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This week's stories:

Evil Genius games tries to block criticism with legal threats

Diamond Comics Distributors is bankrupt

Kobold Press' 'Monster Vault 2' Coming to Kickstarter

The Sickest Witch

The Devil in New Jersey

Peter & Jayson talk about some of their favorite moments from this year's Philadelphia Area Game Expo

• Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dies at 96 ​

• Hildy the Barback and the Lake of Fire ​

• How Therapists Are Using Tabletop Games to Help People ​

• Tabletop Game Jobs is planning its first ever live event in 2025

This week, we're joined by Don Semora of Wizard Tower Games.​

This week's stories:​

• My Brain is a Stick of Butter​

• ArcaneCon​

• Ken Whitman tries to go on a redemption tour​

• News from the NuTSR bankruptcy​

• Lost Adventures of Gary Con​

Flint Dille, writer & game designer who created Top Secret Agent 13 among many other accomplishments, joins us this week to talk about Agent 13 and R.I.P., the lost TSR horror game.

Timothy Brannan wrote the articles that turned us on to the existence of R.I.P., and he joins for a conversation with Flint about what really happened behind the scenes.

This week's news stories:​

• Tales of the Kytin Age, a new RPG on Kickstarter.​

• D&D's Chris Perkins promoted to Creative Director​

• Six New "Made in Italy" Roleplaying Volumes for English Release​

• Discworld passes $2 million – quickstart rules available now​

•  Agent 13 and TSR's never released R.I.P. game

This week's stories:​

• DnD lays off key staffer who helped patch up the OGL scandal​

• Call of Cthulhu – No Time to Scream​

• Call of Cthulhu has been inducted into the ENNIES hall of fame​

• Daniel D. Fox Reacquires ZWEIHÄNDER RPG​

• Hasbro's Q3 Report Shows Decline in D&D Revenue Despite 2024 Launch ​

• Knights of Doom - A Greyhawk Journal

This week's stories:​

• Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition on Backerkit.​

• Steve Jackson Games To Bring Back 'Fighting Fantasy'​

• ARKYVR Turns Mothership Into a found footage horror game.​

• Chris Perkins stepping down as D&D product lead ​

• Greyhawk is now open to third-party creators on DMs Guild

This week's stories:

Kurt Vonnegut's lost war game is published

Nine Men's Morris

Discworld RPG gets its first live actual play

Joey Royale joins us to talk about Weird Heroes of Public Access

This is a special episode to share sad news.

Our partner and friend, co-host of this show, James Carpio, has passed away.

Join us to share our memories of James and celebrate his life.

Stories this week:

• Did D&D's 2024 Player's Handbook Scorch Previous Records?​

• Is WOTC Inflating Sales Numbers for Player's Handbook?​

• Beadle and Grimm's new Map Collection​

• Marvel & DC lose the trademark for "superhero"​

• We talk with Sean Kelly about his podcasts RPG Sean and his former show Gaming and BS