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The Weekly Podcast no.309 – Warhammer 5th Edition, Dragonbane: Trudvang, Pendragon Anniversary and Designers & Dragons Origins

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Cubicle 7 is launching a new 5th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) in 2026, coinciding with the game’s 40th anniversary. The new edition, described as an “evolution, not a revolution,” will retain the D100 system and focus on standardizing rules and streamlining peripheral subsystems while maintaining backward compatibility with 4th edition supplements. Dominic McDowall, Head of Creative and Design, highlighted the intention to make the game “a little more deadly” and confirmed a new mega-campaign is in the works.

Free League Publishing announced Dragonbane: Trudvang, a new game world and setting for their Dragonbane RPG, launching on Kickstarter in early 2026. This massive setting, rooted in Nordic mythology, will feature four hardback volumes: a World Book, a Book of Heroes, Jorgi’s Bestiary, and The Black Sun epic campaign. Dragonbane: Trudvang is a licensed product from CMON and will feature art from Paul Bonner and Alvaro Tapia.

Chaosium is also celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pendragon with a Kickstarter for a Pendragon Classic Edition deluxe boxed set. This faithful recreation of the 1st edition includes the original 1985 cover art, a Player Book, a Gamemaster book, a map, play aids, and pregenerated character sheets. The campaign also offers expansions like The Pendragon Campaign, The Grey Knight, and Tournament of Dreams.

Evil Hat Productions has a Kickstarter for Designers & Dragons: Origins, a four-volume set by historian Shannon Appelcline. This new series chronicles the history of over 300 products released by TSR for Original D&D, Advanced D&D 1e, and Basic D&D from 1971 to 1995. The ~1400-page set will be released as a deluxe hardcover box set with full-color interiors, ribbon bookmarks, and a custom slipcase, with a projected delivery date of July 2026. Due to shipping complexities, physical books will only be shipped to the USA, with international backers offered PDF, ePub, and print-on-demand options.

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The Weekly LIVE 150 – Darkest Dungeon Dispute, RiotOnline Closes, Return to Dark Tower Second Printing and Expansion and Cthulhu App in Japan

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The Darkest Dungeon boardgame Wave 1, the English language core game, is printed and ready ship. Unfortunately for Mythic, the company that designed the boardgame, which is based on the PC game by Red Hook Studios, the costs of shipping have dramatically increased. They are now asking backers to contribute a small additional amount to help make up for the $875K difference after they have already added over a million themselves in cooperation with Red Hook. Of course the comments and criticism are flying. This is putting Mythic in a tight spot. These addition costs are unforeseen and as Kickstarter is NOT a preorder, it seems they are justified in asking for this additional funding. It is either that or just dump the whole thing in the China Sea so they can stop paying storage costs.

A surprise message from DriveThruRPG informed us that due to the closure of RiotOnline we are being sent complimentary codes for PDFs of all the materials we had on this digital platform. This situation comes hot on the heels of Astral announcing they are done. RiotMinds is selling their IP catalog to CMON games. This includes Trudvang Chronicles, LexOccultum, and the Ruin Masters brands. Who knows what CMON will do with them. They do have a studio dedicated to TTRPGs so let’s hope for the best.

Restoration Games is returning to their successful reboot of Dark Tower with a seconding printing of Return to Dark Tower. It will also include a new expansion called Covenant that will include new heroes and mechanics. They are already near $1 million on the second printing this time on Backerkit. If you missed it the first time around this gives you a chance to get the game and for those that pledge it offers the chance to get some of the premium upgrades offered in the first Kickstarter campaign.

Finally, Kadokawa the publisher of Call of Cthulhu in Japan has announced a new smartphone app tentatively named Cthulhu Myth TRPG Rulebook PLUS. It will offer for the first time a single place to access all the books produced over the past 40 years for Call of Cthulhu in Japan. It will immediately only be available to iOS on iPhones but that could change depending on popularity. The app allows users to mark pages and add notes. It is free and offers the books as in-app purchases.
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