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The Crooked Roots and Tangled Blessings of Cassi Mothwin
Cassi Mothwin was 2023’s Rising Star Designer. In 2024, she’s trying not to burn out.
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The Sky is Falling is as hands on as it gets
Using paper cut illustrations and pasting in game rules, this MÖRK BORG zine is a true art piece.
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How do you read a tabletop RPG book, and other very important questions
That which we call a book by any other word smells just as inky.
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Lead an eldritch cult of your own in Elder Mythos
An interview with lead designer, Michele Paroli, on this game of tension and world-building, and world-destroying.
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The Substratum Protocol, I presume
An interview with Pandion Games about how core-delving scientists collect clues to craft new explanations every game.
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Yearning to explore the megadungeon internet
Freedom from platforms might rest at the center of a labyrinth.
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The Job’s dice stacking capitalizes on tension at the table
Stressed and loving it.
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Don’t serve me Empty Frontiers when I asked for sad, cowboy dirtbags
This yeehaw propaganda once hit harder.
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a farewell tour of a multiversal rogue’s gallery
The god of secrets is breaking out all the baddies for one last nostalgic 5e joyride.
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Hearts Blazing you will always be famous
Hold on to the games you love because this industry is fucking brutal.
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Lara Croft finds a horde of trolls in Twitter’s tomb
The officially licensed tabletop RPG is pilloried for the crime of imagining a different kind of raider.
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Munkao’s gorgeous, hornet-filled temple run demands cleverness to crawl through
An automata-filled, systems-agnostic dungeon crawl, Stirring the Hornet’s Nest at Het Thamsya layers fanaticism, Southeast Asian legend, and Buddhist histories within a claustrophobic setting.
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Coriolis: The Great Dark’s fascination with material triage creates desperate, stifling drama
The path to progress is littered with spent oxygen tanks.
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Rapscallion finally sets sail
For game writer, designer, and artist Whistler, queerness and piracy go hand in bloody hand.
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Pay no attention to the CEO behind the DM Screen
Hasbro leader Chris Cocks wears his tabletop bonafides like any other suit.
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Violence might be 25 years old but it’ll still kick your ass
“The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed” still contains relevant critiques of contemporary game design.