Five Tiers of RPG Publishing

Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only one that turned a profit in the entire company. Not only that, but Wizards is responsible for roughly 47% of the entire company’s revenue and over 90% of all revenue growth over the last year. That’s over 2 billion dollars in revenue; roughly $1.7 billion is attributable to Magic: The Gathering and the rest is attributable to Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons is obviously the largest, most popular roleplaying game, but $400 million in revenue is staggering. If this was all books, it would be eight million copies. It’s not all books of course; one of the reasons D&D is growing (though perhaps not as fast as Magic is) is the continued expansion of digital services like D&D Beyond, products with high margins and minimal variable costs. This is the future, not because it makes for a better gaming experience, but because it makes for a better balance sheet. […]

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Battle over Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast contracts leaves the book, relationships, torn apart

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Crowdfunding Carnival: January, 2026

Happy new year, and welcome to the first Crowdfunding Carnival of 2026! Creators are warming up their engines after the holiday season, and we’ve got a range of things to look at. Let’s talk 2025 first. The year had a fair share of challenges for creators, not the least of which were tariffs and other economic challenges. At least one project, Magpie’s hotly anticipated trio of card-based RPGs, fell victim to this uncertainty; while the impact is certainly greater for board games and others which have physical components, it makes planning a project harder even if the physical release is secondary to getting the game into the world. […]

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/01/08/crowdfunding-carnival-january-2026/

Warren Spector developed Toon before Deus Ex. One asks what it means to be human. The other asks what happens when you drop an anvil on a duck. Steve Jackson Games revives the cartoon RPG on BackerKit. Campaign ends January 15th. #TTRPG #rpg #toon #deusex #backerkit #crowdfunding #steveJacksonGames https://l.d20.ninja/mryhftdt

Steve Jackson Games cult classic “Toon RPG” returns, with a new second edition campaign running now on BackerKit. We MEEP MEEP into all the cartoon chaos. https://ttrpgfans.com/toon-rpg-second-edition/ #toonrpg #stevejacksongames #sjgames #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #rpg #rpggames #RPGCommunity

#stevejacksongames Fighting Fantasy reprints clear £59k in 24 hours. 800 backers ready to die repeatedly, jamming fingers between 9 different endings they lack the dexterity to hold open whilst forgetting which paragraph they started on... #Kickstarter #FightingFantasy https://l.d20.ninja/4ekrhn85

Steve Jackson Games has recently confirmed that a new revised version of GURPS 4th Edition is coming soon. We take a closer look at everything we know so far. https://ttrpgfans.com/gurps-4th-edition-revised/ #gurps #stevejacksongames #ttrpg #TTRPGCommunity #rpg #rpggames #RPGCommunity #ttrpgnews #RPGNews