‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Rolls for ‘Star Wars’ and ‘World of Warcraft’
Dungeons & Dragons can’t stop growing, and at Gen Con 2026, Wizards of the Coast announced some surprising additions to the TTRPG. Taking a page out of Magic: The Gathering’s book, D&D will embrace established IP with a “Universes Beyond” line of products, starting with World of Warcraft and Star Wars. The two giant properties will get individual campaigns adapting their respective universes for tabletop players.
- ▪Dungeons & Dragons can’t stop growing, and at Gen Con 2026, Wizards of the Coast announced some surprising additions to the TTRPG.
- ▪Taking a page out of Magic: The Gathering’s book, D&D will embrace established IP with a “Universes Beyond” line of products, starting with World of Warcraft and Star Wars.
- ▪The two giant properties will get individual campaigns adapting their respective universes for tabletop players.
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Dungeons & Dragons can’t stop growing, and at Gen Con 2026, Wizards of the Coast announced some surprising additions to the TTRPG. Taking a page out of Magic: The Gathering’s book, D&D will embrace established IP with a “Universes Beyond” line of products, starting with World of Warcraft and Star Wars. The two giant properties will get individual campaigns adapting their respective universes for tabletop players. Longtime fans of either franchise or the larger tabletop gaming scene may recall they’ve each had a handful of roleplaying and board games to their names over the decades, but they’ve been absent from that space for years.
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