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I'm Keith Baker, creator of Eberron, and you're listening to Morse's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk.
This week, Morse, PJ, and Jessica talk about all the week's tabletop RPG news, including a free Dungeons & Dragons adventure based on the 1980s cartoon, the D&D Players Handbook for 2024 is the fastest-selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg is getting a video game, and more! This week on Morse's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk!
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hello hello hello and welcome to morris's unofficial tabletop rpg talk i am russ aka morris or morris aka russ and with me this week is pj coffee from the southampton guild of role players uh well sorry sam not 100 this week but i can do my duty as the at-height person in charge of letting you know that joining us also
baby called way podcast to act as a ministering angel of mercy it's the one it's the only it's it's me jessica from em publishing and yes as we're pre-recording my partner is way doing a lovely emergency dentist appointment and my dog is having a week with his ongoing conditions so i am both other members of my household are having a time so i am i am on call for various medical things as they may occur we'll have to call you Florence when you say doing an emergency dentist appointment you don't mean performing it but being subjected to it well from what I understand he won't be performing it on himself but I didn't I actually didn't ask to clarify so did he leave the house with a big pair of pliers I didn't check you know well I guess we just have to wait is he a qualified dentist
No, but, you know, when does being qualified for something stop you doing it? Much like this podcast. That's true.
That's true. All right, let's do some news, shall we?
Yeah, some news. A D&D tabletop RPG and various global shipping crisis news is the news that I've seen.
Right then, okay. So, quite D&D-ish this week because... There was a big old announcement that the 2024 Players Handbook is apparently the fastest selling D&D book ever in the 50 years of D&D.
Oh, there we go.
Yeah. There's a lot of people out there who want their D&D. Yeah.
So the previous record holder was Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Oh. And the new D&D Player's Handbook has surpassed that. It's not clear. I mean, it's basically based on the first week sales, I guess, because it became available on the 17th.
Yes, I guess, yeah.
Unless it's counting back the last month it's been in hobby stores in America. I'm not sure. But apparently it sold as many as three times as many as the 2014 Player's Handbook did at launch.
Well, I think the hobby has grown since 2014.
Yeah, they also, because they sent a press release out, and they also claim more than 85 million D&D fans worldwide. It takes quite a long time to count to 85 million. I mean, it takes quite a long time to count to 85, let alone 85 million.
If you had 85 million people, it could be quite quick, though. Yeah. If they each share out the workload.
Yeah. I suppose it depends on how much parallel processing it's like.
Yeah, if they all shouted out their own number simultaneously.
Yeah, then it'd be done.
But then you would have to have handed out 85 million numbers beforehand so that they could do that.
I'm not the numbers person at EM Publishing.
You are the logistics person.
Yeah, I know, but not the numbers. I'll make Zyn do that. That sounds difficult.
All right. So apparently D&D Beyond has over 18 million users. That's quite a lot.
That is a lot.
That's not subscribers. That's not paying users. That's 18 million.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I've got an account, but I've never spent any money on D&D Beyond.
Same Zs.
So, that's interesting. However, there is a little bit of, I want to say controversy, slightly manufactured controversy maybe, that has arisen about this.
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