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A young mouse wearing a leather knapsack holds an ornate crown and stares off at the horizon, ready for adventure.

Collaborating on Microcosmic Adventures in Mausritter

By Phoenix Simms • January 25th, 2024

Mausritter has come a long way from its homebrew session and zine days.

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Getting Exiled with My Chivalric Bromance

By Alyssa Wejebe • December 26th, 2023

While its title is a tribute to and parody of the classic New Jersey emo band My Chemical Romance, the game’s roots dig down through medieval history.

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ARC Turns Disaster Into a Fighting Chance

By Emily Price • November 28th, 2023

While ARC is a TTRPG about the end of the world, it uses humor and warmth as often as horror to imagine what responding to the apocalypse actually looks like.

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Campfire Carnage Conjures the Real Monsters

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 25th, 2023

Campfire Carnage writer Valkyrie T. Loughcrewe sees potential for “campsite as being for horror games what a dungeon is to fantasy,” an iterative space through which you can tell all sorts of stories.

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Challenge Cult Horror with Maximum Mystic Punks Vol 2: Crypt

By Alyssa Wejebe • September 25th, 2023

“I’ve always been fascinated with medieval crypts, ossuaries and mausoleums,” Mystic Punks series creator Anthony Meloro says. “So, placing a dungeon crawl in one is an obvious choice.”

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A black and white etching of a fanciful city made up partly of large ships, with towers and buildings sprouting from the decks of huge man-o-wars.

Inventing a World of Insectoid Wonders

By Justin Reeve • August 25th, 2023

We delve into the mind of creator Eduardo Carabaño, exploring the history, philosophy, inspirations and design processes that carried Settlers of a Dead God from inception to publication.

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A grayscale drawing of a female fighter standing in a windy field, hand resting on the hilt of her sword.

Making Friends with Swords in The Vorpal Almanac

By Jay Castello • July 25th, 2023

Swords, writes Levi Combs in the book’s introduction, need “to feel lived in.” And that’s exactly the focus of the 22 blades of The Vorpal Almanac, beautifully illustrated by Sally Cantirino.

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Depths of the Abyss

By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2023

To play, at least for Max Moon in the world of The Abyss of Hallucinations and MÖRK BORG, is to participate in a ritual that can potentially break the reality laid out by the capitalist trap.

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Composing the World of Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City

By Phoenix Simms • May 24th, 2023

Luka Rejec’s world is suffused with mind-expanding, psychedelic heavy metal and is also inspired by “the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.”

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Detail from the cover of Runecairn shows the skull and spine of a serpent's skeleton rendered in bright pink and purple inks.

After Ragnarok: Featuring Colin Le Sueur

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 24th, 2023

It’s a bold move for Le Sueur to make a Norse-inspired Souls-like tabletop roleplaying game, and yet he manages to avoid some extremely fraught territory.

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