News Digest for February 9, 2025

Hello everyone, Darryl here with the summary of this week’s gaming news from EN World.

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EN Publishing News

• For a quick summary of the week’s news, Jessica Hancock will bring you up to speed with EN Live's This Week in TTRPG every Friday.
• Don’t forget, you can keep up with all the week’s gaming news in detail with Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk.
• This week on Not DnD, Jessica teases what’s to come for February.
• In April 2025, the EN5ider is switching formats to a full monthly magazine.

EN World Feature Columns

• Christian Hoffer examines the differences between monsters in the 2014 and 2024 Monster Manual: Aarakocra, Aboleth, Air Elemental, and Ankheg.
• Charles Dunwoody interviewed Amanda Lee Franck and Zedeck Siew about A Perfect Wife, an adventure inspired by Malaysian folklore.
• M.T. Black continues his journey through RPG periodicals past with Dragon Reflections #89 covering the September 1984 issue of Dragon.
• Lewis Pulsipher’s newest Worlds of Design talks about the rising prices of RPG book production.
• Michael Tresca’s newest RPG Evolution examines the goblin skull paint holder.
• Don’t miss out on the newest RPG crowdfunding projects ending soon with Egg Embry’s RPG Crowdfunding News.
• Keep up with all the new print RPG releases with Charles Dunwoody’s RPG Print News.
• Find the big TTRPG sales, bundles, and charity fundraisers with the Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles News.

Tabletop Roleplaying News

• EN World interviews Jeremy Crawford: The Monster Manual, new Eberron book, and more.
• Former Wizards of the Coast releases Day 1 Errata for Monster Manual.
• D&D 5e Lead Designer Mike Meals speaks out, talking about the OGL crisis, states he was not fired from D&D, and claims that D&D is uncool again.
• Pathfinder 2nd Edition to add Jotunborn Ancestry in Battlecry.

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