features
In The Pines is funny, scary, and a little bit fucked up
But maybe the real gender-horror is what happens outside the game.
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.
gut check
What Is The OSR, or How Discourse Would Be Better If You Tried Googling It
Seriously.
features
Mark Diaz Truman explains how Magpie Games changed over the last decade
As Masks turns 10, a candid conversation about the publisher’s artistic choices and compromises.
features
How quantification and Midwestern culture shaped D&D’s problematic legacies
Aaron Trammell’s new book explores why some things shouldn’t be simplified.
podcast
Talkback: Eberron
Plus, the schedule for the remaining season for the show!
art of RPGs
Francesca Baerald’s new book celebrates a decade of mapping some of gaming’s most beloved worlds
The Italian artist talks about her process and why maps should “invite the viewer inside the setting.”
podcast
Reading Club: Eberron
What does it mean to make a setting for D&D?
new games
2 Good 2 Society: Storybrewers do a lot with small changes in the new edition of the beloved Austen-like
"If you make the games you want to play, then the people who you want to play those games will appear.”
reading club
Talkback: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
Rules are settings, and settings are genres.
features
One Hundred Tales of Solidarity
The story of the greatest ever game of Band of Blades and a love letter to the people I played two campaigns with.
features
In Guadalajara, kids who once photocopied game books now design RPGs and run conventions
Gaming across the US-Mexican border.
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?