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GUDIYA: The horrors of being Bluebeard's latest plaything
Using Magpie Games’ Bluebeard’s Bride, this award-winning actual play is the closest I’ve seen to an AP art film (so far)
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Daggerheart’s first go at chargen doesn’t fully integrate its inspirations
The Rascal team works through the playtest packet and learns that a family can be two monkeys, a walking fungus, and a showpony automaton.
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The view from a shelled-out ditch
Spanish history RPG La Desbandá 1937 achieves sympathy without sensationalism.
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The Harlem Renaissance is here again
The first of two interviews with the cast of Harlem Hellfighters Never Die
tabletop
Drawing a picture of the tabletop space with Forgery
Banana Chan’s solo, paint-by-numbers pathway rpg is an incisive satire of the hobby.
tabletop
ADHD games are an exhibition of my personal hell
Two RPGs offer earnest but imperfect windows into neurodivergent life.
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Marvel’s Giant Sized Special is a super-powered ad in an actual play mask
The Good Enoughs are… not quite good enough.
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"Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!" is your improv uncle’s new favorite actual play
Where everyone dies and the rules don’t matter