I Played It, Like, Twice... Unexpected Joys in Small Packages in Warhammer Quest: Lost Relics By Orrin Grey • January 23rd, 2023 Lost Relics feels a bit more like a game of chess (albeit played against the board) than a standard dungeon crawl.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2022 By David Shimomura • December 15th, 2022 Welcome to the Gremlins issue! But before you dig in, there are some rules that you’ve got to follow…
I Played It, Like, Twice... Versus Mode: Myth x Bardsung By Orrin Grey • November 30th, 2022 Both Bardsung and Myth are dungeon-crawl games at the high end of the complexity scale, but that’s where the surface similarities end.
I Played It, Like, Twice... 2 Massive 2 Darkness: When Your Darkness is Maybe a Little Too Big By Orrin Grey • November 2nd, 2022 As much as I love a good dungeon crawl game, much of the time they are too big for me.
I Played It, Like, Twice... I Guess No One’s Coming: The Art and Arithmetic of Hidden Leaders By Orrin Grey • August 15th, 2022 Hidden Leaders is one of those games that is deceptively basic but can grow strangely complex as you play.
I Played It Like Twice... Burning the Torch at Both Ends: Peril Comes in Small Packages in Tiny Epic Dungeons By Orrin Grey • June 6th, 2022 These are minuscule board games that come in boxes about the size of the ones you used to get checkbooks in, back when anybody had checkbooks.
Revving the Engine Broken Helms, Shattered Shields By Sara Clemens • August 19th, 2021 Videogame Vikings are having a moment.
Try Reading... Magical Grieving By Harry Rabinowitz • July 1st, 2021 Harry digs into some heavier topics via middle-grade graphic novels!
Another Look Revisiting Destiny 2 By Yussef Cole • May 10th, 2021 Yussef returns to a world that’s moved beyond light and beyond him.
Feature Excerpt Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Middle Earth By Jamie Redgate • April 29th, 2021 How does one go about making a modern fantasy touchstone?
Stormbringer By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 14th, 2020 Will you face your doom head on or seek to outrun it?
Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
The Schwarzenegger Conan Movies By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 3rd, 2020 Vintage RPG Podcast listeners, what is best in life?
Self Insert No Beta We Die Like Men By Amanda Hudgins • July 8th, 2020 Readers never know what they’re going to get with this tag. It may be a warning, but it’s not always deserved.
No Accounting for Taste Beyond the Farthest Shores By Adam Boffa • June 10th, 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin leaves no stone in Earthsea unturned, even when that means challenging her own history.
Try Reading... Buck Destiny By Harry Rabinowitz • May 14th, 2020 In Norroway, is destiny something to fulfill or defy?
This Mortal Coyle Iris From the Drawn Trilogy By Deirdre Coyle • May 8th, 2020 The concept of turning artwork into reality—into an escape—has never been more tempting.
Feature Excerpt Sticks and Stones Might Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me By Autumn Wright • May 4th, 2020 Marvel’s New Warriors series is an attempt to land the most expensive “how ya doing fellow kids” meme in the history of late capitalism.
Here's the Thing I Hope the FFVII Remake Changes My Mind By Rob Rich • April 10th, 2020 Rob isn’t the biggest fan of Final Fantasy VII (to put it lightly) but he’s hoping that the upcoming remake will change that.
Try Reading... New Kid on Earth By Harry Rabinowitz • April 9th, 2020 Space Boy Volume 1 proves that – even eons into the future – moving still sucks.
Feature Excerpt Expanding Worlds with Video Game Tabletop RPGs By Scott Roepel • April 2nd, 2020 Unlike in roleplaying videogames, for tabletop roleplaying, all you need is an imagination, a good storyteller and a set of dice.
Feature Excerpt Carrington’s Dreamscape By Daniel Lipscombe • April 2nd, 2020 Videogames, especially those of the horror variety, could seriously stand to take a leaf from surrealism’s book.
The Shadow People By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 23rd, 2020 Descend into the depths of the earth to meet The Shadow People!
Feature Excerpt Picking Fruit in Hyrule: Playing Breath of the Wild Like It’s Animal Crossing By Alyssa Wejebe • February 21st, 2020 If you’re sick of emptying your pockets to Tom Nook and microtransactions, another Nintendo mainstay may be exactly what you’re looking for.
Feature Excerpt Heavy Metal Hits the Tabletop By Tom G. Wolf • February 21st, 2020 For both metal and tabletop gaming, the allure of the forbidden draws in similar crowds.
The McMaster Files The Dreamers of the Dreams By Jason McMaster • January 14th, 2020 Jason says goodbye to the architect behind one fondly remembered virtual bastion.
Feature Excerpt The Art of LARP By Sharang Biswas • December 20th, 2019 LARPing is as much about community and art as it is about roleplaying.
The Burnt Offering Fracas in Freshtovia By Stu Horvath • November 5th, 2019 Wendy’s admittedly committed attempt at a tabletop RPG is every bit the corporate advertisement it tries not to be.
Feature Excerpt Two Hands Off the Wheel: Learning to Embrace the Chaos of Zweihander By R. M. Jansen-Parkes • October 24th, 2019 Most tabletop RPGs boil down to a roll of the dice.
Feature Excerpt Grim, Perilous and Inclusive By Adam Brown • October 24th, 2019 Zweihander: Grim & Perilous is a fresh take on dark fantasy and tabletop RPGs.
Feature Excerpt Dwarves in Space By Ian Williams • September 24th, 2019 The gig economy is everywhere, even in our videogames. At least Deep Rock Galactic makes it fun.
Checkpoint Sometimes, Pixelated Spectacle Is All You Need By Corey Milne • September 12th, 2019 Domina wasn’t what Corey expected, but, hey, at least there’s wine to go with all that gore.
The Burnt Offering Grab Bag By Stu Horvath • July 5th, 2019 Stu has a handful of thoughts on everything from The Name of the Rose to dungeon synth.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
The Burnt Offering Metal is My Church By Stu Horvath • April 4th, 2019 Stu Horvath ponders the alchemy behind taste as he reconsiders a “cheeseball” artist from his nascent metal education.
The Burnt Offering The Feels By Stu Horvath • December 3rd, 2018 What happens when a horror story tries to manifest in the real world?
Lore’d of the Rings: The Horror of Knowledge By David Shimomura • November 27th, 2018 They say knowledge is power, but sometimes it is just isolating.
