culture
A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
culture
Palace of the Silver Princess: How TSR Recalled and Buried A D&D Adventure
An excerpt from Designers & Dragons: Origins
tabletop
Shannon Appelcline returns with a product-by-product history of the first decades of D&D
Designers & Dragons: Origins promises to be another essential reference.
culture
The history of RPGs, one hour at a time
Anna Anthropy talks about the laborious but rewarding process of condensing historically important RPGs into classroom sessions.
tabletop
The Man Who Bought And Sold D&D
Peter Adkison on the ups and downs of running Wizards of the Coast in the ‘90s.
tabletop
Alarums and Excursions: how zines remade D&D and the web
50 years and 500+ issues later, the longest-running argument about RPGs is still going.
tabletop
The dragons in D&D play a suspiciously familiar Great Game
An article about the obscure lore of xorvintaal, the British Empire, and a very special Mongolian horse.
tabletop
The X-Card was created because Dave didn’t like the vibe
James Mendez Hodes was there when the deep magic was written.
tabletop
At 50 years old, Dungeons & Dragons is an artifact
Wizards of the Coast is intent on self-mythologizing D&D on its 50th anniversary. Historians aren’t going to let them go unchallenged.
excerpt
Combat in Dungeons & Dragons
A short history of design trajectories.
tabletop
Stu Horvath took VintageRPGs from Instagram to IRL shelves.
"Games orthodoxy can get fucked."