News Digest for April 20, 2025

Hello everyone, Darryl here with the summary of this week’s gaming news from EN World.

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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 on Not DnD, Jessica spoke with Robert Cambias about the survival RPG Cold Sun.

EN World Feature Columns

• Rob Wieland reviews Black Powder and Brimstone, Free League’s RPG of muskets, witchfinders, and demons.
• Charles Dunwoody’s newest Joyful GMing provides you with an excuse to re-read Lord of the Rings by showing how Tolkien can improve your GMing skills.
• Michael Tresca’s RPG Evolution looks at the CZYY D&D Species Coasters.
• Charles Dunwoody’s RPG Archive discusses Star*Drive, the sci-fi setting released in the final days of TSR.
• Andrew Peregrine’s White Dwarf Reflections #16 looks back at the December/January 1979 issue.
• 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 Roleplaying News

• Wizards of the Coast announces April 22 release date for 2024 System Reference Document.
• D&D errata nerfs conjuring spells along with other changes.
• Dragon Delves reveals “History Of” pages for dragons.
• Universal Fan Fest reveals massive Xanatar puppet from Jim Henson Studios.
• Dimension 20 announces upcoming steampunk-themed season.
• Do the new tariffs in the United States apply to RPG books? Yes and no.

That’s all from me for this week! Don’t forget to support our Patreon to bring you more tabletop roleplaying news.