video games
Bitchless in Faerûn
How I fumbled every baddie on the Sword Coast. Twice.
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tabletop
The Glup Shitto-fication of Dungeons & Dragons
The new covers for D&D’s 2024 sourcebooks promise a future yoked to brand promotion.
tabletop
Independent, together: the IWGB opens its membership to tabletop creators
A handful of RPG designers join UK-based IWGB in a small but critical step towards growing union solidarity.
tabletop
I didn’t think about tabletop games for 11 days, and so should you
The question of whether we can afford to step away from reality is a neoliberal trap.
Lay it on the Table
Organization is its own kind of game
My Blades in the Dark campaign, like most of my life, only functions because I have a Notion the size of Nebraska.
actual play
Killing a god and finding a friend at the end of the world
BlackwaterDND’s actual play, Godkiller Oblivion, shows the beauty in things falling apart.
tabletop
The Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG isn’t going to make anyone happy
With little to offer fans of the franchise and game design that leaves much to be desired, this game is an irredeemable disappointment.
tabletop
Star Trek Adventures eyes the final frontier (again)
An interview with two members of the Modiphius team about emotional combat, arc-based storytelling, and how to write a fanfiction generator.
tabletop
A new audience For The Queen
Darrington Press is one hell of a herald.
tabletop
You are The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio
Microcelebrity is horrifying, especially in Akron
tabletop
Eldritch Automata mechanizes the body horrific
Screw processing, punch the horrors of being alive directly in the face with a giant mecha fist, that’ll cure your depression for sure.
interview
The Tabletop Game Designers Association offers education and protection for game designers
An interview with a co-founder of the newly-launched TTGDA on the power of sharing collective knowledge
Lay it on the Table
Identity is ever changing, vampires are forever
Memory’s a fickle thing when you’re wandering the Bloodbeam Badlands
community
Severe flooding endangers Brazil’s largest TTRPG publisher
Jambô Editora’s headquarters in Porto Alegra have “water from floor to ceiling”.
excerpt
Combat in Dungeons & Dragons
A short history of design trajectories.
tabletop
Exclusive: Paint the town (blood) red in this new sad vampire game
An interview with Zach Cox of SoulMuppet Publishing about vampires, mental health, and how to make characters dying really, really worth it.