Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Well, maybe electronically via the medium of an onboarding video.

Yeah, I mean, basically they should just send that one that she did with The Punisher and just tell everyone to watch that. It's really good. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so that's coming next year. I don't know when exactly. I think it's like summer-ish next year. They didn't say specifically when.

But they're saying that we're really leaning into using components to teach people how to play.

It's a thing they're doing. They're getting all component-y.

mats cards online arts yeah great ideas then again i remember fantasy flight games and like warhammer and it was so many components and the game was so over-engineered and like i had so much space in front of me and it was so confusing it just didn't work for me at all it was too componenty yeah it was massively over over-engineered for a role-playing game

it had as many components as a board a complex board game would have and it's like this is i've got cars and tokens and all sorts of things in front of me i mean it's too much too much stuff well one a lot of people do like stuff Yeah, I know.

Yes, you are not wrong. PJ is correct.

No, you are not not wrong.

We should move on swiftly. The really, really big news I'm going to get to last. I'm going to do some littler bits first.

Lego collectible minifigs coming in September.

They have done them before. These are new ones. But they've done them before. We haven't seen these particular ones before, I don't think.

Yeah, no, that's ringing a bell with me too, to be honest. We've got the Lady of Pain there, we've got a Mind Flayer with an Intellect of Arrow, we've got, yeah.

Tasha is there. It's basically a whole lot of iconic D&D stuff.

Yeah, I mean, they're coming out September 1st, so that's like this coming week, isn't it? When's September 1st?

Sunday. Is it? Oh, okay. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

Possibly, possibly. What else is there? Yeah, there's an exhibit at the Strong National Museum of Play.

Which is going to be Dungeons & Dragons 50 years... Well, it's basically a 50th anniversary thing, basically. Mm-hmm. This is opening in September, located on the first floor of the museum, and it features a timeline of the game's development, early artifacts from D&D's design, and a look at the influence that D&D has had on video games and culture.

This museum was founded in the 60s by Margaret Woodbury. I don't actually know where it is. I am going to quickly look up where it is, because that article fails to mention this crucial piece of information.

I'm guessing America, but it's in Rochester, New York, United States.

Fair enough. So that's a thing that's happening. And then finally, we've got a Magic the Gathering secret lair drop. So this is apparently, and I don't really know Magic the Gathering, a crossover between Magic and D&D. And there's a whole load of cards being shown with things like Beholder's Innovation Ray and Beholder's Disintegration Ray and Monster Manual and Akerarak the Lich.