Fandom sold D&D Beyond to Wizards of the Coast, still owns the retail platform Fanatical and is still working on a tabletop RPG market to buy and sell Cortex products. Cortex is the RPG system they own.
If you need any other clues that the company is still interested in supporting creators, you only need to look at the heart of their business and the fan wikis that power their ad-funded model. Fandom has rolled out Interactive Maps.
While the public is hearing about the maps just this week, creators in the system have been testing them, and Trivia, for about a year. Development, it seems, is slow but sure at Fandom.
While the interactive maps are intended to bring to life the worlds featured in games, TV shows, and the movies fans talk about, world-builders from the tabletop RPG community will see alternative uses straightaway.
We don’t know if Fandom is working on a virtual tabletop, D&D Beyond never got there and came from Curse anyway, but they surely can’t be a million miles away from competing with the likes of Obsidian Portal or World Anvil for campaign management.
However, it feels unlikely that Fandom Tabletop has much influence on or is much of a priority for Fandom. The publisher’s core business will surely come first.
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