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 this week. So let's stop dawdling in this introduction and get to it!
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 about the new trend in Classic, to use addons to make Hardcore mode even more Hardcore...
2025-10-02 21:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 coming to fruition with Midnight.
They begin by talking about the lore behind elv...
2025-09-30 22:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 will...
2025-09-29 05:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 while trying to not tip off any humans that we are, in fact, a bear, let’s look back at what happ...
2025-09-26 23:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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. If you'd also prefer to avoid the interminable shopping episode, you can jump ahead to 30:23...
2025-09-25 20:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 eating Milly Osgood's grapes in Elwynn Forest to their will, being that they're generally not all that...
2025-09-23 23:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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't either until this game of Outgunned Adventure, in which our party is attempting to surviv...
2025-09-23 00:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
"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 made to do a few hundred times At first it was alright. I did enjoy the ones where I had to find envir...
2025-09-19 23:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 is, as usual, a chaotic ride. I'm not even talking about the spaceships here. Plus, video game movi...
2025-09-18 21:02:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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't let us in on the secret. Can Matt and Joe unravel the mystery posed by our Broker friend? They go ...
2025-09-16 22:54:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 concealed the lost tomb of Erik the Red. (Possibly the reason they're so daring is that they don't know how...
2025-09-15 16:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostDid 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 The Long Dark lately, so I'm back on my nonsense. I'm pretty sure her favorite part so far ...
2025-09-12 23:48:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wanted to discuss it. Liz and Matt have been watching Murderbot, and discussed why the show ...
2025-09-11 20:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 when parents were terrified that every piece of media was making their children evil. Our hosts Matt an...
2025-09-09 22:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 opens with our daring explorers climbing to the top of a mountain in the middle of the ocean near Green...
2025-09-08 20:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 almost Halloween, and I have a need to festoon something in spooky decorations which, unlike my own ho...
2025-09-05 20:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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 themselves into wild and wacky situations when it's least convenient. Perhaps not hippos, but that's a topi...
2025-09-04 21:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 -- specifically that Warlock magic stems from the Titans -- and why that knowledge didn't knock the...
2025-09-02 23:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
On the latest Tavern Watch Podcast, we're excited about Draw Steel, a new game from MCDM that strikes us as spiritual successor to D&D 4e. The game features crunchy combat where a...
2025-09-01 21:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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'm not going to pass up this opportunity for a nutmeg-flavored drink and apple cider donuts.
Wh...
2025-08-29 22:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 from the Expanse series and was shown off quite extensively at gamescom. There was also a lo...
2025-08-28 20:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 parallels between the two organizations. Our hosts Matt and Joe dive deep into both the World of W...
2025-08-26 22:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in the Star Wars universe! When an overwhelmingly powerful fascist Empire threatens tho...
2025-08-24 02:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
While let's look back at what happened this week, what we have to look forward to next week, p...
2025-08-22 23:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 seem as dull as watching concrete dry, but it's more interesting than I'm making it out to be. If you...
2025-08-21 21:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 a whole. They recap some of our adventures on K'aresh, discuss the order of what might be coming, pl...
2025-08-19 16:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in the Star Wars universe! When an overwhelmingly powerful fascist Empire threatens t...
2025-08-18 04:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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) minutes and now every thought has exited my head other than "wow, it's hot."
So while I sit next t...
2025-08-15 22:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 as Liz said, you only have so much space to hold it all. Joe is especially annoyed about how that g...
2025-08-14 20:44:19 +0000 UTC View Post