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 player on stilts and a brass band. Also, while Liz talks about it, she does not qu...
2025-06-19 18:48:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Lore Watch takes a deep dive into the character of Faerin Lothar, based on the recent short story "Faith and Flame," as well as the release of 2025-06-17 20:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 city? It's time to make plans (and maybe make friends). If you like Young...
2025-06-16 19:40:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I am not at all joking when I say that the Hearthstone stream of lizards vs turtles was the highlight of my week. Valentina is the best thing that has ...
2025-06-14 01:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 tools -- or disallow it completely. Liz's love of macs has led her to emulate a lo...
2025-06-12 19:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 lore they'd like to see show up in Lorewalking later, so of course, the entire hour...
2025-06-10 20:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Avengers, and Teen Titans, you'll probably like this game. (And I happe...
2025-06-10 01:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 somebody saved me a drink with a little umbrella in it.
While my give-a-hecks pa...
2025-06-06 21:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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. If you'd like to skip the preshow, the show begins at 26:44. 2025-06-05 20:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Lorewalking experience as unspoiled as your own recollection of past events, note th...
2025-06-03 17:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 encourages worldbuilding and storytelling, and it's flexible enough to tell different sor...
2025-06-03 00:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 got the keys to the jeep (vroom), let’s look back at what happened this week, ...
2025-05-31 14:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 for the games industry as a whole. It's an interesting topic, but if it's one y...
2025-05-29 17:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 radiant song, Matt and Joe recap the events of the expansion so far. There
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 make sure one of their own doesn't turn into a zombie after being poisoned in the a...
2025-05-26 19:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 carefully portioning and freezing, I don't think I need to make dinner for the ...
2025-05-23 22:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 kick off the main podcast this week with the new hotness -- or maybe old hotness. ...
2025-05-22 21:40:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 through a World of Warcraft-themed D&D campaign. They disc...
2025-05-20 20:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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 into their village, road is full of risks. For example, did you know a person cou...
2025-05-19 07:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 shiplap. I mean, what do I expect, my Blood Elf joined the Horde and all. But still...
2025-05-16 21:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 much of the preshow. If you'd like to skip it, the preshow ends at 26:08 2025-05-15 20:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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 favorite media. This week they start the discussions with dragons and all their...
2025-05-13 18:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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? Are there more of them? And is the right solution for the entire town to panic?...
2025-05-12 18:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 have to look forward to next week, plus some stuff you may have missed, and then ...
2025-05-09 23:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 one thing that the Oblivion remaster has made everyone want to do is re-d...
2025-05-08 20:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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'Dea, Joe and Matt delve deep to discuss the history of these little critters, fr...
2025-05-07 00:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 is nothing on this earth that tastes better than a tomato you grew yourself. Any...
2025-05-02 22:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 like an onion. Tabletop RPGs also have layers like an onion, especially since we s...
2025-05-01 20:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 dead, or will he be back? Then, in harkening back to a past episode, the connectio...
2025-04-29 18:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 everyone's noses (both literally and metaphorically). But that's not enough for our fin...
2025-04-28 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
