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Send us Fan Mail Steve, Mike and Christina gather around the microphones and chat. No plan, no script, just chat. And we ended up with a great episode. We talk about what we would like to see in the gaming space, applying educational theory to gaming, and how to bring other cultures into gaming while still being sensitive. It was just like getting together for a cup of coffee.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/dd-gets-a-stout-and-bourbon-for-its-50th-anniversary.html https://dragonsmilk.com/dnd/#yes Well, it looks like D&D and roleplaying have grown up. When I started in the hobby it was for kids, but that’s just not the case anymore. Coming on November 16th of 2...

Send us Fan Mail A couple of weeks ago Christina and I talked about game reviews on our You Heard it Here Last show. I questioned to relevance of reviews and voiced concerns about making sure the reviews weren’t biased. Afterwards, I started questioning my approach to the topic. I felt like I came across very negative and left the listener with the feeling that you shouldn’t trust game reviews. Th...

Send us Fan Mail “The evil wizard stumbles backwards and falls to the ground. There is a sigh and then nothing. He’s dead.” Everybody at the table cheered “I search his body!” “I look for chests!” “Is there anything that looks expensive!” The players all scramble for loot. I flipped through the book “Ok, let’s see, you find 200 gold pieces, 40 silver pieces, and 20 copper. There is a scroll of mag...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/mongoose-acquires-twilight-2000-and-2300-ad.707036/ Mongoose Publishing is at it again. Recently we discussed that Marc Miller had turned over publishing of the Traveller RPG to Mongoose and now they have picked up the rights to Twilight 2000 and 2300 AD. Mongoose has b...

Send us Fan Mail In 1977 Marc Miller, bored with the Chess Club at Illinois State University, made his way to the Strategic Games Club…the rest they say is history. Ok, for those of you that have no idea who Marc Miller is or why the fact that Chess is boring matters I’ll go a little deeper. Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren Wiseman created the roleplaying game Traveller, that’...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. Let’s start with our favorite toy company and their ability to stay in the news. https://futurism.com/hasbro-ceo-ai-dungeons-dragons https://screenrant.com/dnd-ai-controversy-dungeons-and-dragons-fans-hasbro/ At a recent Goldman Sachs Conference, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks admitted that the entertainment...

Send us Fan Mail I remember opening up “Keep on the Borderlands” the first module I ever ran. It came in the D&D Basic Set and I thought it was very cool. The players started out in a keep, a perfect base of operations. It had a tavern, a blacksmith, a provisioner, and a chapel. Everything a growing adventuring party needs. From there the players would travel to the Caves of Chaos and explore...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. We are starting this week off with some good news. https://www.reddit.com/r/traveller/comments/1f2le2u/mongoose_publishing_now_owns_traveller/?share_id=uyOnyDYBcc2twtg2LBUZi&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_source=share&utm_term=22 Traveller is a 1977 table top...

Send us Fan Mail One of the things that I love every year about GenCon is the anticipation. Seeing the vendor hall slowly fill up with stuff, from carpets, to displays, to boxes and boxes of products. Fork lifts making there way down the crowded isles and the constant beeping of heavy machinery backing up. It’s hot and sweaty and you are praying for the convention center to turn the air on in the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another episode of You Heard it Here Last, where we talk about news you’ve already heard. We are starting off with some news that was announced at GenCon this year. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have announced a new Trilogy of Dragonlance books titled Dragonlance Legacies with the first entry titled War Wizard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-dragonlance-nove...

Send us Fan Mail I was 15 years old and a buddy of mine who lived down the street owned a video store. Ok, his parents owned a video store. He was 15 just like me. Not only did we have access to a huge array of VHS, but he also had a Laser Disc player. The Laser Disc was the precursor to the DVD and it was really cool. In the summer while his parents were working, I would ride my bike to his house...

Send us Fan Mail You Heard it Here Last Welcome back to You Heard it here last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-wotc-president-is-world-of-warcrafts-john-hight.705558/ I am sure you have already heard that the new president of Wizards of the Coast is John Hight who previously ran the World of Warcraft Franchise for Blizzard. And like they say, just...

Send us Fan Mail We sat speechless, staring at the DM. “That’s a 100-foot fall so after the first 10 feet it’s 1d6 for each 10 feet…9d6…You each take 35 points of damage.” We were dumbfounded. Our party of 3rd level characters had started across the suspension bridge, and with no warning, perception roles, or saving throws, the DM had announced that the bridge had collapsed dropping all of us into...

Send us Fan Mail By now most of you that plan on attending already have your GenCon badges, reservations, and plans. But if you are like me than you are still thumbing through the massive guide looking maximize your weekend. Lucky for you Oddfish Games has a few events that can help round out that GenCon calendar and make sure you get the most out of the greatest gaming weekend in the world.   Chr...

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...