tabletop
Tossing out Aladdin: Egyptian writers breathe life into Cairo:Otherscape
Ra and Egyptomania are out. These writers want the gods of their rural grandparents.
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actual play
The Dimension 20 MSG show was everything I hoped it would be — except for the venue
"There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."
Public Articles
ENNIE Awards’ updated submission policy won’t accept AI projects… next year
The organization “will no longer accept any products containing generative AI or created with the assistance of Large Language Models or similar technologies.”
culture
Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”
Twitter/X links banned after platform owner Elon Musk’s threw two Nazi salutes
Public Articles
After surviving catastrophic success, Chaosium celebrates a calm 50th birthday
Michael O’Brien, VP of the Call of Cthulhu and Glorantha publisher, chats past, present and future of the company
tabletop
The greatest comic that you can’t read
The 600-session Masks campaign that has its own tag on Archive of Our Own.
tabletop
Alarums and Excursions: how zines remade D&D and the web
50 years and 500+ issues later, the longest-running argument about RPGs is still going.
Public Articles
The games I chose to save from the fire
As the Eaton Fire crept closer, I divided my collection along lines of affection and replaceability, easily finding reasons to bring every game with me .
Lay it on the Table
Rascal Catches The Last Train To Hell (via Bremen)
Caro Asercion's game of doomed musicians delivers one hell of a shot
miniatures
Hobby Hole: Not the Fun Kind of White Russian
It’s not like shambling conservative Russian assets have modern relevance or anything
tabletop
Realis ditches traditional character sheets for prose poetry
How players in Austin Walker’s upcoming tabletop RPG arm themselves with Sentences.
tabletop
Austin Walker's Realis finds the magic in language
When I design a tabletop RPG, I always synthesize Berserk and sentence diagrams.
tabletop
Close enough, welcome back Morrowind
The Electrum Archive simply has the juice, er… I mean ink.
culture
The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses
A dive into the toy company's alleged relationship with the Magdalene Laundries
Rascal Radio
Rascal buys land for its sixth news factory
And prints 20 billion business cards.
community
Update: Journalism should not roleplay as marketing
A hard talk about the role of the media, or at least tabletop media