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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
And over the weekend...
I've had a nice weekend, playing 3 D&D sessions, 2 boardgames and catching up on sleep. Unfortunately, I wasn't posting some of the significant news of the weekend!
Wizards Site Updates:
Miniatures Scenario: Reclamation Variants
Miniatures Scenario: St Patrick's Day
Commander's Notebook: Dream Boosters
A message from Stephen Schubert: About War Drums: (posted here)
We may have been quiet, but all your comments have not gone unheard or unread.
Quite a bit of War Drums exceeded our expectations. But even so, we recognize the issues within the set, and we're always trying to make future sets better. But we can own up to making mistakes in proofing maps and rulebook diagrams, and making poor decisions when reducing paint steps on certain minis. Errata happens (Arachnomancer?), and occasionally a mini won't turn out as well as the paint master (Dwarf Artificer, anyone?), we have to keep working hard to correct these issues.
War Drums had too many of these issues, I agree. But War Drums still remains a very solid RPG and Skirmish set. The pics everyone was ooh-ing and ahh-ing over from Winter Fantasy were of the same production minis in your hands right now.
The DDM tournament scene continues to grow, as well. We've got more in store for our tournaments this year, so while Dreamblade is getting all the press right now due to its recent announcement, DDM isn't going away. With maps and a couple of rule changes in War Drums, we've made it easier to recruit new players into the game, and we see the game continuing to be a successful part of the D&D line.
I'm excited about DDM. I think the next 12 months will be the best ever, in terms of minis available in the sets we're releasing. Right now we've got uncommon Hill Giants, and more Large minis in the set than the Sand Giant can shake his baguette at. Upcoming we've got Huge minis, giants, dragons, Tiny minis, mounted minis, clear minis, dragons, long-awaited demons and devils, old favorites risen from the grave, dragons, and more maps on the way. After all that, we'll work on topping those releases with even more cool DDM stuff.
DDM isn't going anywhere but up.
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Stephen Schubert
RPG/Minis R&D
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