Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (10am EDT--but next week UK daylight savings kicks in so it will be 9am EDT! Are you confused, because we are!)
This week we're talking about the new Alien TTRPG on Kickstarter, a Battletech cookbook (yes, really), and Brittannia Games' upcoming Paksworld RPG.
- Pathfinder Teases New Runelords Content
- ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter
- BattleTech Cookbook Heads To Retail
- Paksworld RPG Based On Elizabeth Moon's Novels
- Kobold Press’ Heroic Hoard Of 5E Power
- Alliance Entertainment To Acquire Diamond Assets
- Free5e: A Free Open-Source Dungeons and Dragons Alternative
- It's Over- The Second Circuit Bench Slaps LaNasa
- Machines in the Deep: Mechanical Wonders for 5E

Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Back after a week off (our first ever?) we'll be talking about D&D's Project Sigil cancellation, THREE new million-dollar crowdfunders, increasing print-on-demand print costs, and more! Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (10am EDT)!
- DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Going Up By As Much As 50% In The US
- New Ravenloft Novel Heir of Strahd Coming Soon
- Shadowdark Setting Looks Set To Be 2025's First Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder
- Score +2 For Million Dollar Crowdfunders!
- Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder Club
- Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game
- The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web
- Castle Zagyg Galleries of the Arch Mage
- One HONK Two Furious: A Goose-Based TTRPG
- Paizo New Releases and Women's History Month Sale
- 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off
- Has Wizards of the Coast Given Up on Sigil?
- Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development
- Proposed Texas Law Could Ban RPGs In Schools
- The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
- The ‘Dragonlance’ Humble Bundle Gives You The Entire Trilogy Plus 23 More Books
- This Year’s Origin Awards RPG Finalists are Absolute Powerhouses: ‘Yazeba’, ‘Cowboy Bebop’, and More

Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Episode Break: Catch Us Live Next Week!
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Hi, folks! There's no show this week, as two of the three of us are away, but we'll be back to normal next week. Don't forget we livestream the show on YouTube every Friday at 2pm UK time... but not this week. See you all on the 21st!

Friday Mar 07, 2025
338 | Heroes of the Borderlands, Terraforming Mars, You Are A Frog
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
In this week's news we'll be covering the upcoming D&D starter set, the Terraforming Mars Kickstarter, a new Warhammer RPG, and more!
Join us live at 2pm UK time (9am EST) or catch up later on YouTube!
- What's In D&D's New Starter Set?
- Take A Deeper Look At The New D&D Starter Set's Card-Based Characters
- Ernie Gygax Has Passed Away
- ‘Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting’ – This Monster Hunter Themed Splatbook Comes to D&D Beyond
- Brennan Lee Mulligan and Celia Rose Gooding on EXU: Divergence
- Cubicle 7 Announces New Horus Heresy RPG for Warhammer
- Matt Mercer, Felicia Day Play Pathfinder in Charity Stream
- You Are A Frog TTRPG
- Popular Board Game Terraforming Mars Gets TTRPG
- Level Up Gateway March Dev Update

Friday Feb 28, 2025
337 | Dragonmarks, Sigil, Dragon Delves & Potato Heads
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (9am Eastern)! In this week's news we'll be covering the new Eberron-themed UA playtest, D&D's Sigil 3D VTT launch, Dragon Delves covers, and more! Join us live or catch up later on YouTube!
- D&D Launches New Eberron-Themed Playtest, With Dragonmarked Feats
- Sigil, Wizards of the Coast's VTT, Officially Launches
- Full Cover Treatments for Dragon Delves Revealed
- D&D Marilith Is Far More Bestial In 2025
- Teased Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Supplement Crosses Magic: the Gathering and D&D
- Dimension 20 Crosses Over With WWE For New Season
- WizKids Announces Potato Head Beholder Miniature
- D&D: ‘Dungeons of Drakkenheim’ Gets a New Adventure On D&D Beyond
- Pathfinder Gets A New CRPG...Sort Of
- Invincible RPG Announced by Free League
- Secrets of the Grave: Undead Monstrosities & Spells of Decay

Friday Feb 21, 2025
336 | Riverbank Cozy RPG, Solasta 2, WoD Creative Director, Shadowrun
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
There's no official D&D news this week--for the first time ever? But we have plenty of other tabletop RPG news to delve into! Plus some unrelated rants about James Bond and stuff, for reasons. And don't forget we record live every Friday at 2pm UK time/9am Eastern. Join us live or catch up later on YouTube!
- ‘Solasta 2’ Set To Bring Even More D&D Vibes To Your PC – Demo Around The Corner
- Kobold Press Announces 'Cosy' RPG Riverbank
- New Shadowrun Fiction Anthology, Looking for Submissions
- Creative Director – World of Darkness
- Patreon Survey of creators
- Tabletop Arts Fund
- Alice in Wonderland by Alippio
- Dungeon Scrawl
- Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project
- Planestrider’s Journal Now Available!
- What’s the Companions Compendium?
- Bleak Expectations: A Dickensian Adventure for 12th Level Characters

Friday Feb 14, 2025
335 | D&D 2024 Monster Manual Deep Dive With Guest Mike Shea
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
We're joined this week by special guest Mike Shea, aka Sly Flourish, who delves deep into the new D&D Monster Manual--he has thoughts and feelings!
- Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action TV Show in the Works at Netflix
- Evil Drow Statblocks to Return in Forgotten Realms Rulebooks Later This Year
- Dungeons & Dragons Dumps Disclaimers From Book Credits Page
- Critical Role to Air Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries
- Marvel Multiverse RPG Getting an Avengers Expansion
- Possum Creek Joins Steve Jackson Games as New RPG Imprint
- Fighting Fantasy - Solo Adventure Gamebooks - Back In Print!
- Pirouette - A Ballet Horror TTRPG
- The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web

Friday Feb 07, 2025
334 | Monster Manual, Dark Tower, Mearls Says D&D Is Uncool Now
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
PJ is back with us this week after playing 52 hours of games at a convention, so the three of us cover the latest TTRPG news, Mike Mearls' interview with Ben Riggs, and some stuff about a book about monsters. And don't forget we are now streaming live every Friday at 2pm UK time (9am ET)--join us live on YouTube!
- Monster Manual Errata – [list]
- Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual
- Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"
- 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis
- Mike Mearls: "I Was Not Fired From D&D"
- Sigil, WotC 3D vtt game automation no more?
- Orcs. etc. no longer have their own stat blocks, instead refer to NPC stats
- Are Orcs in the Monster Manual? No and Yes.
- Dark Tower Gets The Deluxe Director’s Cut Treatment From Goodman Games
- CMON to Publish 5E Books For Massive Darkness
- Pathfinder 2E to Add Jotunborn Ancestry in Battlecry
- Pathfinder 2E’s ‘Guns & Gears Remastered’ Launches Tomorrow
- Diana Jones Emerging Designer Submissions Open
- Exalted Funeral And Crowbar Creative Announce New 'Monty Python RPG' Release Date
- Green Ronin 25th Anniversary Kickoff
- The Night Watch, now in English

Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
PJ is away this week but we delve into all the latest D&D news...and some news that isn't D&D! Plus Russ has a new watch. And don't forget we are now streaming live every Friday at 2pm UK time (9am ET)--join us live on YouTube!
- Why Dungeons & Dragons Isn't Putting Out a Campaign Book in 2025
- Dungeons & Dragons Teases New Campaign Settings
- D&D Adds Two New Books to 2025 Slate, Including New Eberron Book
- Circle Casting Coming in Forgotten Realms Player's Guide
- New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses
- Hold Back the Dead - Free Digital D&D Adventure Coming 4th Feb
- Fey Video
- Giants Video
- Celestials Video
- Critical Role To Wrap Up Third Campaign, New Exandria Unlimited Miniseries Announced
- Universal Fan Fest Nights Officially Announces Dungeons & Dragons: Secrets of Waterdeep
- Dungeons & Dragons Comments On Possibility of Future Movie Projects
- The Fallbacks Are Getting Another D&D Novel
- Legacy of Kain Is Getting a TTRPG
- ENnies To Ban Generative AI From 2025
- December 20 Proposed as National d20 Day: A Celebration of Creativity, Community, and the Iconic Twenty-Sided Dice
- Cats! The Conspurracy TTRPG
- Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More: Worldbuilding

Friday Jan 24, 2025
332 | Gith No Longer Humanoids, EGG Threatens To Sue Us, ENnies A.I. Policy
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Morrus, Jessica, and PJ are back to discuss the week's tabletop RPG news, how they're getting sued (or not), and a new direction for D&D's githyanki and githzerai! And don't forget we are now streaming live every Friday at 2pm UK time (9am ET)--join us live on YouTube!
- Dungeons & Dragons Gets Its Own Horrified Board Game
- The Gith Are Now Aberrations in Dungeons & Dragons
- Monster Vault 2: Deadly Creatures for 5E D&D and TOV from Kobold Press
- Platinum Play - Platys
- Griot Anthology
- Paranormal Power 5E Psionics now PWYW
- Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press And Then Adds Legal Threats