fallout TV Show.

Send us Fan Mail Preparing to run a new game can be daunting. A game master must design the world the players will be adventuring in. They will need to create a compelling story, a reason to adventure. They will need to fill their new world with set pieces, action, and amazing locals. Finally, they will need a villain, a character that will compel the players to risk their own lives to stop it’s e...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of You Heard it Here Last, Mike and I talk about Chaosium's contest and the upcoming Fallout TV show.

Send us Fan Mail I can remember it like it was yesterday. October, 1976, Sunday night, 7pm. I was already dressed for bed and I settled down in front of the TV. “When you wish upon a star” played from the speakers and the opening credits of “The Wonderful World of Disney” played across the screen. This was a normal Sunday night for me and it is the reason I am a huge Kurt Russell fan to this day....

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about Larian Studios announcing that they will not be making any more Baldar's Gate 3 Content and Converse jumping on board the D&D train.

Send us Fan Mail Roll for Initiative! To some, it’s the purpose of the entire game. To others it’s the moment of dread. We have talked about the history of roll playing games before, growing out of the wargaming simulations of the 60’s and early 70’s. Wargaming Simulations, you know … Combat. So, the early roleplaying games focused heavily around combat. The game mechanics were designed to encoura...

Send us Fan Mail First up on You Heard It Here Last we have a very cool announcement. Modiphious games has picked up the license to create the Discworld Roleplaying game. We haven’t seen a Discworld rpg since the late 90’s with Steve Jackson Games. Christina, what do you think about Modiphious picking up Discworld? https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/24084600/discworld-tabletop-rpg-board-game-m...

Send us Fan Mail “[Sam] fell and came heavily on his hands, which sank deep into sticky ooze, so that his face was brought close to the surface of the dark mere. There was a faint hiss, and a noisome smell went up, the lights flickered and danced and swirled. For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. Wrenching his hands out of...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of you heard it here last we have a couple of tidbits to discuss. First, foundry VTT has officially partnered with Wizards of the Coast to offer D&D 5e. That’s interesting? Mike, you are a big Foundry fan…thoughts? https://foundryvtt.com/article/dungeons-dragons-arrives/ The next piece of news is the canceling of Joe Mangenellos live action Dragon Lance series....

Send us Fan Mail S2 EA How to Manage your GM “Dude, I am so sorry you gotta work for that guy. He is the worst.” “It’s not that bad. Actually, we get along really well, and he’s the first boss who’s ever actually listened to my suggestions.” I think we have all found ourselves at one time or another dealing with a boss or manager that for some reason things just didn’t click. We will often blame t...

Send us Fan Mail You Heard it Here Last [Insert Intro] Recently D&D Beyond released 2023 Unrolled: A Look Back at a Year of Adventure this article breaks down the stats from users of D&D Beyond in 2023. The results are interesting especially if you enjoy data. Mike and I love data. https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1648-2023-unrolled-a-look-back-at-a-year-of-adventure#Species Here are a few...

Send us Fan Mail Pacing My player characters entered the room and the Evil Wizard rose from the throne. “How dare you interrupt my plans” he snarled. Everyone roll for initiative. This was supposed to be the crowning battle in the adventure. An incredible, nail-biting conflict where anything could happen. It turned into a 6-hour slog and by the end, half of the players had bailed for a variety of...

Send us Fan Mail Latest news from around the world of table top roleplaying. On this episode, Mike and I talk WOTC and AI Art.

Send us Fan Mail I love historical roleplaying games. Ok, maybe not straight up historical games, but I love games that take place in a world not too different from our own. I like to be able to use real pictures, real maps, real places, and in some instances real people to flesh out my games. My fantasy games tend to be low magic with the Vandals facing the Romans. I love Call of Cthulhu for its...