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Queen’s Court Games recognizes six outstanding creators with inaugural CROWN grant awards
This is a community submitted press release. Queen’s Court Games announced the winners at the inaugural CROWN Grant Awards on February 16, selecting six outstanding actual play creators to receive cash awards and creative mentorship. Held online via Twitch.tv, the first-of-its kind event marked a significant milestone in
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Return to Perinthos honors Jennell Jaquays’ queer activism and her dungeon-breaking legacy
The game jam-turned-megadungeon includes nearly 90 one-page dungeons donated by the TTRPG design community.
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Outliers: the award-winning solo TTRPG of weird research
A solo TTRPG of absurd comedy about a research assistant recruiting participants, collecting data, and performing weird tasks, before the study runs out of funding.
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The Far Roofs
A tabletop RPG about "talking rats, god-monsters, and you" by Jenna Moran, author of the well-regarded RPGs Nobilis, Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, and Glitch and frequent contributor to the game line for Exalted.
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Behind the Magic is live on Kickstarter!
Play as incompetent heroes on a quest to save the world and as the bard who's along to document the journey
actual play
Marvel’s Giant Sized Special is a super-powered ad in an actual play mask
The Good Enoughs are… not quite good enough.
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Rom Com Drama Bomb
Meet cute or meet your doom in this new over-the-top TTRPG zine.
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Dungeons & Dragons celebrates 50th anniversary in 2024 with more than 50 million fans
Wizards of the Coast looks back on five decades of gaming history and looks forward to updating "THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROLEPLAYING GAME™" for all audiences
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The Details of Our Escape
A creative collaboration between game designer Tyler Crumrine, comics artist Linnea Sterte, and multidisciplinary author Renee Gladman.
tabletop
Stu Horvath took VintageRPGs from Instagram to IRL shelves.
"Games orthodoxy can get fucked."
actual play
"Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!" is your improv uncle’s new favorite actual play
Where everyone dies and the rules don’t matter
actual play
How has actual play changed game design?
An interview with award-winning GM and game designer Kimi Hughes
culture
Dungeons & Dragons might be the only TTRPG that YouTube knows about
YouTube’s barely-disguised D&D-mostly video says that content consumption is the newest TTRPG lifestyle brand.