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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Still mad about transmog, still excited about Player Housing
This week's preshow is mostly raves aboutDispatch and I can't be even a little bit mad about it. It's kind of fun to watch Phil, Matt, and Joe discuss the narrative-heavy game while trying their best to be vague enough to not spoil any plot points. Liz appreciated that, because she hasn't really playedD...
Lore Watch Podcast: Ethereals, Class Quests, and more
This week we have four listener questions answered by our lore experts Joe and Matt. First, they discuss the Ethereals and what their timeline is in relation to the timeline on Azeroth. Has this race existed for years, decades, milennia -- or something different entirely. They pivoted to the dragons and their aspects, ...
Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder, Episode 3: A little warm, but it beats dying
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch playsStarfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choice character building ofPathfinder with a wholly original science fantasy setting, and there's really nothing like it. If you&...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: One week closer to Player Housing
We're one week farther into 2025 which means we're one week closer to Player Housing, which hits early access on December 2. But in the meanwhile, there's still news out there, so I've rounded up everything that happened last week and everything coming up this week to help both of us keep track.Here'...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: We're not mad about transmog, just disappointed (and also very mad)
In this week's preshow, our cohosts are playingThe Outer Worlds 2 so they're debating the efficacy of high Charisma as opposed to lockpicking.A new set of Magic the Gathering cards was released, this time featuringAvatar, not the James Cameron one, the anime one, and Joe has thoughts. Plus, another set ofDispat...
Lore Watch Podcast: A casual discussion about Blood Elves
As we make our way towardMidnight, Joe and Matt are making sure we know what we need to before the expansion launches. Chief among those things is the lore of Blood Elves. It starts with the Highborne and the schism between Night Elves and High Elves, which eventually led to the Blood Elves and the creation of the Sunw...
Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder, Episode 2: Expedition to the computer core
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch playsStarfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choice character building ofPathfinder with a wholly original science fantasy setting, and there's really nothing like it. If you&...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Blinded by science (or maybe that's the void)
I can stop staring at the login screen any time I want. Any time I feel like it. I just don't feel like it right now is all. It's perfectly fine.If you, like me, have lost track of the week already I'm here to help with a rundown of what’s happening in the world of our favorite games last week, as well as...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: BlizzCon. Beta. Battlestar Galactica.
If you're here for the preshow I hope you like trains and snow and broadway musicals, because that's what our cohosts are serving up.Train travel can be fun and inexpensive or it can be incredibly long and expensive without much wiggle room -- but trains will get you to Broadway without having to park a car, so...
Lore Watch Podcast: Deep, cosmic questions from the Diablo and WoW universes
Because we aren't all constantly filled with existential dread, Joe and Matt are answering some deep questions asked by some of our listeners.The first concerns the afterlife inDiablo, namely where we all go when we die. Heaven and Hell in the world of Diablo aren't really in keeping with our religious afterlif...
Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder, Episode 1: We'll take the third option, where nobody dies
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch playsStarfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choice character building ofPathfinder with a wholly original science fantasy setting, and there's really nothing like it. If you&...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Welcome to the new beta (it’s a lot like the old alpha)
There’s not much longer to wait for the Midnight beta to launch, but if you’re waiting for the latest news about Midnight (and/or player housing), you may as well catch up on last week’s news first. Here’s the rundown of what’s happening in the world of our favorite games this week.What happened last week?Bli...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Our WoW Player Housing is haunted, and more scary stories
In this week's preshow, the crew goes Halloween! They talk about what they did to celebrate spooky season over the weekend. From historic ghost tours to mall hopping to old man candy, it seems like they had a great time. But it's not all ghosts and ghouls. With a pseudo-horror film lead in, they also discuss a ...
Lore Watch Podcast: The Sunwell: its origins, its past, and its parallels
As we head intoMidnight, we know this act begins with a direct assault on the Sunwell. But what is the Sunwell? Our Loremasters Joe and Matt discuss the history of Xal'atath's next target. The Sunwell isn't even the only well of power to be found on Azeroth -- they discuss the Well of Eternity, and the Nigh...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Eyes on the prize (the prize is the Midnight beta)
Here at Blizzard Watch, the staff has been abuzz about Midnight ever since it was announced, but this week we're a little more abuzz because the beta test was just announced — and that brings us one step closer to launch. But if you haven't been able to stay on top of the news, here's what's happened ...
Tavern Watch Podcast: We have Spelljammer at home
On the Tavern Watch Podcast, a mention of a crowdfunding campaign forLodestar leads us to discussing areas where the community has picked up for Wizards of the Coast's slack on the Tavern Watch Podcast. WhileD&D's modern stewards often seem content to take a one-and-done approach to campaign settings (as oppose...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: WoW UI changes make it harder to change our UI
This week in the preshow we talked a lot about other games -- what we've played, what we've liked, and what our various unplayed games are. Also, Liz has finally caught on to my master scheme of recommending her good games on Steam, so someone else's account is just as much a disorganized mess as mine is. I...
Lore Watch Podcast: Multimedia influences on World of Warcraft
In the first of three questions we answered this week, a listener wanted to know some of the influences our hosts Joe and Matt see in WoW from literature, movies, and myth.They talked about a slew of varied media, from 60s sci-fi (no, not that one, though yes, that one) through comics. There are a lot of cultural touch...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: It's PTR time for Blizzard games
We're in the midst of a busy PTR season with both WoW and Diablo 4 running test realms right now — though Diablo'sis only running for a few more days — which makes this weekend a great time to test out new game features. (The besttime to test out new game features would have been last week when player housi...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Player housing highs and Diablo 4 lows
In this week's preshow, we're all a little bit weird. The crew spent a while talking idiosyncrasies, which led to the explanation of "Liz Noises." These are not swear words, believe it or not, because Liz leads by example, but she has to focus very hard on Windwalker Monk or she pitches herself off a cl...
Lore Watch Podcast: The lore of Vampire: The Masquerade
Matt and Joe sit down this week to discussVampire: The Masquerade: its lore, some of the source material that inspired it, and how it rippled vampires forward in pop culture.They break down what you need to know about the history of vampires in this setting, which goes back almost to the beginning of humans, so there&#...
Tavern Watch Plays Shadowdark, Episode 3: What lies below
It’s spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we’re playing something appropriately spooky —Shadowdark! But a spooky old-school-esque system isn’t enough on its own, so we’re diving back into one of the most classic horror tabletop game modules of all time — the original I6: Ravenloft forAdvanced Dungeons & D...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Housing, housing, more housing (and a few other things too)
Player housing continues to dominate our thoughts and dreams, as the entire Blizzard Watch team jumped onto the PTR to playtest housing as a group. It hasn't always gone well, but at least we're having fun — and hopefully you are too if you hop on the PTR to play around with housing. The feature is still in d...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Blizzard Watch Podcast: Player Housing wishes and dreams
During the preshow, the crew discussed the games that just keep rolling out the new content, from WoW through No Man's Sky, all the way through the never-ending content churn that is the Star Wars universe these days. Star Wars is, by the way, a kids' movie, and retconning it to make the writing better isn'...
Lore Watch Podcast: Even more stories we'd like to explore through Timewalking
Now that we've seen Timewalking a bit, a listener asks the Lore Watch team what other events in Azeroth's history we should get to go visit through that system. While the listener suggests the War of the Three Hammers -- which Joe and Matt are on board with -- the response runs the gamut of Azeroth's histor...
Tavern Watch Plays Shadowdark, Episode 2: Never trust strange furniture
It's spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we're playing something appropriately spooky --Shadowdark! But a spooky old-school-esque system isn't enough on its own, so we're diving back into one of the most classic horror tabletop game modules of all time -- the original I6: Ravenloft forAdvanced Dungeo...
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Everything is coming up Midnight
What a week it has been my friends, with the World of Warcraft Midnight alpha continuing to add content and Legion Remix launching. But there's more to come this week as Player Housing hits the PTR for everybody to try (at least briefly). Let's get to the news of the week!What happened last week?Legion Remix la...
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Ask A Midnight Alpha Tester
Most of the preshow this week was all about the new season ofCritical Role. Everyone was excited to chat about Brennan Lee Mulligan's turn in the captain's chair, how the players' characters are already starting to gel, and just D&D stuff. There are no spoilers for the first episode, but if you are being ov...
Lore Watch: Is Dimensius the last of the Void Lords (and what does that mean for The Last Titan?)
The ultimate fight ofThe War Within, Dimensius is a hulking purple Void Lord, and several developer interviews have led us to believe he may be the last one. Or, at least, that's what two of our listeners asked about -- is he the last Void Lord? And if he is, what does that even mean? So Matt and Joe start off the ...
Tavern Watch Plays Shadowdark, Episode 1: It was a dark and stormy night
It's spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we're playing something appropriately spooky --Shadowdark! But a spooky old-school-esque system isn't enough on its own, so we're diving back into one of the most classic horror tabletop game modules of all time -- the original I6: Ravenloft forAdvanced Dungeo...
