Public Articles
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.
Chase Carter
tabletop
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.
tabletop
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.
tabletop
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.
culture
Tabletop journalism deserves better than this, and so do you
The industry fails one of its death saving rolls.
Lay it on the Table
I’m the least excited member of my weekly RPG group, and that’s okay
My biggest foe yet is social anxiety.
tabletop
Launching the Mothership
How Tuesday Knight Games built an indie tabletop RPG darling, and why the Deluxe Box took three years to release.
tabletop
The Glup Shitto-fication of Dungeons & Dragons
The new covers for D&D’s 2024 sourcebooks promise a future yoked to brand promotion.
tabletop
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.
tabletop
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.
Public Articles
Unionizing hobby stores in NYC say owners called their efforts “the absolute insanity of the woke”
Tabletop Workers United asks folks to sign a petition to bring Jon Freeman and Gregory May to the table in good faith.
tabletop
Tian Xia World Guide prompts a messy, public reckoning in the Pathfinder 2E subreddit
Instead of celebrating a new book, users and moderators spent a week exhuming interpersonal ghosts.
MORK BORG
MÖRK BORG’s official action figure is… cool?
Who will win: my distaste for lifestyle merch or One Bony Guy?
tabletop
Mothership's Deluxe Set feels like buying a video game console
Boxed sets >>>> literally anything else.
tabletop
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.
Masks: A New Generation
I was a teenage superhero self-insert
Me, mask thoroughly pierced: “I’m not owned! I’m not owned!”