Hello everyone, Darryl here with the summary of this week’s gaming news from EN World.
EN Publishing News
EN World Feature Columns
Tabletop RPG News
PAX Unplugged Announcements
Wizards of the Coast made several announcements this weekend at PAX Unplugged.
EN Publishing News
- For a quick summary of the week’s news, Jessica Hancock will bring you up to speed with EN Live's This Week in TTRPG every Friday.
- Don’t forget, you can keep up with all the week’s gaming news in detail with Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk. This week, Morrus, Peter, and Jessica discuss gamemaster burnout.
- The Kickstarter pre-launch page is live for EN Publishing’s Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2023, the annual collection of the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition official zine.
- EN5ider #548 is a new Monstrous Menagerie entry “Unfamiliars” featuring 18 different CR0 critters from armadillos to sugar gliders to moths and more.
EN World Feature Columns
- Andrew Peregrine reviews the new horror RPG from Critical Role’s Darrington Press, Candela Obscura.
- Charles Dunwoody interviewed Nils Hintz about Free League’s new RPG adaptation of the works of artist Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State Roleplaying Game. The game is on Kickstarter now for a short 14-day campaign that’s already raised over SEK 2.3 million (over US$200,000) with 11 days left.
- Rob Wieland looked at the new Monte Cook Games release The Weird.
- M.T. Black continues his journey through RPG periodicals past with Dragon Reflections #73 covering the May 1983 issue of Dragon.
- Michael Tresca’s newest RPG Evolution continues the holiday season gift guide with Gift Ideas for Fans of Miniatures.
- Don’t miss out on the newest RPG crowdfunding projects ending soon with Egg Embry’s RPG Crowdfunding News.
- Keep up with all the new print RPG releases with Charles Dunwoody’s RPG Print News.
- Find the big TTRPG sales, bundles, and charity fundraisers with the Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles News.
Tabletop RPG News
- EN Publishing and EN World were at Dragonmeet this past weekend, and Morrus wrote up his after action report on the convention.
- Paizo and Humble partnered for the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Legacy Bundle with 25 rulebooks, adventures, maps, and tokens for $25.
- MCDM’s new tactical TTRPG hits $1 million on the first day of their Backerkit crowdfunding campaign.
- Catalyst Game Labs announced a reprint of the original cyberpunk-meets-urban-fantasy roleplaying game Shadowrun 1st Edition.
- R. Talsorian Games announced Shadow Scar, a new anime-inspired dimension-hopping RPG by Cody Pondsmith coming in 2024.
- Steve Jackson Games announced their 2024 release schedule including new books for The Fantasy Trip, GURPS reprints, and Munchkin: Shadowrun.
PAX Unplugged Announcements
Wizards of the Coast made several announcements this weekend at PAX Unplugged.
- The 2024 Core D&D Rulebooks Are Coming In May
- Vecna: Eve of Ruin Coming 2024
- Descent Into The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth Is The First Of Several Single Session D&D Events
- Quests From The Infinite Staircase Coming July 2024
- D&D Making Of Book Coming June 2024
- WotC Removes Release Dates From Promo Images For 2024