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culture

Making D&D an aloha shirt-slinging brand is the only way it will survive the winter

The $120 D&D aloha shirt is a desperate bid for my attention and it’s working like a marketer’s wet dream.

exclusive

RPGnet and RPGMatch have merged, aiming to reach across divides in the TTRPG community

The three stewards give Rascal an exclusive interview on the importance of stewardship, what new changes users can expect, and the challenges of a massive cultural merger in the TTRPG space.

tabletop

In Petit Marronage, the first step towards liberation is imagination

Chris Kindred is a game designer whose current work focuses on the historic maroon communities in the Great Dismal Swamp.

tabletop

Drawing a picture of the tabletop space with Forgery

Banana Chan’s solo, paint-by-numbers pathway rpg is an incisive satire of the hobby.

community

So, who actually got a Gen Con hotel?

This lottery system’s a drag, but smaller cons can step up to fill the niche.

community

Quinns Quest is making Dragon killers out of indie games, one episode at a time

There’s enough room in this bar for two critics. Or ten. Maybe twenty? Surely not thirty…

news

Rascal domain expansion: alternative. independent. roguelike.

Introducing the newest tabletop roleplaying game outlet from three writers who don’t know how to do anything else.

Public Articles

New Tabletop Games Journalism

The work that we are building on, the work we admire, and the work we hope to continue to write.

community

Return to Perinthos honors Jennell Jaquays’ queer activism and her dungeon-breaking legacy

The game jam-turned-megadungeon includes nearly 90 one-page dungeons donated by the TTRPG design community.

tabletop

Stu Horvath took VintageRPGs from Instagram to IRL shelves.

"Games orthodoxy can get fucked."

culture

Dungeons & Dragons might be the only TTRPG that YouTube knows about

YouTube’s barely-disguised D&D-mostly video says that content consumption is the newest TTRPG lifestyle brand.