Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Yeah, I don't know whether it's going to be old stuff reprinted or some of the anthologies they've done or whether it's going to be brand new. I've no idea.

You've got a whole chapter in the Dungeon Master's Guide, yeah. So maybe there'll be new stuff.

Yeah, that gold dragon.

Yeah, it looks amazing.

Well, that's also the fact that it's close to you and they're far away. Some dragons are big and some dragons are far away. Some dragons are far away, yeah. There's that Tiamat. There's a big old Tiamat there. It's like totally wrecking a town, which is quite awesome. They've got a gorgeous red dragon. They do be like that, wrecking town. Yeah, yeah.

But we don't know much else about that other than that there's going to be a... It's coming sometime in 2025. It's a dragon anthology of adventures featuring dragons in dungeons.

Yeah. Yeah. Right, next coming out next year is a brand new starter set, which is currently named Heroes of the Borderlands.

No? Oh. The 2024 browser. What they used in the video, an awful lot, was a reimagining. This is a reimagining of the Player's Handbook. And we have reimagined the Monster Manual. It's like lots and lots of kind of like... approximate synonyms for edition without actually using the word edition.

Yeah. Anyway, so this new Starter Set, it's set in an area called the Borderlands.

Is it the sea?

No. No. I think it's two lands that border each other because there's a keep on those borderlands. Famously so. There's a keep on the borderlands.

Next to the caves of chaos.

Some people are energised by chaos. Some people like it.

Yeah, I'm not.

Yeah. Yeah, so Heroes of the Borderlands is a working title. It's got character creation in it, which starter sets haven't had before, I believe. They've just had pre-gens in. Is that correct, as I recall?

It's got intuitive, component-centric character creation. I don't know what that means. It's a long word. Component-centric, would you say? Intuitive component-centric.

these components and you put them onto the character sheet and it just works yeah yeah like little cards in the right shapes i would love to be able to do that with just like you just grab your heritage and you grab your culture and you grab your background you just put them down and there's your character it's a little it's a hand of cards

But it wouldn't quite work because then you'd just be looking on different cards for different things which should be together. So it wouldn't quite work. But I like the idea of it. Yeah. But then you'd have combat bits on each card and you'd have exploration bits and spells on different... It wouldn't quite work, but... I mean, it's not impossible.

Yeah, we've seen them. They're fairly similar to the old ones with a few tweaks. Yeah. So anyway, this set reimagines B2, the Keep on the Borderlands, a classic D&D adventure, by splitting this adventure into three self-contained booklets. And they are the Caves of Chaos, the Keep on the Borderlands, and the Wilderness. And there will be a how-to-play video accompanying the release.

And it's all about apparently teaching people how to play D&D this set. That's its goal. It's an onboarding set.