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Rascal Radio
Rascal deploys malicious compliance
And categorically rejects binaries.
tabletop
Flatmates in Space: Gareth Damian Martin talks genre and Citizen Sleeper’s tabletop destiny
A fully realized tabletop RPG lies on the other side of some big questions.
tabletop
Tracing Citizen Sleeper’s circuitous vector from tabletop to hit video game
Broken bodies, broken dice.
culture
Five years on, Solo But Not Alone keeps a torch lit in support of mental health resources
"Sometimes the best thing you can do is support people who need you directly.”
miniatures
Hobby Hole: Down in the Trenches
Gunk, gunk, glorious gunk!
culture
Big Bad Con's cardstock currency pits networking against building community
Personal lessons from the school of card knocks.
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.
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.
tabletop
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