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Blizzard Watch Weekly: The Midnight alpha begins!

With Midnight news everywhere, it's a big week in Warcraft... and while that's the biggest news, the Midnight alpha is far from the only thing that happened th...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: How much more hardcore can WoW get?

This week our hosts Liz and Joe were joined by Nick, our WoW Classic expert.

While they waited very impatiently for the next round of news about Midnight, they talked ...

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Lore Watch from the Archives: What the elf expansion of our dreams would be

This week we're having a throwback episode from the Archives. Over a hundred episodes ago, Matt and Joe discussed what they would like to see from an elf-centric expansion, which is more or less co...

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Tavern Watch Podcast: Thundercats and other TTRPGs we can't wait to play

There are a lot of games we're excited to play — and excited to watch! — on this week's Tavern Watch Podcast. A Thundercats game by Dynamite Entertainment 2025-09-29 05:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Fat Bear Week

This is the best week of the year. Between Rutherford Bear Hayes my trusty Hunter pet and Bear & Breakfast, it's no wonder that I adore Fat Bear Week.

While we renovate a B&B...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Midnight Alpha is (really!) coming soon

In the preshow this week everyone was excited about Critical Role's next season, which is starting next week. Well, everyone except Cory. It's kind of a long story, I'll let him tell you. ...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Is it finally time for Forsaken Paladins?

The topic of Forsaken Paladins is the meat in a three listener question sandwich this week.

We start off with the idea of corruption, and just how the Old Gods managed to bend the kobolds ea...

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Tavern Watch Plays Outgunned Adventure, episode 3: Surviving almost certain death

You know that feeling when you're exploring a viking ship suspended in the rocks over a volcanic chasm, and some poorly planned acrobatics cause it to slip and turn upside down?  Well, I didn'...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Witness this, buddy.

"Oh, you like puzzle games? You should play The Witness," they said. The thing is I like games with puzzles, plural, and The Witness thus far only has one puzzle that I'm being ma...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Fire up your lederhosen, Brewfest starts next week

Mass Effect, Starfield, No Man's Sky, Fallout, Outer Worlds. Many have spaceships, some have building, others are allegories, and yet all are the topic of this week's preshow all at once.

It...

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Lore Watch Podcast: What does the Void fear?

This week's show is devoted to two listener questions.

The first asks what the Void fears, in reference to a line from our old pal Ve'nari who asserts that she knows what it is -- but doesn'...

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Tavern Watch Plays Outgunned Adventure, episode 2: A practical guide to completely safe tomb raiding

Are we heading towards death or certain death? So far in our game of Outgunned Adventure, our crew of daring explorers has survived a fall into the hidden grotto that conceal...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: the coziest game on the Citadel

Did you ever have a friend who started playing a game you really like and haven't played in a while, so you immediately want to go pick it up again? Anyway, Liz has been talking about playing ...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: More new Midnight info from Gamescom (which ended a month ago)

The Blizzard Watch Podcast preshow was a D&D smorgasbord this week. In addition to our usual D&D enthusiasm, Matt is DMing a for-fun house game for some of the crew, and w...

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Lore Watch Podcast: How "Satanic Panic" changed media in the 80s, with ripple effects to today

Most people think of the 80s as a simple time full of big hair and scrunchies, but those of us who were into Dungeons and Dragons will remember the Satanic Panic, a period of time whe...

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Tavern Watch Plays Outgunned Adventure, episode 1: Climbing a cliff without any cliffhangers (maybe)

It's time for a new adventure with our Tavern Watch crew as we dive into Outgunned Adventure (and, yes, we're going to be using the word adventure a whole lot here). Our story ope...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: that decor feeling

Is it any wonder that, since I am in theory so excited about WoW's Player Housing, I would fill the gap left by its absence by playing other games where I can decorate things? It's al...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Dual wielding baguettes? plus more Midnight hijinks

Did you know that ferrets get into all kinds of wacky hijinks? Cory did, and as our special guest, he told us all about it on this week's preshow. Ferrets, cats, almost all animals can pour themsel...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Just a few of the breadcrumbs leading us to Midnight

Lore Watch this week explores three questions sent in by our listeners, all ending in answers we may see as we go forward into Midnight. First, they talk about the different types of magic...

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Tavern Watch Podcast: Draw Steel is a spiritual successor to D&D 5e, and we're into it

On the latest Tavern Watch Podcast, we're excited about Draw Steel, a new game from MCDM tha...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Pumpkin Spice Roundup

It's that time of year when everyone starts advertising stuff for fall, but it's still like, 85 degrees out where I live. I am wearing shorts and sweating and my hair is still summer frizzy, but I'...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: Transmog is not free, and other gamescom disappointments

This week's behind the scenes shows begin and end with Matt talking about dinosaurs. It's kind of a full circle sort of thing. They also talked about the new Osiris Reborn, which is f...

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Lore Watch: The weird similarities shared by the Kirin Tor and the Jedi Order

With the rigidity of the structure of the Kirin Tor and the Jedi Order, and their propensity for keeping secrets about power -- and sometimes that power for themselves -- there are a ton of paralle...

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Tavern Watch Plays Rebel Scum, Episode 3: Fighting fascism with the power of friendship (and a blaster)

This week we're wrapping up our game of Rebel Scum, a game of anti-fascist space opera that seems a lot like Star Wars -- so of course we just used it to play i...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: After Midnight

This week was dominated by the Midnight infodump from gamescom. So, what comes next? Other than Player Housing. Because we're also still fixated on when we're getting Player Housing.<...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: The Midnight cinematic was released and we have thoughts

This week's preshow is all about concrete. No, I am not joking. The crew touches on building in games and history and a few other things, but no really, it keeps coming back to concrete. That may s...

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Lore Watch Podcast: What K'aresh might have to show us about the coming Midnight

While we're all excited about the new trailer for Midnight from gamescom, Matt and Joe took this opportunity to discuss what narrative threads we may see in Midnight as ...

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Tavern Watch Plays Rebel Scum, Episode 2: Liberation day at the mines

This week we’re continuing our game of Rebel Scum, a game of anti-fascist space opera that seems a lot like Star Wars — so of course we just used it to play...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: It's too hot.

This intro is the last thing I do before I hit the weekend, so it's usually about what I have planned, something cool going on, you get the idea. However, today I went outside for fifteen (15) minu...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: Tazavesh is the best city ever, and more WoW patch 11.2 observations

On this week's preshow, Joe, Liz, and our special guest host Liz Patt discussed how based in consumption current fandom is. You can't just like a video game, you also have to buy all the merch, and...

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