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Eldritch Automata rises from the wreckage
After Gehenna Gaming failed to deliver on the author’s original crowdfunding campaign, Nick Francia has launched a rescue campaign.
Lin Codega
Lin Codega is an author, designer, screenwriter and award-winning entertainment journalist focusing on science fiction and fantasy media. They specialize in tabletop roleplaying games, pop culture, fandom, and queer intersections.
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"Too bad, make it work": Unionizing staff describe crunch culture and creative oppression within Wizards of the Coast
UWOTC-CWA members are confident in their ability to organize their workforce, even without voluntary recognition.
news
EN World remains calm amidst a plague of AI bot swarms
The longstanding tabletop news site and forum is periodically shutting down access to prevent overloads and potentially deter data-hungry scrapers.
features
Playtest Material is for the writers
The new critical outlet champions long form arguments on why games and gameplay are art.
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The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up
Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.
opinion
What does it mean to own part of a game?
Products Of Your Imagination™, owned by everyone.
features
T. Kingfisher’s Astarion is hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly tragic
The book perfectly captures Astarion’s voice, and refuses to talk down to the audience through trauma, pain, and the small light of hope.
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.
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.
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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.