The fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 in 2024, and Wizards of the Coast decided to celebrate the significant anniversary with an unusual collaboration.
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As it turns out, Wizards of the Coast has teamed up with Royal Mail, the UK’s postal operator, to release a line of themed stamps in honor of the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons.
A total of 14 brands are announced:
- Eight with monsters – Vecna, Owlbear, Mimic, Elusive Beast, Gelatinous Cube, Beholder, Mind Flayer and Red Dragon;
- Six with heroes – a tiefling rogue, a dragonborn wizard, an elf warrior, a human bard, a dwarf paladin and a halfling priest.
British artist Wayne Reynolds, known, among other things, for his work in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, is responsible for the illustrations for the stamps (you can check them out in the gallery below).
Pre-order of stamps is already available in the official UK Royal Mail store: a set with heroes will cost £8.10 (about 930 rubles), and for monsters you will have to pay £15.40 (1,770 rubles). Expected to go on sale July 25.
In addition to standard sets, Royal Mail offers many other products based on the collaboration: postcards, collector’s albums, poster versions of stamps costing up to £150 (17.1 thousand rubles).
The first edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released in 1974. The franchise’s 50th anniversary celebration kicked off in March and will include mechanics from Baldur’s Gate 3 being introduced into the official rules.