This week's preshow is mostly raves about Dispatch 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...
2025-11-27 16:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2025-11-25 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch plays Starfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choice charac...
2025-11-24 22:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostWe'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 e...
2025-11-24 05:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's preshow, our cohosts are playing The Outer Worlds 2 so they're debating the efficacy of high Charisma as opposed to lockpicking.
A new set of Magic the Gath...
2025-11-21 01:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
As we make our way toward Midnight, 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 ...
2025-11-18 22:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch plays Starfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choi...
2025-11-17 17:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 ...
2025-11-17 08:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 incr...
2025-11-13 21:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in Dia...
2025-11-11 20:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to take to the stars in search of interplanetary adventure as Tavern Watch plays Starfinder's newly-released second edition. This system blends the crunchy, high player choi...
2025-11-10 17:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s not much longer to wait for the Midnight beta to launch, but if you’re waiting for the late...
2025-11-10 16:14:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 see...
2025-11-07 01:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As we head into Midnight, 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...
2025-11-04 22:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostHere at Blizzard Watch, the staff has been abuzz about Midnight ever since it was announced, but this w...
2025-11-03 06:17:19 +0000 UTC View Post
On the Tavern Watch Podcast, a mention of a 2025-10-31 20:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 schem...
2025-10-30 22:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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 talk...
2025-10-28 19:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe'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 th...
2025-10-25 06:25:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 no...
2025-10-23 19:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Joe sit down this week to discuss Vampire: The Masquerade: its lore, some of the source material that inspired it, and how it rippled vampires forward in pop culture.
T...
2025-10-21 21:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-10-20 15:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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. 2025-10-18 06:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-10-16 22:44:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2025-10-14 21:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 b...
2025-10-13 21:32:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhat a week it has been my friends, with the World of Warcraft Midnight alpha continuing to add content...
2025-10-13 06:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of the preshow this week was all about the new season of Critical Role.
Everyone was excited to chat about Brennan Lee Mulligan's turn in the captain's chair, how the play...
2025-10-09 19:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The ultimate fight of The 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 wha...
2025-10-08 01:44:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 b...
2025-10-06 02:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post