The skies are looking bluer for some reason, but that’s not the only news that affects the tabletop RPG world! Business continues to boom, DnD continues to go mainstream, and AI continues to be a debated topic as we look to see what 2025 has in store.
For this past week specifically, Hasbro revealed the development of a new Dungeons & Dragons video game, Prime Video’s Secret Level showed more DnD footage, Itch.io cracked down on AI, and MCDM added a new class to D&D Beyond.
Hasbro Working On In-House DnD Video Game
Hasbro has a first-party studio working on a previously-unknown DnD video game. The stealth announcement was caught in a Bloomberg interview with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks, found by us through EN World. No title or details were given, but Hasbro does plan to release one to two video games a year by 2026. It also has several third-party studios working on DnD video games. It all adds up to Hasbro’s increased focus on digital gaming after Baldur’s Gate 3 brought in such big numbers.
DnD Secret Level Trailer
Wizards of the Coast shared a brief teaser of the DnD episode of Amazon Prime’s Secret lair. The CG-animated anthology series, dropping on December 10, will feature single episodes set in several different video game worlds and DnD as a bit of an outlier. The new teaser shows 45 seconds of a party dramatically getting ready for battle and culminates with them facing a dragon in a dungeon. The teaser is currently only viewable on the site formerly known as Twitter, but you can find a breakdown by Nerd Immersion here.
Itch.io Now Requires AI Disclosure
Online independent game marketplace Itch.io will soon require creators to openly disclose if their products contain AI-generated content. This will allow users to filter their searches to exclude AI, reports Polygon. Creators are being given a grace period and assistance from the platform itself in tagging all of their games. If a game is found to contain AI content without disclosing it, it could be removed from indexing on browse pages. Likewise, creators who lie about having AI in their work could find their products removed from the discovery page.
MCDM Illrigger Class Rises On D&D Beyond
D&D Beyond got another surprise third-party drop this week in the form of the Illrigger. This 5E class from MCDM makes your character into a knight of hell. The description takes care to let you know that this isn’t a Paladin or Warlock derivative. Instead, the subclasses allow you to perform widely varied battlefield roles based on what devil lord your character serves. Illriggers can be heavily armored combatants, manipulators, assassins, saboteurs, or blood drainers. The Illrigger counts as Expanded Rules and comes with new spells and magic items.
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