Public Articles
Teamwork and therapy built Kids in Capes
Austin Taylor continues to discuss the development of the upcoming young superhero tabletop RPG and how their other job bleeds over into game design.
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Kids in Capes is the adolescent-led RPG’s most ambitious genre superleap, yet, by its most ambitious team
In this first of a two-part interview, Austin Taylor discusses combat systems, remote team work, and why Recess is a secret superhero cartoon.
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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.
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Despite releasing in 2020, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is finally, truly out
Jay Dragon believes the physical book represents a final, definitive vision for Possum Creek’s latest tabletop RPG.
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Launching the Mothership
How Tuesday Knight Games built an indie tabletop RPG darling, and why the Deluxe Box took three years to release.
community
Can anyone make a living in tabletop and actual play?
A study by Dr. Emily Friedman and Carson Barnes wants to pull back the curtain on labor in TTRPGs
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Bitchless in Faerûn
How I fumbled every baddie on the Sword Coast. Twice.
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The Glup Shitto-fication of Dungeons & Dragons
The new covers for D&D’s 2024 sourcebooks promise a future yoked to brand promotion.
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Independent, together: the IWGB opens its membership to tabletop creators
A handful of RPG designers join UK-based IWGB in a small but critical step towards growing union solidarity.
Public Articles
I didn’t think about tabletop games for 11 days, and so should you
The question of whether we can afford to step away from reality is a neoliberal trap.
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.
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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.
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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.
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A new audience For The Queen
Darrington Press is one hell of a herald.
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You are The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio
Microcelebrity is horrifying, especially in Akron
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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.