Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk – Details, episodes & analysis

In this week's news we'll be covering the upcoming D&D starter set, the Terraforming Mars Kickstarter, a new Warhammer RPG, and more! Join us live at 2pm UK time (9am EST) or catch up later on YouTube!

• What's In D&D's New Starter Set?
• Take A Deeper Look At The New D&D Starter Set's Card-Based Characters
• Ernie Gygax Has Passed Away
• ‘Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting’ – This Monster Hunter Themed Splatbook Comes to D&D Beyond
• Brennan Lee Mulligan and Celia Rose Gooding on EXU: Divergence
• Cubicle 7 Announces New Horus Heresy RPG for Warhammer
• Matt Mercer, Felicia Day Play Pathfinder in Charity Stream
• You Are A Frog TTRPG
• Popular Board Game Terraforming Mars Gets TTRPG
• Level Up Gateway March Dev Update

Back after a week off (our first ever?) we'll be talking about D&D's Project Sigil cancellation, THREE new million-dollar crowdfunders, increasing print-on-demand print costs, and more! Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (10am EDT)!

• DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Going Up By As Much As 50% In The US
• New Ravenloft Novel Heir of Strahd Coming Soon
• Shadowdark Setting Looks Set To Be 2025's First Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder
• Score +2 For Million Dollar Crowdfunders!
• Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder Club
• Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game
• The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web
• Castle Zagyg Galleries of the Arch Mage
• One HONK Two Furious: A Goose-Based TTRPG
• Paizo New Releases and Women's History Month Sale
• 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off
• Has Wizards of the Coast Given Up on Sigil?
• Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development
• Proposed Texas Law Could Ban RPGs In Schools
• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
• The ‘Dragonlance’ Humble Bundle Gives You The Entire Trilogy Plus 23 More Books
• This Year’s Origin Awards RPG Finalists are Absolute Powerhouses: ‘Yazeba’, ‘Cowboy Bebop’, and More

Hi, folks! There's no show this week, as two of the three of us are away, but we'll be back to normal next week. Don't forget we livestream the show on YouTube every Friday at 2pm UK time... but not this week. See you all on the 21st!

 

Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (10am EDT--but next week UK daylight savings kicks in so it will be 9am EDT! Are you confused, because we are!)

This week we're talking about the new Alien TTRPG on Kickstarter, a Battletech cookbook (yes, really), and Brittannia Games' upcoming Paksworld RPG.

• Pathfinder Teases New Runelords Content
• ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter
• BattleTech Cookbook Heads To Retail
• Paksworld RPG Based On Elizabeth Moon's Novels
• Kobold Press’ Heroic Hoard Of 5E Power
• Alliance Entertainment To Acquire Diamond Assets
• Free5e: A Free Open-Source Dungeons and Dragons Alternative
• It's Over- The Second Circuit Bench Slaps LaNasa
• Machines in the Deep: Mechanical Wonders for 5E

Livestreamed as always today at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about Chris Perkins leaving D&D. the new Dragon Delves previews, Mongoose acquiring Dark Conspiracy, and more. Join us on YouTube each week!

• Chris Perkins Announces Retirement from Dungeons & Dragons
• WotC Unveils Dragon Delves' Eclectic Art Styles
• Dragon Delves To Feature Two Adventures "Appropriate For Solo Players"
• Mongoose Publishing Acquires Dark Conspiracy RPG
• Paizo New Releases and Subscriptions
• Worlds Largest Dungeon Holds 'Secret Doors' Contest

• Skies Above - JRPG

Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (9am ET)--join us on YouTube! This week we'll be talking about the new US tariffs and their effect on the tabletop gaming industry, WotC issuing takedowns, new Salvatore D&D novel, and more!

• How Will The New Tariffs Affect TTRPG Prices?
• What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs
• New R.A. Salvatore Novel, Starring Drizzt's Daughter, Title and Synopsis Revealed
• WotC (Mistakenly) Issues DMCA Takedown Against Baldur's Gate-themed Stardew Valley Mod
• GAMA's Communications Manager Declares Organization 'Broken'
• Trans Rights Ohio Package
• Compare the Market’s Tabletop Gamers Survey
• Robin Laws Creative Director at Pelgrane Press
• Level Up Gateway April Dev Update (and OPEN ALPHA!)
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Livestreamed as always today at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about Jeremy Crawford joining Chris Perkins in retirement, the new incoming D&D System Reference Documents, more tariff updates, and more! 

• Jeremy Crawford Also Leaving D&D Team Later This Month
• Dragon Delves to Return to Godsbreath, a Journey Through the Radiant Citadel Setting
• Dragon Delves Reveals "History Of" Pages for Dragons
• Beadle & Grimm Opens Pre-Orders For Deluxe ‘Dragon Delves DM’s Vault’
• WotC Announces April 22 Release For 2024 System Reference Documents
• D&D Errata Nerfs Conjuring Spells, Makes Other Changes
• Do Tariffs Apply To RPG Books? Maybe, Maybe Not!
• Dimension 20 Announces Upcoming Steampunk-Themed Season
• ALIEN RPG – Evolved Edition and Rapture Protocol

Livestreamed as always on Friday at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about the new horror subclasses in Unearthed Arcana, a preview of Daggerheart's ranger, and talking about Goodman Games' partnership with a problematic company.

• D&D Eberron: Race for the Crab Temple Coming to PAX East
• Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana
• You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
• Eberron: Forge of the Artificer to Be Priced at $29.99
• Pathfinder Treasure Vaults (Remaster) Updates A Ton Of Magic Gear
• Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter
• Daggerheart Reveals Ranger Class Preview (Exclusive)
• We're Not Coming To Gencon This Year
• RPG Party: GameFound partners with DriveThruRPG and some publishers
• Heroes of Might and Magic TTRPG
• Lazlo's Cubed Crypt
• Into the Woods

Apologies as yesterday's upload got cut off at 25 minutes. Here's Episode 345 again-- in full!   Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about the new Sage Advice for 2024 D&D, the mass layoffs as gaming news outlet Polygon is sold, Roll20 and Demiplane's open beta, and more!

• Sage Advice Compendium Updated To 2024
• More on the Stonemaier Tarriffs Lawsuit
• Pathfinder to Release Lost Omens: Draconic Codex in December
• Mass Layoffs At Polygon, Major Gaming News Outlet
• Roll20 Demiplane Integration Beta is Live
• Baldur’s Gate DLC ‘Would Have Been Boring’
• Check Out The All-New Relaunched EN5ider Magazine For D&D!

Livestreaming as always Fridays at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about the new System Reference Document for the 2024 D&D rules, updates on tariffs (sorry!), a look at some new Starfinder stuff, unboxing a Voidrunner's Codex, and more! 

• Dungeons & Dragons SRD 5.2 Is Officially Live
• Tariffs: Rolling Against American Game Publishers
• We Are Suing the President
• Wizards of the Coast Says That China Tariffs Will Have Minimal Impact on D&D
• CMON–An Update on Our Internal Teams and Company Focus
• Starfinder Tech Class Playtest
• High-Tech, High-Octane, High-Excitement!
• Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf
• Pocket RPG. Play Anytime. Anywhere. Magnetic. Patent Pending
• The Devoured Labyrinth | for the Shadowdark RPG
• Let’s Unbox A Voidrunner’s Codex!