tabletop
The Crooked Roots and Tangled Blessings of Cassi Mothwin
Cassi Mothwin was 2023’s Rising Star Designer. In 2024, she’s trying not to burn out.
Latest Stories
tabletop
The Sky is Falling is as hands on as it gets
Using paper cut illustrations and pasting in game rules, this MÖRK BORG zine is a true art piece.
culture
Games I play while listening to investor calls
Applying game design principles to Hasbro’s investor meetings shows the real agenda.
tabletop
How do you read a tabletop RPG book, and other very important questions
That which we call a book by any other word smells just as inky.
Public Articles
Did you know a Taurus likes to stay home and play games?
Tell me if you’ve heard this horoscope joke before.
interview
Lead an eldritch cult of your own in Elder Mythos
An interview with lead designer, Michele Paroli, on this game of tension and world-building, and world-destroying.
Masks: A New Generation
I was a teenage superhero self-insert
Me, mask thoroughly pierced: “I’m not owned! I’m not owned!”
tabletop
The Substratum Protocol, I presume
An interview with Pandion Games about how core-delving scientists collect clues to craft new explanations every game.
tabletop
Yearning to explore the megadungeon internet
Freedom from platforms might rest at the center of a labyrinth.
actual play
This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with Ties That Bind
In the zombie apocalypse, the only thing we have are the stories we tell each other
tabletop
The Job’s dice stacking capitalizes on tension at the table
Stressed and loving it.
tabletop
Don’t serve me Empty Frontiers when I asked for sad, cowboy dirtbags
This yeehaw propaganda once hit harder.
tabletop
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a farewell tour of a multiversal rogue’s gallery
The god of secrets is breaking out all the baddies for one last nostalgic 5e joyride.
tabletop
Hearts Blazing you will always be famous
Hold on to the games you love because this industry is fucking brutal.
tabletop
Lara Croft finds a horde of trolls in Twitter’s tomb
The officially licensed tabletop RPG is pilloried for the crime of imagining a different kind of raider.
community
Even for Dimension 20, Ticketmaster’s Dynamic Pricing model is shrouded in secrecy
When Live Nation is the only game in town, what is an anti-capitalist to do?