Tabletop Weekly (Solarian Games)

• Neon Lords Wrestling Rules released​

• Goodman Games has a Bundle of Holding​

• New Dungeons & Dragons pinball game released​

• D&D slot machine announced​

• Tabletop Role-Playing Game Market Report​

• A New Call of Cthulhu Adventure​

• Top most 10 Anticipated RPGs – An EN World Survey​

• Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E

• Return of the Living Dead RPG Announced​

• Level Up Gateway Alpha Testing is Live for Kickstarter Backers.​

• Joyride: Survival of the Fastest​

• Freebies and Pay What You Want for the Holidays!

• Joseph Bloch - the Greyhawk Grognard

• World of Greyhawk Gazeteer Revised provides a connection between TSR's Greyhawk and 5th Edition ​

• RuneQuest Starter Set wins Best Adventure at 2024 Dragonmeet Awards​

• Hasbro Stock Surges After Elon Musk Tweets "How much is Hasbro?"​

• Map making with rubber stamps​

• Golden Fez Awards are open for submissions

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

• 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

• 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 news:

• Apocalypse the Risen is a new 5E compatible setting
• The SCP Foundation - Secure. Control. Protect.
• LEGO has a new line of D&D minifigs
• Hasbro announces Q2 earnings, and Wizards is "all in" on digital

and more!

Links mentioned in this show:

Apocalypse the Risen

SCP Foundation

Dark Horse Comics signs deal with WotC

Preorders Open for LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Minifigures

Dyson Logos

Hasbro earnings

Star Trek live action comedy series

Gary Con badges on sale

Weird Heroes of Public Access

Lost Adventures of Gary Con

• 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's news:

• Miami 86, a new game set in vice-filled '80s Miami
• D&D postal stamps are on sale in the UK this week
• Wizards of the Coast has a new president

and more!

Links mentioned in this show:

• Shadow Scar - Eyes in the Darkness 
• Blackblood Expanded Rulebook
• Miami 86
• Dungeons & Dragons Postal Stamps in the UK
• Space 1999 RPG
• Runequest Humble Bundle

This week's stories:

• Hasbro rallies to beat industry growth by 5x​

• Cosmere becomes the highest-grossing ttrpg kickstarter ever​

• Time Magazine releases a special all-D&D issue​

• Kevin Borrup joins us to talk about the new official Smurfs RPG

• The ElfQuest RPG is getting a classic reissue by Chaosium​

• Starfinder 2E playtest is available now from Paizo​

• A new Ravenloft novel is on the way​

• We talk Zombie Braineaters with  John "Hambone" McGuire of Ham And Egg Publishing​

• V the TV series comes back as an audio drama​

• New Monster Manual Details Released​

• The New Voltron RPG Kick Starter Wraps Up

This week’s stories:

• Is WotC ripping off Traveller?​

• Goodman Games takes on the Dark Tower​

• Richard Garriott considers a tabletop version of Ultima​

• Blades ’68 - A Groovy Spy Thriller​

• Darkspace RPG and Void Echoes

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• Itch.io taken offline by AI-driven Funko complaint​

• Model Our Nations is an RPG based on Model UN​

• Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40K Show Is Happening​

• Grimtooth's Old School Traps for 5E shipping​

• Wyrmwood lays off 50% of their workers​

• Golden Fez judges announcement

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

This week's stories:

• The Keep on the Borderlands will return as the introductory adventure for D&D in the 2025 Starter Set​

• Marc Miller has transferrered Traveller to Mongoose in its entirety​

• We look at The Lost Adventures of Gary Con from Wizard Tower Games

This week's stories:

• Shannon Applecline of Designers & Dragons has a new book
• Paizo reveals the new NPC Core book
• The NSA has a podcast
• Brian Shutter joins us to talk about Deities & Demibros, the new Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland book

• 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 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.

• Wrap your Christmas gifts in a dungeon ​

• The Timestop D20 watch ​

• ‘Shadowrun 1st Edition’ 35th Anniversary Reprint is on the Way ​

• Elon Musk Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" Over "Making of Original D&D"​​

• The Golden Fez Awards

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

This week's stories:

• D&D Releases Playtest for Updated Artificer​

• Cyberpunk 2077’s Latest Patch includes a ‘Cyberpunk RED’ Bonus​

• Christmas gaming ideas​

• Last week to submit for Golden Fez awards

Links to games mentioned:

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping

Santa’s Secret Service

Spirit of the Season

Christmas in Barovia

Silent Night Squad

Hark! It’s Santa!

Rooftops & Reindeer

Santa vs. Santa

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

How Orcus Stole Christmas!

The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men

Fae Hard

A Fluffy Wonderland can be found in Polyhedron #78

Flash Gordon - Twas the Night Before Crystal Fest

• 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​

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