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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Lorewalking and Timewalking and Delves, oh my!

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Lorewalking and Timewalking and Delves, oh my!

This week on the preshow, Joe was excited about the Final Fantasy Magic the Gathering tie-in which launched last week. Phil Ulrich went to a Savannah Bananas game, and even if you aren't into baseball it's still a fun time. They have a pl...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Faerin Lothar and the Arathi legacy

Lore Watch Podcast: Faerin Lothar and the Arathi legacy

This week Lore Watch takes a deep dive into the character of Faerin Lothar, based on the recent short story "Faith and F...

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Tavern Watch Plays Masks, Episode 2: Heroes and hero worship

Tavern Watch Plays Masks, Episode 2: Heroes and hero worship

This week on Masks, our new superhero team comes together to defeat a new threat: paralyzing hero worship as they meet famed Silver Age hero Perseus Pyrite. Could the team be on the trail of a Silver Age villain come back to haunt the cit...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: I would die for this lizard

Blizzard Watch Weekly: I would die for this lizard

I am not at all joking when I say that the Hearthstone stream of lizards vs...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Our Summer Game Fest Faves

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Our Summer Game Fest Faves

In this week's uncut podcast, the crew talks about game modding and emulation. Games like Fallout 4 have stood the test of time in part because of the heavy modding supported by the company, while others have much clunkier modding to...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Our Lorewalking Wish List

Lore Watch Podcast: Our Lorewalking Wish List

The new Lorewalking feature in World of Warcraft is one we can use to explore more moments from the game we haven't seen, or explore the ones we have seen more in-depth. A listener wrote in and asked Matt and Joe which other points of lor...

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Tavern Watch Plays Masks, Episode 1: The trouble with team names

Tavern Watch Plays Masks, Episode 1: The trouble with team names

It's time for some superhero action as the team dives into Masks, where we find out just how tough it is to pull a superhero team together. (The name. You've gotta have a name.) If you like Young Justice, Young Aveng...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: I'm working late, cuz I'm a writer

Blizzard Watch Weekly: I'm working late, cuz I'm a writer

Everyone else is at the Summer Game Fest kickoff party, but I'm still at the office prepping Blizzard Watch Weekly. I'm just hoping somebo...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast (Uncut): Pride month kicks off and Heroes of the Storm turns 10

Blizzard Watch Podcast (Uncut): Pride month kicks off and Heroes of the Storm turns 10

We kicked off the preshow talking about just how tired we are, and Matt notes, "it might be one of those," so buckle up. Nick almost got arrested at the Vatican, Matt talks about rhetorical device, and yes, Liz remembers Dragon Age 2<...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Lorewalking: what to expect from this upcoming feature

Lore Watch Podcast: Lorewalking: what to expect from this upcoming feature

Who would have thought that the hosts of the Lore Watch Podcast would be excited to talk about the new Lorewalking feature coming to World of Warcraft? The episode goes through the scenarios in detail, so if you'd prefer to have your Lore...

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Tavern Watch Podcast: There are too many new TTRPGs to list (but we'll try anyway)

Tavern Watch Podcast: There are too many new TTRPGs to list (but we'll try anyway)

Daggerheart has just launched, so in this episode we talk about our first impressions of this new game, which seems poised to take on D&D. It's a game that encourage...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: I can’t stand the rain

Blizzard Watch Weekly: I can’t stand the rain

It has been raining on and off almost every day for weeks now, and it's really harshing my mellow at this point. The slugs eating my zucchini plants love it though, which is just so great. Love that for them.

Anyway, while we figure out who ...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Mists of Pandaria Classic brings one more Classic into the WoW trenchcoat

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Mists of Pandaria Classic brings one more Classic into the WoW trenchcoat

In the preshow, Cory muscles his way through technical difficulties, as Liz discusses Blue Prince, and Joe and Matt discuss why they're just not that into it. This leads into a larger discussion on indie games and their role in innovation...

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Lore Watch Podcast: The War Within: The story so far

Lore Watch Podcast: The War Within: The story so far

If, in between hauling Brann's sorry carcass through another delve and racing around in your car in Undermine you haven't been paying close attention to the story of The War Within, we've got your back. Starting from the pre-patch and the...

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Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 3: Why did it have to be snakes?

Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 3: Why did it have to be snakes?

In our third and final game of Legend in the Mist, our little group of friends may be on their way to becoming proper heroes as they track the undead that attacked their village back to its source. (To protect the village, but also to mak...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Meal prep

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Meal prep

I hope everyone enjoys red lentil dahl, because I followed a recipe that made a good gallon or so of the stuff. The serving suggestion of 4 cups of rice probably should've been the tipoff I was making a comically large amount of anything. So after...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: Horrific Re-Visions and (another) player housing preview

Blizzard Watch Podcast: Horrific Re-Visions and (another) player housing preview

In the preshow Joe, Matt, and Liz talk Nintendo, and the upcoming Switch 2. There's a lot of back and forth on physical media, the right to repair, and so on, so if that isn't your cup of tea, the preshow ends at 23:57

We ki...

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Lore Watch Podcast: How we'd make Azeroth into a D&D campaign

Lore Watch Podcast: How we'd make Azeroth into a D&D campaign

This week's Lore Watch is based on a listener question, which mashes together two of Joe and Matt's favorite topics: Azeroth and Dungeons and Dragons. Specifically, this episode goes through doing just that: how they would play their way ...

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Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 2: In which we learn that fairy tales aren't always tales

Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 2: In which we learn that fairy tales aren't always tales

In our second game of Legend in the Mist, our group of hometown adventurers has set off and found that adventure isn't quite as exciting as the fairy tales make it seem. Even for a short trip to investigate the lone undead that ventured i...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Player Housing HOA

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Player Housing HOA

Every new glimpse of the upcoming Player Housing feature we get, the more I get nervous that my little floral cozy cottage is definitely going to be forced into a neighborhood with someone who uses more bones and spikes than Joanna Gaines uses shi...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Legion Remix and more wild speculation

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Legion Remix and more wild speculation

In this week's preshow, the crew is super excited about the upcoming tabletop games we have slated to play for the Tavern Watch podcast. Matt is particularly excited to play Masks, and superhero teens and/or teen superheroes were the topic for muc...

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Lore Watch Podcast: The evolution of Dragons (and other fantasy creatures)

Lore Watch Podcast: The evolution of Dragons (and other fantasy creatures)

On this week's Lore Watch Podcast, Joe and Matt are joined again by our writer Eric O'Dea, and they continue to explore how the telling and re-telling of stories about creatures in folklore has evolved into the creatures we now know in some of our...

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Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 1: Never fight the undead after lunch

Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 1: Never fight the undead after lunch

This week we're diving into a rustic fantasy of small town heroes (or heroes to be) in Legend in the Mist, where our humble villagers come together to deal with a single shambling undead that found its way to town. Where did it come from?...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Welp.

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Welp.

Sometimes I foolishly try to get ahead by doing posts in advance, and then suddenly, something completely off the wall and unexpected will happen. So.

Let me take a huge swig of water as we look back at what happened this week, and what we h...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: The calculus of Diablo's seasons

Blizzard Watch Podcast: The calculus of Diablo's seasons

This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast preshow, Matt talks about the game Wildermyth, and specifically how it's sort of similar to D&D. As such, of course, one of the most fun parts of the game is character creation. Plus, the on...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Kobolds, and the real life origins of in-game creatures

Lore Watch Podcast: Kobolds, and the real life origins of in-game creatures

While they are unassuming little creatures, their presence in fantasy lore ranges all the way from traditional folklore all the way into modern day Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft. With the help of staff writer Eric O'...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Where all the best work gets done

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Where all the best work gets done

Almost every time I need to give something a title -- especially podcasts -- or I just need to think about it for a minute, I go outside and dig a hole or shovel mulch about it. A little physical repetitive task really helps me think. Plus, there ...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Truly, transmog is the endgame of all things

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Truly, transmog is the endgame of all things

In our preshow this week, Liz is still captivated by Blue Prince, though now she's moved on to watching speedrunners blaze through the house in under 5 minutes, which is a whole different game all over again. Seriously, it's got layers li...

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Lore Watch: Gallywix is only mostly dead, and other listener questions

Lore Watch: Gallywix is only mostly dead, and other listener questions

This week, Joe and Matt take to the mailbag to answer your questions, which are as varied as you are. First, since WoW has a tendency to bring back characters from the dead, and we just quote-unquote "killed" Gallywix, do we think he's actually de...

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Tavern Watch Plays Pigeon's 11, Episode 3: All the pretzels you can eat (just gotta steal them first)

Tavern Watch Plays Pigeon's 11, Episode 3: All the pretzels you can eat (just gotta steal them first)

It's a once-in-a-lifetime heist: to sneak into the biggest game convention around (celebrating much loved baking sim and MOBA Heroes of the Dough) and steal the esports trophy (which happens to be made of pretzels) from under everyon...

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