features
In Guadalajara, kids who once photocopied game books now design RPGs and run conventions
Gaming across the US-Mexican border.
Thomas Manuel
A journalist, playwright and game designer from India. He's the host of the Yes Indie'd podcast and the writer of the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter.
podcast
Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
This ain't Swords in the Light.
news
€6 million in 8 years: Larp for social good receives serious funding in Europe
Finding the “fun” in public funding.
new games
Looters reframes treasure and dungeon crawling as class conflict
Mordite Press’s newest game is more than just an anti–D&D.
news
Does winning the Diana Jones Emerging Designer award help you stand out at Gen Con? The winners say yes.
Come hall or high water, the business cards will go on.
podcast
Let's plan Rascal Reading Club season 2
Should we follow the natural path or roll the dice?
features
Path Apparatus tackles lifepath systems through scholarship and play
We discuss how lifepath games invite introspection and imagination.
features
Before larp arrived, Australians had their own brand of freeform roleplaying
Wordplay, down under.
news
The big announcements from GenCon 2026 [with sparkling analysis]
It's only commentary if it's from the Indianapolis region.
features
Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun
new games
Creators of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast are betting on audio guides to set their new horror RPG apart
Funnelling hundreds of episodes of genre analysis into ten impossible tales.
news
Finland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving
Tabletop RPGs join pies, puppetry, and playing in the snow.
new games
Intergalactic Bastionland will be funnier and weirder than you expect
Chris McDowall’s follow-up to Mythic Bastionland charts a startling, unique course.
reading club
Talkback: Stonetop
The end of the first season is one of our best episodes yet.
new games
Sneak Peek: Shawn Tomkin is reimagining Ironsworn for a new “alternate edition”
Tentatively titled Legacies, this new version currently ditches Powered by the Apocalypse style moves for oracular “codexes”.
news
At Origins, Apocalypse World inducted into Hall of Fame, Land of Eem wins RPG of the Year
Also: Chaosium wins for best supplement and Wayne Reynolds joins a highly select group of fellow artists.