actual play
A high-octane meditation on player agency
Episode 4 of Never Stop Blowing Up is a Fast & the Furious parody with a little game theory on the side.
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tabletop
Views of a Sandersonian carnival from the parking lot
A first look at the Stormlight RPG holds its best cards too close to the chest.
actual play
Chaosium brings actual play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
In partnership with Scottish institutions, the Call of Cthulhu publisher will host two shows at the famous avant-garde showcase.
community
Lack of diversity in tabletop’s biggest award isn’t that hard to judge
Director says “daunting” obligation received a single BIPOC candidate for 2025, who withdrew their application
tabletop
The Neopets RPG doesn’t need mechanics, just your money
If you’ve got the license for a nostalgic mid-aughts IP, the best thing to do is crowdfund a TTRPG.
tabletop
LARPing on the edge of nuclear apocalypse
An interview with the designers of Eyeball to Eyeball: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
tabletop
MTG Foundations monetizes decades-old Magic: The Gathering on-ramps
The free thing was good, but what if it cost money?
tabletop
Wizards of the Coast appoints World of Warcraft veteran John Hight as president
Hight’s decades of video game experience fits the analog company’s dubious digital aspirations.
actual play
Mechanics, murder, and more than a few non sequiturs
The third episode of Never Stop Blowing Up starts in the middle of an assassination attempt on Jack Manhattan. Oddly appropriate timing.
Lay it on the Table
Playing games during an attempted assassination
A story I will be telling until the end of time
community
Update: World of Darkness shitposter promptly returns from 100,000-hour ban, but not unchanged
“Couldn’t you just chill? Did you really have to be like that, all the time?”
actual play
But I don’t have any money: Actual Play and Porn
I’m so sorry, this never happens at my home game.
tabletop
How to slay the 1 HP dragon
Nobody hunts fire-breathing legends for the thrill of reducing numbers.
tabletop
Ahu Tiiko trades Coyote & Crow’s Indigipunk vibes for simmering, woodsy horror
Connor Alexander’s first official expansion to the Native-made RPG narrows its genre focus and scope to weave a web of interconnected mysteries.
actual play
Crime Rings, Copaganda, and So Much Gender
Rascal Recaps: Never Stop Blowing Up Episode 2 - “And That’s Whirred Up”
play list
Chappell Roan’s unofficial TTRPG Play List
Games for the gays, the girls, and the gay girls who can’t stop singing H-O-T T-O G-O! during character creation and end up wondering why their tiefling bard is such a hot mess all the time.