actual play
Making the most of your One Shot
A conversation about community, creation, and activism with the new host of the One Shot podcast, Dillin Apelyan
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tabletop
Free League’s exploration of hope and dead gods in Coriolis: The Great Dark feels like coming home
Seven years after The Third Horizon, the Swedish publisher returns older and wiser but no less excited to delve into the dark.
Lay it on the Table
We Are All Talking To Ourselves: My Toxic Relationship To D&D 5e
I keep trying to get out, but they keep pulling me back in.
tabletop
We found the tabletop nerds (affectionate) at NASA
Inspired by science, powered by dice, two of the leads of The Lost Universe talk NASA’s first TTRPG.
tabletop
Want to peer into Dungeons & Dragons’ future? Check out the state of Magic: The Gathering
With the rest of the company in dire financial straits, Daddy Hasbro asks D&D, "Why can't you be more like your sibling?"
actual play
What Is the Future of Dimension 20?
With huge production jumps being taken every season, Dimension 20 Series Producer and Co-Executive Producer Carlos Luna wants to be sure the show doesn’t “get lost in its own sauce.”
culture
David Ewalt can’t get game night out of his head
For some of us, games, like fucking up, are a chronic human condition.
tabletop
Daggerheart’s first go at chargen doesn’t fully integrate its inspirations
The Rascal team works through the playtest packet and learns that a family can be two monkeys, a walking fungus, and a showpony automaton.
community
D&D's short-lived LatAm Ambassador Program
An interview with Argentinian journalist Federico Müller who reported on the Latin American D&D ambassadorship program
community
Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored gaming booth is upsetting queer PAX East attendees
Qiddiya Gaming is a project of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and is part of a multibillion dollar initiative to bring esports to the country.
community
Getting the lay of the land in Argentinian TTRPGs
TTRPGs are a global phenomenon, and nearly 3000 responses give a glimpse into the often-overlooked community
Lay it on the Table
Orbital Blues is a game so good it doesn’t need its rules
This game makes me so fucking sad, I don’t ever want to play a game that doesn’t make me this sad.
actual play
5 ZineQuest games that would make great actual plays
Surprisingly, games that know what kind of story they want to tell, end up telling good stories
tabletop
The view from a shelled-out ditch
Spanish history RPG La Desbandá 1937 achieves sympathy without sensationalism.
culture
Making D&D an aloha shirt-slinging brand is the only way it will survive the winter
The $120 D&D aloha shirt is a desperate bid for my attention and it’s working like a marketer’s wet dream.
exclusive
RPGnet and RPGMatch have merged, aiming to reach across divides in the TTRPG community
The three stewards give Rascal an exclusive interview on the importance of stewardship, what new changes users can expect, and the challenges of a massive cultural merger in the TTRPG space.