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Card art for Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. Man in white robes holding a scepter, surrounded by smoke and blue runes.

culture

EDH Brackets won’t solve Magic: The Gathering’s social problem

Tools are nice, but you can’t foster community with checklists.

Green and gold sphere on white. Text reads: Keep the Faith - a storytelling game about a religion in transition

tabletop

Keep the Faith does for Religion what Dialect did for language

This half-board game, half RPG stares directly into the political heart of modern faith.

Zine titled Letters to Sandra sits on a table with pens, an envelope addressed to Sandra and white tissue paper.

tabletop

Am I a terrible friend? And other thoughts while playing Letters to Sandra

What’s a little invasion of privacy between pals?

culture

Rascal Celebrates its First Birthday with a Pledge Drive

Support another year of independent tabletop journalism.

Rascal Radio

Rascal deploys malicious compliance

And categorically rejects binaries.

tabletop

Flatmates in Space: Gareth Damian Martin talks genre and Citizen Sleeper’s tabletop destiny

A fully realized tabletop RPG lies on the other side of some big questions.

Citizen Sleeper 2 key art feautiring an android and a cat floating amidst debris against a bright yellow backdrop.

tabletop

Tracing Citizen Sleeper’s circuitous vector from tabletop to hit video game

Broken bodies, broken dice.

Mosaic of game listings on itch.io in rows of five against a black background. Title and description below each entry.

Public Articles

Five years on, Solo But Not Alone keeps a torch lit in support of mental health resources

"Sometimes the best thing you can do is support people who need you directly.”

Illustrated image of a cyberpunk Cairo skyline. The Great Pyramids can be seen in the distance.

tabletop

Tossing out Aladdin: Egyptian writers breathe life into Cairo:Otherscape

Ra and Egyptomania are out. These writers want the gods of their rural grandparents.

Three ENNIE awards medals (left to right: silver, gold, bronze) sit on a table amidst a motley collection of dice.

culture

ENNIE Awards’ updated submission policy won’t accept AI projects… next year

The organization “will no longer accept any products containing generative AI or created with the assistance of Large Language Models or similar technologies.”

culture

Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”

Twitter/X links banned after platform owner Elon Musk’s threw two Nazi salutes

Lay it on the Table

Rascal Catches The Last Train To Hell (via Bremen)

Caro Asercion's game of doomed musicians delivers one hell of a shot

Two armored soldiers watch people enter a grand stone arche. The wreck of a spacecraft burns in the foreground.

tabletop

Realis ditches traditional character sheets for prose poetry

How players in Austin Walker’s upcoming tabletop RPG arm themselves with Sentences.

A spaceship thrusts upwards among red-tinted clouds. A blue sun orbited by hundreds of moons fills the background.

tabletop

Austin Walker's Realis finds the magic in language

When I design a tabletop RPG, I always synthesize Berserk and sentence diagrams.

Two zines for The Electrum Archive sit on a desk with a pair of maps, one titled "ORN", along with two pairs of d20 dice.

Public Articles

Close enough, welcome back Morrowind

The Electrum Archive simply has the juice, er… I mean ink.

Rascal Radio

Rascal buys land for its sixth news factory

And prints 20 billion business cards.