Could unexploded bombs stop the UK Games Expo? Nope. So let’s get some highlights and a round-up of all the tabletop games industry-changing news out this week!

Brutal combat in RedHack2e and the clever evolution of storytelling in Storiaverse. In this week’s Audio EXP we also finally tackle the thorny issue of heavily armed squirrels.

A summary of Wizard of the Coast’s challenge to not change 5e much and yet give us a massive new, full of changes, SRD 5.2. This podcast discusses subscription models, fandom, Atomic Think Tank and Beacon. We spread Attack of Titan lip gloss.

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.