The Future of RPGs in 2026? (MD 273)

Episode 273 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: The Future of RPGs in 2026? Teos and Shawn look at 2025’s huge impacts on RPGs and what 2026 might hold for our hobby! News: Daggerheart’s Executive Success, James Haek and Introcaso Changes, City 26, and more! Contents 00:00 Intro 00:59 Mastering DnD the RPG? 07:55 How to Get Noticed? 17:08 Tim Kask Passes 19:38 Daggerheart's Executive Success 25:17 James Haek Joins WotC 25:55 Who Replaces James on Lorecast??? 27:25 James Introcaso Focuses on Crows 29:11 D&D and Court Rooms 30:06 Seniors and Dragons 30:56 City '26 Challenge 32:38 Jeff Stevens on 2025 2026 33:30 Crack the Sun Success 35:32 Looking Back at D&D in 2025 40:02 WotC's Positive Moves 42:13 Crawford and Perkins Join Critical Role 45:14 Economic Uncertainty 49:12 AI Slop 50:03 Cosmere, Daggerheart, Draw Steel 55:28 What Might 2026 Offer for D&D? 01:06:30 Will the Hobby Grow? 01:09:21 More Big RPGs? 01:11:05 If We Had 1 Wish! 01:15:10 Shout-Outs 01:19:34 What Are We Gonna Do? Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/  Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.