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Leadership shakeup at Steve Jackson Games echoes the 1990 Secret Service raid
Steve Jackson steps down as CEO of Steve Jackson Games, appointing Sabrina Gonzalez to lead the company through its current tariff and manufacturing challenges.
Why Blizzard is betting on vanilla nostalgia with World of Warcraft: Forever
Blizzard unveils World of Warcraft: Forever, an alternate level 60 timeline launching on 4 November, alongside player backlash over paywalled character races.
Misbehave: Solo and 1-on-1 monster roleplaying games
Hexy Studio’s Misbehave brings tactical solo and 1-on-1 roleplaying gamebooks to Kickstarter, putting players in control of the monsters.
Glass Cannon Unplugged signs Nimble creator Evan Diaz for new roleplaying games
Glass Cannon Unplugged partners with Nimble creator Evan Diaz to build a new range of fast, tactical roleplaying games.
Chaosium’s Time Without Tide RPG Nears $200k on BackerKit
Chaosium trades d100 mechanics for a tactical d6 dice pool in Time Without Tide, a faux-Victorian survival TTRPG currently funding on BackerKit.
Routinely Itemised: RPG #378
Monte Cook Games adapts Black Sun, Munchkin comes to 5.5e, and Tabletop Scotland breaks attendance records in this week’s comprehensive RPG news summary.
Tabletop Scotland breaks 5,000 unique attendee record in Edinburgh
Tabletop Scotland 2026 broke attendance records at the Royal Highland Centre, surpassing 5,000 unique visitors and seeing sharp growth in under-16 gamers.
Munchkin 5.5E RPG brings backstabbing and parody to fifth edition
Lynnvander Studios and Steve Jackson Games adapt Munchkin into a 5.5E tabletop roleplaying game featuring parody subclasses and built-in cheating rules.
Inside Trail of Cthulhu 2E: Kenneth Hite on fixing cosmic madness, resisting rules churn, and occult Edinburgh
Kenneth Hite explains how Trail of Cthulhu 2E fixes madness mechanics, preserves classic campaigns, and frames Edinburgh as an occult sandbox engine.
