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The Weekly LIVE 299 – Warframe Starfinder, Hellfire Club 5E, One Ring Starter and Critical Role Game

Posted on July 27, 2025 by upturnedtable

Warframe is making its tabletop debut through a collaboration between Digital Extremes and Paizo, bringing the popular video game to the Starfinder Second Edition rules system. “Operation Orias” launches in October as a standalone adventure where players take on the roles of Tenno characters, facing off against iconic Warframe enemies like the Corpus and Grineer. The adventure is designed for 4-6 hours of gameplay and includes premade characters, setting primers, and customization advice, all adapted specifically for tabletop play.

Stranger Things is getting another D&D crossover with “Welcome to the Hellfire Club,” releasing October 7th. This new starter set presents Eddie Munson’s final campaign and uses D&D 5th Edition rules in a more board game-like format with tokens and cards for easier accessibility. Priced at $49.99 for the physical version ($19.99 digital), it’s positioned as a beginner-friendly entry point that leans heavily into ’80s nostalgia and includes both classic D&D monsters and Stranger Things-specific creatures like demodogs and a new demodragon.

The Lord of the Rings tabletop RPGs are launching new starter sets on July 31st during Gen Con 2025. Free League Publishing is releasing starter sets for both “The One Ring” and “The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E,” each priced at $29.99. These sets include the complete adventure “Over Hill and Under Hill,” custom dice, illustrated standees, pre-generated characters, and maps of Eriador, designed to welcome both newcomers and returning players to Middle-earth adventures set between Bilbo’s journey and the events of The Lord of the Rings.

Critical Role is expanding into video games through a partnership with AdHoc Studio. The collaboration includes two projects: contributing to AdHoc’s superhero workplace comedy game “Dispatch” (releasing later in 2025) and developing Critical Role’s first original video game set in their Exandria world. The Exandria game is still in early development with a timeline of a couple years, aiming for a narrative choice-based experience that could feature characters from their various campaigns in a brand-new storyline set between their main campaigns.

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The Weekly LIVE 298 – Dragonbane Minis, Former WotC VP, Diamond Details and New D&D Starter Set

Posted on July 20, 2025 by upturnedtable

Free League Publishing’s Dragonbane TTRPG is getting a new miniatures collection through a Kickstarter campaign by Titan Forge. The Northern Beasts miniatures sets will feature heroes and adversaries from the Dragonbane Core Set and Bestiary, with each set including original mini-adventures. The miniatures are noted for their high detail and quality, with the Demons Set being particularly impressive. Dragonbane itself is a modern re-imagining of the 1982 Scandinavian game Drakar och Demoner, offering a gritty, Nordic fantasy experience with a retro Saturday morning cartoon vibe.

Jess Lanzillo, former VP of franchise and product for D&D, has joined White Wolf as creative director for World of Darkness after leaving Wizards of the Coast. This follows the departure of other senior D&D figures like Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford. The exodus from D&D comes amid broader struggles at Hasbro, including massive layoffs, failed product launches, and the loss of key talent who helped make projects like Baldur’s Gate 3 successful.

The Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy has revealed a complex auction process filled with controversy. Alliance Entertainment (AENT) initially won the auction with a bid over $70 million, but Diamond rejected them in favor of backup bidders Universal Distribution and Ad Populum for approximately $2.5 million less. Court transcripts reveal the rejection came down to a one-hour delay in resolving a dispute over $4.3 million in prepaid inventory. AENT’s legal team claimed “the fix was in” and that they had agreed to all of Diamond’s demands, but Diamond proceeded with the backup bidders anyway. The situation has resulted in ongoing lawsuits and significant disruption to the comic book distribution industry.

Wizards of the Coast has announced Heroes of the Borderlands, a new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set launching September 16, 2025, for $49.99. This comprehensive set is designed for the updated 2024-2025 D&D rules and includes everything needed for new players to start playing immediately. The box contains 40-60 hours of gameplay content, including three adventure booklets, over 200 game cards, 18 maps, 200+ tokens, an 11-die set, and guides for both players and Dungeon Masters. The set focuses on four iconic D&D classes (Cleric, Rogue, Wizard, and Fighter) and is being marketed as the biggest D&D starter set ever made.

#dragonbane #wotc #starterset #diamondbankruptcy

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The Weekly Podcast no.297 – Degenesis Cancelled, MAC Attack, McD&D and Dirty Diamond

Posted on July 14, 2025 by upturnedtable

CMON, already struggling financially with a $3 million loss last year, suffered another major setback when its Gamefound campaign for Degenesis: Clan Wars was cancelled due to a legal dispute with IP holder SixMoreVodka. The German design studio terminated its contract with CMON after what began as a collaborative relationship deteriorated into legal battles, with both parties providing conflicting accounts of the breakdown. CMON has promised full refunds to the campaign’s 1,200 backers, though the refund process won’t begin until after legal resolution.

MAC Attack is a sci-fi miniature wargame by by Chris MacDowall where players command Mobile Armour Colossus (MAC) units and auxiliary units (AUs) in tactical combat across diverse terrain types including Open, Rough, Cover, Water, Obstructions, Barriers, and Buildings on a typical 48″x36″ battlefield. The game uses six-sided dice for general actions and specialized dice for Motion, Heat, Jolt, and Rad weapons, with MACs requiring careful Heat management to avoid overheating while maintaining Motion ratings that affect hit probability. Combat unfolds through four phases—Move, Attack, Meltdown, and Cooldown—with a card-based initiative system determining activation order, while players must strategically balance weapon usage (categorized by range, type, and power levels 1-4) against Heat generation. Forces must include at least 3 MACs and up to 1 AU formation per MAC, with AUs serving as supporting infantry or vehicle units that are always Motion 2, class 0, and destroyed by a single hit, while faction selection provides access to special rules and modules for tactical advantage.

Wizards of the Coast has restructured Dungeons & Dragons under a new “franchise model” led by former Halo veteran Dan Ayoub. This organizational change consolidates all D&D-related properties—books, video games, film, and TV—under one roof, promising a more coordinated and well-funded approach to the franchise. The gaming industry continues to navigate these challenges while seeking alternative distribution channels and legal remedies to protect their businesses.

The tabletop gaming industry is facing significant disruption due to Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January 2025. This bankruptcy has severely impacted over 100 independent publishers who relied on Diamond for book trade distribution to major retailers like Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other bookstores. Diamond is attempting to claim ownership of millions of dollars worth of consigned inventory from publishers through a legal technicality, despite the publishers retaining ownership of unsold stock. Several publishers are taking different approaches to survive the crisis. Green Ronin Publishing has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $9,000 for legal defense costs, having already raised over $6,600 from 101 donations. The company faces particular challenges with upcoming Gen Con expenses and the loss of book trade distribution for key licensed games like The Fifth Season and The Expanse RPGs. Meanwhile, Paizo has stopped shipping products to Diamond entirely, meaning their August and September releases won’t be available through major bookstores or Amazon.

#degenesis #CMON #MACattack #diamondbankruptcy

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The Weekly Podcast no.296 – AI Wins, Giantlands Explodes, Rebel Scum Removed and RPG Megabundle

Posted on July 6, 2025 by upturnedtable

Meta’s first significant legal victory in a federal copyright case, where Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that the company did not violate copyright law when training its AI models on 13 authors’ books without permission. While the judge acknowledged that AI training is “transformative” and constitutes fair use, he emphasized that this ruling was narrow and specifically noted that “in many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission.” The decision followed a similar ruling favoring Anthropic, though legal experts noted Chhabria’s particular focus on market harm as a key factor in determining fair use.

Stephen E. Dinehart IV, founder of Wonderfilled and creator of the tabletop RPG GiantLands. Dinehart engaged in inflammatory rhetoric on social media, attacking Trump supporters and making controversial statements about race and the future of white people. His comments escalated from declaring that GiantLands was set in a future without the USA or white people to more extreme statements like “You’ll just be bred out of existence” directed at white critics. Dinehart admitted his business had been struggling for two years and expressed hostility toward his potential customer base, ultimately disavowing game design entirely.

DriveThruRPG’s delisted “Rebel Scum,” an anti-fascist tabletop RPG published by 9th Level Games. The game, which had been available since 2021, was removed in August 2024 after customer complaints about its politically charged foreword that explicitly promoted violence against “Republicans” and included statements like wanting to “punch a spacenazi right in their stupid, jackbooting, spacenazi face.” DriveThruRPG defended their decision by explaining that while they support anti-fascist content, the game’s foreword crossed their guidelines by promoting real-world violence against a broad political group. The publisher chose to withdraw the title rather than edit the controversial content.

A major Humble Bundle deal featuring 57 tabletop RPGs worth $1,200 for just $40. The “Roll Big or Go Home” bundle includes major titles like Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk Red, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and numerous indie RPGs such as Spire, The Wildsea, and Root: The Roleplaying Game. The bundle represents a 97% discount and includes core rulebooks for many popular non-D&D systems, with proceeds supporting Extra Life and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

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The Weekly Podcast no.295 – Asmodee Profits, Tomb Raider Cancelled, Mausritter SRD and More Daggerheart

Posted on June 30, 2025 by upturnedtable

Board game giant Asmodee reported a razor-thin profit of just $5.46 million for 2024-25, despite generating $1.59 billion in revenue. The company’s financial troubles stem from massive debt obligations inherited from its former parent company Embracer Group. Asmodee paid out $107 million in financial expenses, primarily interest payments on a $1.06 billion bridging loan and subsequent bonds. While the company has improved its debt-to-earnings ratio from 3.9 to 2.3 times, its profit margin remains alarmingly narrow at just 0.3% of revenue.

Evil Hat Publishing announced the cancellation of their official Tomb Raider tabletop RPG due to creative differences with the licensor. The game, titled “Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth,” was set to feature team-based gameplay where players would control Truth Seekers working alongside Lara Croft. This marks another failed attempt at bringing Tomb Raider to tabletops, following Square Enix’s own troubled RPG project that began in 2021. Evil Hat plans to retool their work into a standalone game with an original setting.

The creators of Mausritter released their complete ruleset under a Creative Commons license as a free System Reference Document (SRD). This mouse-themed RPG, inspired by works like Redwall and Mouse Guard, allows players to control brave mice adventuring in a dangerous world. The comprehensive SRD includes everything from basic rules to hexcrawl creation tools, and is available both as a downloadable markdown file and browseable website, enabling creators to build tools and modifications for the system.

Critical Role’s Daggerheart RPG released new playtest content including two additional classes: the Witch and the Assassin. The Witch focuses on hexing enemies and communing with supernatural entities, while the Assassin specializes in ambush tactics and extra damage dice. The playtest also introduced six new ancestries (earthkin, tidekin, emberkin, skykin, Aetheris, and gnomes) and six new communities, expanding character creation options. All content is available through “The Void,” Daggerheart’s dedicated playtesting platform.

#asmodee #tombraider #mausritter #daggerheart

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The Weekly Podcast no.294 – Chris and Jeremy HIred, Galactic & Going Rogue, Defying the Gods and White Wolf is Back

Posted on June 22, 2025 by upturnedtable

Critical Role Productions has made a significant power play by hiring Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, two of the most influential designers behind Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th edition success. Both served as creative director and game director respectively at Wizards of the Coast for decades before departing in April 2025. Their recruitment to Critical Role’s Darrington Press division represents a major shift in the tabletop RPG landscape, coming just weeks after Darrington Press launched Daggerheart, their own alternative to D&D. This move is part of Critical Role’s broader expansion from web series into a full entertainment company spanning cartoons, comics, video games, and now tabletop game publishing. The departure of Perkins and Crawford appears to be part of a larger exodus from Wizards of the Coast’s D&D team. Following their April exit, several other high-profile figures have left the company, including VP of D&D Franchise Jess Lanzillo and content marketing strategist Todd Kenreck, who was laid off. This turnover comes at a critical time as WotC faces criticism over D&D 2024’s revised rulebooks, which many players and critics argue fail to address fundamental issues with the 5th edition system while actually making some problems worse. The timing raises questions about potential internal turmoil at the company that publishes “the world’s greatest role-playing game.”

Galactic & Going Rogue combines two beloved space rebellion RPGs into a single hardcover third edition, drawing inspiration from Star Wars, Rogue One, and Andor. The games focus on rebels fighting against a fascist galactic empire called The Mandate as part of The Liberation. Galactic tells stories of charming but flawed heroes and their relationships, while Going Rogue explores darker themes where characters are fated to make ultimate sacrifices for freedom. Both games use the GM-less Belonging Outside Belonging system with innovative mechanics including “pillars” that represent setting aspects and token-based gameplay.

Defy the Gods is a sword and sorcery RPG set in fantasy ancient Mesopotamia that queers the genre by centering romance and resistance. Players take on roles like Revenants, Sailors, Sorcerers, and other archetypes while building their own world of gods, cities, and wilderness. The game features a unique three-tier success system where rolling too high can be dangerous, and characters risk losing their humanity as they gain power through “Epithets” that can transform into “Dooms.” Romance serves as both protection and vulnerability, with emotional connections being key to survival against hostile world forces including pantheons of gods and oppressive cities. The campaign was successfully funded and includes stretch goals for additional content.

Paradox Interactive announced the revival of the White Wolf brand as the official licensing and publishing entity for World of Darkness properties including Vampire: The Masquerade. This marks a return for the influential brand that was shuttered in 2018 following controversy over insensitive content. Led by veterans including Jason Carl, the revived White Wolf aims to unify its transmedia properties and develop both classic and new IPs with a clearer long-term vision, representing another significant shift in how major gaming properties are managed and developed.

#darringtonpress #wotc #galactic #goingrogue #whitewolf

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The Weekly Podcast no.293 – CMON Sells Zombicide, Warhammer Down, WotC Help Wanted and New Chaosium CEO

Posted on June 15, 2025 by upturnedtable

CMON, already facing financial difficulties exacerbated by import tariffs, has sold its flagship Zombicide IP to Asmodee under the Guillotine Games label. This follows CMON’s earlier sale of three other prominent board game lines (Blood Rage, Rising Sun, and ANKH: Gods of Egypt) to Tabletop Tycoon in May, along with staff layoffs and frozen crowdfunding campaigns. The company’s stocks were delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange after failing to publish accounts on time, showing substantial losses that drained cash reserves.

Games Workshop took the unusual step of deliberately crashing its entire Warhammer.com webstore to prevent bots from bulk-purchasing the limited special edition of the new Horus Heresy book “Era of Ruin.” The company detected scalpers using bots to bypass normal safeguards in real-time and shut down the site globally, pausing the book’s launch entirely. This drastic measure is uncommon for large-scale web stores and demonstrates GW’s commitment to preventing scalping, even at the cost of lost sales and resources.

Following the departures of prominent D&D figures Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins after the launch of revised 5th Edition, Wizards of the Coast is hiring for two high-level positions: a “Principal Game Designer” and a “Head of Game Ecosystem.” These roles, offering $150-200k salaries, represent a corporate, video game-industry-like division of responsibilities where the Principal Game Designer executes product releases while the Head of Game Ecosystem drives long-term vision and rules consistency across all D&D formats.

Chaosium announced significant staff changes, including the appointment of Neil Robinson as CEO and the departure of Executive Producer Mike Mearls to Asmodee after 14 months. Brian Holland has been promoted to Executive Producer for RPGs, while other team members have taken on expanded roles including Jason Durall moving to Basic Roleplaying as creative director and several new hires joining the company. Despite the changes, Mearls will continue working on ongoing projects including the new RuneQuest edition.

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The Weekly Podcast no.292 – New Dragonbane Books, Ironsworn Loadstar, More D&D Videogames and Asmodee Rebrand

Posted on June 8, 2025June 15, 2025 by upturnedtable

Free League Publishing has launched a successful Kickstarter campaign for two new supplements to their award-winning Dragonbane fantasy RPG. The campaign features “Arkand: City of Waves and Flames,” which introduces players to a seaside city setting with over a dozen adventure sites, complete with a full-color map. The second supplement, “Book of Magic,” adds new schools of magic including harmonism, demonology, necromancy, witchcraft, and illusionism, along with additional spells for existing magical schools. The campaign has already raised over $455,000, far exceeding its initial $26,064 goal with 21 days remaining.

A new comprehensive reference guide called “Lodestar” has been released for the popular solo-friendly fantasy RPG Ironsworn. This 99-page streamlined reference includes essential rules, character creation guides, oracle tables, and content from the Delve expansion all in one convenient format. What makes this particularly notable is that players can download the PDF for free or pay what they want, with print-on-demand versions available at cost, making it an accessible resource for both new and existing players of the Powered-by-the-Apocalypse framework game.

Wizards of the Coast has announced a partnership with Giant Skull, a new studio led by former Respawn director Stig Asmussen (known for the Star Wars Jedi series and God of War games). The collaboration will produce a single-player action-adventure game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, marking what appears to be a strategic shift away from multiplayer formats following previous disappointments. The game is currently in development for PC and console platforms, with Asmussen promising “immersive storytelling, heroic combat, and exhilarating traversal.”

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, major tabletop publisher Asmodee has unveiled a comprehensive rebrand featuring a new logo and consumer-focused identity with the tagline “Inspired by Players.” The company, which publishes popular games like Ticket to Ride, CATAN, 7 Wonders, and Star Wars: Unlimited, developed the new branding with Publicis Groupe’s Carré Noir design agency. CEO Thomas Koegler explained that the rebrand aims to make Asmodee more visible and recognizable to players directly, strengthening their relationship with consumers while maintaining their reputation for quality across their portfolio of over 400 intellectual properties and 21 studios.

#dragonbane #ironswornrpg #giantskull #asmodee

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