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.
Caelyn Ellis
A journalist and games critic with a background in education and a special interest in the overlap of those areas. She has written for Eurogamer, Edge, Rock Paper Shotgun, Polygon and Dicebreaker.
Warhammer
Armageddon out of the Warhammer 40,000 coverage game
Final Liberation*
features
Twenty years and two editions later, Heroes of Horror still offers scary good advice
From campaign advice to corruption, D&D 3.5e’s ghoulish guide was anything but a throwaway supplement.
new games
Burst bubbles and not hearts in The Kaiju Love You!
Oh, no! There goes Tokyo!
new games
Wraithborn reaches for MÖRK BORG style and substance but exceeds its grasp
MÖRE BORG.
tabletop
Free League expands third party license to include more games and more languages
Freer League.
new games
Triangle Agency x FIST crossover The House Edge now available for playtesting
Fist and edge are both in the headline, you can make your own joke.
tabletop
What we mean when we talk about crunch
The history and role of crunch as a description for RPGs.
tabletop
Totally apolitical Ubisoft franchise (not that one, nor the other one; no, the other, other one) set to receive an RPG adaptation
Arkhane Asylum’s Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division The Roleplaying Game
tabletop
Sword World may no longer be revolutionary, but Japan’s dominant fantasy RPG is still more than a historical curiosity
Down the tabbit hole.
tabletop
Concerning Ravenloft - the original horror adventure module
Him, Strahd.
tabletop
Girl Frame confidently stomps its way into a niche mecha genre
Ast-Hound-ing
tabletop
Dungeons & Dragons 2024 is now officially D&D 5.5e, still isn’t a new edition
RIP D&D 5.52024OneE
culture
Short institutional memory can’t excuse wargaming’s most insidious cultural issues
Bigotry and bad behavior in the hobby cannot be treated as isolated incidents.
tabletop
Runecairn with Rune & Caelyn
Imitation is the sincerest (and most approachable) form of flattery
tabletop
WARLOCK and Exodus speak volumes about Wizards of the Coast’s video game ambitions
Exactly what meets the eye.