actual play
The LEGO D&D special is pure marketing, but at least it’s good marketing
The special invites newcomers to tabletop and actual play, doing some good, some bad, and a little capitalism along the way (as a treat)
actual play
Beyond the Brook is your inner child’s new favorite Actual Play
If you want a cozy AP that captures the magic of Over The Garden Wall, all you have to do is go Beyond the Brook.
tabletop
Relationship hexcrawl The Fiction We Live understands the magic of Frieren and messy friendships
Love’s blade cuts both wielder and target.
actual play
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)
tabletop
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.
tabletop
The view from a shelled-out ditch
Spanish history RPG La Desbandá 1937 achieves sympathy without sensationalism.
actual play
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.
actual play
Marvel’s Giant Sized Special is a super-powered ad in an actual play mask
The Good Enoughs are… not quite good enough.
actual play
"Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!" is your improv uncle’s new favorite actual play
Where everyone dies and the rules don’t matter