features
Adepticon in Four Gifts
Understanding a miniatures convention through rats, brothers, and barnacles.
features
Inscryption’s bespoke, two-player board game is a fusion of aesthetics and adaptation
Leshy Deluxe.
features
How Wizards of the Coast almost published a Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
And the story of who actually did.
features
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.
features
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.
features
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.
tabletop
Sword World may no longer be revolutionary, but Japan’s dominant fantasy RPG is still more than a historical curiosity
Down the tabbit hole.
tabletop
An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D
Rascal talks to 3 players about the good stuff.
tabletop
Concerning Ravenloft - the original horror adventure module
Him, Strahd.
tabletop
Why the Year Zero Games Are My Favorite Type of Trad
It's all about pushing, resource management, and more pushing.
tabletop
How do the deals for licensed games happen?
A License to Kill column about brokers, lawyers, and merch.
tabletop
Mike Pondsmith's Other Games
Looking at the work minus the mirrorshades.
tabletop
Null Signal Games is keeping corporations fictional
The volunteer nonprofit behind Netrunner is growing, and growing up, on its own terms.
culture
How does tabletop journalism function today?
Khee Hoon asks a gazillion questions about their job and the industry.
culture
Short institutional memory can’t excuse wargaming’s most insidious cultural issues
Bigotry and bad behavior in the hobby cannot be treated as isolated incidents.