The latest roleplaying game news, TTRPG reviews, and new releases. This week covers Critical Role’s new campaign, D&D updates, and a host of crowdfunders.
Routinely Itemised: RPG #328
This week’s TTRPG news: Roll20Con 2025, Diamond bankruptcy latest, Paizo’s new store, Itch.io publisher payments, a rare auction, and the RPG Publisher Spotlight deadline.
Critical Role’s Daggerheart expands with high-profile designers, a new Kickstarter, and actual play partners
During its panel at Gen Con today, Critical Role’s publishing arm, Darrington Press, unveiled a significant expansion for its new fantasy roleplaying game, Daggerheart.
The Daggerheart problem? Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford join Darrington Press
Chris Perkins, ex-Game Design Architect and Creative Director for D&D at Wizards of the Coast (he was there for 28 years) and Jeremy Crawford, ex-Game Director and former Co-Lead Designer for D&D 5e, have joined Darrington Press. Both left Wizards of the Coast around April.
D&D’s Game Director departs; Jeremy Crawford to leave Wizards of the Coast
Following the surprise news that Chris Perkins is retiring at the age 57, leaving Wizards of the Coast, D&D’s Games Director, Jeremy Crawford, is also leaving.
Mighty Impel: D&D’s playtesting Giant Options lets you hurl Halflings
Unearthed Arcana: Giant Options is a new and official D&D playtest that focuses on giants.
New D&D books confirmed: 50th-anniversary editions in 2024 and Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse in 2022
At Wizard of the Coast’s D&D Celebration tonight, during The Future of D&D, a panel issues with Ray Winninger, Liz Schuh, Chris Perkins, and Jeremy Crawford has confirmed new D&D books.
Strixhaven will impact D&D design for years to come as controversial subclasses are dumped
The Unearthed Arcana playtest did the job we asked it to do. Occasionally, we put some very experimental things in front of D&D fans and ask them if they want to see more of it.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #76
In the RPG news this week we’ve big news from Pinnacle and Savage Worlds, we discover which project Wizards of the Coast are working on for D&D that will take years and a look at the latest reviews, releases and interviews.
What’s going on with Eberron: Rising from the Last War?
Wizards are listening to concerned feedback on the cover of the unexpected new Eberron book.
