Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us as we discuss the leaked info about the D&D Warcraft crossover, newly announced Interview with the Vampire horror TTRPG, The Guild's new movie and TTRPG, and more!

• Seattle-based wild raccoon 'Jimothy' gets official D&D stats
• Dungeons & Dragons’ next major product announcement leaks--and it's WORLD OF WARCRAFT
• Paizo & Archives of Nethys reach new agreement
• Anne Rice's supernatural world is coming to a TTRPG near you
• Chaosium's new book on Lovecraft's INNSMOUTH is the definitive guide
• DC Justice League Unlimited Roleplaying Game
• The Guild's new crowdfunded movie includes a TTRPG

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us as we look at Beadle & Grimm's whopping $500 box set, the Arcana Unleashed backgrounds reveal, Paizo and Archives of Nethys, the latest YouTube million dollar Kickstarter 'Deathbringer', and... Godzilla. Not necessarily in that order.

• Beadle & Grimm's 'Deadfall' set includes minis, posters, and bonus adventures for a whopping $500
• Preview the arcane factions and backgrounds from Arcana Unleashed
• Pathfinder is ending its relationship with Archives of Nethys
• GODZILLA comes to Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying
• He Who Fight Monsters
• Fighting Fantasy Heroes
• Deathbringer TTRPG
• Between Earth and Sky novels are coming to TTRPG courtesy of Monte Cook Games
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us live as we talk about the TON of D&D news which came out this week, including details about Arcana Unleashed, WotC's massive Gen Con schedule, the upcoming Dragonlance novel, a new D&D setting from actor Joe Manganiello, and more! Plus we are joined this week by our friend Mike Shea aka Sly Flourish!

• You can now preorder Arcana Unleashed and Deadfall
• Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall will be Level 11-20 adventure
• WotC confirms the 8 subclasses coming in Arcana Unleashed
• WotC is going ALL OUT on Gen Con this year
• D&D's Gen Con keynote, featuring new announcements, will be livestreamed on YouTube
• Polygon has a short excerpt from the new DRAGONLANCE novel
• Fiends & Foes is a D&D lore book of beasts, villains, and monstrosities from across the planes
• What is the 'Black Label' setting DEATH SAVES by Joe Manganiello?
• Daggerheart is playtesting a Summoner class
• Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster by Mike Shea
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us live as we talk about the 2026 ENnie nominees, D&D Fan Expo postponement, D&D Beyond July Drops, KiwiRPG week 2026, and more!

• London's D&D Fan Expo 2026 has been postponed until next year
• You can now buy Beadle & Grimms' Silver Edition of The Horrors Within for $225
• D&D Beyond July Drop
  • Updates to D&D Beyond site stability
• Merryshire Detective Club's blend of Hobbit and Midsomer is incoming
• New Zealand TTRPG week sale
• Congratulations to the 2026 ENnie nominees!
• Ennie judges
• Time Without Tide
• Dark Conspiracy
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Thank you so much for listening to Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk! But we need your help!

Reporting the weeks tabletop news via the news site and podcast costs money. Please do consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/c/morrus and support with a small monthly donation and help to keep it going!

As a bonus, you'll get access to our patron only monthly live stream. In this hour we’ll have an open Q&A with patrons. We’ll answer your questions and give advice on gaming, publishing, or anything else in the TTRPG sphere!

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join Russ, Jessica, & PJ as live as we talk about the 2026 Diana Jones Award Nominees, the 2026 Origin Award Winners, the first ever union forming at Wizards of the Coast, and more!

• Dungeons & Dragons Encyclopedia announced by Penguin Random House
• Four subclasses confirmed for Arcana Unleashed
• Deceased EN World columnist Rob Weiland among Diana Jones Award nominees
• 2026 Origins Award winners announced
• Magic: The Gathering Arena employees votes for union, a first for Wizards of the Coast
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Thank you so much for listening to Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk! But we need your help!

Reporting the weeks tabletop news via the news site and podcast costs money. Please do consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/c/morrus and support with a small monthly donation and help to keep it going!

As a bonus, you'll get access to our patron only monthly live stream. In this hour we’ll have an open Q&A with patrons. We’ll answer your questions and give advice on gaming, publishing, or anything else in the TTRPG sphere!

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us live as we talk about Free RPG Day, a new unearthed arcana playlist, Vampire The Masquerade on D&D Beyond, and more!

We live record the podcast every Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! You can watch the live recording on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitch every Monday. Lastly, you can read all the news items on www.enworld.org.

Read the news items here

• Free RPG Day

• Dungeons & Dragons posts new Unearthed Arcana Playtest

• Vampire: The Masquerade coming to D&D Beyond

• Dungeons & Dragons announces new reference cards

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Thank you so much for listening to Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk! But we need your help!

Reporting the weeks tabletop news via the news site and podcast costs money. Please do consider becoming a Patron and support with a small monthly donation and help to keep it going! Sign up at www.patreon.com/c/morrus 

As a bonus, you'll get access to our patron only monthly live stream. In this hour we’ll have an open Q&A with patrons. We’ll answer your questions and give advice on gaming, publishing, or anything else in the TTRPG sphere! 

Livestreamed as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! We talk about WotC's and Hasbro's AI plans, Paizo's woes due to the Diamond bankruptcy, and new Transformers, GI Joe, and Power Rangers games from Renegade!

• Wizards of the Coast is hiring a senior AI engineer for customer-facing features
• D&D Beyond enables content sharing for Drops content
• Paizo laying off 12 due to fallout from Diamond's bankruptcy
• Scion 3rd Edition coming from Onyx Path
• Renegade announces new editions of Transformers, GI Joe, and Power Rangers RPGs
• A Comprehensive Guide to TTRPG Art Commissioning & Licensing
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Livestreamed as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us as we talk about the new D&D drops, Hasbro's AI studio plans, the D&D community advisory group, and Neon Odyssey's record breaking campaign!

• D&D Beyond Drops adds four new corrupted angels, three new spells
• D&D Beyond admits that blocking Drops sharing "was not the right decision"
• WotC announces D&D Community Advisory Group
• Celebrate Dungeon Masters Campaign 1 Finale with a Downloadable Background
• Hasbro launches AI studio, allowing third parties to license Hasbro IP
• 'Umdaar' is Fate's take on Masters of the Universe
• Neon Odyssey is now the world’s biggest TTRPG crowdfunder
• Rise of the Lazy GM
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

Livestreaming as always Monday at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern)! Join us live as we talk about the stats for Ravenloft's darklords, talk about this year's UK Games Expo, and more!

• Mysterious D&D book called 'GOLLY' appears on Barnes & Noble
• D&D’s State Of The Game Shows Off ‘Darklords Of Ravenloft’
• Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 remakes reportedly in development
• 2026 was UK Games Expo's biggest year ever
• GURPS Ring of Fire Backerkit
• Handiwork Games The Tyrant Philosophers
• Neon Odyssey closing in on Cosmere’s record
• EN5ider Magazine 2025 Annual

In our third (and final) interview at Mongoose Publishing's HQ we chat to Cassie Gregory (visual designer) and Chris Griffen (lead writer) about the studio's flagship games Traveller, Paranoia, and Shieldmaidens, and upcoming projects like Pioneer and a Dark Conspiracies revamp. They discuss their creative process, visual storytelling, shifting tones between lines, and the wild "frog legs" scale used in Shieldmaidens. It'll make sense when you hear it. Enjoy!