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Routinely Itemised TTRPG news

This is your essential weekly roundup of tabletop roleplaying games news from across the industry. The roleplaying hobby moves at a rapid pace, with a constant stream of news about new games, company announcements, and community-led projects.

Routinely Itemised serves as Geek Native’s curated intelligence briefing on the tabletop news that matters. Each week, we collate the most significant developments, from the latest Dungeons & Dragons updates to breakthrough indie titles on platforms like Itch.io and DriveThruRPG. Consider this your go-to source for a scannable list of headlines and links, ensuring you never miss a critical update in the world of tabletop roleplaying.

DateHeadlineSummaryTopics
06 Jun 2025Routinely Itemised: RPGs #312A new CEO for Chaosium and a new lead designer for D&D? This week's TTRPG...Modiphius Entertainment, shadowdark, star trek adventures, wizards of the coast, World Anvil
08 Apr 2022Routinely Itemised: RPGs #147We can see many exciting bundles, Hasbro hanging on to Wizards of the Coast, and...alice is missing, crowbar creative, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, evil genius productions, First Responders, foundry vtt, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hasbro, Jon Hodgson, just crunch games, Monte Cook Games, mothership, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, realmwarp media, river horse, roll20, sara thompson, Shades of Vengeance, Son of Oak Game Studio, Stargate SG-1, Syrinscape, tales of xadia, the dark eye, the dee sanction, the expanse rpg, The One Ring, the witcher, Ulisses Spiele, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, zombicide
04 Feb 2022Routinely Itemised: RPGs #138A summary of RPGs news from the week Cynthia Williams becomes the boss of D&D...against the darkmaster, Arcadia, beowulf, Chaosium, chris shepperson, corefun, cortex, Cthulhu Mythos, cyberpunk red, Cynthia Williams, dead channel studios, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, Free League Publishing, handiwork games, lion banner games, mindjammer, mindjammer press, mork borg, mothership, nerdburger games, owen k. c. stephens, pathfinder, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, red giant, rookie jet studio, solar echoes, tab creations, the gaia complex, The One Ring, the wildsea, World Anvil
14 Jan 2022Routinely Itemised: RPGs #135A summary of RPGs news from the week with more TSR drama, horror RPGs, killer...arc, awfully queer heroes, Babies and Broadswords, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, coyote & crow, crow land publishing, darrington press, fat dragon games, gallantfunding, goodman games, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, Loke BattleMats, mindjammer press, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, philip reed, roll20, root, Skirmisher Publishing, terminator, They Came From Beyond the Grave, TSR, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, World Anvil
17 Dec 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG...age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory
03 Dec 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129RPG news summarised from the week that's just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions...9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, bandit camp, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dc comics, defiant, dms guild, dndbeyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, Gunnar Roxen, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightfell, Nova, paranoia, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, root, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, World Anvil, xploringmap
18 Jun 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105It's the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in...Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, bloat games, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number
04 Jun 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #103It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in...9th level games, action fiction, adam bradford, age of sigmar, angry hamster publishing, Battlefield Press, beowulf, blood sword, carovea victor, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, czrpg, demiplane, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, Ill Gotten Games, itch.io, jackals, Knight Errant Media, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, mazes, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, osprey games, Owen Stephens, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, Ravenloft, red scar publishing, rogue genius games, roll20, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, the expanse rpg, the oracle, titan effect, traveller, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, venger's decks, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, World Anvil
28 May 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals....Achtung! Cthulhu, adventurers league, black armada, blades in the dark, bloat games, bundle of holding, city of mist, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, daniel kwan, diego pisa artworks, dms guild, drow, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, hero forge, humble bundle, jackals, journey, kingdom, knock!, kobold press, last fleet, Malleus Monstrorum, micro rpg, mighty narwhal productions, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, morra, Nova, philip reed, planescape, Ptolus, realmwarp media, Renegade Game Studios, rifts, roll20, Shawn Tomkin, SLA Industries, Son of Oak Game Studio, the expanse rpg, the troubleshooters, World Anvil
07 May 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #99Roll20 price increase, D&D movie starts to film, and a US court throws out a...apotheosis studios, awfully cheerful engine, broken tales, convergence, Craig Campbell, Creature Curation, cubicle 7, d&d live, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, handimonsters, hasbro, inspirisles, Jonathan Goldstein, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, limitless adventures, nerdburger games, onebookshelf, pathfinder, Ptolus, roll20, soulbound, soulbound starter set, Symbaroum, uk games expo, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, XII: Inner Demons
19 Mar 2021Routinely Itemised: RPGs #92Routinely Itemised: RPGs is an RPG news round-up, and this week we look at the...Achtung! Cthulhu, battleground games, beowulf, burn bryte, candlekeep mysteries, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark alliance, deadlands, Delta Green, en publishing, entromancy, fallout, foundry, Free League Publishing, gen con, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, Legendary Games, liminal, micro rpg, Modiphius Entertainment, neverending, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Polyhedra Games, runequest, savage worlds, severed books, shadows in the mist, sirius dice, starfinder, trollish delver games, uk games expo, w.h. arthur, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, World Anvil, Zadmar Games
18 Dec 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #79A summary of 2020 RPG stats, a round-up of the news, lots of reviews and...AAW Games, alien rpg, Chaosium, cubicle 7, dark crystal, darkraven games, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Free League Publishing, gen con, James Introcaso, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, neon city overdrive, onyx path publishing, Origins Award, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, river horse, soulbound, Steve Jackson Games, talisman, the children of fear, thought police interactive, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory
20 Nov 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #75In the RPG news this week we've a review roundup of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything,...Absolute Tabletop, alice is missing, astral tabletop, awfully cheerful engine, Battlefield Press, blue rose, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, gale force nine, gallant knight games, grant howitt, Indie Press Revolution, itch.io, Keith Baker, liminal, magpie games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mythic table, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, Paradox Interactive, parts per million, Porcupine Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, Steve Jackson Games, Symbaroum, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the children of fear, the fantasy trip, the grinning frog, the oracle, the wildsea, those dark places, traveller, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, world of darkness
13 Nov 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #74In RPG news; it's Friday the 13th, and there are quite a few big books...9th level games, beowulf, carbon 2185, castles & crusades, cawood publishing, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark places & demogorgons, darrington press, defenders of the new century, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, fandom tabletop, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, goodman games, hammerdog games, handiwork games, humblewood, ivan van norman, jonathan hicks, Keith Baker, kobold press, luke gygax, mausritter, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Renegade Game Studios, starfinder, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the witcher, those dark places, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, World Anvil, world of darkness
16 Oct 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #70The latest stats from Roll20, free RPG downloads, new releases, a host of reviews and...Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, black void, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, castles & crusades, Chaosium, Coriolis, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout: wasteland warfare, feng shui, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Greg Stafford, hammerdog games, Into the Mother Lands, JVC Parry, kobold press, Larian Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, neon city overdrive, ontabletop, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, roll20con, soulbound, starfinder, steve jackson, Tekumel, the children of fear, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, tome of beasts, troika, warhammer, wizards of the coast, Wolfgang Baur, World Anvil, Zadmar Games
28 Aug 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #63Another busy RPG news week, but don't worry as Routinely Itemised as everything divided into...9th level games, burn bryte, Celeste Conowitch, Chaosium, core, cubicle 7, darkraven games, deadlands, Dragon Warriors, earl of fife games, en publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, James Introcaso, John Carter of Mars, Ken St Andre, kobold press, liminal, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, rime of the frostmaiden, rogue trooper, roll20, savage worlds, serpent king games, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shannon appelcline, sigil stone publishing, startplaying, sword chronicle, tales from the loop, tasha's cauldron of everything, the lost citadel, the troubleshooters, twilight: 2000, vaesen, warhammer, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, World Anvil, wrath & glory
03 Jul 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D's legacy, too...Alligator Alley Entertainment, astral tabletop, beowulf, Chaosium, cubicle 7, curse of hearts, daniel kwan, dms guild, earthdawn, ENnies, Esper Genesis, fasa, Gary Gygax, GURPS, Jon Hodgson, Justin Achilli, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, luke gygax, Malleus Monstrorum, Massif Press, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rebellion, Steve Jackson Games, vampire, warhammer 40k, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, world of darkness, wrath & glory
19 Jun 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #53The latest news from D&D live, Rime of the Frostmaiden, free downloads and big money...amazing tales, Arc Dream Publishing, Arcanist Press, brancalonia, burn bryte, chronicle system, cubicle 7, cypher system, d&d live, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Fighting Fantasy, foundry, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, keyforge, kings of war, kobold press, legends of avallen, lex arcana, Monte Cook Games, nerdburger games, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, red scar publishing, rime of the frostmaiden, Sandy Petersen, shadows in the mist, soulbound, sword chronicle, the dark eye, those dark places, Tuesday Knight Games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil
12 Jun 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #52A roundup of TTRPG news, including The Rime of the Frostmaiden leak from D&D, virtual...Adam Koebel, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, fiasco, Helmgast, kobold press, kult, magpie games, Monte Cook Games, onyx path publishing, origins online, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, role, the grinning frog, wizards of the coast, World Anvil
05 Jun 2020Routinely Itemised: RPGs #51Routinely Itemised is a look at Paizo Publishing's product timeline, the arrival of Mythic Odysseys...awfully cheerful engine, Crystal Frasier, cubicle 7, curious monk, Green Ronin Publishing, humblewood, kobold press, Legendary Games, midnight tower, Mutants & Masterminds, mythic odysseys of theros, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, Russ Morrissey, Sandy Petersen, soulbound, Steffie de Vaan, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil

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