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The only real boy in Apocalypse World

Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.

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Modiphius delays Wolfenstein RPG amid swaths of Microsoft layoffs

Would-be Blazkowiczes will need to wait until next year.

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RPG Trader’s digital storefront wants to be the creator-friendly, RPG-focused alternative

Trading market majority for sustainability.

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new games

Creators of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast are betting on audio guides to set their new horror RPG apart

Funnelling hundreds of episodes of genre analysis into ten impossible tales.

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Rascal Radio

Interview: Agency, frustration, and secrets in Asa Donald's SPINE

Life after death of the author.

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Cut funds, support, put PAX diversity spaces in danger

Enforcers were pulled out of the Intersection at PAX East, undermining the long-term plans for the intentional space at the convention.

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From podcast to convention: the team behind Between Two Cons talks challenges and success after inaugural event

Happily stuck between Gary and Indie.

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Finland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving

Tabletop RPGs join pies, puppetry, and playing in the snow.

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Rascal Radio

Radio Hour: The Clicky-Clacky Candy Metric, feat. Clayton Notestine

Coming soon: The Outtie Awards.

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new games

Intergalactic Bastionland will be funnier and weirder than you expect

Chris McDowall’s follow-up to Mythic Bastionland charts a startling, unique course.

The cast of Good Day to Dice: Saddle Up. Vico Ortiz, Roz Warren, Jane Spencer, Woody Banger, and Annalea Fiachi

actual play

Good Day to Dice embraces camp, queerness, and sex

It turns out I like actual play if it’s also an erotically charged drag performance about queer cowboys fighting ghosts.

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Evil Hat organizes RPG charity bundle in support of Rae Nedjadi

The renowned designer was hospitalized earlier this year for upper respiratory failure.

reading club

Talkback: Stonetop

The end of the first season is one of our best episodes yet.

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new games

Making your mark: three games streamline play with dry-erase markers

The writing is on the wall. And the character sheets. And the item cards.

new games

Sneak Peek: Shawn Tomkin is reimagining Ironsworn for a new “alternate edition”

Tentatively titled Legacies, this new version currently ditches Powered by the Apocalypse style moves for oracular “codexes”.

Rascal Radio

Radio Hour: You Game of Thrones'd Yourself

How many D-words can you recall?

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