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Come for No-Tell Motel's murder mystery, stay for the juicy goss
VIP stands for Very Idle Peepers
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Dungeons & Dragons’ new art direction isn’t AI generated but almost worse—boring
Characters, without character.
Lay it on the Table
In which I try, and fail, to be evil
Deathmatch Island is the Survivor meets Battle Royale TTRPG of my dreams
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In Last Train to Bremen, Hell is something we inflict on each other
Four bandmates flee a contract with the Devil, but players will find their past is much harder to escape.
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RPG publisher that promised not to use Web3 technology in their business does it anyway
Evil Genius Games wants to sell you a digital version of Rambo’s M60 for roleplay purposes.
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D&D almost deradicalized me
The media events are a good overview, but without getting a look at the product I’m left parroting corporate talking points.
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Teamwork and therapy built Kids in Capes
Austin Taylor continues to discuss the development of the upcoming young superhero tabletop RPG and how their other job bleeds over into game design.
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Kids in Capes is the adolescent-led RPG’s most ambitious genre superleap, yet, by its most ambitious team
In this first of a two-part interview, Austin Taylor discusses combat systems, remote team work, and why Recess is a secret superhero cartoon.
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Artificial product, artificial hype: the saga of Wonders of the First’s AI art and NFT-powered CCG
$1.25 million in funding, a Kickstarter cancellation, and likely brigading bans, all in the name of creating the collector’s perfect card game. Or so one Web3 evangelist says.
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Despite releasing in 2020, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is finally, truly out
Jay Dragon believes the physical book represents a final, definitive vision for Possum Creek’s latest tabletop RPG.
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Launching the Mothership
How Tuesday Knight Games built an indie tabletop RPG darling, and why the Deluxe Box took three years to release.
community
Can anyone make a living in tabletop and actual play?
A study by Dr. Emily Friedman and Carson Barnes wants to pull back the curtain on labor in TTRPGs
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Bitchless in Faerûn
How I fumbled every baddie on the Sword Coast. Twice.
tabletop
The Glup Shitto-fication of Dungeons & Dragons
The new covers for D&D’s 2024 sourcebooks promise a future yoked to brand promotion.
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Independent, together: the IWGB opens its membership to tabletop creators
A handful of RPG designers join UK-based IWGB in a small but critical step towards growing union solidarity.
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I didn’t think about tabletop games for 11 days, and so should you
The question of whether we can afford to step away from reality is a neoliberal trap.