Recent content by Christian Hoffer

Because there was such a glut of late 2025 releases (September through December had a monthly release), it's not really surprising that D&D passed on a Direct this year. They had books to sell this year - it would have diluted the marketing to hype up 2026 at 2025's expense. You can keep people...

Ugh - Google results are borked to the point that when I searched for the initial announcement dates, the best I could find was the January 2025 announcements. 2024/early 2025 was a rough time for me personally, so I can't remember ANYTHING from those time periods. I'll update the announcements...

Dungeons & Dragons fans seem to have short memories based on the number of speculative articles wondering why Wizards of the Coast hasn't announced any new books for next year. Over the past few weeks, various D&D blogs have speculated about the lack of 2026 announcements. Yes, Wizards of the...

The most likely answer to this is that D&D's marketing cycle has been focused on the glut of new releases that only ended earlier this month. Then, marketing didn't want to compete with the holidays. The 2025 releases outside of the Monster Manual weren't announced until January 2025. I'd...

Two new Dungeons & Dragons workbooks are coming out next year to help players and DMs workshop various parts of the DM. In May 2026, Penguin Random House will release The Dungeon Master's Workbook of Worldbuilding and The Player's Workbook of Epic Adventures, two interactive workbooks intended...

From what it sounds like, he wanted to take a step back from video games and focus more on TTRPGs. Wizards seems keen on keeping him in the fold - they let him release that DMs Guild content and the Exodus TTRPG, so it appears they’re trading off him being involved in a day to day capacity in...

Reading the original Bloomberg report, it appears that he asked to shift his focus to tabletop gaming. It's under paywall, so I didn't have access to it initially.

From what I understand, it was work that originally was going to be published at Arcanum Worlds as DMs Guild material, but was released as a Wizards of the Coast-branded product with sales proceeds going towards charity when he joined the company.

James Ohlen is "shifting his focus" to tabletop RPGs once more after choosing to step down from Archetype Entertainment ahead of the studio's release of its first game Exodus. This week, Wizards of the Coast announced the move, with Ohlen leaving his post as lead of Archetype Entertainment and...

Game designer Justice Ramin Arman has been internally promoted to the position of Game Design Director for Dungeons & Dragons. Arman announced the news yesterday over on Linkedin, and later specified what the role entails over on Discord. As Game Design Director, Arman will be responsible for...

I did reach out to Wizards about this earlier today, just to get some clarity on whether this promotion was the Principal Game Designer role that was advertised a few months ago.