tabletop
You are The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio
Microcelebrity is horrifying, especially in Akron
Rowan Zeoli
interview
The Tabletop Game Designers Association offers education and protection for game designers
An interview with a co-founder of the newly-launched TTGDA on the power of sharing collective knowledge
Lay it on the Table
Identity is ever changing, vampires are forever
Memory’s a fickle thing when you’re wandering the Bloodbeam Badlands
community
Severe flooding endangers Brazil’s largest TTRPG publisher
Jambô Editora’s headquarters in Porto Alegra have “water from floor to ceiling”.
community
8 trans games by trans artists in this trans rights charity bundle
Rue Dickey’s third annual Tabletop for Trans Rights Bundle is raising money for the Appalachian LGBTQ+ community
tabletop
Government suits roleplay World War III like murderhobos, because of course they do
Systems matter, especially in a game like War
community
itch.io is the collective organizing platform we have, but is it the one we need?
A pattern of delays in communication and payment from itch.io have repeatedly left charity organizers and game sellers in the dark.
actual play
Quinns Quest's Citizen Sleeper is an old-school actual play with some cybernetic enhancements
Quinns Quest has made his first venture into the realm of actual play—after saying he’d never do one.
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.
interview
The unwinnable resistance of Oceania 2084
War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. I love Big Brother.
Lay it on the Table
The questions I ask myself when building a new world
Hold on, wait a second, I’m sorry…did you say street magic?
tabletop
The Crooked Roots and Tangled Blessings of Cassi Mothwin
Cassi Mothwin was 2023’s Rising Star Designer. In 2024, she’s trying not to burn out.
actual play
This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with Ties That Bind
In the zombie apocalypse, the only thing we have are the stories we tell each other
community
Even for Dimension 20, Ticketmaster’s Dynamic Pricing model is shrouded in secrecy
When Live Nation is the only game in town, what is an anti-capitalist to do?
actual play
The LEGO D&D special is pure marketing, but at least it’s good marketing
The special invites newcomers to tabletop and actual play, doing some good, some bad, and a little capitalism along the way (as a treat)
actual play
Reinventing sci-fi: combining worlds and genres in Mekong
Queen’s Court Games’ Mekong blends Western space opera and Eastern mecha genre tropes to examine the Southeast Asian diaspora