Description

We say goodbye to Stan Lee. Microsoft makes big RPG moves. We talk Dungeons & Dragons, games of shame and more with special guest Brian Patterson.

WRUP

• Overwatch
• Dead by Daylight
• They Are Billions
• Tetris Effect
• Octopath Traveler
• Pokemon GO
• Mario Tennis Aces

NOTES

• d20Monkey, Brian Patterson's webcomic about gamers, gaming, and life.
  • Karthun: Lands of Conflict, his successful Kickstarter campaign setting published by Evil Hat Productions.
  • Brian on Twitch
• Stan Lee dead at 95
• Scum bug gave players ever-growing dicks
• Microsoft acquires Obsidian, inExile
  • Diablo II: The Awakening
  • Diablo II: Diablerie
  • Diablo II: To Hell and Back
• PlayStation Classic to use open-source emulator PCSX
• Overwatch's Hero 29, Ashe, is live
• Take-Two cagey about RDR2 coming to PC
  • "We were working 100-hour weeks"
• WotC to release a campaign setting book in 2019
  • Planescape
  • Ravenloft
  • Greyhawk
  • Red Steel
  • Dragonlance
    • Cam Banks
  • Dark Sun
  • Al Qadim
    • Al Qadim: Land of Fate
  • Kara-Tur
  • Maztica
• The Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
  • Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
  • Extra Life
• FF XV director Tabata leaves SquareEnix; 2019 DLC cancelled
• Games of Shame
  • Firewatch
  • Sid Meier's Civilization VI
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Elite: Dangerous
    • Fuel Rats Longest Rescue

MUSIC CREDITS

Music for this episode of HammerCast was provided by Purple Planet Music.