actual play
Buzzfeed’s first actual play blends D&D with Saturday Morning Cartoons
Magic & Stuff is an all-queer, all-femme animated twist on a classic AP format
Rowan Zeoli
actual play
Godkiller: Last Hope is the beginning of a new cycle for Transplanar
Connie Chang and Sea Thomas’ first in-studio foray is a divine cinematic experience
actual play
How Encounter Party won over TV audiences
Brian David Judkins and Ned Donovan set their sights on getting an Emmy for Actual Play
community
Can anyone make a living in tabletop and actual play?
A study by Dr. Emily Friedman and Carson Barnes wants to pull back the curtain on labor in TTRPGs
actual play
Killing a god and finding a friend at the end of the world
BlackwaterDND’s actual play, Godkiller Oblivion, shows the beauty in things falling apart.
tabletop
You are The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio
Microcelebrity is horrifying, especially in Akron
community
The Tabletop Game Designers Association offers education and protection for game designers
An interview with a co-founder of the newly-launched TTGDA on the power of sharing collective knowledge
Lay it on the Table
Identity is ever changing, vampires are forever
Memory’s a fickle thing when you’re wandering the Bloodbeam Badlands
community
Severe flooding endangers Brazil’s largest TTRPG publisher
Jambô Editora’s headquarters in Porto Alegra have “water from floor to ceiling”.
community
8 trans games by trans artists in this trans rights charity bundle
Rue Dickey’s third annual Tabletop for Trans Rights Bundle is raising money for the Appalachian LGBTQ+ community
tabletop
Government suits roleplay World War III like murderhobos, because of course they do
Systems matter, especially in a game like War
community
itch.io is the collective organizing platform we have, but is it the one we need?
A pattern of delays in communication and payment from itch.io have repeatedly left charity organizers and game sellers in the dark.
actual play
Quinns Quest's Citizen Sleeper is an old-school actual play with some cybernetic enhancements
Quinns Quest has made his first venture into the realm of actual play—after saying he’d never do one.
culture
Letters from The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Linda and Rowan LARP as theater critics for a tame night of misadventure and not nearly enough mayhem to make it worth traveling into Times Square.
interview
The unwinnable resistance of Oceania 2084
War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. I love Big Brother.
Lay it on the Table
The questions I ask myself when building a new world
Hold on, wait a second, I’m sorry…did you say street magic?