by W. Eric Martin

▪️ UK publisher Modiphius Entertainment will release multiple new games set in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld in 2026, starting with a crowdfunding campaign in Q1 for Discworld: Readers Digested, a 2-4 player game that’s based on Reiner Knizia‘s Blue Moon City, which first appeared in 2006. Notes the publisher: “[T]he game has been carefully reskinned with Discworld theming and features brand-new added expansion content.”

A Discworld card game, Kill Sam Vimes, will be released in Q3 2026, with publisher promising that the design “drops your unlucky assassins into a contract to kill the titular character, as they try not to fall foul of deadly (and hilarious) traps and tricks imagined by the Duke of Ankh.”

In mid-2025, Modiphius crowdfunded Terry Pratchett’s Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork to the tune of US$3.7 million, with the PDF being delivered to backers and the printed version hitting retail stores in Q2 2026.

A second Discworld campaign — Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald — will be crowdfunded in Q4 2026, with this campaign focusing on “Lancre (including its Witches), Uberwald, and the Chalk”.

▪️ In 2020, UK publisher Clarendon Games released Priorities, a party game in which one player each round secretly ranks five random cards in order from most favored (a.k.a., the highest priority) to least, then everyone else tries to match this secret ranking. Cards guessed correctly belong to the players, while all mismatched cards go to the game; that matters because the backs of the cards show letters, and whichever sides spells out PRIORITIES first wins.

In July 2025, Hasbro released Priorities: Fourth Wing, and as is common for me these days, I learn about what’s going on in pop culture by seeing licensed versions of existing games.

For those who don’t know, Fourth Wing is a 2023 novel by Rebecca Yarros and the first book in her Empyrean pentalogy, the third of which — Onyx Storm — was released in 2025. Amazon is adapting this series for television, so naturally many other licensed products will shower fans, including this adaptation of a party game that will be somewhat unplayable by those who aren’t familiar with the war college of dragon riders at the heart of this world.

Rank these cards!

▪️ Fourth Wing fans will have another game option in the second half of 2026 when Goliath Games releases Fourth Wing: Rise of the Wingleader. Players join Basgiath War College and aim to improve their skills and gain fame. From a press release about the game: