News Roundup: Project Sigil Ends Development

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In this issue, we cover the end of WOTC’s Project Sigil and we also touch on the update to Warhammer Fantasy’s classic TTRPG.

Wizards of the Coast’s 3D VTT Project Sigil Ends Development

Project Sigil, which was Wizards of the Coast’s attempt to build a 3D VTT, has formally shut down development half a year after leaving beta tests.

“When we introduced Sigil, we imagined a powerful 3D virtual tabletop where you could share maps, minis, and environments with your friends and fellow players,” The company wrote in a blog post. “While that vision inspired thousands of players and creators, we couldn't sustain the level of ongoing development support that Sigil—or our community—deserved. That’s on us. What we’ve learned from Sigil, and from your feedback, will guide how we approach future digital tools. We’ll take the time to do it right in pursuit of developing the best D&D experiences possible.”

All players who used Sigil between March 1 and October 23, 2025 will get a six-month Master Tier credit applied to their account. Sigil users will have access to their campaigns until October 2026, when Sigil will be shut down. Users who pre-ordered the 2024 books will also get a digital dice set in exchange for the Golden Dragon digital mini.

Project Sigil was a culminating project for WOTC that it put a lot of effort into. Originally previewed during the OneDnD presentation in 2022, it was supposed to be an alternative VTT that let people play online in a way that resembled terrain and miniature play in a 3D interface —something that hasn’t gotten a ton of traction among D&D or TTRPG players. The original launch was notably limited in content and centered its tools around a preset campaign with limited character options.

While the project was formally launched in March 2025, it unofficially shut down less than two months later after the team responsible for development was cut, a point where the ‘online community’ determined that Project Sigil did not have a future.

This shutdown is a formal confirmation of that project’s failure. WOTC’s team has primarily pivoted to its 2D Maps VTT, which lets players roll dice and play D&D directly within DnDBeyond.com with few technical restrictions. It may not have the pizazz of Foundry or Roll20, but it’s a good option for PCs with cheaper processors and video cards.

Meanwhile, D&D is still going super hard on digital goods, including five new video games in the coming years. We’ll see how those pan out, or if they end up in the bin alongside the Payday D&D game.

If you were involved in Project Sigil, I’d love to chat! Please shoot me an email or a DM on BlueSky.

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Warhammer Fantasy to Get Fifth Edition Update

Warhammer Fantasy, Games Workshop’s TTRPG based in its grimdark fantasy setting, is getting a fifth edition right as the game approaches its 40th anniversary. WF is one of the older games in the TTRPG space, but it’s also one that is immensely crunchy and that helped define how to write adventures with its campaign The Enemy Within.

The biggest question that arose is what this means for the dozens of sourcebooks that the WF IP owner, Cubicle 7, has printed over the years. The game’s designers insisted that everything would be backward compatible. The entire goal is to fix the rules.

“We’ve aimed to keep the satisfying level of detail people love while refining the play experience and addressing areas that have caused problems,” Cubicle 7 owner Dominic McDowell said in an interview. “We’ve reduced ‘special case’ rules where the impact wasn’t worth the additional effort, reworked combat to flow better and be easier to keep track of, and made the game a little more deadly.”

At first glance, it appears that these changes are designed to collect all the rulings from those books and consolidate them into a single book to make play easier.

We’ll hopefully learn more soon. The release for the Fifth Edition is scheduled for 2026.

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On Thursday, we broke news about Hasbro’s Q3 reports, which affirmed the company’s focus on developing new digital products for the Dungeons and Dragons franchise.

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