Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’s 5th Edition has landed on-scene, and a week in we’re beginning to see some early impressions and reviews start to percolate throughout the media ecosystem.

Cubicle 7 Games had promised from the jump that this wouldn’t be a complete reinvention of the system, but rather an iteration of it that would allow for backwards compatibility. With the rules now available in the wild, early impressions have naturally focused more on comparing the differences between the two rather than assessing it as an entirely separate entity.

Today we’ll take a look at a few excerpts from these first looks into the new game which, as we’ll see, continues to hold a strong position on the DriveThruRPG’s Top 200 sellers listings.

Careless Conjuration

Ill Met by Morrlieb

The Professional Casual

The Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Subreddit

Finally, for those preferring a deep-dive video review Dungeons & Dyslexia has you covered this week.

Overall a lot of good first looks and impressions, with plenty more to coming in trhe days ahead as players both get a chance to examine it more closely- as well as put it into play at their table.

RPG Bestsellers

Warhammer RPG Titles in the Top 200:

• #2 (-1) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Fifth Edition Core Rulebook

• #18 (-4). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #103 (-10). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #114 (-26). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #148 (+6). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

Total Books in Top 200: 5 (-1)

With the Cosmere RPG hitting PDF this week, their offerings dominated the top ten. Still, it was nice to see the Fifth Edition Core Rulebook holding steady, and indeed at time of writing it appears to have reclaimed the summit1.

Talagaad Adventures slipped from the Top 200 this week, but most of the others remained relatively steady.

ICYMI

• Careless Conjuration’s series, GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within, covered Chapters 4-5 of the campaign. This series aims to make running the campaign smoother for GM’s, pulling together disjointed parts of the adventure as well as drawing on their own experience at having done so, and makes for very interesting reading.

• Awesome Lies, meanwhile, posted some bonus content shared by Salzenmund: City of Salt and Silver author Simon Wileman: the plans for Salzenmund Castle!

• Miniature Realms took a dive into the worldbuilding side of things, asking “is the new lore working?”

• Finally, more broadly RPG related is this piece from Nerd Ogre I found interesting, which examines the cost of RPG PDF’s.

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming physical releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping Spring 2027

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Core Rulebook (standard hardcover)

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Core Rulebook (collector’s edition)

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Character Sheets

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Reikland Dice Set

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Monsters & Adversaries Deck

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Conditions & Injuries Deck

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Reikland Map

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed County

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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With just a few weeks to spare, Cubicle 7 Games has kept its promise for the release of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’s 5th Edition, and the PDF versions are now in the wild!

The appetite for the release is certainly there- as we’ll see in a moment the title shot to the top of the DriveThruRPG’s Top 200 sellers. How many of these were PDF orders versus preorders of the physical product is impossible for us to know, but the pricing model hews fairly close to the x → 2x → 4x formula for digital, standard hardcover, and collector’s edition.

The collector’s edition (pictured above) is beautiful. You can say what you want about their level of editing (and many do1), but the design department holds to a consistent standard of excellence. It’s surely not chance that C7’s ENNIE Award this year was won in the Best Layout and Design category.

In my occasional series here, Black Library Bibliophiles, I’ve looked at different ways to decorate your library with things from Warhammer coins to JOYTOY helmets, and attractively-designed RPG books certainly can add flair to any library.

As for what’s inside the book, we’re already just starting to see community comparisons and dialogue with more features, videos, and articles sure to come!

A Bundle of Fun

C7 is once again putting together bundle deals for the game’s launch, as it has done with past titles. The “Karl Franz” is the top tier, a “give me one of everything” collection that knocks 10% off the price of buying everything individually. Then there’s the “Reikland” bundle (the collector’s edition only and all the extras), and the “Free Company” which does the same but with the standard edition, not collector’s.

It’s worth noting that based on past performance, maps (such as the Reikland one offered here) tend to be fulfilled and shipped separately from the other physical goods. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since they are rolled and shipped in tubes- much preferable than folded for those that like to frame and display their maps.

Fulfillment for all physical items is expected to be Spring of next year.

RPG Bestsellers

Warhammer RPG Titles in the Top 200:

• #1 ( - ) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Fifth Edition Core Rulebook

• #14 ( +0 ). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #88 (-21). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #93 (+6). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #142 (+17). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #178 (-47). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

Total Books in Top 200: 6 (-1)

As noted earlier, this week saw the Fifth Edition rocket to the top of the charts. That’s thrilling news, though absent any actual data beyond relative chart position it’s impossible to know the degree of good. Sylvania: The Cursed County held strong at #14, and we even saw a couple of chart improvements in the Warhammer 40K Core Rulebooks. The Emperor provides!

ICYMI

• Careless Conjuration’s series, GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within, kept apace with an under-the-hood look at running Chapter 3 of the Enemy Within campaign.

• With WFRP’s Fifth Edition now available, here’s Ill Met by Morrslieb with a first impressions piece for the new book!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming physical releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping Spring 2027

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Core Rulebook (standard hardcover)

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Core Rulebook (collector’s edition)

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Character Sheets

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Reikland Dice Set

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Monsters & Adversaries Deck

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Conditions & Injuries Deck

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Reikland Map

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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One of my favorite things to do when traveling is to visit the local Warhammer store wherever I go. I do a fair amount of roving, mostly on account of my kids being hockey players in Kentucky. If you happen to be in Massachusetts or Minnesota, Michigan or New York you likely enjoy a fairly robust density of youth hockey teams in your area.

In Kentucky, your ass is hittin’ the road.

I always try to pick up a little something for myself on each of these visits. Whether it’s a Scribbus Wretch, The Tallyman mini in Cleveland or a massive Black Library shopping spree in Cincinnati (YottaQuest FTW), it’s fun to have my Black Library Museum decorated with little keepsakes and mementos from different parts of the country.

As some of you may know (especially those that also enjoy the Black Library content here), we’ve been spending a lot of time in Houston recently as a result of my wife being accepted for a clinical trial at MD Anderson. With the trial now concluded, we bid farewell to Texas by stopping in at the Warhammer Store & Cafe in Grapevine. North America’s flagship Warhammer store, it was definitely on my list of things to do here in Texas and this was the last chance I’d get.

I could easily have lost a few hours inside, but of course with the long drive to Louisville ahead of me I had to be economical with time. But it was a delight to see a store that so richly wore its heart and history on its sleeve. Boxes on the walls from different product releases from the game’s early days, museum-quality display shelves of miniatures and dioramas, and even some replica items housed away in an Inquisitorial display. With the gaming table area done up like an Astra Militarum base it was a LARPer’s dream.

I was saddened to see, though, that despite being the top store in North America, it’s role-playing stock was little better than my standard-issue-size store back in Louisville. I’d have taken a picture but there wasn’t much to see- three copies of the Soulbound Starter Set and a copy of the Elector Counts card game, stuck on a rack with the officially licensed hats and dress ties.

It was completely uninspired, and if that what you based your judgment and expectation of Warhammer role-playing on, you’d likely conclude that our part of the hobby was- at best- an afterthought.

It’s not as if officially licensed merchandise wasn’t prominently displayed there, as one whole wall was given over to another licensed partner, Warhammer Art. But alas, Cubicle 7 seems to get little love in the official retail space.

In fairness, I understand that Games Workshop mainly considers itself to be in the miniatures business, and with retail space tight in many of their locations they may be understandably reticent to devote precious space to something that, well, isn’t miniatures. But by the same token, there’s certainly some value in representing Warhammer as a broad property with many points of entry.

Given the rarity of coverage of Warhammer RPG’s on Warhammer Community, I’d argue this is more a company culture issue than a retail space issue. And to be abundantly clear, I’m not putting my disappointment on the very friendly Staff of the Grapevine store, either. They can only work with what they’ve been sent.

Rather, it feels like in licensing out production of the Warhammer role-playing games to another company, they’ve similarly offloaded the entire segment into the care of its own ecosystem (non-GW tabletop and board game stores).

Given how much IP Games Workshop churns out, this goes in the other direction as well. This was the focus behind my recent Bladeborn Goes Soulbound piece, crafting RPG assets from some of the underutilized creative work from GW. Expect more of this content ahead, and not just for Age of Sigmar.

I won’t boil this ocean today, but needless to say bridging the gap continues to be something that weighs on my mind. With that said, let’s get to the games!

RPG Bestsellers

Warhammer RPG Titles in the Top 200:

• #14 (-3). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #67 (-10). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #99 ( - ). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #131 (-80). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #134 ( - ). Warhammer Fantasy 4ª Edition: Guía de Juego: Enanos

• #159 (-13). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #174 ( - ). Warhammer Fantasy 4ª Edition: Señores de la Piedra y el Acero

Total Books in Top 200: 7 ( +1 )

• #192 ( - ): Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition: Core Rulebook

Sadly, we bid farewell to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition’s Core Rulebook, which slipped off the table after climbing back on at #192. That said, it was interesting to see some WFRP 4th Edition translations from Devir chart today. The Spanish translations of both the Dwarf Player’s Guide as well as the Lords of Stone and Steel made their debuts, suggesting that either Dwarf characters suddenly became very popular with the Spanish-speaking community, or the translations hit the market this week. I’m guessing the latter.

ICYMI

• Interest in Imperium Maledictum seems to be growing, and Ill Met by Morrslieb took the opportunity to deliver a terrific review of the game’s Starter Set.

• Speaking of reviews, here’s a look at Warhammer: The Old World RPG by Nightharrow Gaming, too!

• Careless Conjuration resumed its terrific GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within series this week, pivoting next to kicking off Death on the Reik.

• This was an excellent piece from Miniature Realms this week on Warhammer: The Old World and its lack of support in the official house organs of Games Workshop. It’s focused on the tabletop, not the role-playing game, but the points about the opportunities for better support are worth considering for us on the RPG side as well. This is one reason why Codex Discordia (covered last week here) has been so intriguing!

• Not directly Warhammer related, but one piece on Substack I really enjoyed this week was this one by the legendary Monte Cook. Entitled For Every Right Way, There’s a Wrong Way, he talks about the law of unintended consequences in game design.

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming physical releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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It was another week of excitement for us data nerds, with some fascinating information coming to light from the Director of Events at Gen Con on the Discord for Buried Giant Studios. He shared a list he’d compiled of the top games that had “underserved demand” at this year’s convention, by which he meant you had players wanting to play these games but insufficient event capacity to accommodate them all.

Here’s the list, kindly posted on Reddit by u/johnny0neal on Reddit, with the RPG’s in boldface:

1. Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG

2. Dungeons & Dragons1

3. Call of Cthulhu

4. Dungeon Crawler Carl Unstoppable

5. Kingdom Death: Monster

6. Cosmere RPG

7. Daggerheart

8. One Piece Card Game

9. Pathfinder

10. Shadowdark

11. Delta Green

12. Dungeon Crawl Classics

13. Alien

14. Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game

15. Draw Steel

16. Savage Worlds

17. Clank!

18. The One Ring

19. Vaesen

20. Lancer

21. Blades in the Dark

22. Mothership

23. Shadowrun

24. Starfinder

25. Vantage

26. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

27. Arcs

28. Cypher: Old Gods of Appalachia

While interesting, the list is a bit difficult to properly contextualize. After all, there are a number of reasons that might contribute to “underserved demand.” The first and probably most obvious is popularity. Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl property is having its moment right now, one that is sure to endure with the release up the upcoming television adaption. Not only that, but the game is currently in preorder, meaning this was the first chance most would have had to even play it.

This was surely the case for DCC2, which apparently had over a hundred scheduled games.

On the other hand, there’s surely a logistical component here too, given that games cannot run without proper coordination. Gaming tables require reservations, scheduling, and of course a sufficient quantity of GM’s to run each table.

If we imagine that Renegade Studios (DCC’s publisher) had managed to line up 150 tables, making sure everyone who wanted to play had a chance to, the game wouldn’t even make the list.

As a result, it’s difficult to know whether I should be disappointed or relieved to note the absence of any Warhammer RPG’s on the list, though I suspect not having enough tables to meet player demand could safely be filed under “nice problems to have.”

With the recent launch of Cubicle 7’s Warhammer: The Old World RPG, it’s difficult to get a sense of how the launch is going. C7 certainly will have their own internal metrics and benchmarks to gauge by, but for those of us out here in the general public we must try and figure all this out the hard way. This is one reason I’ve been tracking how Warhammer RPG’s have been performing each week on DriveThruRPG’s Top 200, but that too is a bit like reading the tea leaves.

With the release of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’s 5th Edition right around the corner, the questions loom even larger. It’s a topic I’ll be returning to in the columns ahead, and for today if I had to distill it down to a single point of focus, it would be this one:

How can we know if our favorite games are healthy?

Inching Closer

Speaking of the upcoming new edition of WFRP, this week Cubicle 7 posted a Q&A on its blog focused on what’s coming up. Issues touched on include:

• Why make a new edition?

• Backwards compatibility

• Edition change resistance in the playerbase

• Dice and mechanics

• Status of Warhammer: The Old World

• Product array

While there aren’t any concrete timelines given for things like product release and pre-orders, it’s certainly clear that the chatter around the game is intensifying. That suggests a release is imminent, so we shouldn't have much longer to wait.

Welcome Codex Discordia

Ordo Discordia is a Discord server dedicated to developing and sharing homebrew and fan-made content for the various Warhammer 40K TTRPG’s, and this week they kicked off an ambitious new project. Just as Dragon Magazine used to carry all sorts of additional optional rules and content for Dungeons & Dragons, so their new zine, Codex Discordia, will for Warhammer.

The debut issue dropped this week, with a wide spectrum of content for various Warhammer 40,000 RPG systems, including:

• Minotaur and Carcharodon Specialties (Deathwatch)

• First Aid Overhaul (Black Crusade, Only War and Dark Heresy 2nd)

• Tomb Worlds Awakening (All FFG)

• Trau’s Tech Tweaks (Dark Heresy 2nd and Only War)

• Scorpion-class Grand Clipper (Rogue Trader)

• On Black Crusade: An Essay (Black Crusade)

• Indomitus Terminator Armor (Deathwatch)

• Leman Russ Krankheit (Only War)

• Umanoid Abhumans (Dark Heresy 2nd and Only War)

• Enhanced Called Shots (FFG Systems)

• Capes in Only War (Only War)

• The Labourer Background (Dark Heresy 2nd)

• Mythodes Akmon (Custom d100 RPG)

• Reinforcements from Ouros-Senn (FFG Systems)

• The Mesotherach (FFG Systems)

• Warriors of the Star Child: Sensei Patrons (Imperium Maledictum)

• House Peregrine (Rogue Trader)

• Something Had Gone Terribly Wrong (Art & Fiction)

• Armamentarium Discordiae (FFG Systems)

While necessarily a bit plain in terms of presentation (those pesky licenses and all), I’m very excited to see where they go from here, this idea has a ton of potential!

RPG Bestsellers

Warhammer RPG Titles in the Top 200:

• #11 (-6). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #51 (-8). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #57 (-16). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #99 (-4). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #146 (-22). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #192 ( - ): Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition: Core Rulebook

Total Books in Top 200: 6 ( -1 )

Cubicle 7 lost ground this week, but not a lot. Indeed, any single-digit movement in either direction is more or less ‘holding firm,’ given the steady influx of products than come in and out of the site on a weekly basis.

Sadly, the two books of Imperium Maledictum’s Adeptus Mechanicus guides have slipped off the table, but we did get an unexpected burst of activity from WFRP’s 4th Edition Core Rulebook, so some good with the bad.

ICYMI

• Looking for more characters to fill your Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay world? Ill Met by Morrslieb offered up a review of Patrons of the Old World II this week.

• Meanwhile, AngelAnvar of Careless Conjuration has 5e on his mind, sharing three elements of the setting he’d love to see explored in the next edition.

• Not directly Warhammer related, but I really enjoyed this piece by Mollie Russell over at Wargamer, discussing Paizo’s treatment of metaplotting. If you’re not familiar with that term, it refers to RPG’s having big, major events that move the narrative of the game world forward- with or without your player characters.

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming physical releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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Warhammer wargame books and novels are packed with incredible drama, but they aren't written for the GM's screen. Each installment of RPG Conversions strips down the lore, builds the encounters, and adapts Warhammer's best stories for your favorite tabletop RPG systems.

Released in 2021, the Age of Sigmar: Bladeborn box combined the warband skirmishing of Warcry with the hex-based movement of Underworlds. As with most of Games Workshop’s other board game releases, it’s intended as a pick-up-and-play release that can serve as a gateway into the mainline game ranges.

Setting up on opposite sides of the board were two Chaos warbands, Khagra’s Ravagers and the Godsworn Hunt, and today we’ll be adapting both to the Soulbound RPG.

With the recent release of Soulbound: Champions of Chaos, GM’s have plenty of options to use one of both of them to spice up their player’s adventures. Whether as allies or adversaries, each bring something very different to the table and we’ll have a number of tips for integrating them into the campaign.

Finally, for the avoidance of doubt these are an unofficial adaption, the result of my own work and not intended to represent Games Workshop or Cubicle 7 Games. As GM, you’re the final arbiter of what you use at the table, so feel free to adjust any aspects you like to suit your tastes and preferences!

About this Conversion

I’ve long been one of those folks who enjoy picking up old Warhammer tabletop books just for the lore. Used bookshops are terrific for this, and when I recently found the Warcry: Tome of Champions 2021 book at Half-Price Books for six bucks, well, I couldn’t resist.

Within was an absolute treasure trove of game data for all sorts of different warbands, and as I flipped through the pages it didn’t take long for the GM in me to wonder how they might translate to the role-playing realm.

In creating the Soulbound NPC profiles for each of the two warbands, I looked not only at their Warcry: Tome of Champions entry but also their Age of Sigmar warscrolls and Underworld cards, to try and get the best overall sense of each character. Because these are both Chaos-aligned, I drew from Soulbound: Champions of Chaos for some of their makeup. If you don’t yet have access to Soulbound: Champions of Chaos, feel free to make any necessary substitutions.

Khagra’s Ravagers

Khagra’s Ravagers are an elite, four-member Slaves to Darkness warband- one riven by internal power dynamics that are never far from once more boiling into the open.

At its heart are the sisters Kharga the Usurper and Zarshia Bittersoul, whose uneasy relationship provides plenty of opportunity to drag players into their web of scheming and betrayal.

One of the first things I looked at when building Khagra was mapping her unit point value in the wargame to her adversary tier in Soulbound, developing a guideline that would help me determine the potency of each member of the warband:

• Chosen: 180+ points

• Champion: 105-179 points

• Warrior: 50-114 points1

• Minion: <50 points

Khagra easily clears the Chosen tier, opening up the opportunity for Wounds and Mettle to help make her a truly formidable presence2. She also has a few bespoke traits that help bring her to life.

Runic Shield-Ward is a carryover from her tabletop ruleset, which allows her the opportunity to damage from magical attacks. It’s only a one-third chance, but such are the fickle whims of Chaos!

The Sibling Rivalry traits bring the warband’s core personality dynamic to mechanical life. As each strives to outdo the other, they gain a bonus when seeing the other successful on the battlefield (you’ll see the other half of this in a moment).

Finally, Desecration reflects Khagra’s wicked delight in despoiling and corrupting the sacred spaces of her enemies. This is another nod to her objective-centered tabletop origins, but can give her a situational boost perfect for the climactic final battle of an adventure!

Bittersoul Backlash is a potent attack that’s a nod to Zarshia’s skirmishing origins. She can dish out some solid damage, but she won’t be able to do it for long- especially if she starts drawing fire of her own.

Mask of Darkness is a nifty bit of battlefield generalship, teleporting one of her warband to where they’re most needed. Often that will be springing an ambush on their enemies, but can also be used in a pinch if she’s under threat to being in a defender.

Finally, Zarshia’s Spite is her version of Sibling Rivalry. Each time Khagra lays someone low, her rage fuels a surge of mystical might.

Note also that under attacks she’s got Dark Magic, which is in keeping with her Warcry abilities. It’s a streamlined option for quicker combat, but feel free to substitute standard castings of Chaos Bolt instead.

Not a very inspiring bio, is it. Clearly the sisters are the personalities in the group, with Razek and Cragan serving more or less as their mooks. Of course, given the intrigue between the sisters you certainly will have opportunities to flesh out his personality as you like.

Dour Cragan’s model shows him dual-wielding a broadsword and axe, but he also has a shield strapped to his back. I’ve given him statlines for both stances, letting him adapt to battlefield conditions as he sees fit.

When more offense is called for, the two blades give him considerable flexibility on the offense given Soulbound’s dual wielding rules. On the other hand, Cragan didn’t get where he is by being a fool; if he’s up against any magical attacks he knows he’s better protected due to Runic Shield-Ward.

How to Use Khagra’s Ravagers

While Bladeborn intended for Khagra’s Ravagers and the Godsworn Hunt to be well-matched, under Soulbound’s conversion that goes right out the window in large part due to the Ravagers’ heavy armor. They’re certainly the stronger of the two, so canny players may try to exploit the tensions between the two sisters before combat is even joined3.

For heroic parties, the Ravagers make great opponents for adventures tied to a particular location, such as a consecrated holy site or a Sigmarite temple. Here Khagra’s Desecration ability can come to bear as she tries to profane that which is sacred.

Alternately, rather than having the party defend a location, they could be tasked with investigating a source of corruption. Perhaps the fish in a river feeding a town start to die off mysteriously, the water turning a strange and unsettling color. Players investigating would eventually find Khagra and her warband set up in a ruined outpost upstream, introducing unspeakable concoctions into the water to weaken the town before a raid. What constitutes a “narrative objective” for the purposes of her ability is wide open and entirely up to the GM.

The Godsworn Hunt

Much more volatile and unpredictable are the members of the Godsworn Hunt, a warband of more mobile harriers and harassers as compared to the hammer-meets-anvil brute force of the Ravagers. Players whose members include Stormcast Eternals will find them particularly nettlesome…

Theddra Skull-Scryer is a Chosen, and leader of the warband. Pact of Soul and Iron reflects her oath to hunt down the chosen and favored of Sigmar, allowing her to reroll 1’s in her attack pool.

Skull-Scryer’s Enfeeblement is her signature withering ensorcellment, and makes her a very nasty opponent against those who rely heavily on armor to shield them in battle, while Oath of Conquest is a powerful (if situational) ability she can use to bolster the defenses of her and her warband when they need to hold ground.

Finally, the Oathstone that she carries can give her extra Mettle once per battle- but at a cost in blood should she fail her vow. Note how this synergizes with her Oath of Conquest, and using both in tandem can really give her an edge.

As with Zarshia Bittersoul, I’ve streamlined her magical offense as an Attack (Gorespeaking Bolt), but this can easily be reverted to the more rule-compliant approach.

The official lore notes that Grundann wields “heavy blades,” but the model shows him brandishing a great axe so that’s how he’s been built. Toof-taker’s Oath is his secret weapon, upping his combat effectiveness whenever he takes down an opponent. When he lays down by the campfire at night, he dreams of chaining this ability across multiple turns.

Shond, too, has his abilities optimized for hunting down armored prey. Using this warband most effectively will require some tactical prioritization, as they’re somewhat ‘glass cannons’ due to their nimble, unarmored bodies. Trying to slog it out toe-to-toe heedless of their own vulnerabilities will see these Darkoath warriors falling quite short of their potential.

In a nod to her tabletop skirmishing abilities, Jagathra’s at her most dangerous when wielding The Bound Javelin. She not only can throw it multiple times in combat, but once per battle she can really lean in and give it an extra kick.

Ollo’s Swift Hunter ability reflects his skirmishing, hit-and-run nature. He’s well-suited towards being an absolute pest if the warband comes across the party in difficult terrain, able to pepper his enemies with his bow while racing away once detected.

Where Ollo goes, Grawl is sure to follow. Every bit as Nimble as his trainer, parking Grawl where enemies are thickest will help the warband make bloody work of their foes.

How to Use the Godsworn Hunt

As I’ve noted in the character bios, the strength of this warband is tied to how the GM employs them rather than simple combat mastery. The Hunt is at its best when it can harry and wear down foes from a distance before going in for the kill. If you just throw them in from of a party as combat fodder they’re going to lose a lot of their effectiveness.

With Ollo and Jagathra able to harass from range, once the party has been suitably weakened the rest of the warband can trigger their ambush. Grawl is best used in the thick of it, buffing the rest of the Hunt in taking down a priority target. Shond and Grundann are your melee skirmishers, with Theddra lethally working the margins.

To integrate the Hunt into an adventure, it may be best to not let the party know about them at all. Whatever objective the players are seeking has also been the subject of one of Theddra’s visions from the Ruinous Powers. They may find themselves feeling watched, or their camp turned over and ruined while they’re away. As every step becomes dogged and pursued, the players begin to realize the nature of the threat arrayed against them and must find a way to turn the tables, hunting the hunters. This scenario works for both a Binding party as well as a Champions of Chaos one.

For a more role-playing scenario, play up Theddra’s mysticism. Perhaps they find a remote settlement that has come under her sway after the Hunt chased off a nearby threat from orruks, slowly being turned to worship of the dark gods by their ‘saviors.’ The party will need to investigate to find evidence of the true nature of the rituals Theddra’s been enacting, all the while taking pains to avoid crossing the grateful (but misguided) townsfolk.

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the debut of RPG Conversions as much as I’ve enjoyed tinkering in the amazing toolbox that is Soulbound. These are just my visions for these characters in a way that pays homage to their tabletop origins while keeping them fun and easy to use in a campaign or adventure, and I’d love to hear yours. And if you’ve got a favorite warband you’d like to see appear in these pages, drop a comment below!

Some weeks are certainly more exciting than others, and as the RPG industry takes a collective (if brief) sigh of relief in the wake of another exciting GEN CON, it’s hard to blame anyone for the lack of news or updates.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, right?

But since there’s not a lot to report in the wider world of Warhammer RPG’s, I’m happy to share some updates on things here at the Wordforge.

The first Warhammer RPG Roundup- back then known as the RPG Sitrep- debuted this past April, intended as a companion piece to Black Library Weekly which has been running every Monday now for about a year and a half1. This was the opening phase of my aim to expand the Substack to cover both Black Library fiction as well as Warhammer role-playing game content.

Phase Two sees the introduction of reviews of RPG content, and that threshold was crossed recently with our recent look at the Arbites-themed Lex Imperialis supplement from Cubicle 7 Games, intended for play with the Wrath & Glory system. That was the first of what I’d like to have as a regular feature here on the site.

The third phase is one I’m especially excited about, as it’s something I’ve been keen to do for a long time: the sharing of new, (unofficial) content for Warhammer RPG’s. I’ve long marveled at just how much incredible content Games Workshop develops, the overwhelming share of which never comes anywhere near the RPG table.

For other examples of some of the content I have in mind for the series, check out this piece I wrote for Tabletop Battles. Lore & More: The Nachmund Gauntlet Crusade Deep Dive examines the Crusade narrative tabletop wargame supplement through the lens of RPG adventure sourcebooks, full of lore summaries and setting-agnostic adventure hooks.

Or here, where I looked to adapt Shield of Baal’s Deathstorm, the Black Library novella from Josh Reynolds that pits Blood Angels against Tyranids.

I can’t wait to get started, and this upcoming series I’m calling RPG Conversions will debut tomorrow with a little something for all you Soulbound GM’s out there.

So maybe not such a slow news week after all?

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #5 ( - ). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #41 (-13). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #43 (-2). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #95 (+19). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #124 (+6). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #168 (-5). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #192 (-6). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

Total Books in Top 200: 7 ( - )

The same seven books are holding it down pretty well lately in the Top 200, and didn’t give a lot of ground easily! Indeed, the two Core Rulebooks for Cubicle 7’s Warhammer 40K RPG’s both managed to claw their way up the ladder a little. This makes two consecutive weeks of ascent for Wrath & Glory, and long way it last!

In the wake of Paizo’s move this week onto the platform, it’s little surprise that Pathfinder/Starfinder titles immediately started to make their presence known. It remains to be seen what further impact the move will have on the Top 200, but we’ll find out this time next week!

ICYMI

• Cubicle 7 Games posted a teaser piece this morning for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition. It doesn’t break any new ground other than to just remind us that it’s going to be out this Summer, and with the season a little more than half over it shouldn’t be much longer!

• Awesome Lies dropped a new review this week, taking a look at one of their more beloved releases, Salzenmund: City of Salt and Silver, “something truly first-rate.”

• If, like me, you see the Arcane Journals as terrific grist for the RPG idea mill, Miniature Realms has a review of the newest, The March of Chaos.

• Not specifically Warhammer, but one piece I found very interesting on RPG Substack this week was this one by Baron De Ropp, Publishing Your Homebrew is Easier than you Think.

• Finally, for you Wrath & Glory players, don’t miss our recent review of the new Lex Imperialis supplement here.

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming physical releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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Founded in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World, the ENNIEs are considered one of the role-playing world’s most prestigious honors. While both Morrissey and EN World are no longer a part, they continue to recognize excellence in the RPG industry.

It’s an interesting process that combines both expert judging as well as democratic voting. The panel of judges are elected by the voting public, and then serve to deliver a shortlist of finalists for each award. That goes back in front of the public for final voting, with the winners being announced at that year’s GEN CON.

Cubicle 7’s Warhammer: The Old World Player’s Guide won Best Layout & Design Gold this week, the thirteenth ENNIE in the company’s history. Previous Warhammer-related awards include a 2024 Silver for Best Monster/Adversary for Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory’s Threat Assessment Xenos and another Silver in 2023 for Best Production Values for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’s The Enemy Within - Empire in Ruins Collector's Edition.

Congrats to Claudio Canellas Dias, the designer, and all at Cubicle 7!

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #5 (-3). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed County

• #28 (-22). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #41 (-13). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #114 (+7). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #130 (-11). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #163 (-49). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #186 (-35). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

Total Books in Top 200: 7 ( - )

A fairly static week overall saw the same seven books hanging on in the top 200. While they may have lost a little ground overall, that’s typically natural as the earlier adopters have already snatched up their copies. Even with some of the criticism around Sylvania: The Cursed County that we touched on last week, it still remains a top-5 title on DriveThruRPG.

ICYMI

• Since starting the Warhammer Wordforge, I’ve had a roadmap of how I’d like to grow and develop the site. I crossed a new milestone this past week offering up my first RPG review with this look at Wrath & Glory’s new Lex Imperialis mini-supplement. If you’ve been wanting to play an Arbites in your campaign, now’s your chance!

• Jeff McAleer of The Gaming Gang used his time well at GEN CON this year, locking in a half an hour to sit down with Dominic McDowall of Cubicle 7 Games for an interview. They talked about:

  • Warhammer: The Old World thoughts, initial reception, and what’s next

  • WFRP 5th Edition update, and backwards compatability

  • Wrath & Glory campaign is in development

  • Horus Heresy update1

  • …and more!

• Careless Conjuration continued its series The GM’s Guide to The Enemy Within, bringing things to their final, epic conclusion this week.

• Abe Apfel of Bell of Lost Souls talked about five lore changes that have caught his eye this week in the new Warhammer: The Old World rulebook. While he’s talking about the tabletop wargame here, they do have some potential RPG inplications.

• Also at GEN CON, Cubicle 7 held a seminar on Sunday dedicated to a discussion around 40 years of WFRP. While I haven’t seen the recording of it yet, u/The_New_Doctor took notes!

• Finally, I missed linking this in last week, but there was an interesting featurette on the Cubicle 7 blog about the cover design of Sylvania: The Cursed County. It’s not often artists get to step out onstage and talk about the work they contribute, so it’s always welcome when they do!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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What is it about law enforcement and ambushes, am I right? Speed traps, 5 AM bangs on the door, twenty-page Wrath & Glory supplements showing up out of nowhere…

Okay, so maybe one of those things is not quite like the others. This week saw the unannounced drop of Lex Imperialis, the Adeptus Arbites-themed supplement that brings the long arm of the Emperor to your Wrath & Glory table. Today we’ll be taking a look at what lies within, and see if it’s all we’d have hoped for.

Law & Order

As I talked about a bit in the most recent Warhammer RPG Weekly column, the Arbites have been having a bit of a moment for themselves lately. While the last time the Black Library took a sizable walk in their boots was with Matthew Farrer’s Shira Calpurnia trilogy (2003-2006)1, they did play an important role in Dan Abnett’s recent blockbuster, Hive. They’ve also been playable on the tabletop with Kill Team’s Exaction Squad, as well as in the video game realm in both Warhammer 40,000: Darktide from Fatshark and Owlcat’s Rogue Trader CRPG.

While this isn’t the first time that the Protectors of the Tithe have been playable in the world of Warhammer role-playing (they were a core career path in Fantasy Flight Games’ Dark Heresy in 2008), this is their welcome into the worlds of Cubicle 7 Games.

The new Lex Imperialis is one of the publisher’s digital-only mini-supplements, coming in at twenty pages of content with a sticker price of USD $5.

Let’s dive in.

Scarin’ the Nation

Lex Imperialis includes a lot more than just “guns and ammunition,2” offering a wealth of new toys for players to try out during their career in law enforcement.

Six New Archetypes

Players get a half-dozen new classes that represent the various forces of the Adeptus Arbites. Five of them are Tier 2, while for higher-power campaigns there’s the option of the Tier 4 Proctor-Exactant.

While this seems like a gap for Tier 3, remember that Wrath & Glory allows players to “upscale” their Tier 2 characters into Tier 3 “veteran” versions, so this isn’t the oversight it may appear. Let’s start by taking a look at the Tier 2 options:

• Arbitrator. Sort of your generalist lawman, their special ability The Eye of the Lex allows them to mark a single enemy, granting the entire team bonus dice to attack rolls against it. Unlike the others, whose special abilities are largely self-benefitting, the Arbitrator is a natural support and combat leader for the entire party.

• Castigator. Those badass Arbites you’ve seen with the riot shields and mauls? That’s these guys, the melee specialists. Whenever they take out a foe with a melee weapon, they can do it with an added flash of unbridled sadism that can destroy the will to fight of any foes still upright.

• Chirurgant. Your medicae. They get a bonus to healing when ministering to Arbites characters, but can also quite happily use their powers in the other direction when interrogating a suspect. When doing so, not only do they get a bonus to any such Test but if they’re successful, the group also gets 1 point of Glory.

• Leashmaster. Just like Solomorne Anthar in Rogue Trader, the Leashmaster is seldom seen without his trusty Cyber-mastiff sidekick. Their special ability is fairly tepid- they’re more intimidating when their buddy is nearby- but c’mon, it’s a pet class, and the pet itself is usually the cool. And this one delivers, with the Cyber-mastiff having a BATTLECRY ability (Go for the Throat!) that can take an enemy right off their feet at the jump).

• Revelatum. This one’s your scout and tracker class, they start with a new piece of equipment called the Soulguilt Scanner, a kind of Auspex that picks up on the presence of the guilty through detection of elevated biosigns associated with anxiety and deception. When used in combat, the Revelatum can deny a target the ability to use Cover or Stealth, and they also gain bonuses to Tests associated with tracking and scouting.

Meanwhile, the Tier 4 Proctor-Exactant- in addition to the usual upgraded stats and starting gear- also has the cool ability once per combat to command another Arbites to make a free movement or extra combat attack. These are leaders amongst the Arbites, typically seen commanding an Exaction Squad.

Ten New Talents

Serving as the “cold, dispassionate instruments of the Emperor’s law,” Lex Imperials puts an interesting twist on the roster of talents available to Arbites characters by shifting them away from Wrath and steering them to Glory. This is intended to reflect the more collective-minded orientation of the lawmen, where expressions of individual emotion are held in check.

Consequently, a number of the new Talents require the expenditure of Glory to activate- a fact which may require careful consideration of the feelings of others at the table.

But what you get for doing so may well be worth it, helping turn the tide of battle. Burn a point to trigger Break the Line, for example, and not only will you get a significant bonus to attack, but any enemies you damage with a melee weapon will also be Staggered for a turn.

It’s important to note, though, that just like police in the real world, Arbites typically don’t like to act without support and backup. A number of these Talents are parasitic, meaning they only work well when you’re playing alongside other Arbites characters.

For example, Fury of the Lawbringer is very powerful, converting a point of Glory into immunity to Pinned, Staggered, and Fear conditions- but it only shields those with the ADEPTUS ARBITES keyword. If you’re the only one standing to benefit in your party, not only is the power of the ability substantially lessened, but you’ll risk a bit of side-eye for expending that point of Glory.

One New Framework

Towards that end, Lex Imperialis offers you the oops, all cops option of creating an Exaction Squad together. Unlike a number of other Frameworks, this one locks every player into a single faction, and grants each Arbites in the party a Symbol of Authority (as well as a bonus to Intimidation when wielding it).

Of course, perhaps the largest bonus you’ll get from this Framework is an unstated one. With all of your party comprised of Arbites, every other member of the team will benefit from the Arbites-limited benefits from many of the abilities and Talents. Imagine that Fury of the Lawbringer rendering your entire squad immune to those status conditions. The Emperor Protects, indeed!

Other Goodies

As you’d hope to see, there’s plenty of Arbites lore and character creation tools in Lex Imperialis, and the supplement even has a random name generator if you’re stuck for inspiration.

I also comment the writers for preemptively solving the “Paladin Problem,” where a rigid and inflexible dogma-based character can risk derailing party dynamics. They did so by injecting just the right whiff of pragmatism into the character of the Arbites, a nice little offramp here:

Lex Imperialis also brings with it a small armory’s worth of wargear, and unfortunately here’s where the spartan design of the supplement hurts it a little. Take, for instance, the Arbites Combat Shotgun. It’s a little different than the stock-standard Combat Shotgun in Wrath & Glory, which has a Damage of 9 with the Assault and Spread traits. The Arbites model deals slightly less Damage (8), losing both Assault and Spread- but gaining Brutal and Rapid Fire.

Those are important distinctions that might get lost in the sauce, and that’s where “fluff” can play an important role. Consider the following passage from Imperium Maledictum’s Inquisition’s Player’s Guide:

That goes a long way towards making a weapon feel like a tool with a purpose, rather than just a collection of numbers on a stat block.

Overall Thoughts

That brings me to the final section, where we talk about some of the ways the product might be improved. Lex Imperialis overall does a terrific job of presenting the Adeptus Arbites, and I find it well worth the fiver. But if I was king for a day…

Surprise drops are a waste of good anticipation.

As you may notice from the Warhammer Wordforge here, I generate a ton of content around the Black Library. And yet even now, I still get that little jolt of excitement when I pop open the Sunday Preview on the mothership and see what new books are headed our way. The buildup of anticipation is a powerful thing, getting folks excited to buy a new product well in advance of its arrival.

By simply dropping Lex Imperialis into being, all of that opportunity is wasted. Sure, a 20-page PDF isn’t in the same league as, say, the 5th Edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or the lost-in-the-warp Horus Heresy RPG. But it’s definitely something, easily worth a teaser piece a week in advance to whet the appetite.

Add three more pages.

As I noted above with regards to the wargear, take some time to expand upon the list of weapons and armor. Don’t just give us stat tables, tell us why these items are they way they are. Why would a player choose one shotgun over another? How do they fall into the different roles each character can take on the battlefield?

Give it one more read.

Editing issues tend to be a common complaint about Cubicle 7’s offerings, but Lex Imperialis only had a few oversights that would probably have been caught with one more pass. These include:

• An extraneous word (“who”) in one line: “Conspiracies that stretch across different worlds, or which are perpetrated by those few others who have the authority to persecute, are all within their remit.”

• Word duplication: “the Leashmaster unleashes their metallic beast, issuing metallic-sounding orders”

• A typo in the Proctor-Exactant’s skills (“3m” instead of “3,”)

• A redundant Requirement (“IMPERIUM”) in the Break the Line Talent

• The wrong section is highlighted on page 17 (the margin is highlighting FRAMEWORK but should be highlighting WARGEAR instead).

• Most significantly, confusing and ambiguous wording on the description for Vasov’s Auto-Oppressor’s mechanical effect (one target or many?)

Make no mistake, aside from the last one these are very minor, even trivial matters- but should Lex Imperialis make it into print one day, why not give them the chance to be corrected?

Overall, I think this is a great supplement, and as noted above well worth its modest cost. It gives players who have wanted to run Arbites (either individually or as a party) the tools to do so, offers a nice variety of Archetypes that don’t feel ‘forced,’ and is nicely laid out and organized.

Shira Calpurnia would approve.

Launched at the end of November in 2022, Fatshark’s Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a good example of a game that continues to build in popularity as the base game is expanded over successive releases. Its first post-launch swing occurred one year later after a major overhaul of the game mechanics, and from there it’s spiked up with the release of additional playable classes. The Arbites came aboard in June of 2025, with the Hive Scum following at the end of the year. With last month’s addition of the Skitarii, the game once again saw a substantial rise in active players, and shows little sign of slowing down.

Meanwhile, over at Owlcat, its Rogue Trader CRPG recovered from a somewhat wobbly launch to hit its stride with its subsequent DLC’s, first with Void Shadows (September 2024), then Lex Imperialis (June 2025) and last month’s The Infinite Museion.

Cubicle 7 Games certainly hasn’t been blind to these developments, and released the Darktide Extraction supplement for Wrath & Glory early last year. This brought the video game’s creative sandbox to the tabletop, and soon after it also released Darktide: The Card Game to take full advantage of the license.

Little surprise, then, with both video games putting Arbites in the spotlight that we’d eventually see them expanded to the tabletop as well. What was surprising was the drop itself, as this week saw the Lex Imperialis PDF supplement for Wrath & Glory arrive without warning.

A 20-page digital supplement, Lex Imperialis is short but packed with new Archetypes, gear, and talents for players wanting to take the Emperor’s law into their own hands. And priced at USD $5, it’s easy on the wallet as well.

From a business perspective, these are smart moves as they leverage marketing that’s outwith Cubicle 7’s budget. They didn’t have to raise brand awareness for Darktide, for instance, that’s Fatshark’s job. I’d like to see more of these tie-in expansions, perhaps something with the Rogue Trader game (or Owlcat’s upcoming Dark Heresy CRPG). Even if it’s little more than stat sheets for the game’s main characters, it’s a smart move that shines a little more light on the awesome world of Warhammer tabletop role-playing games.

So this week’s surprise drop is certainly a welcome sign, and I’d love to see more releases like this one. The last time the Black Library gave us an Arbites-centered story was with Matthew Farrer’s Shia Calpurnia trilogy. which concluded in 2006 with Blind. Thanks to Lex Imperialis, now players can start making their own stories.

Sylvania: The Readers Respond

Last week I focused on the release of Sylvania: The Cursed County, namely the unexpected news that what had appeared to be a single-book release had instead been split into a three-volume series. Details are scant, but here’s what we know from Cubicle 7’s site:

• Sylvania, the Cursed County (July 2026): Lore sourcebook and setting guide.

• Sylvania, Vol. 2 (TBA): “Next comes a volume exploring the legendary vampires of the Old World, the most notable scions of Nagash's cursed blood, and the mortals who dedicate their lives to hunting these terrible creatures.”

• Sylvania, Vol. 3 (TBA): “The trilogy concludes with a brand-new adventure that will test the limits of your party's bravery and sanity.”

A number of folks at u/warhammerfantasyrpg, unsurprisingly, had reactions- which largely (but not entirely) skewed to the negative.

These are all fair points, and since I’m not one who likes to raise complaints without also offering solutions, a few quick thoughts here.

Expectation Management is Key

Somewhere in an alternate reality, Cubicle 7 was out in front of this with a massive teaser/reveal post that goes, not only are we going to Sylvania, but we’re going BIG with THREE books!

Suddenly there’s a lot to look forward to, and consumers have the right amount of lead time to set their expectations. This is interesting when we then look at Lex Imperialis, which we touched on at the outset. This was a surprise drop, so there was no expectation to manage. I’m curious as to the thought process there too, as it seems a missed opportunity to generate a little buzz in advance.

In short, the company’s products are great, but the core business functions (including marketing and fulfillment) sometimes seem to have a steep dropoff.

Cash Grab?

This one, too, is a foreseeable (and thus mitigatable) community concern. I’ve long maintained that role-playing games offer some of the highest entertainment value-for-dollar on the market, because players can game for years off of a small number of books. Each individual is the final arbiter of what constitutes value, of course, but there’s certainly a range where a product can be priced that doesn’t automatically raise a red flag.

The first thing I thought of was Dungeons and Dragons, which released a large setting expansion late last year with the Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn and Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn books. The former, which corresponds to what Cubicle 7 calls a “Player’s Guide,” was 192 pages1 and stickered for $50. The latter (effectively the “GM’s Guide”) was 288 pages and was $60.

If you put those two books together, you get 480 pages of content for $110- which equals $22 per 96 pages. Sylvania, The Cursed County is $40 for 96 pages, or nearly double what Wizards of the Coast/HASBRO was charging for its Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign setting supplement.

Was it ever thus? On a lark I jumped in the time machine and took a trip back to the bygone days as a young DM.

Back in 1989, TSR released The City of Greyhawk boxed set, which contained two 96-page books, some maps, and some cardstock sheets containing adventure seeds. It was priced at USD $30 which, I kid you not, adjusted for inflation is $81 today.

It’s not apples to apples, since this boxed set had additional materials beyond just a pair of 96-page rulebooks, but the rulebooks were the primary content of the product. Here, at least, we find some relative “value parity” between Cubicle 7 and Dungeons & Dragons- albeit in its TSR iteration.

Putting it All Together

It might be a fun exercise to compare the “price per 96” for some of the other, more popular role-playing game systems to get a broader sense of where the industry is, but that’s outside the writ for today’s column. Still, being twice as expensive a product as the “World’s Greatest Role-Playing Game” suggests that Cubicle 7’s consumers may be more susceptible to price sensitivity23.

If nothing else, that underlines the importance of having strong expectation management from Cubicle 7’s marketing team. That didn’t happen here, and we’re seeing some of the result. While it’s a shame that the launch of the Sylvnaia trilogy has stubbed its toe right out of the gate, the product does appear to be selling well (based on the DriveThruRPG bestseller list, which we’ll get to in a moment).

Cubicle 7 does have two more opportunities to knock this one out of the park with the setting’s next two releases. I look forward to seeing how they’ll respond!

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #2 (-1). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed Country

• #6 ( - ). Wrath & Glory: Lex Imperialis

• #28 (-3). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #114 (-54). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #119 (+5). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #121 (+4). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #151 (-21). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

Total Books in Top 200: 7 ( - )

Well, the Fabula Ultima Bestiary (vol. 1) dethroned Sylvania this week- but not by much. The somewhat controversial setting guide slips to #2, but aside from the Adeptus Mechanicus books for Imperium Maledictum it was a fairly steady week.

I was particularly happy to see the Wrath & Glory Core Rulebook holding strong three weeks in a row, too. Supplements and splatbooks tend to be volatile markers, but the core books- how new players will typically invest in a game- can be some of the best markers for a game’s overall market health.

Sadly, we must bid auf Wiedersehen to the German Edition of Imperium Maledictum’s Core Rulebook, which impressively hung in there for two weeks on the Top 200 after its debut. Schade!

ICYMI

• Careless Conjuration continues its regular, limited series giving guidance to GM’s keen on running the classic WFRP campaign, The Enemy Within. “If you’ve spent any time in WFRP fan circles,” he writes, “you will repeatedly hear GMs asking how to get their players to actually engage with the investigation, or what they should do now that their players have given up and left Bogenhafen. Why is this so difficult?” This week’s installment dives deep, buckle up!

• Sylvania: The Cursed County got a close-up look over on Ill Met by Morrslieb this week, with a nicely comprehensive review. When we talk about value (as we did above), quality reviews certainly help contextualize the discussion.

• The Lorebeards podcast interviewed WFRP/The Old World writer/developer Vera Simila, whose credits include the High Elf Player’s Guide and Sea Wardens of Cothique4.

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad (Q4)

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This week’s big news is the release of Sylvania: The Cursed County, the latest supplement for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. While the physical copies won’t be available until next year, the PDF is available and- as we’ll see in a moment- doing rather well for itself in the sales department!

As the Cubicle 7 Games release stated, this is the first of three books that will be set in that benighted province.

As the opening release, The Cursed County seems to be a sort of GM’s guide, with little content in the way of new goodies for players. It’s not clear that this was Cubicle 7’s initial intent when the content was announced under its original title, the Sylvania Setting Guide. Indeed, the rebrand came without announcement, and they even went back and updated the original announcement from a month ago on the official blog.

All the same, even if the book is an adjustment in release strategy it has delivered content a bit quicker than many expected. Here’s to seeing what’s around the next, dimly-lit and sinister corner!

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #1 ( - ) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sylvania: The Cursed Country

• #25 (-10). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #60 (-37). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #124 (-20). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #125 (-4). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #130 (-46). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• #168 (-27). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook (German)

What a debut for Sylvania: The Cursed Country, straight to the top of the charts! Overall Cubicle 7’s titles slipped a bit this week, as evidenced by all the red, but still a decent showing overall. Titles that were clinging on by their fingertips last week, including The Old World Player’s Guide and both Imperium Maledictum Inquisition Guides, slipped off the slope this week altogether.

Finally, it was nice to see the German Edition of Imperium Maledictum’s Core Rulebook still tracking a week after it cracked the charts. Ausgezeichnet!

ICYMI

• Careless Conjuration rang in its first birthday this week, and celebrated with the next in it’s terrific series, The GM’s Guide to The Enemy Within. This week it’s a look at chapters 5-7, as the players arrive in Bogenhafen. Happy Anniversary!

• Wargamer highlighted a new Fighting Fantasy gamebook coming out, Sir Ian Livingstone’s Tomb of the Golden Skull, which features a cover from Karl Kopinski! “If you're under the age of 30, it's possible you might not know the name Fighting Fantasy or even what a 'gamebook' is,” notes Alex Evans, “but you should.” For games of a certain age like myself, these kinds of books were solo-RPG gaming before solo-RPG gaming evolved to what it is today. A terrific piece!

• u/ConflictBetter1332 shared a map of the Southern Chaos Wastes on the r/WarhammerFantasyRPG Reddit. Pictured above, it’s a lush rendition of one of the world’s most formidable locales!

• Some interesting things I’ve come across in the RPG world on Substack include:

  • Prepping a One-Shot to Last One Session by Chris Vicari tackles the time sinks that often can bloat a one-shot adventure

  • Terrific roundup of the broader tabletop landscape here from The Tabletop Engineer, including a great overview for those wanting to start their own zine!

  • Finally, while not directly RPG related, Warhammer history is a fascinating subject, and here’s the latest from Exploring Warhammer!

• Finally, if you happen to be subscribed to Black Library author John French (Dropsite Massacre, The Hollow King), his newsletter this week was all about his experience with role-playing games. He’s helped write several of the Dark Heresy RPG books, including The Inquisitor’s Handbook and Disciples of the Dark Gods, and noted that as he’s returning to RPG writing his newsletter will have more such content going forward (sign up free here). As he noted:

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Sylvania: The Cursed Country

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

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My Warhammer writing journey began in 2024, when I got the itch to start writing about games- something I hadn’t done consistently in about a decade1. I pitched a series to Tabletop Battles (then called Goonhammer), covering the history of the Black Library from a 40K perspective. They greenlit it, and I was off to the races!

I’ll never forget how excited I was to see the 40K History of the Black Library make its way into the world- and how embarrassed I was when no less a personage than Marc Gascoigne- one of the three people responsible for the Black Library’s creation- then noted on social media that I’d misspelled two of their names.

It was a teachable moment, one on the importance of getting not just the broad strokes correctly, but the fine details as well. Regardless of how it felt in the moment, I was grateful for the lesson.

I had a similar moment with last week’s Warhammer RPG Weekly. In the column I talked about Jeff McAleer of The Gaming Gang, who was holding a big Summer sale of the review content he’d been supplied by gaming companies. It seemed to me a win-win-win: Gamers get deeply-discounted merch in like-new condition, Jeff’s charity of choice (Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital) gets a welcome donation, and Jeff gets to reclaim some shelf space in his game room.

After the article went live, I noticed this interaction on the r/40krpg subreddit:

Wait, 'calling out?' That wasn't my intent at all!

Perception is Reality

As a writer, getting the right words- and getting words right- means a great deal to me. While it genuinely surprised me that my piece could be read as 'calling out' a fellow creator for doing something I wholeheartedly endorsed, the upvotes made it clear that this reader was not alone in their interpretation.

A positive conversation with the poster helped clarify where my words had missed the mark, and I went back and refined the original piece to ensure my intent was clear. But it was a good and timely reminder of a hard truth in writing: if enough people are getting the impression of something, it doesn’t matter what my original intention was. My intent takes a backseat to their perception- and that becomes the reality.

It was also a useful lesson in ‘reputational capital.’ While I’ve developed a recognized voice in the Black Library community, I’m a relative unknown in the RPG space. I haven't yet earned the benefit of the doubt here that I might expect when covering Warhammer fiction.

One week older now, and hopefully a little wiser as a result, all of this also got me thinking about the idea of what I represent here. What are the ‘guiding principles’ that define the tone of the Warhammer Wordforge?

Here’s what I came up with.

The Six Guiding Principles

If you’ve been following my Black Library work, some of these should already sound familiar, but this is the first time I’ve sat down and written them out formally.

No snark. I’m not here to tear things down, but rather to give my honest opinions and assessments. I can dislike something without feeling the need to diminish it through mean-spiritedness.

“There Are No Bad Books.” This one comes straight from Magic: the Gathering’s head designer Mark Rosewater, who has often noted that there are no bad cards, just cards that aren’t for you. If I don’t like something, it doesn’t mean that someone else won’t love it and I always try to consider who the intended audience might be for something.

Protecting the "First-Time" Experience. You only ever get to experience something for the first time once, and I always seek to preserve that for the reader. I try to avoid or limit the number of spoilers I disclose, and will announce them in advance when necessary for discussion.

Knowing My "Lane" as a Reviewer. There’s no such thing as a universal reader- we all come into Warhammer with different levels of engagement, experience, and knowledge. How a novice perceives something may be different than a veteran, and that’s important to bear in mind when reviewing. (For instance, I’m a 40K vet but an AoS rookie).

Assuming Good Faith. Whether it’s the choices and decisions of individual writers, the editorial team of the Black Library, or Games Workshop as a whole, I always try to assume good faith as my default posture. I’ve been wrong far more often in life than I’ve been right when I’ve allowed cynicism to guide my thoughts and actions.

Responsible Reporting. Finally, truth and facts matter. While calling myself a “journalist” would feel a bit highfalutin, I share that profession’s value of factual accuracy in what I write. I don’t do clickbait or sensationalism in an effort to drive up engagement.

Will I always get it perfectly right? Almost certainly not. There will undoubtedly be more typos, misreads, and misunderstandings down the road- that’s just the nature of putting words out into the world. But having these six pillars as the bedrock of the Warhammer Wordforge ensures that when I do inevitably stumble, I have a clear map to help me find my way back.

Ultimately, covering the Black Library, the Warhammer RPG’s, and the wider Games Workshop universe is an absolute privilege. My goal is always to do right by the writers who pour their hearts into these books, and by you- the community- who share this passion with me week after week.

Now, let’s get to those books!

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #15 ( - ). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #23 (-17). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #84 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• #104 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #121 ( - ). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #141 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook (German)

• #171 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player’s Guide

• #174 ( - ). Warhammer The Old World: Player’s Guide

• #198 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition GM’s Guide

• #200 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Macharian Requisition Guide

An awful lot of dashes here, indicating that last week these titles weren’t in the top 200 of bestsellers. Terrific progress! While it might look like only the Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide lost ground in the standings, some other titles fell off completely. Sons of Russ, the Wrath & Glory sourcebook for the Space Wolves, was a healthy #48 last week, now nowhere to be seen. Same with Temple of Spite (was #34) and Champions of Chaos (#25).

The German Edition of Imperium Maledictum’s Core Rulebook coming in at #141 was nice to see, since it appears to only have been released within the last week. Willkommen, Freunde!

Overall a lot of movement this week, highlighting the volatility of this measurement. The Zelda-inspired Twilight Sword RPG2 arrived with a splash with a number of offerings crowding the upper range of the bestsellers, but it’s still a solid week for Cubicle 7 Games.

ICYMI

• Sticking with DriveThruRPG for a moment, they have loads of Warhammer RPG titles discounted for their “Christmas in July” sale, many up to 50% off. Zekiel of Ill Met by Morrslieb provided a great roundup here.

• Careless Conjuration posted the next article in its series The GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within, focusing on streamlining the running of chapters three and four of volume one.

• Meanwhile, Awesome Lies reviewed Hirelings of the Old World, a PDF release that contained four NPC’s usable for WFRP’s 4th Edition.

• Ill Met by Morrslieb, on the other hand went quite a bit further back for its review this week, with this assessment of WFRP 1st Edition’s Warhammer Companion.

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Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Undated

• Sylvania Setting Guide

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

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Another lifetime ago, I ran a Magic: the Gathering website called Ertai’s Lament, dedicated to a very small (but equally) fun niche aspect of the hobby: preconstructed decks. From Theme Decks to Intro Packs and everything in between, if it came prepackaged I was keen to discuss it, play it, and give it a review.

Eventually my little project got the attention of Wizards of the Coast, and I found myself occasionally receiving boxes in the mail of free goodies. I was delighted, of course, not least because it seemed to validate what I was doing. My audience was never vast but it was dedicated and passionate, and I was pleased to count some WotC folks as regular readers1. Getting free product felt a bit like I’d ‘made it.’

But it also came with complicated feelings.

I’d started the site purely out of passion for the game, a labor of love in much the same way Warhammer Wordforge is. I never monetized my content or sought to curry favor with the publisher in hopes of scoring product. And when that free product came, while it came with no strings attached I had to make sure to introspect and self-examine, to make sure that I wasn’t letting it influence any of my opinions or reviews.

Positively-influenced coverage doesn’t always have to be transactional, and indeed the notion of “access journalism” is often an unspoken social contract. “We’ll let you keep talking to our star athletes,” a sports journo might be led to understand, “so long as you aren’t asking questions we wouldn’t approve of.” Cross that line one too many times, and those doors might quietly close.

In a vacuum, there’s nothing wrong with reviewers getting free product for the purposes of content generation. Game products are expensive, and going out of pocket for them can add up very quickly- especially if you’re a site that has no monetization options to help offset that. By the same token, though, reviewers must forever be on guard against the appearance of influence. Credible reviewers, for instance, should always disclose whether or not they received free merchandise for the purposes of the interview.

I bring all this up this week to offer an example of what ‘doing it right’ can look like: the Summer Sale at The Gaming Gang.

I don’t know Jeff McAleer personally, but because he frequently reviews Warhammer RPG he’s on the radar of sites I check every week when I write up the ICYMI segment below. This week, he’s kicked off a massive sale of gamebooks and board games he’s received for reviewing purposes. Two things make this particularly notable.

First, from what I could tell his pricing is at least half off what you’d pay at full retail. Sure most of these have been ‘used,’ but generally no more than just for the purposes of a review. A gamebook flipped through a bit before being shelved is little different from what you’d expect to see at a friendly, local game store.

Second- and here’s the coolest part- Jeff is donating the sale’s proceeds to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Okay sure, if you’re really cynical at heart you could point out that in so doing, he’ll be getting a tax writeoff come next April, but that’s Gargamel-level thinking. Gamers benefit by getting great games at ridiculous prices, the Hospital benefits from the donation, and Jeff gets to reclaim some shelf space in his home (and don’t all us tabletop gamers know how precious a commodity that is!).

I couldn’t help but break my “no new boardgames” rule when I saw Robotech: Attack on the SDF-1 by Strange Machine Games for only USD $15. With a sticker price of $50, even with shipping I’m likely paying only half. I was grateful to see someone else had already snapped up the bundle of four Twilight: 2000 box sets for just $80, lest I be sorely tempted myself.

And at time of writing, Cubicle 7’s Darktide: The Card Game is still there for $15, and the Wrath & Glory Starter Set is just $20.

Back to Ertai’s Lament, I typically used that free product from Wizards in giveaways to the readers (and here again, Gargamel might say- not entirely without merit- that this is self-serving promotion2). But at the end of the day, putting products back in the hands of gamers is always going to be a win. This is a terrific idea for a great cause, and I encourage everyone to check it out.

Well done, Gaming Gang!

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #6 (+3). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #25 (+127). Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos

• #26 ( - ). Warhammer The Old World: Starter Set

• #34 ( - ). Warhamer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• #37 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Voll Adventures

• #48 ( - ). Wrath & Glory: Sons of Russ

• #66 ( - ). Wrath & Glory: Darktide Extraction

Interesting week! Five different titles that weren’t on the charts last week pop up today, and in top-half positions one and all. Cubicle 7 continues its three-week streak of having a title in the Top 10 as well. Seems good!

On the other hand, a number of titles that charted last week slipped off the Top 200. Some of these, I imagine, are fairly routine fluctuations. Things like the Wrath & Glory Core Rulebook have been available for some time and are unlikely at this point to see sustained demand, but I was sad to see the new Carngrad Adventures slip away so quickly.

Still, Soulbound folks will be delighted to see a surge of interest in the core Champions of Chaos book, so there’s some consolation to be had. Two weeks ago it wasn’t even in the Top 200, and now it’s #25.

ICYMI

• Don’t look now, but Warhammer The Old World’s Player’s Guide is an ENNIE finalist for Best Layout and Design! The ENNIEs- essentially the industry’s equivalent of the Oscars- have been going since 2001, recognizing some of the best in tabletop gaming. Winners will be announced at GEN CON, so fingers crossed!

• Big congratulations to Zekiel, who rang in the third anniversary of Ill Met by Morrslieb! Good content creation is a lot like small businesses- so many of them fold within the first year. It takes a lot of dedication to keep things going after that heady, early “new car smell” wears off, so here’s to the next three (and beyond!), Zekiel!

• Speaking of dedication, the Lorebeards continue to display an almost fanatic workrate. In addition to plenty of lore content, this week also saw them dive into a topic near and dear to many the GM: cartography! They talk about the newest Old World map here, then interview cartographer and WFRP writer ‘Mad’ Alfred Nuñez here.

• Careless Conjuration continued its series The GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within, discussing events and social encounters for the campaign.

• Great conversations and content on Reddit this week, including:

  • Taking a pulse check on how people are feeling about the state of Imperium Maledictum.

  • Homebrewing non-Imperial human societies

  • u/NerdyFrida shared an illustrated collage (above) of her Enemy Within party’s progression that’s just superb. Great things can happen when you game with artists, folks!

  • Ways to prevent combat from bogging down games in Warhammer: The Old World

• Finally, here’s some interesting content I enjoyed on Substack this week as well!

  • Time for the Danse Macabre as we explore the origins of the Eldar Harlequins, on Exploring Warhammer

  • The Real Problem With Generation Ships, by Vincent S. Gehring

  • A Practical Guide to Designing Villains, on Behind the Screen

  • How to write an OSR adventure, by the Copy/Paste Co-Op

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already past that.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Undated

• Sylvania Setting Guide

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

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When I was growing up, my local hobby store carried a small selection of Dungeons & Dragons and a few other role-playing game lines. Blinn’s was a cozy shop right next to the Metro-North tracks, just down the way from my middle school, and I could go from browsing the games there to the Fairfield Public Library and hang out reading Dragon magazines until it was time to get picked up.

Blinn’s was… not what you’d today call a Friendly, Local Gaming Store (FLGS). They were, at best, local and a store (LS). The hobbies they catered to were things like metal army soldiers, model kits, and dolls- none of which I’d had any interest in at all1. I always felt very unwelcome whenever I set foot in there, likely because I seldom was able to buy anything myself but constantly wanted to look at all the role-playing game books they had on the shelf.

Forty years later, I’m far more spoiled for choice. I can get just about anything I want to get online, and in the case of Cubicle 7 Games’ products there’s even an added incentive for doing so (namely, the free PDF of the book when you buy a hard copy). But there’s nothing quite like walking the shelves of a well-stocked gaming store, whether it’s my own local “home” (Derby Comics & Games in Shelbyville, KY), a gaming mecca like YottaQuest in Cincinnati, or area players like Miso’s Game Room in Louisville or The Rusty Scabbard in Lexington.

So if you’re one of the fortunate who has an FLGS in your area, I would definitely encourage you to give them as much of your business as you’re able, because that’s how you keep an FLGS in your area.

Alright, I’m stepping off the ol’ soapbox for the day, let’s talk books!

A Glass of Port

Talagaad Aventures hit the virtual bookshelves this week, with the physical copy to follow further down the line. It had an impressive debut, climbing to the fourth-best-selling RPG on DriveThruRPG.

Consisting of five standalone adventures, Talabec Adventures has helped get The Old World off to a well-supported start and includes the following:

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #4 (new). Warhammer The Old World: Talagaad Adventures

• #9 ( - ). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #63 (+18). Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• #96 (+6). Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #114 (+22). Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #128 (+22). Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player’s Guide

• #145 (+58). Warhammer The Old World: Player’s Guide

• #152 (+69). Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos

• #155 (+21): Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Carngrad Adventures

• #165 (+20). Imperium Maledictum: Macharian Requisition Guide

• #168 (+28). Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition GM’s Guide

This was a very good week for Cubicle 7, with almost every book improving its position alongside that strong debut from Talagaad Adventures. I know I ran this out to the top 250 or so last week, but I”m going to cap this at the top 200 going forward.

The biggest jump was Soulbound: Champions of Chaos, moving up almost 70 points. Nice!

ICYMI

• Sprues and Brews reviewed Journal Tactica: Zone Mortalis this week. I know what you’re thinking- that’s tabletop, not RPG!- but I always find these sorts of supplements to be terrific tabletop lore sourcebooks that can be woven in to RPG campaigns. In fairness, we’re all in a bit of a holding pattern for the Horus Heresy RPG…

• AngelAnvar of Careless Conjuration released the second part of The GM’s Guide to the Enemy Within, this time focusing on an overview of the campaign itself.

• The Grim imPortents folks announced that they’re getting ready to kick off season two of their series, focusing on a play of Warhammer: The Old World. New players take on a new adventure, The Hand that Feeds.

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Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Undated

• Sylvania Setting Guide

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping 2027

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

Happy Friday! We’re back with the latest look around the webway at what’s new and exciting in the Warhammer RPG scene.

It’s been a quiet week after Cubicle 7 Games dropped a teaser on us for the upcoming Sylvania Setting Guide last Friday. But “quiet,” of course, doesn’t mean “dead.” Before we jump in, though, a quick site update for our RPG content subscribers.

Right, business done, let’s jump in.

RPG Bestsellers

Bookwriters get their New York Times bestseller lists, so why shouldn’t we enjoy the same thing? While we don’t have any aggregated sales lists, we can use DriveThruRPG’s top-seller list as a reasonable barometer- and here’s this week’s snapshot!

• #9. Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• #81. Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• #102. Imperium Maledictum: Core Rulebook

• #113. Dungeons & Dragons: The Keep on the Borderlands. Okay, obviously not Warhammer related, but this took me aback and I had to share. Still selling after all these years…

• #136: Wrath & Glory: Core Rulebook

• #150. Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player’s Guide

• #176: Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Carngrad Adventures

• #185. Imperium Maledictum: Macharian Requisition Guide

• #196. Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition GM’s Guide

Normally I’d say I’d dug far enough, but every time I was about to wrap it up I’d see another Warhammer game.

• #203. Warhammer The Old World: Player’s Guide

• #221. Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos

I’m actually not sure how much deeper the hole goes, but I suspect it’s pretty deep. #255 is Dark Heresy Second Edition’s Core Rulebook. Five slots later there’s the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Core Rulebook. Rogue Trader’s Core Rulebook at #276. Warhammer The Old World: Player’s Guide at #288. And I’m refusing to go past #300, because at this point it feels less like bestseller data and more like pub trivia answers.

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

Speaking of Warhammer RPG PDF’s, online retailer Fanatical is currently offering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay bundles at pennies on the pound.

• USD $1 gets you the WFRP Starter Set, Old World Adventures: Something’s Knocking, Old World Adventures: The Spirit of Mondstille, and a 15% off coupon to Cubicle 7’s webstore.

• For nine bucks, you get all the above plus WFRP’s Core Rulebook, the Gamemaster’s Screen, Buildings of the Reikland, and One Shots of the Reikland.

• Finally, nineteen dollars gets you all that plus: Altdorf: Crown of the Empire, Middenheim: City of the White Wolf, Salzenmund, City of Salt and Silver, Up in Arms, Old World Adventures, Taverns of the Old World, Blood and Bramble, Sullasara’s Spells of Unrivalled Utility, Shrines of Sigmar, It’s Your Funeral, and Old World Adventures: Hell Rides to Hallt.

That’s a crazy amount of goodies for less than the cost of a single book, estimated at just over $200 at full sticker. Hardly one to pass up a good deal, I went for it and at checkout, they offered me a mystery bundle of four video games for about four bucks. Who doesn’t like the occasional scratch-off ticket, right?

(For the curious, my four bonus video games were: Soulstice Deluxe Edition, Fallout 3, Resident Evil 4, and something called 30 Birds.)

There’s about 45 days left on this bundle, so plenty of time left!

A Drop Pod from Fenris

Great news for Wrath & Glory players as the preorders for the Sons of Russ expansion began fulfillment this week. From new archetypes and powers, to wargear and NPC’s, the book also includes a Tier 4/5 adventure for Space Wolf characters.

Players, no peeking!

ICYMI

• AngelAnvar of Careless Conjuration released a GM’s Guide to The Enemy Within, filled with guidance and tips from their experience running this classic campaign multiple times.

• Xathrodox86 of the It Always Rains in Nuln blog shared that they were part of a roundtable discussion on the role of TTRPG’s in education. This should be an interesting conversation, as the role of the hobby in the classroom is an evolving one.

• Zekiel of Ill Met by Morrslieb mused this week about they’d like to see coming up in WFRP’s 5th Edition, including a look at the strengths (and weaknesses) of 4th Edition.

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Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Undated

• Sylvania Setting Guide

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

Welcome one and all to the Warhammer RPG Weekly, the every-Friday chronicle of what’s new and exciting at the tabletop from the World of Legend, Mortal Realms, or grim, dark future where there is only war!

A quieter week this week, but not one without at least a little bit of news as Cubicle 7 Games today teased its next Warhammer Fantasy Role Play supplement, the Sylvania Setting Guide.

If you’re new to the world of Warhammer Fantasy, think a little slice of Ravenloft nestled in the eastern fringe of the Empire, right down to the mists and the vampires. Of course for Warhammer, that means you’ll be getting the von Carsteins instead of von Zarovich, but we like to think the end result will probably be the same.

If you’re not new to the setting, well, you already know some of the horrors that lie in store.

No ETA or timeline on the release yet.

The Old World Bundle Giveaway

We had loads of entries into our bundle giveaway, including the Player’s Guide, Gamemaster’s Guide, and Character Sheet Pad. In the end, though, we only had one bundle to offer, and the lucky winner is… Falbangold!

To enter, respondents were asked to name their favorite Warhammer RPG system, and WFRP 4th Edition was far and away the top pick. All the same, I was delighted to see love for WFRP 2nd alongside mentions of Wrath & Glory, Soulbound, Imperium Maledictum and more!

Thanks to all who entered, congrats to our lucky winner and keep an eye out for more down the road.

ICYMI

• Jeff McAleer of The Gaming Gang was back this week with another Warhammer: The Old World video review. This time, he dove between the covers of the Gamemaster’s Guide.

• Zekiel at Ill Met by Morrslieb was also looking at The Old World this week, posting a review of the first digital mini-adventure released by Cubicle 7 Games, Thirst of Three.

• If WFRP is more your thing, Sprues & Brews reviewed the upcoming Temple of Spite sourcebook for Dark Elves.

• A terrific conversation this week in the r/40Krpg subreddit when u/Newez asked for opinions on Fantasy Flight Games’ Deathwatch RPG- and one of the game’s writers chimed in!

• Artist u/Illustrious-Box2693 shared some incredible, medieval-style portraits of some of Middenheim’s most notable citizenry the players will meet in WFRP’s classic campaign, The Enemy Within.

• Looking for an actual play video for Wrath & Glory? Good news, Crits & Coffee dropped one just this week!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Undated

• Sylvania Setting Guide

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite (Q4)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

So big news this week, as I’ve rechristened the Substack to better reflect what I’m looking to build. You can find the full story here, but the TLDR version is that two months ago, I started it up as a home for my Black Library Weekly column over on Tabletop Battles (formerly Goonhammer), where I continue to serve as a reviewer.

As I’ve continued to expand my Warhammer RPG content, The Black Library Dispatch became less of a fit. Voila, it’s now the Warhammer Wordforge! I’ve also rechristened this column to the Warhammer RPG Weekly (formerly Warhammer RPG SITREP). Simpler, cleaner, clearer.

With the site’s new, clear distinction between Black Library and RPG content- and the ability for Subscribers to tailor what they get in their inbox- this is also the first RPG weekly that is being sent out in email format as well as published here.

In celebration, I’ll be giving one lucky reader a Warhammer: The Old World RPG bundle, including the Player’s Guide, Gamemaster’s Guide, and Character Sheet Pad.

But first, a quick word from our sponsor!

Subscriptions, Newsletters, and Emails

Oh right, that’s me. I’m the sponsor.

So before we do the giveaway, I want to quickly point out that Substack allows subscribers to tailor the content they want to see sent to their inbox each week. As someone whose email is inundated with junk, I want to make sure I’m not doing the same to you!

The Warhammer Wordforge has two sections, Black Library and RPG. I’m only going to be emailing 1-2 times a week for each (mainly the weekly columns, Black Library Weekly and Warhammer RPG Weekly), and if you’re only into one of these two things then you can turn off the email from the other quite easily. I show you how (with screenshots) here.

Alright, now back to our regularly scheduled programming!

The Old World Bundle Giveaway

I noted a few weeks ago that Cubicle 7’s fulfillment department had a little hiccup, with some customers receiving twice as much as they ordered. I was one of these fortunate few, if you will, and that gives me the perfect opportunity to pay some of this good luck forward1.

So here it is! I’ve got a brand-new copy of the Player’s Guide, Gamemaster’s Guide, and Character Sheet Pad for Warhammer: The Old World to give away- everything you need to get started!

To enter, I’ll keep it simple:

1. Be a subscriber to the Warhammer Wordforge, and

2. Leave a comment below letting me know what your favorite Warhammer RPG system (and/or edition) is, and why!

That’s it, it’s that easy. I’ll pick one at random from all comments entered by this coming Thursday (6/19), and a winner is you! I’ll ship at my cost, and since our community is truly global I’ll accept entries from folks from anywhere.

Voll Adventures Releases

We can cross another one off the release map below, as Voll Adventures made its way into the physical world this week. This latest sourcebook/adventure supplement for Imperium Maledictum contains information about the planet Voll as well as five standalone adventures for GM’s to offer their players.

Given Imperium Maledictum’s comparatively narrower offerings profile compared to Wrath & Glory, this is a welcome addition.

ICYMI

• Want to get a look at what you could be winning this week? Jeff McAleer of The Gaming Gang did a review of the Player’s Guide for Warhammer: The Old World. Jeff is clearly held in some esteem by Cubicle 7 Games, as the advance reviewer copy they provided him was a Collector’s Edition!

• Careless Conjuration took a look at Slaughter in Spittlefield, an adventure “dripping in Old World black humour” that was part of WFRP’s Ubersreik Adventures from 2019.

• Tributes to John Blanche continued to pour in to mark his passing. Of note were ones from It Always Rains in Nuln and Ill Met by Morrslieb. I also came across this terrific interview with Sean Äaberg.

• Not directly Warhammer-related but an interesting take on RPG’s I read this week is this piece from Mage Advice on using combat roles for monsters to help guide your combats.

• Finally, there was a terrific discussion on Reddit this week about the best adventures for beginners to WFRP 4e. Always great when the community helps those getting started!

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Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Gamemaster’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Gamemaster’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

We have a cover!

Cubicle 7 Games this week released the cover art for its upcoming Warhammer: The Old World release, Talagaad Adventures1.

An adventure anthology, Talagaad Adventures contains “a series of standalone stories set in and around Talagaad that can slot seamlessly into any ongoing campaign in the area.” These are2:

Requiescat in Pace

Warhammer lost one of its most visionary lights this week in the person of John Blanche. I’ll be paying full respects to John’s incredible contribution to this extraordinary universe he helped build with this Monday’s Black Library Weekly3, but here’s a lovely tribute from Tabletop Battles.

Community Creativity

As much as I enjoy stringing words together, now and again I wish I’d instead been born with the talent for visualizing the imagination- and this is certainly one of those. This week’s visual treat comes by way of u/ConflictBetter1332, who shared this amazing private commission he did for a client. If you’re interested in an HD file of it, that’s available too! ConflictBetter1332 also shared that it’s their two-year anniversary of working for Games Workshop and Cubicle 7, ringing it in by sharing the first-ever map they created for the world. Happy anniversary to you both!

u/Taryf’s talents seem to be of the stringing-words-together variety, except theirs is code. Taryf shared a toolkit they’d built for Wrath & Glory this week, from a themed player/GM message-sharing console to facilitate communication (while deepening immersion) to a dice-roller, a soundboard skeleton to NPC and name generators. Wow!

Speaking of dice-rollers, u/GrimDragonStudio made one specifically for Warhammer: The Old World. It doesn’t just roll dice, but has probability indicators that can take into account tests both grim and glorious! GrimDragonStudios also made a searchable adventure index for WFRP and TOW, an ambitious and intriguing project that will also allow players to give ratings to the different adventures they’ve experienced. Make sure to stop on by and leave a few ratings if you can!

Finally, u/FaallenOon shared a few tools they’d made for Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, including a relic generator, an encounter generator, and a browsable equipment list.

ICYMI

• Ill Met by Morrslieb had a terrific piece this week on adapting WFRP for romantic fantasy. “Romantic fantasy,” Zekiel defines, “suggests that victory can come through more traditionally feminine traits of compassion and relationship-building.4”

• Happy belated birthday to WFRP fansite Kalevala Hammer, ringing in 19 years of passionate exploration of Warhammer role-play. Now that is some accomplishment!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Weapons & Armour Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Spells Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Prayers & Miracles Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Wounds & Conditions Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Dice Set

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Allies & Antagonists Card Deck (April 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game GM’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Voll Adventures (Q1)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

The Warhammer RPG SITREP appears every Friday, bringing you the week that was for Warhammer-based role-playing games new and old alike!

Considering I’m writing an ongoing feature here on the history of the Black Library, it should come as little surprise how much I enjoy gaming history in general (ask me sometime about how much I’ve written about the story of Magic: the Gathering).

Thus I was delighted to discover this week that Gideon, of the terrific Awesome Lies blog, announced that he’s been writing a comprehensive, academically-minded history of Warhammer.

The book will “draw on more than fifteen years of research,” he noted, “including access to rare and unpublished documents, interviews with many of those involved in the games’ creation and careful review of financial and other corporate records. It considers the games’ complex interaction with each other, their relationship to other media and the impact on them of personal, corporate and sociocultural history.”

Don’t threaten us with a good time! I’m very excited to see how this comes along, and it’s a great step that he’s already signed with a book publisher, MIT Press (yes, that MIT), and will be called Forging of Worlds.

No Rest for the Weary

If you’d thought that the Cubicle 7 Games gang had wrapped up their whirlwind publicity tour and headed back on the rocky road to Dublin, they haven’t quite made it back yet. This weekend they’ve got a booth at the UK Games Expo, in Birmingham, for the event’s nineteenth year. They’ve got loads of merchandise for sale, as well as a team-up with Burgschenider, the folks behind the Warhammer Armory line of props and costumes.

ICYMI

• I usually associate friend-of-the-Dispatch Mira Manga with Black Library reviews, but for the RPG side she had a treat this week with an unboxing of the Player’s and GM’s guides for Warhammer: The Old World.

• Curious about the game itself? Vaults of Yesteryear posted a deep-dive review this week.

• Fond memories of Deathwatch? You’re hardly alone! u/blackjackdavey_3 picked up the Core Rulebook recently and asked folks on r/40Krpg about their memories of the game, and plenty were willing to share.

• Some prefer theater of the mind, others maps-n-minis… and then there are the truly dedicated. Check out this setup from one DM, lining up an extraordinary ‘grand finale’ for The Horned Rat… (spoiler warning)

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Weapons & Armour Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Spells Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Prayers & Miracles Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Wounds & Conditions Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Dice Set

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Allies & Antagonists Card Deck (April 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game GM’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Voll Adventures (Q1)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

In most cases, unexpected deliveries are things for the kids from my mother, and with the end of school fast approaching it seemed like gramma was up to her usual generosity. Instead, to my surprise I found the box was to me, from Cubicle 7 Games.

If there was an email letting me know that my preorder for the new Warhammer: The Old World RPG had been dispatched I never saw it, and discovering some unexpected goodies was the first of two big surprises.

The second was that everything in the box had been doubled.

Two copies of the Player’s Guide. Two Gamemaster’s Guides. Two pads of character sheets. Each pair was packaged in their own shipping box, then like some RPG pinata all three boxes were stuffed inside of a larger box. Little surprise with that much care that everything arrived in immaculate shape.

My first assumption was that I had perhaps derped when I preordered everything way back when, but a look at my order confirmation showed that no, I had been fiscally responsible and only ordered a single set. That meant the error was on Cubicle 7’s end, so I shot off a quick message to let them know what had happened. I noted that it was hard to imagine shipping the duplicates back to Dublin would be cost-effective, but that I was more than happy to use the extras in a giveaway for the SITREP.

Win-win, right?

They responded quickly, acknowledging the error and noting they’ll be following up with an answer as to resolution, so keep an eye on next week’s SITREP and you might find yourself in the running for a set!

Ask Me (Almost) Anything

The fellas at Cubicle 7 are continuing their publicity whistle-stop tour this week, gamely participating in an AMA on Reddit yesterday. Big thanks first of all to Dom, Pádraig, and Michael for participating, and to moderator u/YoungsterMcPuppy of r/WarhammerOldWorldRPG for putting it together.

They spent an hour there and typed responses at a respectable clip. While I’d certainly recommend enjoying the whole thing, here’s a Cliff’s Notes summary.

TOW Physical Release Info

The Player's Guide, Gamemaster's Guide, card decks, dice, and character sheets will be released in game stores from 27th May 2026.

The card decks and characters sheets are being delivered to our preorder customers as we speak, and are available to order from our website. The maps are being shipped separately in tubes to avoid damaging them alongside other items - if you've had any issues, please contact our customer support team.

Tone of the game

Getting the tone of the game right is a constant conversation for us at every stage of a book’s development. In this case, the “glory” of the World of Legend is very much a relative descriptor - no-one in this time period would consider themselves fortunate, it’s only in comparison to the truly apocalyptic stakes of the End Times era that we realise how good the Empire had it before the Great War Against Chaos.

The flip side to that relative peace is a sense of complacency - without a greater foe to unite against, the Imperial claimants have turned on each other, and pay little regard to the warnings of the player characters about horrors lurking in the woods. Rising to “glory” means that the characters can’t expect anyone else to support or protect them. Any chance of survival is dependant on their own strength and guile. Making a stand in the dark, knowing that your sacrifice will be unmourned and unremembered and might not even make a difference... that’s the kind of choice that defines a hero.

We see our role to shine a spotlight on the parts of the World of Legend that the tabletop wargame can't - the more civilian dimension, the average life of the lowest pegs on the totem pole. But that's a constant conversation with Games Workshop. Where we overlap, we want to do it in a mutually supportive way, that enriches both games simultaneously.

We wanted combat to feel dangerous, and give players meaningful choices and actions. We've wanted to do a totally hit-point free combat system for ages, and this seemed like the perfect game for it.

With the Old World Roleplaying Game, we really wanted players to feel invested in their local community - to have Careers to work, Endeavours to attend between adventures, local Contacts and Assets they have cultivated. That felt like the best way to bring the setting to life in a way that engaged the players, as well as depicting the life of the typical Empire citizen with authenticity. That said, we share your enthusiasm to explore the rest of the Old World, with all the trials and tribulations that implies. Watch this space!

We all know what’s coming up for the World of Legend: the Great War Against Chaos breaks something fundamental in the fabric of the Warhammer World, setting in motion a long decline that paves the way for the End Times. Our game isn’t about averting that fate - it’s about characters who are powerless in the face of vast unstoppable horrors, but resolve to fight anyway, if only for their own survival. The reasons people choose to make a stand - even if it might not ultimately make a difference - are what great characters are made of. And we think it can make for a fantastic roleplaying game.

The Design Process

Michael: It’s a collaborative, iterative, hugely fulfilling process - we’re very lucky to do this for a living! Every release we do is the combined effort of so many people, from the team at Cubicle 7, to our amazing team of freelance contributors, to the folks at Games Workshop who are always so passionate and insightful and generous with their time. The most gratifying part is seeing it connect with an audience who are excited to bring the game to their table - that’s the payoff that makes the whole process worthwhile. If you’re an aspiring TTRPG creator and would like to be part of that, please do get in touch! We’re always looked for new, talented freelancers to join our pool.

Dom: Knowing what you’re trying to achieve is important. Have a strong idea of what you want to make, why you want to make it that way, and apply that at each stage of the process. I enjoy the challenge of making things as well as I can, and always looking for ways to develop and improve my craft. Satisfaction comes from making things I’m proud of, and if other people like them too that’s a wonderful source of joy.

We’re really happy with the system. A D10 dice pool worked for a number of reasons - the convenience of having target numbers on the sheet, the satisfaction of rolling extra dice as you level up, even just the fact that rolling 10-sided dice feels right for gaming in the Old World for experienced Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay players.

Every decision is a trade off, but we used our key design goals as a northstar to lead us through: making something that was easy to teach but satisfying to master, minimised book-keeping that would distract from the story, and presented the World of Legend in all its grim glory. The combat system, the improvisational magic system, the narrative systems that tied Careers/Contacts/Grim Portents/Dark Threads together... all of that emerged from having those clear goals to strive for.

What’s most satisfying is seeing all those systems work together as a cohesive whole - and hearing the stories from people’s games that are generated as a result!

We designed the economy rules to give some real game impacts between the different levels of social and financial status without requiring players to track every last coin. If you'd like to track coin more conventionally, take a look at Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay's Consumer's Guide, it sounds like it would work for your group's tastes very well.

An official campaign?

Without saying too much... if you've already played The Hand That Feeds in the Starter Set, you're well prepared for where the adventure is going next, and what you might dig up when you get there...

Future expansions?

The next book for preorder will be Talagaad Adventures, a series of standalone stories set in and around Talagaad that can slot seamlessly into any ongoing campaign in the area. After that, we're looking at a campaign, and other supplements that expand the setting and the character options available to players.

Our focus is on embellishing our core setting of Talabec and areas that have been highlighted in the Warhammer: the Old World tabletop wargame. But if Games Workshop invited us to explore the City of the Damned, we would bite their hand off for the opportunity!

We'd absolutely love to [do Cathay]! We're such fans of the World of Legend that there's no corner of the setting we wouldn't be excited to bring to the RPG eventually - the challenge is working out what order to do it in. We're currently concentrating on supporting our core setting of Talabec with adventures, campaigns, etc before we expand elsewhere. It's important to provide a satisfying depth to game locations - we don't want to risk covering too wide an area shallowly, as that can limit its usefulness. Dom's already gotten overexcited and mentioned Nuln in an interview though, so watch this space for more!

There are options for Bretonnian characters (and a Bretonnian-only Career, the Knight-Exile) in the Player's Guide. We'd love to provide more character options and setting guides for Bretonnia in the future! But enriching our core setting of Talabec is the focus for now.

[Re: more river-based content] I think you're really going to like "Oars in the Water", an upcoming story in Talagaad Adventures!

[Re: Possibility of other pre-college magic systems] That would be great! For the corebook we focussed on the Magic Lores that were relevant to the most Origins, and most commonly practised in the Empire in this era. Not to mention the ones that received beautiful new miniatures in Warhammer: the Old World tabletop wargame...

Yes, we definitely want to expand beyond the core setting of Talagaad and its immediate surrounds eventually. Talagaad is an illustrated example of how to make games in the World of Legend really sing - future setting expansions will be built to that template, and we encourage Gamemasters to emulate that range of Contacts/landmarks/Dark Threads, etc. when exploring new settings in their own games.

We cooperate closely with Games Workshop as the narrative of the Old World tabletop wargame develops. There's loads of great stuff going on even before we get to the Great War, from Settra's invasion of the Border Princes, to Frydaal's invasion of Westerland. We've got a load of narrative threads from the core books and starter set that we will develop too!

We’d love to expand on the range of spells available to Wizard characters at some point! For now, we’d love to hear about the crazy improvised spells that players have been working on.

[Re: which factions will see content] Our focus is where the Warhammer: the Old World tabletop wargame is going - that's where all the new content is coming from, and that's the material we're excited to play around with. That said, there are a few exceptions in the RPG here and there (Vampires, like you said, also Halflings too), so never say never.

We'd love to do more material for Sigmarite protagonists in the future, but for now we're quite excited to position Witch Hunters as antagonists who cause as many problems as they solve. In the meantime, the right choice of Lores and Assets for the Bounty Hunter Career could make a really excellent Witch Hunter.

Solo Mode?

That would be great! It's one we've been mulling over for a while - the challenge is producing a system that satisfies our expectations for the game.

Maps?

This is something we've been focusing on a lot recently - you might have seen the open call we put out for freelance cartographers (we're still taking submissions!). I think you'll be happier with the presentation in the upcoming Talagaad Adventures, but it's something we'll continue to work on.

Impact on WFRP 5th Edition?

We have different design goals for the two games, so there are some intentional boundaries between them, but that comes from them having different objectives rather than solely to make them different. We'll do what's right for each game, if that makes sense

The Old World shouldn't impact Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay releases, and there's loads in development for that game at the moment, from the new rulebook to Marienburg, a brand new campaign and more. Did you catch the Dwarf and Elf player guides and setting books? On maps, you can get the Old World map right now, and we release poster maps featuring maps from across our lines periodically, so keep an eye on the website and subscribe to our newsletter. On Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay releases - their focus right now is developing a new edition of the game, which should be available to preorder this year to celebrate the game's 40th anniversary!

What they’re proud of

The combat system, the improvisational magic system, the beautiful cover art, the integrated network of Contacts/Dark Threads/Grim Portents to produce emergent stories... ask each of us and you'll get a different answer! We're happiest of all when we can really see those elements connecting with our audience. There are always extra Careers, trappings, antagonists, plot hooks, etc. that we're sad to see end up on the cutting room floor, but it's all in the service of making the core book as accessible to new players as possible. And it'll all end up in a supplement eventually!

Legality of fan supplements

Have a look at Games Workshop's IP guidelines for fan-created content on how to go about this sort of thing. Do keep an eye out for our writer calls, if you'd like to try your hand at submitting something!

Most questions were answered. Notably, they answered all of the ones that were posted well in advance of the actual event… except one.

Mine.

Ahh well, you win some, you lose some. And I can’t say I didn’t greatly enjoy the insights and remarks that they were willing to share, so really it’s a win however you slice it.

Dirty Deeds

Right on schedule the day after discussing upcoming The Old World content, Cubicle 7 officially announced Talagaad Adventures, an upcoming five-adventure supplement.

Each entry in the anthology is a standalone story, from tangling with the criminal underworld to a daring river escape, a savage Beastmen assault to getting caught between squabbling nobles.

No date has been announced yet, but definitely one to keep an eye on!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

To make this section more useful, starting this week I’ll be breaking them out by game.

Shipping Q3

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

Undated

• Talagaad Adventures

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Weapons & Armour Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Spells Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Prayers & Miracles Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Wounds & Conditions Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Dice Set

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Allies & Antagonists Card Deck (April 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Q4)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game GM’s Screen (Q4)

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q11)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)\

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

Shipping Q1

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Voll Adventures (Q1)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

Shipping Q3

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q4

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

Undated

• (Nothing at this time)

Thanks for reading, and see you next week!

Last week we took a look at the freshly-announced Carngrad Adventures, the next offering for Cubicle 7 Games’ Soulbound: Champions of Chaos line. They didn’t keep up waiting long for it, as it was listed for preorder this week. Sure you’ll have to wait for the first quarter of 2027 for physical delivery, but as usual you’ll get a PDF straightaway. You can also simply buy the PDF as a standalone for half the price (USD $19.99 vs $39.99).

Meanwhile, Dominic McDowall and Pádraig Murphy of Cubicle 7 were guests this week on Deep Strike, the Warhammer TV show that goes behind the scenes of Warhammer animations, video games, and other licensed products. Host Alex Doddy kept it light, guiding a conversation around role-playing games that was largely accessible to a non-RPG audience who might be interested in expanding their Warhammer gaming horizons. As a result, while it is somewhat skippable for those wanting to get in under the hood a bit more with Cubicle 7’s games, there were still interesting conversations around topics like:

• How they approached translating Warhammer into a role-playing game.

• How the rulebooks and models of the tabletop wargame inform their RPG design.

• What it was like designing the first-ever Age of Sigmar RPG, and what their favorite parts of it were (spoiler: it’s the city of Brightspear!)

• Why they’ve opted to create new systems rather than adapt existing ones (for example, Wrath & Glory vs Imperium Maledictum)

You also get some truly useful insights to some of their game worlds. For example, in the Wrath & Glory setting of the Gilead System, being completely surrounded by the Cicatrix Maledictum means that its people have no idea whether or not the greater Imperium beyond even still exists. As a result, it’s a tiny bubble of the greater Imperium, and if you die, notes McDowall, “you will be missed.” That gives a sort of importance and immediacy to the player characters they may not otherwise have, and lends itself to the game’s heroic theme.

It’s certainly worth a watch if you’re a subscriber to WarhammerTV, and I hope they’ll continue to feature more about Warhammer’s role-playing games in the future.

Organizing Wonder, Redux

Two weeks ago I talked about the new, limited-edition maps that were being offered by Cubicle 7, and some website ordering issues that they were experiencing. This led to them posting on Facebook a note about the extension of the limited run (see the above screenshot). While I haven’t seen anything posted about a date extension, they were due to conclude the ordering window on 04 MAY, and at time of writing they’re still available on the webstore- but only they know for how much longer.

ICYMI

This week, Ill Met by Morrslieb was back with another review of a WFRP 2e adventure, this time Terror in Talabheim. These reviews are always very in-depth and thorough, and it was an interesting dive into a well-regarded adventure.

Meanwhile over on Reddit, u/Delta1116732 shared a Warhammer 40K galaxy map with the r/40krpg community. While not ‘to scale,’ it’s a useful tool for GM’s and players alike to get a general sense of place in what is undoubtedly a massive universe. Nice work!

Coming Attractions

Here’s a list of the known upcoming releases from Cubicle 7 based on the available preorder information we have. Note that Cubicle 7’s own delivery estimates appear to be just that- estimates- which is why many products have an upcoming delivery listed for Q1 while we’re already into Q2.

This section will be updated weekly in this column, with new or updated info presented in boldface.

Undated

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Shipping Q1

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Weapons & Armour Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Spells Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Prayers & Miracles Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Wounds & Conditions Card Deck

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Dice Set

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Character Sheet Pad

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Bloodwind Spoil Map (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Dark Gifts Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Spells Lore Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Artefacts & Wargear Card Pack (Q1)

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook (Standard and Collector’s Edition) (Q1)

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Voll Adventures (Q1)

Shipping Q2

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Player’s Guide (April 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Gamemaster’s Guide (April 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Collector’s Edition (April 2026)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Sons of Russ (Standard and Collector’s Edition)

• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Adventures in Gilead

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Collector’s Edition

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

• Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Character Sheet Pad

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game GM’s Screen

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Grand Duchy of Talabec Map Pack (May 2026)

• Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Allies & Antagonists Card Deck (April 2026)

Shipping Q3

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 1 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy Map Bundle 2 (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Age of Sigmar Map Bundle (July 2026)

• Limited Edition Imperium Maledictum Macharian Sector Map (July 2026)

Shipping Q1 2027

• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Champions of Chaos: Carngrad Adventures

That’s it for this week, happy gaming!