new games
Blurring the lines between larp and tabletop, Nine Space Games is Jason Morningstar’s best work yet
Creating space for the curious and the experienced to play together.
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.
new games
Alien RPG starter set Hope’s Last Day might be too good of an introduction
When you fill up on chips, but the chips are slathering, murderous predators.
tabletop
Losing everything in HOME - Mech x Kaiju is better with friends
This mapmaking RPG revealed that I am not drift compatible with myself.
tabletop
Magic: The Gathering’s imperfect Avatar Beginner Box turned my spouse into The Enemy
Confident first steps with no path offered into the wider trading card game.
tabletop
Revolt! interrogates power but falters in conversation
Telling stories about violent regime change is cathartic and entertaining, and maybe that's all it needs to be.
tabletop
Dungeon Pulp is part of a balanced breakfast
Good to the last loot drop.
tabletop
Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
Warning: can cause game design.
tabletop
Sirens’ Oath: Tides Turning is here to literally make waves
Play a pissed off mermaid witch in this “revenge-driven eco-fantasy.”
tabletop
D&D's Monster Manual is an empty, distracting feast
Novelty and shallow aesthetics are piled high on a plate once filled by utility.
tabletop
The Burden of Sin in Tom Bloom's CAIN
"In this talk of sin, what about forgiveness?"
tabletop
Am I a terrible friend? And other thoughts while playing Letters to Sandra
What’s a little invasion of privacy between pals?
tabletop
Close enough, welcome back Morrowind
The Electrum Archive simply has the juice, er… I mean ink.
tabletop
A Feudal Bug’s Life
I didn’t think OSE was for me, but Settlers of a Dead God has infested my mind.
tabletop
Views of a Sandersonian carnival from the parking lot
A first look at the Stormlight RPG holds its best cards too close to the chest.
tabletop
Come for No-Tell Motel's murder mystery, stay for the juicy goss
VIP stands for Very Idle Peepers