features
An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module
iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.
Lin Codega
Lin Codega is an award-winning entertainment journalist focusing on science fiction and fantasy media. They specialize in tabletop roleplaying games, pop culture, fandom, and queer intersections.
new games
Blurring the lines between larp and tabletop, Nine Space Games is Jason Morningstar’s best work yet
Creating space for the curious and the experienced to play together.
features
A game without players can still be played
Revisiting essays five years later: On lyric games, ownership, and an understanding of what makes up a game.
features
AITA because I (fairy prince, 1573yo) can't stop wiping people's memories?
Moves in Under Hollow Hills are a double-edged sword, creating passive geasa that encourage fundamental, magical truths about characters.
features
Queer games require queer structures
Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”
news
Daggerheart and Crooked Moon won big at the 2026 ENNIE Awards
Alongside Legends in the Mist and Dolmenwood, four games took home 20 out of 48 awards.
news
Mischief Toy Store takes home the 2026 Diana Jones Award
In honor of this year’s winners, play and become ungovernable.
features
The only real boy in Apocalypse World
Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.
news
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.
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.
news
United WOTC officially elected in a NLRB vote count
The MTG: Arena team is now full of card-carrying union members.
features
Fighting for yourself
Emergent stakes, creating the character at the table, and finding risk in Under Hollow Hills.
actual play
Digital elbow grease saves largest actual play database
Anne Monteverdi made sure Series Seeker stuck around to keep track of all the RPG hobby's stories.
investigations
AI-generated profiles of TTRPG designers ignite fury across social media
4 Pillar Games’ new website adds AI-generated slop to an already ephemeral online historical record.
interview
Cortex Prime’s new stewardship opens up the system
Cam Banks still has a lot of work he wants to do.
interview
PSI*RUN catches its second wind
Meguey Baker’s PSI*RUN is getting a second edition after fifteen years.