Community Calendar
August 13-18: World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon 2025)
The World Science Fiction Convention, where the Hugo Awards are decided, has a major virtual component this year, including gaming. Would you like to run a Virtual D&D one shot? Pathfinder? Another TTRPG? A Virtual LARP? Maybe running Jackbox is more your speed? Coordinating Board Game Arena?
Show Badges and Tickets: WorldCon 2025
Discord: Sign Up to Run Virtual Games
August 30: Triden Games Summer Event – Online
Running DDEP4: Reclamation of Phlan as part of their lineup!
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/JDB6BYTK9T
DM Sign-Ups: https://forms.gle/D264WZhyYnjCWFXeA
September 19-21: Quest Con Orlando – Orlando, FL
Debut of the Legends of Greyhawk: Lordship of the Isles region!
Show Badges and Tickets: Tabletop Events
DM Sign-Ups: https://forms.gle/7bjvYmRm8asrcYpJ8
Upcoming In-Person Shows
August 29 – September 1: PAX West – Seattle, WA
Show Badges and Information: http://west.paxsite.com/
October 9-12: New York City Comic-Con – New York, NY
Show Badges and Information: https://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
DM Sign-Ups: Coming Soon
November 7-9: Weekend in Highfolk – Online
Replacing the usual Virtual D&D Weekend for November!
Highfolk storyline premiere!
Other Legends of Greyhawk adventures will be running as well.
Home Game in the Cloud
Home Game in the Cloud games has moved away from the Baldman Games Community Discord server, and now has its own Discord server! If you have not already been joined of the new server for HGitC games, please open a ticket in the Community Server and we’ll get you where you need to be!
- Several DMs are running the new Dragon Delves anthology for Home Game in the Cloud!
- DM Kaellie C. is starting up Faster Purple Worm! Everybody Dies Vol. 1!
- DM Spencer N.C. is adding Wyrd Street to the docket, as well as TBD RPG!
- TBD RPG is a different RPG for each session! Sometimes Pathfinder, sometimes Call of Cthulhu, sometimes Honey Heist, and many more!
Premiere Event Pricing
A $2 price increase will apply to Baldman Games created modules during their premiere event – 100% of this surcharge goes directly to the creative team, Baldman Games takes no cut of this surcharge.
This price increase only applies at the premiere event and to certain limited Exclusive adventures, and modules being run during future months or events will run at the standard price.
Premiere modules for this month: BMG-Avishkar-04 – Aetherdrift, and LoG-CORE 1-3 – Ruins of the Moathouse.
Ruins of the Moathouse Exclusivity
LoG-CORE 1-3 – Ruins of the Moathouse was previously only available for people playing in The D&D Experience tracks at in-person conventions. In order to maintain that limited nature, Dragon Marks will be required to unlock the ability to purchase Ruins of the Moathouse tickets. This adventure can also be scheduled as a Red Carpet event.
This adventure will only be available for play at VDDW in August and September!
Commands and requirements to unlock Ruins of the Moathouse with your collected Dragon Marks is available on the Baldman Games Community Discord server, and you can find out more details about how it works here:
https://www.baldmangames.com/log-exclusive/
Bye Bye, Bird!
After August, Bird is flying off to a well-deserved break from being an Admin! Do not fear, Bird will still be around as a player and beloved member of the community. Let’s all celebrate and congratulate Bird for all of her years as an amazing VDDW Admin, and thank her for all of her kindness and service!
August VDDW News
Games Running in August
Legends of Greyhawk
- LoG-CORE-1-S1 – The Battle of Emridy Meadows – A Multi-Table Special
- This is the last time we’ll be running The Battle of Emridy Meadows before it goes back in the vault!
- This is a prequel adventure, that happens seven years before the LoG campaign.
- Played with level 7 one time characters (your own or pre-gens).
- Best played before the other adventures, but works fine later as well.
- LoG-CORE-1-1 – A Village Called Hommlet
- LoG-CORE-1-2 – Darkness in Nulb
- LoG-CORE-1-3 – Ruins of the Moathouse
- A limited run of Ruins of the Moathouse available by spending Dragon Marks or scheduling a Red Carpet event!
Avishkar
- BMG-Avishkar-04 – Aetherdrift
- Including an Author Session with Marik Montalvan!
The grand finale of the Avishkar campaign!
Set in the Magic: The Gathering plane formerly known as Kaladesh, and the birthplace of Chandra Nalaar. No knowledge of this setting is needed to play, but be prepared for a magical world where skilled inventors harness its power for incredible works and artifice.
Read more about it here!
DM-Led Content
DM Carolina Marcos
- DDHC-KGV-09 – Shard of the Accursed
DM Liam James
- RMH-03 – The Amber Dirge
- RMH-05 – Unexpected Hospitality
DM Marik Montalvan
- DDAL 09-19 – Fang and Claw
- DDAL 09-20 – Where Devils Fear to Tread
DM Corgi
- Celebrating Buwan Ng Wika—Filipino Language Month
- Adventures from Brian Balagot and Marik Montalvan
- WBW-DC-ANDL-01 – The Petrified Forest
- WBW-DC-ANDL-02 – The Bleeding Veil
- WBW-DC-ANDL-03 – The Crossings of Fate
DM Kaellie Clein-Cunningham
- WBW-DC-Rook-1-3 – The Rookery: City of the Dead
- WBW-DC-Rook-1-4 – The Rookery: Long Live the Goblins
- WBW-DC-Rook-2-1 – The Rookery: Rapid Resettlement
Author Sessions
Tim Tjiong
- FR-DC-TT-101 – Water Has No Shape – AUTHOR SESSION
Johnny Smith
- One ticket! Two 2-Hour Tier 4 adventures!
- FR-DC-RDP-01 – Vault of the Drow Risen – AUTHOR ONLY
- FR-DC-RDP-02 – The Great Fane of Lolth – AUTHOR ONLY
Jamie Chen (Ennie Award Winner!)
- Waterdeep Series – AUTHOR SESSION Extended Sessions
- FR-DC-WATERDEEP-PCZ – Sweet Dreams are Made of Trees (With Bonus Trees!)
- FR-DC-WATERDEEP-PCZ – Sweet Dreams are Made of Teas (With Extra Teas!)
- Thayan Series
- FR-DC-THAY-03 – The 400 Year Old Thayan
- FR-DC-THAY-04 – What Thayans Want
George Sanders
- Anhult Rise – George’s homebrew campaign setting!
- Anhult Rise: Recover My Arrows – AUTHOR ONLY
- Anhult Rise: Silver Dragon Falls – AUTHOR ONLY
- Anhult Rise: Return of Agcozluk – AUTHOR ONLY
- Dragonlance Trilogy
- DL-DC-SF-2 – Dragonlance: Wulgar’s Champion – AUTHOR ONLY
- DL-DC-SF-3 – Dragonlance: Split or Fuse – – AUTHOR ONLY
Ted’s Tea Corner
Sweetened Iced Tea because he’s resting in a car immediately after GenCon, it quenches thirst, keeps him hydrated, IT’S FINE.
Regular Scheduling Reminders
Events that are removed from rotation are not gone!
Home Game in the Cloud
What is Home Game in the Cloud?: http://baldmangames.com/hgitc/
We’re always looking to add more Home Game in the Cloud experiences, and groups are forming in the Home-Game-Planning forum in the Baldman Games Community Discord server.
Red Carpet
What is the Red Carpet Treatment?: http://baldmangames.com/the-red-carpet-treatment/
Applications for February’s Red Carpet events will be opening sooner than usual due to January’s compressed timeline. Announcements will be made on Discord and social media when applications are available.
Find a group in the #VDDW-Game-Planning forum in the Baldman Games Community Discord server.
Special Requests/Audience Demand
Sometimes we bring things back if it looks like there’s enough demand to make it work! Pull teams together in the #VDDW-Game-Planning forum in the Baldman Games Community Discord server!
Early Bird Badge Giveaway Winners
snooperj – August VDDW badge and two free tickets
ChaosMonkeyBoy – August VDDW badge
RuzgofDI – August VDDW badge
krazyflower – August VDDW badge
dawnofshadows_ – August VDDW badge
Winners, please contact Spencer and Ted at vddw@baldmangames.com
Looking for Free Tickets or Badges?
The first 50 people to claim using the following code will get their badges for free:
[[REDACTED]] – Whoops! Looks like you’ll have to tune into Scry Ahead to find out!
Dragon Marks:
Are those Dragon Marks burning a hole in your pocket? Four Dragon Marks gets you a ticket, starting at 10:00am (Eastern – UTC−05:00) on Tuesday, two hours before tickets normally go on sale! – Command to use Dragonmarks is /usemarks in the Baldman Games Community Discord.
Dungeon Marks:
Dungeon Marks are Dragon Marks earned by running games as a Dungeon Master! You’ll only need one Dungeon Mark to get your early ticket! – Command to use Dungeon Marks is /usemarks in the Baldman Games Community Discord.
Upcoming VDDW News
Dates:
August 15-16, 2025
September 12-14, 2025
October 3-5, 2025
Legends of Greyhawk
LoG at VDDW continues with CORE-1-1 – A Village Called Hommlet, CORE-1-2 – Darkness in Nulb, and the exclusivee runs of CORE-1-3 – Ruins of the Moathouse in August and September only.
A Weekend in Highfolk is coming November 7-9! This is not your usual VDDW, and will focus on the Highfolk region and the Legends of Greyhawk campaign in particular, as well as featuring other interactive events.
Reminder: Plans are only PLANS and are subject to change! The further out we go, the more likely content is to change!
Wrap-Up
August VDDW Dates: August 15-16, 2025
August VDDW Events Grid: https://Baldman.link/VDDW-Grid
3-Month VDDW Events Grid: https://baldman.link/3-Month (will be updated soon!)
Join the BMG Community
- Where to find tickets for VDDW events
- Where to find more info on BMG events
- https://www.baldmangames.com
- Calendar: https://Baldman.link/Calendar
- How to join our Discord community
- Subscribe to our Twitch and Youtube
- Follow us on Social Media
- @baldmangames.bsky.social (Bluesky)
- @BaldmanGames (Twitter)
- @baldmangames (Threads)
- @baldmangames (Instagram)
- https://www.facebook.com/baldmangames (Facebook)