Here They Are! Your 10 Most Anticipated TTRPGs For 2024!

The nominations were nominated, and the votes were voted, and now we have the final results: this year's official most anticipated TTRPGs--as voted by you! Well, a few thousand of you.

Just like we do every year, the EN World community votes on the games they are looking forward to. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Chaosium's Pendragon 6E). Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles (2017), Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019), Dune (2020 & 2021), and Twilight 2000 (2021), Blade Runner (2022), and Pendragon 6E (2023). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2024?

Let's find out!

10 Tales of the Valiant (Kobold Press)
1st appearance
Kobold Press joins the 'alternate 5E' club with this rewritten, non-OGL version of the game! A million dollar Kickstarter last year, and a new one for the GM's book going on right now, Kobold Press announced this as 'Project Black Flag' during the OGL crisis of 2023, but being unable to trademark that name opted for Tales of the Valiant instead. The system, however, is still called the Black Flag Roleplaying System.

9. Mothership 1E (Tuesday Night Games)
3rd appearance
On this list three years running, the boxed Mothership 1E game should be coming out this year! This is sci-fi horror at its best -- you can play scientists, teamsters, androids, and marines using the d100 'Panic Engine'. Yep, it's Alien(s), pretty much.

8. Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Program (Exalted Funeral)
2nd Appearance
Exalted Funeral made quite a splash when they announced this game last year, which went on to make neary $2M on Kickstarter. And how could they not? It's Monty Python fergoodnessake! A rules-lite gaming system, spam, a minigame with catapults, spam, coconut dice rollers, spam, and an irrepressible Python-eque sense of humour. Did I mention the spam? It was at #10 on this list last year, but it's claimed to #8 this year.

7. Daggerheart (Darrington Press)
1st appearance
From the Critical Role folks, Daggerheart is a new fantasy TTRPG with its own original system coming out this year with "A fresh take on fantasy RPGs, designed for long-term campaign play and rich character progression."

6. Cohors Cthulhu (Modiphius)
1st appearance
It's Ancient Rome. It's Cthulhu. It uses Modiphius' in-house 2d20 System. You can be a gladiator, a centurion, or a Germanic hero. Did I mention Cthulhu?

5. Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome)
1st appearance
The British Isles, a ton of folklore, and a giant Kickstarter--Dolmenwood is a dark, whimsical fantasy TTRPG drawing from fairy tales and lets you "journey through tangled woods and mossy bowers, forage for magical mushrooms and herbs, discover rune-carved standing stones and hidden fairy roads, venture into fungal grottoes and forsaken ruins, battle oozing monstrosities, haggle with goblin merchants, and drink tea with fairies."

4. Pendragon 6E (Chaosium)
4th appearance
Last year's winner was on this list waaaaay back in 425 AD, and it's still here! Well, maybe not that far back, but it's shown up in 2021 at #4, 2022 at #3, 2023 at #1, and now 2024 at #4! What can we say? People are clearly anticipating it... still.

3. 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
2nd appearance
13th Age is over a decade old now, and was our most anticipated game way back in 2013. Now the new edition is coming! It's compatible with the original, but revised and with a ton more... stuff! 13th Age 2E was #3 in last year's list!

2. The Electric State Roleplaying Game (Free League)
1st appearance
Free League is always on these lists, and for good reason. This gorgeous looking game is described as "A road trip on the verge of reality in visual artist and author Simon Stålenhag's vision of an apocalyptic alternate 1990s".

1. Shadow of the Weird Wizard (Schwalb Entertainment)
3rd appearance
First announced by Rob Schwalb a couple of years ago, this is a more family-friendly version of his acclaimed RPG, Shadow of the Demon Lord. SHADOW OF THE WEIRD WIZARD is a fantasy roleplaying game in which you and your friends assume the roles of characters who explore the borderlands and make them safe for the refugees escaping the doom that has befallen the old country. Unsafe are these lands: the Weird Wizard released monsters to roam the countryside, cruel faeries haunt the shadows, undead drag themselves free from their tombs, and old, ancient evils stir once more. If the displaced people would rebuild their lives, they need heroes to protect them. Finally at the top of the list after being #7 in 2022, and #6 in 2023!

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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL EN WORLD MOST ANTICIPATED TABLETOP RPG OF THE YEAR

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#​	2013​	2015​	2016​	2017​	2018​	2019​	2020​	2021​	2022​	2023​
1​	13th Age​	Star Wars Force & Destiny​	Rifts for Savage Worlds​	Trudvang Chronicles​	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition​	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition​	Dune​	Dune/ Twilight2000 (joint)​	Blade Runner​	King Arthur Pandragon 6E​
2​	Numenera​	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition​	Mutant Crawl Classics​	Tales from the Loop​	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition​	Pathfinder 2nd Edition​	Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying​	-​	Broken Tales​	Dragonbane​
3​	Star Wars Edge of the Empire​	Unified Rolemaster​	7th Sea 2nd Edition​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Lex Arcana​	Cyberpunk Red​	The One Ring (2nd Edition)​	Pendragon 6E​	13th Age 2nd Edition​
4​	Shadowrun 5th Edition​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Star Trek Adventures​	Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG​	The Expanse​	Fallout​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​	Avatar Legends​	Household​
5​	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition​	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls​	DCC Lankhmar​	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of​	RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha​	Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition​	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound​	Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)​	Mothership 1E​	Mothership 1E​
6​	Firefly​	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition​	RuneQuest 4​	Starfinder​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Dune RPG​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Rivers of London​	Rivers of London​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​
7​	Fate Core​	Feng Shui 2​	Torg: Eternity​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory​	John Carter of Mars​	Rivers of London​	Pathfinder for Savage Worlds​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	The Walking Dead Universe​
8​	Hillfolk​	Fantasy AGE​	Blue Rose AGE​	Coriolis​	The Expanse​	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition​	Stargate​	Brancalonia - The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG​	Cy-Borg​	Warhammer 4Ok Imperium Maledictum​
9​	Torchbearer​	Paranoia​	Paranoia​	Delta Green Roleplaying Game​	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition​	Things from the Flood​	Fading Suns 4E​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Old Gods of Appalachia​
10​	-​	Shadows of the Demon Lord​	Delta Green​	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E​	Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny​	Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD​	Cortex Prime​	SLA Industries, 2nd Edition​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5e​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​

 

[TrippyHippy]

The only one interesting to me is Pendragon, which is really just a holdover from 2023 to be honest.

Ars Magica was announced too late to make the list, unfortunately. Pioneer probably doesn’t excite this crowd as much as it does me. There is also the looming cloud of the D&D ‘NotANewEdition’ coming too, of course.....

 

[harunmushod]

The only one interesting to me is Pendragon, which is really just a holdover from 2023 to be honest

Holdover from 2021.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Lots of delays can happen too, even to the big companies, so when Monty Python got pushed back from a planned October 2023 release and into 2024, I was not surprised, as it is a smaller company putting it out That is a very ambitious project and the original time frame was just not long enough.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A bunch of good games here, but none have me as eager as Deathmatch Island, which holy moley, am I pumped for.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Probably not until we see the 2D20 version of the Cthulhu Jane Austin simulator.

We are nowhere near peak Jane Austen saturation. There is a vast, vast appetite for Regency content, in a largely underserved segment of the RPG market.

Next to anime or Studio Ghibli-inflected fantasy games and settings, I'd say a Regency RPG or game -- important caveat: word of which has to reach that underserved RPG audience -- is probably the genre with the most growth potential.

 

[Mark Craddock]

My enthusiasm has soured on Tales of the Valiant based on what I've seen of it so far. I was hoping for a bit more divergent design. However, Level Up has replaced it for me and I'm a big fan of Shadow of the Weird Wizard.

 

[TheSword]

2 of these (Tales of the Valiant and Daggerheart, but not Dolmenwood) probably wouldn't have appeared and along with Shadowdark (already out) and MCDM (not due until 2025) constitute a fair dent in WotC's future RPG earnings. Indeed, Tales of the Valiant, Shadowdark and MCDM were all million dollar plus kickstarters, and Daggerheart by Critical Role may outsell them all.

It only represents a dent in earnings if the people buying these haven’t already bought a 5e phb (possibly DMG too). There’s no guarantee they would have bought the Anniversary editions. Not to mention that supporting MCDM or one of the others doesn’t also mean they won’t get the new books.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Holdover from 2021.

Well, it was more that they released the Start Set last year, with an implication that there was more to follow - however, we are still waiting. Apparently, the new core rules will be with us in March.

And if you think its been a long wait, I’ve been waiting since 2017 for the Morte D’Arthur Kickstarter to be delivered - it is apparently very close now too, according to Chaosium (who, to be fair, only took over the campaign later on).

 

[EthanSental]

Seeing the Weird wizard on 3 years in a row and a quick google search shows Robert’s site mentioned this in august of 2020, I can see why it might have lost some steam waiting for it to get launched. 411k and now has an august 2024 expected delivery. Wow that’s a while and ties in with a wide range of development times.

 

[mamba]

Seeing the Weird wizard on 3 years in a row and a quick google search shows Robert’s site mentioned this in august of 2020, I can see why it might have lost some steam waiting for it to get launched. 411k and now has an august 2024 expected delivery. Wow that’s a while and ties in with a wide range of development times.

well, it is the most anticipated one now, not sure that qualifies as a loss of steam. The KS was last year, the launch date has always been 8/2024, nothing has slipped yet, and that is for the printed books, the PDFs should be out sooner