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We recently heard yet another update promising that there is a team working hard on creating The Elder Scrolls 6, although there was nothing of substance beyond assuring us that it's Bethesda's "primary development focus." After all this time, it's reasonable to ask: what are you even hoping for from the sixth installment at this point?

Last week's Gen Con was a focal point for Dungeons & Dragons, as the previously thin calendar of upcoming releases was filled out with familiar names, old haunts, surprising horrors, and iconic villains.

In this special Gen Con edition of the Tavern Watch Podcast, we're looking at a mountain of new product announcements for our favorite games, some coming soon and others stretched out over the next few years, but all of them exciting.

At the Daggerheart Next panel at Gen Con 2026, Darrington Press laid out a three year roadmap for their fantasy tabletop RPG, and for fans of this system, it's packed with new game content.

Yesterday at Gen Con the Dungeons & Dragons team revealed an updated roadmap and several new releases, including the "worst kept secret" that has been bouncing around the internet this week: a crossover with none other than World of Warcraft, with a rule expansion that brings everything you'd need to play a Warcraft campaign into D&D 5.5e.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

This week on the Tavern Watch Podcast, we wander very naturally into one of the most age-old discussions among tabletop players and GMs alike: do you have a preference for crunchy systems or streamlined ones?

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

In the final episode of our Legend in the Mist actual play, the Inkwell Club has managed to calm down the frenzied (and cursed) Spring Renewal Festival, only to see that several townsfolk are still caught in the thrall of something sinister and being led down the narrow switchback paths to the bottom of Skunk Glen Ravine.

After almost two weeks of silence and speculation following the most recent Microsoft layoffs, Bethesda released a statement reassuring us that they are still working on The Elder Scrolls and Fallout (and also Starfield).