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Gaming | Roleplaying Games

Mycelium Soup — a solo TTRPG play report + review

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A close-up of Kid with some sort of spike in his fist, between his clenched fingers. Both his face and hand are smeared with blood. He appears to be looking down at someone threatening them.

Movies | Roleplaying Games

‘Monkey Man’ is Too Good for D&D

‘Unbound’ captures the…

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Promotional picture of a Daggerheart character behind the Daggerheart logo. The characters is a black woman in a wooden wheelchair using a glowing quill to write magic words in the air. The woman has a black afro hairstyle and wears a blue dress with red and gold accents. There are furled scrolls in her lap and in pockets on the back of her chair.

Gaming | Game Design

Daggerheart: TTRPGs Are Just Weird Board Games

Reject tradition…

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The silhouette of a woman in “road warrior” gear firing two handguns in a bar. The background is a aqua blue shelf full of white bottles of various shapes, implying alcohol. The woman’s silhouette is accented with a red eyepatch with a black “x”, a red cloth tied around her left arm, red decorative squares on her jacket vast, and a white line and zipper handle. Bullet lines whiz by her.

Gaming | Worldbuilding

‘Unbound’ Does What D&D Can’t

This criminally ignored TTRPG…

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noir-style photograph of a figure descending a staircase

Mystery | Dungeons & Dragons

The Art of Mystery in RPGs

Five principles for better…

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Cover to Skullbox: Halloween Tricks. Features an animated giant candy bowl, the Candybox, with a hole from with to see the skull inside. Candy spills out the top. The bowl has thick and armored arms and legs. It’s colored in violet and indigo hues. It sits on a coffin behind an unaware raider, wearing brassy armor with a sword and shield. Headstones and pumpkins are on the ground. Bats are seen against a full moon.

Roleplaying Games | Halloween

SKÜLLBOX is the Right Kind of Bad-Wrong-Fun

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painting of three faceless figures

Game Design | Roleplaying Games | Crowdfunding

How Zine Quest Could Remake the Tabletop RPG Landscape

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Sam Hollon in The Ugly Monster

Writing | Roleplaying Games

The One Hard Rule for Creating Good RPG Characters

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Game Design | Roleplaying Games

Tabletop RPGs Have a Design Debt to Pay

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