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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
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The only real boy in Apocalypse World
Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.
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From podcast to convention: the team behind Between Two Cons talks challenges and success after inaugural event
Happily stuck between Gary and Indie.
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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.