A summary of Star Wars Day deals, with links to the megathread, and a rundown of June’s candidates for the RPG Publisher Spotlight. In this podcast we touch on two different cosmic futures expressed in the form of tabletop games.

We talk to indie and anti-capitalist TTRPG game designers even as the collapse of the $2bn deal between Embracer and Savvy Games causes the former to split into three.

Audio EXP discusses who might replace Cynthia Williams as the D&D and Magic: The Gathering boss after her resignation from Wizards of the Coast.

Adventure Time picks 5e for its new RPG, Planet of the Apes will use a variant of West End Games’ D6 System for its RPG while Arc Dream Publishing won’t use either for the new The Black Company RPG. Also, in this podcast, we talk about Hasbro cashing in on Monopoly in a way that might highlight the dangers of capitalism.

A catch-up after a week off at Scotland’s old tabletop games convention that gets into D&D beyond year 50, loads of bundles, and branded shoes that seem a little weak.

A round-up of trailers with aliens and ghosts, plus a hype analysis of Gary Con 16 where Luke Gygax is running a bigger D&D festival than Wizards of the Coast have. That and the Tomb Raider TTRPG, and a time war we lost.

Let’s unpick what Wizards of the Coast might be up to with AI and what they might not be doing to help people find games of D&D. In movie news, who faces more pressure? The Crow or Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?

When NASA does RPGs, and the makers of the Dune roleplaying game slyly time their bundle deal with the blockbuster movie hit. Oh, and there’s some Fallout.

Predators in the darkness, the challenges of IP RPGs, The Tomb of Gyzaengaxx and the unknown scares.