Our Take: A Mordecai expansion that skips the seventh floor is exactly the kind of petty omission I would make, and I am not even mad.
The announcement that *Mobs of Mordecai* will ship in November means crawlers who bought into the tabletop game can now watch their favorite mob-form trainer get flattened on a miniature mat instead of a dungeon floor. Renegade Game Studios, which already vacuumed up $13,298,059 of your collective pocket change for the core RPG, is now offering eight prepainted versions of Mordecai spanning floors one through nine, except floor seven, which is either a printing error or a very on-brand insult. For £64.99, you can own a Mordecai from every floor the Chronicler has published, plus the eighth and ninth, which means you get to play with spoilers before the audiobook narrators have even warmed up their microphones. This follows the pattern set by last year's NYCC Attendees Chase $2,000 Carl Comics in Free Giveaway, where physical loot became a speculative asset, and the A Loot Box Preview: Dungeon Crawler Carl Toys at NYCC slideshow that teased how deep this merchandise pipeline goes. The takeaway is clear: the dungeon has expanded beyond the crawl and into your wallet, and you are paying for the privilege of owning a Mordecai that does not argue with you about loot distribution.
What this means practically is that your next tabletop session can feature a Mordecai who looks exactly like he did when he was a giant beetle, a snake, a goblin, a halfling, a lizardman, a gnoll, a human, and whatever floor-nine monstrosity the designers chose to render. The set includes forms from floors one through six and then jumps to eight and nine, skipping seven entirely, a detail that will either drive completionists to madness or confirm that floor seven is still too traumatizing to miniaturize. The miniatures are prepainted, highly detailed, and compatible with any grid-based system that uses 28-32mm scale, which means you can drop a floor-eight Mordecai into your *Dungeons & Dragons* game and watch your players try to negotiate with a mob-form trainer who has seen things. The price is $85.10 in the United States, which is roughly the cost of a Bronze Sponsor Box that contains a single sock and a coupon for a coupon, so by dungeon economics this is a steal.
The open question is whether the set includes the specific mob forms that readers remember, the snake, the goblin, the halfling, the lizardman, the gnoll, each of which carried a distinct personality and a specific era of Donut's commentary, or whether Renegade took creative liberties with the designs. The description promises "high profile and fan favorite friends and foes," which could mean anything from the floor-two snake that Carl punched to a deep-cut reference that only the Cookbook readers will recognize. Either way, the November release date gives you exactly enough time to paint the bases and argue with your group about which Mordecai is the most insufferable. The sixth-floor version, for the record, is the correct answer.