features
From podcast to convention: the team behind Between Two Cons talks challenges and success after inaugural event
Happily stuck between Gary and Indie.
actual play
Good Day to Dice embraces camp, queerness, and sex
It turns out I like actual play if it’s also an erotically charged drag performance about queer cowboys fighting ghosts.
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Fighting for yourself
Emergent stakes, creating the character at the table, and finding risk in Under Hollow Hills.
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First ever Jubenshacon scripts a murderously successful and sold out debut
Another milestone in the story of the Chinese genre's international crossover.
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Twenty years and two editions later, Heroes of Horror still offers scary good advice
From campaign advice to corruption, D&D 3.5e’s ghoulish guide was anything but a throwaway supplement.
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Tabletop Bookshelf built its brick-and-mortar future out of past goodwill
For owner Tom Gibes, Milwaukee's first independent RPG bookstore is a testament to lifting up small, passionate tabletop creators.
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With the release of Umdaar, we might be at the end of Fate
Fred Hicks talks about the birth, life, and maybe death of the gaming line that launched his company.
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Bludgeon wants you to embrace roleplaying in your own, radical way
This RPG from an Indian team approaches classes, and divinity, beyond Western conventions.
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Gradient Descent, Psi*Run, and what it means to be human in the age of AI
Looking for answers in all the wrong places.
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Adepticon in Four Gifts
Understanding a miniatures convention through rats, brothers, and barnacles.
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Inscryption’s bespoke, two-player board game is a fusion of aesthetics and adaptation
Leshy Deluxe.
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How Wizards of the Coast almost published a Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
And the story of who actually did.
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Why localizing Japan’s decades-old fantasy RPGs can be a behemoth task
Meet the studios bringing Sword World and Wares Blade to the English-speaking world.
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Monte Cook on dungeon design, Gygaxian feedback, and shaping the $5 PDF
And why he didn't stay on the design team for D&D 5e.
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From blog posts to mighty 1,200-page books: Stonetop's creators reflect on a decade-long journey
And how their belief in the power of community has only sharpened.
new games
Evil Hat’s new game about kids fighting off aliens started as a one-pager
Em Hubbard talks about the journey of designing and pitching Rocket Club.