tabletop
Don’t serve me Empty Frontiers when I asked for sad, cowboy dirtbags
This yeehaw propaganda once hit harder.
tabletop
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a farewell tour of a multiversal rogue’s gallery
The god of secrets is breaking out all the baddies for one last nostalgic 5e joyride.
tabletop
Hearts Blazing you will always be famous
Hold on to the games you love because this industry is fucking brutal.
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
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.
tabletop
Rapscallion finally sets sail
For game writer, designer, and artist Whistler, queerness and piracy go hand in bloody hand.
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.
announcements
The Angsty Sequel to Crescent Moon No-One Saw Coming: Exile releases digitally
Sharp blades, cutthroat kinship, and Blood—loads of it—crown the anticipated release of the dark fantasy RPG.
Satire
Why do y’all hate tabletop RPGs?
Pouring a big ol’ cup of Amazon vitriol and sipping away.
Satire
How to start game design discourse
It’s actually, like, super easy.
Lay it on the Table
Even in games built for silliness, I can’t get over myself
Being a goofy little guy is hard work and I’m not emotionally prepared for that kind of vulnerability.
tabletop
Cloud Empress’ writers rip open their spore-filled hearts over Life & Death zines
Co-creators Em Matson and watt talk balance, intentionality in language, and post-post-apocalyptic Minneapolis.
tabletop
Paizo’s best designers return to Pathfinder's historic Tian Xia setting
An interview with three of the lead creatives who worked on the new Paizo setting books for Lost Omens: Tian Xia.
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.