news

UK Games Expo bans AI-generated work via a new policy

Enforcement of its “absolute discretion” remains unclear at the UK’s largest tabletop show.

news

Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers

Somehow, World of Game Design returned.

features

T. Kingfisher’s Astarion is hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly tragic

The book perfectly captures Astarion’s voice, and refuses to talk down to the audience through trauma, pain, and the small light of hope.

features

An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module

iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.

news

Dice Exploder’s Sam Dunnewold is running out of things to say about RPGs

New hosts, Seraphina Garcia Ramirez and Em Acosta, will be taking over from next year.

new games

2 Good 2 Society: Storybrewers do a lot with small changes in the new edition of the beloved Austen-like

"If you make the games you want to play, then the people who you want to play those games will appear.”

Dungeons & Dragons

Ravenloft joins a growing list of yet unrealized tabletop screen adaptations

A (mostly) exhaustive list of things that aren’t real and probably will never be real.

reading club

Talkback: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol

Rules are settings, and settings are genres.

news

Steve Jackson Games’ eponymous CEO steps down to focus on designing new games

Sabrina Gonzales takes his place, while Allison Page is promoted to chief operating officer

features

One Hundred Tales of Solidarity

The story of the greatest ever game of Band of Blades and a love letter to the people I played two campaigns with.

new games

Blurring the lines between larp and tabletop, Nine Space Games is Jason Morningstar’s best work yet

Creating space for the curious and the experienced to play together.

Rascal Anthology

Rascal Year 2 anthology is now available

Twice makes it tradition.