culture
Your kind, annual reminder that awards aren’t that important
Let’s all politely clap and get on with our lives.
video games
The Dark Urge is the most honest way to play Baldur’s Gate 3
Duty, friendship, faith, romance… all these themes fall to the wayside in service of the rigorous application of power through violence.
tabletop
Despite releasing in 2020, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is finally, truly out
Jay Dragon believes the physical book represents a final, definitive vision for Possum Creek’s latest tabletop RPG.
culture
Tabletop journalism deserves better than this, and so do you
The industry fails one of its death saving rolls.
tabletop
Government suits roleplay World War III like murderhobos, because of course they do
Systems matter, especially in a game like War
excerpt
Hack the orcs, loot the tomb, and take the land
Reflections on settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and otherwise possibilities in "Dungeons & Dragons."
culture
The OGL is dead. Long live the OGL.
This ain’t a victory lap, it’s a cautionary tale.
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.
culture
Fuck immersion: Stop trying to make me smell my game
My game nights smell like pork spring rolls and canned vodka mixers, as God intended.
tabletop
The Crooked Roots and Tangled Blessings of Cassi Mothwin
Cassi Mothwin was 2023’s Rising Star Designer. In 2024, she’s trying not to burn out.
culture
Games I play while listening to investor calls
Applying game design principles to Hasbro’s investor meetings shows the real agenda.
tabletop
How do you read a tabletop RPG book, and other very important questions
That which we call a book by any other word smells just as inky.
tabletop
Yearning to explore the megadungeon internet
Freedom from platforms might rest at the center of a labyrinth.
tabletop
Don’t serve me Empty Frontiers when I asked for sad, cowboy dirtbags
This yeehaw propaganda once hit harder.
tabletop
Lara Croft finds a horde of trolls in Twitter’s tomb
The officially licensed tabletop RPG is pilloried for the crime of imagining a different kind of raider.
tabletop
Pay no attention to the CEO behind the DM Screen
Hasbro leader Chris Cocks wears his tabletop bonafides like any other suit.