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A crowd at PAX Unplugged stretches into the far distance in the exhibit hall.

That Summer Camp Feeling

By Stu Horvath • January 15th, 2025

Why can’t we all hang out every day and talk about games and draw skulls and play games?

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A giant beast from Dungeons & Dragons resembling a T-Rex, but with large spines on its back and somehow, even more teeth.

A Little Lecture on the Biggest Beasts of Tabletop Roleplaying Games

By Stu Horvath • July 11th, 2024

Tabletop roleplaying games crossed paths with kaiju in utero.

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A dark dragon with spines all down its next breathes fire in front of a bright yellow sky.

The Music and the Dice

By Stu Horvath • September 11th, 2023

Like any live performance, a tabletop roleplaying game’s greatest power resides in the moment, experiencing the event as it happens.

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American composer Laurie Spiegel seated at several synthesizers and computers in her electronic music studio.

The Kosmische Cosmos

By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023

Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.

A sepia-toned close-up of the first stone tablet of Gilgamesh.

More Like Gilga-meh!

By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2022

This supposed epic, this paradigm-shifting piece of literature, is just another flood myth! Do you know how many flood myths we already have lying around?

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Notes on a Train Trip

By Stu Horvath • September 16th, 2021

In Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express the journey is your final destination.

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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.

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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.

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The One Good Dog

By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2019

When pitches came in for the Pets Issue, Stu expected to get several pitches about the dog from Fable II. He got zero. So he wrote his own, goddammit!

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The Incorrect Way

By Stu Horvath • May 8th, 2019

Stu and David delight in playing serious games on their own terms.

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