About this episode

The episode discusses D&D Beyond's new features, the shift to a live service model for D&D, and new Elric RPGs.

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! In this week's show we talk about D&D Beyond's new Thursday 'Drops' feature, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks on D&D moving to a 'live service model', two simultaneous new Elric roleplaying games, and more! Drops will make D&D Beyond subscribers love Thursdays Dungeons & Dragons brings back three classic 1st edition spells via new D&D Beyond Drops feature D&D Beyond executives explain why subscribers can't share Drops content Mother Lorinda gets a creepy new look in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within More performances and panelists revealed for D&D Fan Expo in London Chris Cocks says it makes sense to move D&D to a "live service" model, but Hasbro will always make physical books Friends and Relations: Wanderers Official Elric of Melniboné TTRPG coming from Goodman Games There's ANOTHER official Elric RPG in the works Jon Hodgson Backdrop Books Neon Odyssey: Space Opera in D&D Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable

Topics covered

• D&D Beyond Drops
• live service model
• Elric RPGs
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Ravenloft
• D&D Fan Expo

Keywords

• D&D Beyond
• live service model
• Elric RPG
• Ravenloft
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Hasbro
• Chris Cocks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: D&D Beyond, Hasbro, Goodman Games

Books & works: Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, Elric of Melniboné TTRPG, Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG, Neon Odyssey: Space Opera

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