What happens when a new tabletop games publisher lands several movie franchise deals at once? Are we ready for a $17m-funded new virtual tabletop? It’s the Audio EXP podcast.

The crowdfunded Roll is something but different from most virtual tabletops, and they’ve launched their first RPG. D&D has a new playtest, Cthulhu is coming for the Roman Legions, and there’s a talk with the Mutant Lord. It’s the Audio EXP podcast.

D&D in space, D&D when the baddies won and Dark Souls in distress. It’s a week in which scammers hit Steve Jackson Games’ charity efforts, but we also got some generous RPG freebies and a Love, Death + Robots teaser.

Chocolate, samurai rabbits, free games, more free games, and the absolutely not free $150 million or so Hasbro paid for old Curse technology.

It’ll work out. I don’t know what next month will look like, but we’ll get there. No one has a crystal ball, after all.

Hollywood actors plugging RPG technology, RPG creators digging into the legal text of licenses and news of new games on the way. Oh, and dozens of brilliant new anime titles lining up to compete for the attention of fans. It’s been a busy week squeezed into the usual short podcast.

A new Judge Dredd RPG and other innovative ways to roleplay at the tabletop, virtual or otherwise. These and other Geek Native nerdy highlights.

If there was a Wizards of the Coast press event on Friday, no one is leaking and isn’t that unusual? Also, this week, Modiphius has been talking to Embracer Group people, and that’s given us at least two Asmodee USA deals. These and other Geek Native nerdy highlights.

Dark Sun is coming back as a host of old D&D games return via Steam, tabletop RPG lawyers get busy, and the original Essence RPG rule system is now free.

A look at the various platforms in the RPG and tabletop space, from electronic gaming boards, to virtual tabletops, because those things are different now. Oh, and $23 million for the Mistborn author.