5 on Friday 20/02/26

It’s Friday, and here on No Rerolls that means it’s time for an all-new 5 on Friday. We’re going to start with 5 exciting releases for this week before moving on to our usual digest of some of our favourite articles from the past week. Of course, we’re slow readers, so don’t be surprised if there are some articles that are a little older – these are just some of the great articles we happen to have actually read in the past week.

Releases & Previews

Every week there are many games, books, and miniatures released. This will probably be a mix of previews, preorders, and releases, and with release dates being the way they are in this industry, it’s always pretty approximate. Excuses out of the way, here are 5 of the releases that caught our attention this week:

Games Workshop releases Huron Blackheart and his friends for Warhammer 40,000 – The new Huron Blackheart set gives the Red Corsairs a sculpt that matches the fiction: a scarred warlord surrounded by a retinue that looks like they’ve survived the Maelstrom by being meaner, smarter, and more heavily armed than anyone else. It’s a cool release that lands the renegade‑pirate aesthetic cleanly.

This is a great, character‑driven box that makes the Red Corsairs feel like a real faction rather than a paint scheme. Fantastic minis!

Affiliate Links:

Element Games
Wayland Games

Magnetic Press Play releases their Planet of the Apes RPG – This new Planet of the Apes RPG leans into the setting’s tension rather than mere spectacle or novelty, giving players a system built around mistrust, shifting power, and the slow collapse of any illusion of control. It treats the franchise as a political pressure cooker, not a pulp adventure.

It’s an RPG that seems to understand that the Apes universe lives in the uneasy space between ideology and survival, and it gives groups the tools to play in that discomfort rather than gloss over it.

Affiliate Links:

DriveThruRPG

Wizards of the Coast set to release a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set for Magic: The Gathering – The upcoming TMNT Universes Beyond set brings the Turtles, their allies, and their rogues’ gallery into Magic with a mix of nostalgia, attitude, and sharp mechanical identity. It looks like it will be a proper celebration of the franchise.

Early previews show a set built around fast, synergistic play and character‑driven designs that actually feel like the Turtles and their world, giving the release a strong flavour hook and plenty of personality at the table

Affiliate Links:

Bundle (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Special Pizza Bundle (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Turtle Team Up (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Draft Night Set (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Commander Deck (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Play Booster Box (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Single Play Booster (Element Games)
Collector Booster Box (Element Games | Wayland Games)
Single Collector Booster (Element Games)

Kelly Black and Maddie Disedare release New Orleans By Night for V5 – New Orleans By Night reframes the city as a volatile Anarch‑Hecata stronghold, rebuilt in the vacuum left by the Camarilla’s collapse and held together by Baron Samedi’s uneasy charisma. It’s a setting built on shifting territory, broken treaties, and a nightlife ecosystem where tourists, spirits, and predators all blur into the same hungry crowd.

The book digs deep: updated metaplot, new city roles, territorial maps, dozens of tightly written NPC krewes and packs, fresh Predator and Coterie Types, and a full suite of musical‑melancholic powers for the Sons of Discord. It’s all tuned to make New Orleans feel dangerous and alive.

Affiliate Links:

Storytellers Vault

Chaosium to release a Horror on the Orient Express board game – Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express board game brings the classic campaign into a focused, table‑ready format, turning its slow‑burn dread and cross‑continental investigation into a cooperative experience built around tension, resource pressure, and the creeping sense that the train itself is running out of safe places. It’s a smart adaptation that respects the original without trying to replicate it beat‑for‑beat.

Originally funded via Kickstarter, it seems to be making its way into retail channels. It lands as a polished, accessible entry point into Mythos horror; a contained, replayable journey that aims to capture the campaign’s atmosphere while giving players a tighter, more deliberate way to experience the descent.

Affiliate Links:

Wayland Games

Blog Posts & Articles

The meat of 5 on Friday, the articles are listed in no particular order, so let’s get into some recommendations:

The Haunting of Ashwood Cemetery @ Stalker7 – This is a kids’ one‑shot that turned into a full haunted‑cemetery set piece, complete with gorgeous terrain, painted minis, and a surprisingly dramatic showdown among the gravestones.

The Original Lonely Fun – How We Read TTRPGs @ Burn After Running – A short look at the different ways we actually read TTRPGs – the skims, the deep dives, the prep passes – and why game books invite a kind of wandering, idiosyncratic reading that other non‑fiction rarely does.

If You Can’t Buy It… @ A Loft Full of Lead – The author is turning a long‑unobtainable Armorcast relic into a practical 3D‑printed project. Sometimes the only way to get the model you’ve always wanted is to make it yourself.

Kitbish-Bash-Bosh @ Deathzap – Sounds like quite the weekend of kitbashing chaos, where a box of bits and a gothic‑cyberpunk fever dream collide to produce a whole cast of gloriously mismatched miniatures. I do love how interchangeable the Frostgrave plastic kits are.

Woehammer: Circle of Blood – Old World Narrative Event (21st/22nd March) @ Woehammer – A rundown of Woehammer’s upcoming Circle of Blood narrative weekend, where players revisit a classic Old World campaign and push its branching battles to a full-table conclusion.

* * *

There have been a few posts here since my last 5 on Friday: