horoscopes
Oh you're a Cancer? How's that bleed treating you?
Honestly if you're not crying because of the sheer overwhelming love you have for your character, you're not doing game right.
Lin Codega
Lin Codega is an award-winning entertainment journalist focusing on science fiction and fantasy media. They specialize in tabletop roleplaying games, pop culture, fandom, and queer intersections.
tabletop
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.
Lay it on the Table
The Dead Queen’s raiment
For The Queen made a plea unto the Giants, bearing her Sword, Crown, Mask, and Voice on the journey.
actual play
Dimension 20 knows that iteration is how the hobby—and the industry—evolves.
Kids on Bikes isn’t built to support Actual Play; but a hack of it could be fit to purpose.
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.
community
The battle for RPG discovery will happen at Friendly Local Games Stores
We ride at dawn. Or at 10 AM, when the doors open.
video games
Bitchless in Faerûn
How I fumbled every baddie on the Sword Coast. Twice.
Lay it on the Table
Organization is its own kind of game
My Blades in the Dark campaign, like most of my life, only functions because I have a Notion the size of Nebraska.
tabletop
The Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG isn’t going to make anyone happy
With little to offer fans of the franchise and game design that leaves much to be desired, this game is an irredeemable disappointment.
tabletop
Star Trek Adventures eyes the final frontier (again)
An interview with two members of the Modiphius team about emotional combat, arc-based storytelling, and how to write a fanfiction generator.
tabletop
A new audience For The Queen
Darrington Press is one hell of a herald.
tabletop
Eldritch Automata mechanizes the body horrific
Screw processing, punch the horrors of being alive directly in the face with a giant mecha fist, that’ll cure your depression for sure.
tabletop
Exclusive: Paint the town (blood) red in this new sad vampire game
An interview with Zach Cox of SoulMuppet Publishing about vampires, mental health, and how to make characters dying really, really worth it.
culture
The OGL is dead. Long live the OGL.
This ain’t a victory lap, it’s a cautionary tale.
updates
Changelog: Rascal 1.2
Updates, our upcoming pledge drive, Gen Con, and a reader survey!
culture
Letters from The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Linda and Rowan LARP as theater critics for a tame night of misadventure and not nearly enough mayhem to make it worth traveling into Times Square.