We're entering the winter doldrums of game scheduling, and many of our TTRPG adventures have been coming to a halt (or at least a slow) for the winter due to the difficulty of getting this many adults in a room, even a virtual one, for the holidays. But the snowier season here in the Northern Hemisphere doesn't mean a lack of new tabletop game material, especially if you like D&D. We've been enjoying the two Forgotten Realms books released in November, including new dangerous magical items and a thoroughly non-heroic Rogue subclass, the Scion of the Three. But playing a maybe-evil character (and everybody at the table still having fun), can be tricky, so we talk about the importance of party buy-in when bringing such a character to the party, and maybe how to reskin the subclass if pledging allegiance to the Realms' sometimes-dead, sometimes-alive, always-scheming miscreant gods isn't up your alley.
Elsewhere in the multiverse, Eberron: Forge of the Artificer is finally be coming out (for real this time) on December 9, and besides serving as a miniature guide to the fascinating realm of Eberron, it also brings back D&D fan favorites -- and, at this point, staples -- like the Warforged and the Artificer. The latter gets all its subclasses revised to match the expected power levels of 2024 5th Edition characters, as well as a whole new subclass: the Cartographer! Want to wield an array of esoteric map-based powers? Here's the subclass for you.
Outside of the D&D sphere, we also gush about upcoming game Twilight Sword, which doesn't just wear its Zelda influences on its sleeve -- it dons the whole shirt, but we sure don't mind. And Daggerheart is already coming out with an expansion, called (appropriately) Daggerheart: Hope & Fear, due out in 2026. This book adds the Dread domain, as well as four new classes (you may have already heard us playtesting the Warlock and the Brawler when we played Daggerheart earlier this year). Daggerheart has really been getting a full-court press of support (did you know there's already new stuff for playtesting?) and we have to wonder when that support will slow down... hopefully not any time soon.
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