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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 Dr. 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.

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A drawing of a river cutting through a valley, rendered in striking black and red ink.

Smelting RPGs Down to Simple Bliss with Outcast Silver Raiders

By Justin Reeve • July 26th, 2024

“Perhaps out of a sense of satire or perhaps just because I really like horror movies, metal and the occult, I wanted to create something that would have been absolutely forbidden in my house.”

The Burnt Offering
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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The Capricious Gifts Found in Portents of a Dying God

By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2024

Soul-crushing realities are something that MÖRK BORG tends to revel in, so it’s nice to see that Matt Johnson’s newest deck offers the same type of disastrous opportunities.

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Three shadowy figures are propped up by trios of long poles, though whether they've been impaled or are using them as spindly methods of travel is unclear.

Sailing the Ashen Sea with Tephrotic Nightmares

By Maddi Chilton • May 23rd, 2024

The strongest character in the setting – the most vivid, the most realized, and the most overwhelming – is the Ashen Sea itself.

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A black-and-white ink drawing of a badass-looking angel holding a wicked cool sword.

The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder

By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024

“His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”

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Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon

By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024

Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”

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