Criticism
Dice x Space
Using shiny math rocks for more than shiny math
GAME OVER
How 4 TTRPGs imagine the end of the world
Neoteny in Print
Aether Operations & the process of (un)becoming a book
Gaming the Meta
The funhouse of games about metagame culture
Eat Your Favorite RPG
Dinner and dessert with Game Lamprey
William Blake: poet, painter, indie zine maker
Echoes of a 18th-19th century creative in 21st century RPG culture
Sword & Satire
Subversive humor in 3̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶s̶ 2 games & a “game”
The Things They Carry
Character sheets as gameplay components in Knave, Troika!, and UVG
Ariadne’s Ribbon
Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library in silhouette
The Apocalypse Meant Möre
Insight and inspiration from Johan Nohr
Imagining Dystopia
Neurocity & the cognitive, social, and political functions of RPGs
A Festive Apocalypse
Mörk Borg & Medieval Carnival culture
What Is a Roleplaying Game?
It’s a game by Epidiah Ravachol, of course.
Machina ex Machina: Theoretical Perspectives on Adira & Fen Slattery’s The Machine
At the intersection of schizophrenia, self-replicating automata, and lolcats
Six Doors to Darkness
Analysis of an anti-game
Dread Contra Fiasco
Material risk and narrative agency in a pair of peculiar TTRPGs
Reviews
To Slay the Apocalypse
DIY doom for every occasion
A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 2: Summer
Repetition with difference in the division of a new domain
Thousand Year Old Vampire Secret Companion Volume: A Review
An almost spoiler-free review
Dwelling: A Book for Ghosts to Haunt
A material review of Seb Pines’ solo writing/drawing/body-marking RPG
On Being Good
The poetics of LARPing and journaling with your dog
A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 1: Spring
Reflections on a DIY game of cutting, pasting, endings, beginnings … and adorable druids
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Theory
Science & System
Philosophy of science as RPG theory
Databases & Dragons
New media’s influence on RPG design and experience
Story & 💿🐴
How narratology can clarify (and confound) discussions of story in RPGs
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Reference
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
Why We Need Mörk Borg Lite
And other cogent, coherent observations
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