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.
culture
Fuck immersion: Stop trying to make me smell my game
My game nights smell like pork spring rolls and canned vodka mixers, as God intended.
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.
culture
Games I play while listening to investor calls
Applying game design principles to Hasbro’s investor meetings shows the real agenda.
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.
tabletop
Yearning to explore the megadungeon internet
Freedom from platforms might rest at the center of a labyrinth.
tabletop
Don’t serve me Empty Frontiers when I asked for sad, cowboy dirtbags
This yeehaw propaganda once hit harder.
tabletop
Lara Croft finds a horde of trolls in Twitter’s tomb
The officially licensed tabletop RPG is pilloried for the crime of imagining a different kind of raider.
tabletop
Pay no attention to the CEO behind the DM Screen
Hasbro leader Chris Cocks wears his tabletop bonafides like any other suit.
tabletop
Violence might be 25 years old but it’ll still kick your ass
“The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed” still contains relevant critiques of contemporary game design.
Satire
Why do y’all hate tabletop RPGs?
Pouring a big ol’ cup of Amazon vitriol and sipping away.
tabletop
MÖRK BORG co-creator’s 5-year-old son can color within the lines and design a killer dungeon
This kid’s got a vision and plenty of red markers.
wizards of the coast
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer isn’t interested in being another Hasbro show pony
Larian to Hasbro: It’s not you, it’s me.
community
Stumble Guys x D&D is goofy, but Hasbro’s direct links to the PIF are nothing to laugh at
Dungeons & Dragons’ new mobile game partnership might hint at what Hasbro has planned for their ongoing relationship with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
culture
David Ewalt can’t get game night out of his head
For some of us, games, like fucking up, are a chronic human condition.
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.