News Digest for July 31, 2026
Darryl Mott is a tabletop gaming and media journalist with bylines from outlets including Ain’t It Cool News, EN World, and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. He also makes videos for YouTube and does live streams on Twitch as well as doing post-production and editing for the Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk […]
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A true king of the jungle and wilderness-themed magic items
Ghostfrogs, Mageweed, Vine Frog Toxins, Weather Toads. Everything needed for a fun jungle trek and then some. It’s hot out there so send the party into the humid wilderness to meet a many-limbed sovereign or harvest something magical on the way to The Crawling One’s temple, maybe after crossing a […]
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Seattle-based wild raccoon ‘Jimothy’ gets official D&D stats
Incidentally, I always sort monsters on DDB using the “advanced filter” because I like to curate which sources I draw from for particular campaigns. And I scroll through it almost every night because one way I battle insomnia is through running through the mathematics of various match-ups in my head […]
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Professor Dungeon Master Talks Deathbringer
One of DungeonTube’s top creators (Professor Dungeon Master at Dungeon Craft) is working with Roll For Combat to create Deathbringer, a Shadowdark RPG variant with an old school focus on action, action, and action. Voted the most anticipated TTRPG on EN World (here), death is the best way to “level” […]
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Podcast #405 Livestream: A TON of D&D news (with special guest Mike Shea!)
Morrus is the owner of EN World and EN Publishing, creator of the ENnies, creator of the What’s OLD is NEW (WOIN), Simply6, and Awfully Cheerful Engine game systems, publisher of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, and co-host of the weekly Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk podcast. He has been […]
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RPG Print News – Warhammer: The Old Word RPG, Áth Cliath, Spelljammer (AD&D 2E), and more
Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game is out with the Gamemaster’s Guide now available departing from percentile dice in favor of d10 dice pools and an earlier time in the Old World. The Viking setting of Áth Cliath gets a limited edition box set stuffed with support for the GM […]
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News Digest for June 26, 2026
Darryl Mott is a tabletop gaming and media journalist with bylines from outlets including Ain’t It Cool News, EN World, and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. He also makes videos for YouTube and does live streams on Twitch as well as doing post-production and editing for the Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk […]
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RPG Evolution: Whither the warrior women?
Avery Bad Translation It all started with the Pirate King. To understand how we lost one of the most tactically fascinating military units in history, we have to look back to the seventeenth century and the infamous English pirate Henry Every—sometimes recorded as Avery or “Long Ben”. When Every’s pirate […]
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Review (Book & Accessories)
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within follows Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, going deeper and providing more ideas and options. It also partially replaces VRGtR, which is a bit more tricky and possibly annoying. As the name indicates, the Reanimator Artificer allows you to create creatures, including a reanimated companion, through a […]
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