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World of Styria turns a 39-year home campaign into a Pathfinder 2e setting book
After four decades of collaborative play, designer Sutton Moore is releasing his world to the public.
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How quantification and Midwestern culture shaped D&D’s problematic legacies
Aaron Trammell’s new book explores why some things shouldn’t be simplified.
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Playtest Material is for the writers
The new critical outlet champions long form arguments on why games and gameplay are art.
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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.”
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T. Kingfisher’s Astarion is hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly tragic
The book perfectly captures Astarion’s voice, and refuses to talk down to the audience through trauma, pain, and the small light of hope.
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An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module
iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.
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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.
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A game without players can still be played
Revisiting essays five years later: On lyric games, ownership, and an understanding of what makes up a game.
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In Guadalajara, kids who once photocopied game books now design RPGs and run conventions
Gaming across the US-Mexican border.
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It's Both The Best And Worst Time To Get Into Pokémon Cards
Interest in Pokémon is at an all-time high. That's both good and bad for collectors.
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AITA because I (fairy prince, 1573yo) can't stop wiping people's memories?
Moves in Under Hollow Hills are a double-edged sword, creating passive geasa that encourage fundamental, magical truths about characters.
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Queer games require queer structures
Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”
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D&D’s Gen Con keynote promises a great return from parts undefined
All gas, no rearview mirrors.
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Path Apparatus tackles lifepath systems through scholarship and play
We discuss how lifepath games invite introspection and imagination.
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Before larp arrived, Australians had their own brand of freeform roleplaying
Wordplay, down under.
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Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun