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Playtest packets, digital drops, underhive campaigns, and rulesets that eat a night when the table goes quiet.
The TTRPG desk cares about session math: prep load, species drops that change ecology questions, and RPG reveals that sit beside miniatures without forging a street date. Expect Beyond habit notes, campaign asks like Necromunda roleplay, and refusal to invent page counts. Systems on rotation include D&D digital shelves, Free League lanes, and Warhammer-adjacent roleplay bombs. If the product is only a miniature, use Miniatures. If the product is a night of rules and consequences, stay here. Listings below track the latest packets and date locks without cosplay as a review of unplayed systems. Bring a session budget the way miniatures people bring a paint budget and a drying rack. If you are new here, start with the newest listing and treat every rules claim as something that should survive a real session, not a press slide.
Wizards of the Coast declined to voluntarily recognize the D&D and Studio X teams joining United Wizards of the Coast, so the union now heads to an NLRB vote. Here is the timeline and what each ask could mean for players.
Critical Role and hololive announce Shattered Legends, a canon Exandria Daggerheart miniseries for mid-November with Mercer GMing and four VTubers beside Marisha Ray.
Wizards of the Coast revealed D&D | Star Wars Core Rules and Tyro Squadron: Adventures at NYCC, both due in 2027. Here is where it fits in four decades of Star Wars tabletop games, and what the rules still need to answer.
Onyx Path launches the Curseborne Covenant Kickstarter today at 2pm Eastern, selling city-level conspiracies, cursebinding, and shadow Families for the Accursed line.
Twogether Studios has Eidolon: The Ghost Market on BackerKit pre-launch for an October 13, 2026 crowdfunding start. Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis are selling an ecto-punk Daggerheart city, not an official Darrington hardcover.
Among twelve Autumn Preview reveals, a full Necromunda roleplaying game is the underhive that will eat campaign nights. No forged street date yet. The ask is already on the table.
Free League's 5E Lord of the Rings RPG remains a $29.99 Beyond download habit days after launch. Desk grades the VTT Maps rhythm, not a new novel.
Free League's 5E Lord of the Rings RPG is live on Beyond at $29.99. Day-after desk grades the VTT Maps habit, not a new Middle-earth novel.
Matt and Marty Forbeck's Temple of the Charged Creeper hardcover is live for preorder around $20. Illager math meets easy table rules.
Free League's 5E adaptation of The One Ring is live on D&D Beyond at $29.99. Journey rules meet VTT Maps beta, not a new Middle-earth novel.
Renegade's RPG line dates retail for November 23 after a record BackerKit run. Core book, starter set, screen, and minis are the carton math.
Overwatch's first live TTRPG one-shot ran September 13 with Mercer as GM Cassidy and four hero voice actors in Overland. Day-after filing, not a fake rulebook.
Lynnvander and Steve Jackson Games stamp Munchkin 5.5E RPG for a BackerKit launch October 13, with Ye Olde Rulebook and The Deadliest Dungeon.
Darrington Press's Hope & Fear expansion hits friendly local game stores, Amazon, and bookstores on September 22. Digital already exists. The cult is nine days from the national sticker.
Darrington Press's Hope & Fear expansion hits friendly local game stores, Amazon, and bookstores on September 22. Digital already exists. The cult is practicing patience in public.
Darrington Press's first Daggerheart expansion hits Amazon and bookstores September 22. Guild shops and Critical Role already had it August 25. The wait is now the product.
D&D: World of Warcraft gameplay expansion streets November 17, 2026, with WPN early access November 3. A 256-page book of species, subclasses, dungeons, and faction renown. Table stamp filing, public product facts only.
Brotherwise's Mistborn Campaign Setting hits public digital on September 9 after the September 2 backer drop. Handbook, World Guide, Legacy. Second Cosmere RPG setting after Stormlight. Physical still aims at November.
Daggerheart's first expansion already opened specialty and digital on August 25. Wide retail hits September 22 with Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin. Not another Cosmere filing. The classes are the product.
The September 2026 D&D Beyond Drop gives subscribers the Duskling species plus four non-combat spells. Here is what is in it and how to pitch it to your table.
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear opened Critical Role shops, Guild stores, and digital storefronts on August 25. Wide retail is September 22, 2026.
WPN early access for Arcana Unleashed and Deadfall started September 1. Season of Magic Encounters begin this week, with wide release September 15, 2026.
Pathfinder Adventure: The Dead God's Hand hits shelves September 2 for $49.99, a levels 1-6 Absalom dungeon arc based on Erik Mona's office campaign. Society scenarios drop the same Wednesday under replayable rules.
Time Without Tide opens on BackerKit today with a free 62-page quickstart, a $3 Delver pin reservation, and an original d6 light-and-survival system that is not Call of Cthulhu in steampunk drag.
The new playtest does not treat ceremorphosis as flavor text. It treats it as a build.