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Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
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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.
culture
The Other Satanic Panics
How RPGs become scapegoats for murders across the world.
tabletop
Carved in Stone is both a history book and an eye-catching RPG
Publisher Brian Tyrrell and archeologist Heather Christie paint a pretty Pict-ure.
culture
Solving secret puzzles at the Japanese mystery school
Alanna Yeo talks nazo, design cultures, and her unique ARG-style experience at Nazogaku.
culture
A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
tabletop
License to Kill, a new irregular column about RPG adaptations
It’s a whole new world™ out there.
culture
Tom Vasel wants indie designers to stop guilt tripping him
Directives from an ivory dice tower.
tabletop
Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier
The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.
tabletop
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
tabletop
Shannon Appelcline returns with a product-by-product history of the first decades of D&D
Designers & Dragons: Origins promises to be another essential reference.
opinion
Itch.io isn’t like other platforms
It’s like a 3.5 star Chinese restaurant.
tabletop
Why do people love to hate Shadowrun?
A long-form exploration of corporations, cyberpunk, and elves.
tabletop
Laura Lang brings user-experience design to craft an adventure for new players
More like "use your experience", am I right?
tabletop
Zephyr’s sweeping art brings an alien world to life
How Federico Sohns went from learning to paint to illustrating a whole book.
tabletop
Academic Press To Release Physical Version of Mountain Witch
Tim Hutchings leads new series that includes Dog Eat Dog and Princess With A Cursed Sword.
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Beyond the Pale is a fantastic moral adventure
Fantastic as in great and also as in magical.