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Contrasting yellow and red key art shows a man dressed in suit and tie infront of a abstract background of yellow and red.

You In? Playing Through the Chaos with The Job

By Levi Rubeck • June 11th, 2025

Thinking fast, whetting down our reflexes to the micron for peak performance is, as they say, the juice.

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An illustration of a blond woman unlocking her front door. Via a cross section of the house, we can see horrors have been wrought across her downstairs living room by a tentacled creature making its way upstairs.

No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors

By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025

“Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”

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A close-up on the head of a vulture-like bird creature from The Molt, light in bright yellows and oranges as if by flame and staring out with soulless black eyes.

Notes Passed Between Me and Morgan During Algebra Class, After Discovering The Molt (If The Molt Had Been Published in 1995, When We Were in Algebra Class)

By Orrin Grey • March 28th, 2025

You think you, me, and Josh will be enough, or do we need to find somebody else? Brian, maybe?

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Blood, Barf, Bile and the Neon Revolution

By Justin Reeve • February 26th, 2025

“The first thing I hope people take away from playing Pukeapocalypse is, frankly, a good time.”

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To: Exalted Funeral; RE: A Stiff Letter Regarding Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

It has come to our attention that certain parties have made unfounded and frankly absurd claims that, during our testing of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, members of our organization were observed to chuckle, titter, guffaw or even laugh aloud.

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An adventuring party, made up of a giant, an elf, and blobby slime creature, read and map while contemplating their next move in the Land of Eem.

Dungeoneers Galore and More in the Land of Eem

By Alyssa Wejebe • January 7th, 2025

James Parks and Ben Costa had always planned to adapt the world of their graphic novels and books into their upcoming tabletop roleplaying game, straightforwardly called Land of Eem.

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Daily Commute: An Examination of Arkos and The Forest Primordia

By Emma Kostopolus • November 27th, 2024

John Kordosh wants his players to focus on the events unfolding around them, rather than counting metrics for meta-game functionality.

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They Feed on Fear

By Elijah Beahm • October 29th, 2024

“The inspiration behind playing as monsters is very personal. As a youth with an obvious disability, I found that I did not fit in, and I felt akin to the monsters in pop culture and media.”

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Three characters stand in three separate panels each surrounded by various weapons.

Getting Lost in the Melodious World of the Ballads of Oræd

By Orrin Grey • September 27th, 2024

On the table next to the candle is a book that you don’t remember seeing before. The book itself feels at once familiar and strange, as though you have read it before, perhaps in a dream. The title is Ballads of Oræd.

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A brightly colored pen-and-ink drawing of a sharp-toothed warrior swinging a two-handed sword hilted in bones.

INTERMEDIARY MUND is Equal Parts Absurd Dream and Fantasy Nightmare

By Emily Price • August 23rd, 2024

Unlike his previous work, cartoonist Ben Marra doesn’t see INTERMEDIARY MUND as a form of pulp, or only as adjacent to it.