gut check

What Is The OSR, or How Discourse Would Be Better If You Tried Googling It

Seriously.

features

Mark Diaz Truman explains how Magpie Games changed over the last decade

As Masks turns 10, a candid conversation about the publisher’s artistic choices and compromises.

Rascal Radio

Radio Hour: A Grab is Better Than a Click, and a Treat is better than a Trick, feat. Eryk Sawicki

Plus, the Carrot Cake diplomatic maneuver.

news

World of Styria turns a 39-year home campaign into a Pathfinder 2e setting book

After four decades of collaborative play, designer Sutton Moore is releasing his world to the public.

news

"Too bad, make it work": Unionizing staff describe crunch culture and creative oppression within Wizards of the Coast

UWOTC-CWA members are confident in their ability to organize their workforce, even without voluntary recognition.

features

How quantification and Midwestern culture shaped  D&D’s problematic legacies

Aaron Trammell’s new book explores why some things shouldn’t be simplified.

news

EN World remains calm amidst a plague of AI bot swarms

The longstanding tabletop news site and forum is periodically shutting down access to prevent overloads and potentially deter data-hungry scrapers.

podcast

Talkback: Eberron

Plus, the schedule for the remaining season for the show!

news

MTG Arena prepare Wizards of the Coast's latest unions for renewed resistance

UWOTC’s founding members claim anti-union sentiment within the RPG publisher never went away.

features

Playtest Material is for the writers

The new critical outlet champions long form arguments on why games and gameplay are art.

news

The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up

Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.

art of RPGs

Francesca Baerald’s new book celebrates a decade of mapping some of gaming’s most beloved worlds

The Italian artist talks about her process and why maps should “invite the viewer inside the setting.”