Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

The Archlich, or Aserarak, however it's pronounced. The Archlich.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It says, when Acererak the Archlich enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak the Archlich to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon.

I guess so. I guess so.

Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So that's that. And then finally, Forgotten Realms. I forgot about those. So there are going to be two Forgotten Realms hardcovers in 2025. Exciting. There's going to be the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide and the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. One for players, one for, obviously, Dungeon Masters.

Well, Greyhawk's going to be in the DMG, I suppose. At least one chapter of.

I guess. Yeah. So the two books, the players one will have, well, player options, basically new subclasses, feats, backgrounds, spells, new kinds of spells, they said. I don't know what that means. New types of spells. And various factions, like the Harpers or the Red Wizards of Tay. That's going to be the players book. And the DM's book is going to dig into various different parts of the realms.

And this is interesting. So what they're doing is different areas of the realms are going to be designed for a different play style. So you've got Baldur's Gate for urban fantasy, Icewind Dale for survival horror. There's the Moonshade Isles, which will be for fairy stories and conflicts which can be resolved without violence.

And there's also going to be a giant elven mega dungeon and the land of Kalimshan. And each one is basically a totally different kind of play style. So yes, that's those two books. And we don't know much more about that other than they're coming out late next year. So we're probably talking like November-ish or something.

Yeah.

The artwork is always gorgeous. So it's going to have five, basically five in-depth setting guides. Baldur's Gate, Kalimshan, the Dale Lands, Moonshade Isles and Icewind Dale. Each for a different play style.

That's the Dungeon Master's book. So yeah, if you want to know more about the Forgotten Isles, that's the way to do it.

Yeah. Right. And that is pretty much the D&D news.

That was quite a lot of news, wasn't it? It was more than your average amount of D&D news. How do we feel about it all? Anything we're excited about?

Sorry. That's my happy, happy JoyJoy take.

There was one last bit of news I wanted to mention very quickly. Yeah, okay. Very quickly. So you remember last year, io9 shuttered its tabletop gaming news.

And people like Lynn Kredega and others lost their jobs at io9.

Linkin Deku, of course, being famous for having very, very well covered the OGL crisis a couple of years back.

Then earlier this year, Dicebreaker closed down.

Yeah.