Criticism
Good Games for Bad Times
Two gamifications of contemporary political resistance
Reminiscences of the Future, Part 3: Gaming Against Disaster & Dystopia
Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia
Rewarding Roleplaying
On facilitating and incentivizing character depth in TTRPG systems
A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of their Remove, Part 4: Winter
The irony of the circle’s end
Mörk Borg & Lamentations of the Flame Princess: A Comparative Review
What makes a fantasy TTRPG “weird horror”?
Mörk Borg & Human Occupied Landfill: A Comparative Review
The giant trash fire at the end of the world
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Reviews
Breakout Con ’24: a retrospective
Impressions of Canada’s largest tabletop gaming convention
Frontier Scum: a review & retrospective
Acid Western roleplaying on the Lost Frontier
Necromancer Dice: a review
The aesthetics and statistics of Cyberdicegames’s eye-catching offering
Apollo 47 Technical Handbook: a material review-essay
In space, no on can hear you yawn.
Death Charades: a review
For partygoers who want to kill some time and themselves
Charity Bundle Cavalcade
18 bite-size reviews of TTRPGs from the Trans Rights and Ukraine bundles
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Theory
Reminiscences of the Future, Part 2: A Theory of Gaming
Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia
Reminiscences of the Future, Part 1: Game Design by Accident
Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia
Games & Systems
The tradeoff between flexibility and direction, and the pitfalls of thinking about both
Callers, Multilogue, and the GM as Ant Queen
More musings on communication and structure in TTRPGs
Trustlessness & Centralization in TTRPGs
System as social contract between designers and players
Revaluating RPGs, Abridged
A summary & discussion of my paper about RPGs and art
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Reference
Introduction to Publishing Contracts for Indie RPG Writers
An overview of your rights and publishers’ responsibilities
Texts on Designing Texts
An annotated bibliography of instructional resources for graphic design
The Trouble with Trigger Warnings
Research suggests they may do more harm than good
The Mörk Borg Third-Party License & You
A guide to compliance in the Dying World
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Indie RPGs (& How You Can Too)
Where do you turn when D&D isn’t enough … or becomes too much?
Rolling Solo
A roster of GM & player emulators, oracles, and engines for TTRPGs
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Hacks & Homebrew
*Lance Not Included
But you’ll wish you had one in Chris Bissette’s Freelance RPG
Zeitgeist in Ravenland
GM-less play and material culture in Fria Ligan’s Forbidden Lands
Random BS
Tabula Rasa: a (p)review
An exclusive first look at the groundbreaking rules-minimalist, experience-maximalist TTRPG
Thousand Year Old Vampire Secret Companion Volume: A Review
An almost spoiler-free review
Why We Need Mörk Borg Lite
And other cogent, coherent observations
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