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)

tabletop

Munkao’s gorgeous, hornet-filled temple run demands cleverness to crawl through

An automata-filled, systems-agnostic dungeon crawl, Stirring the Hornet’s Nest at Het Thamsya layers fanaticism, Southeast Asian legend, and Buddhist histories within a claustrophobic setting.

tabletop

Coriolis: The Great Dark’s fascination with material triage creates desperate, stifling drama

The path to progress is littered with spent oxygen tanks.

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

actual play

Dimension 20 goes big time, with all the baggage Madison Square Garden brings

The live show marks an historic first appearance of actual play on the legendary stage, but do the venue's values align with Dimension 20’s?

tabletop

Rapscallion finally sets sail

For game writer, designer, and artist Whistler, queerness and piracy go hand in bloody hand.