Feature: Paranoia RPG stayed hilarious by changing satirical targets
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By imagining a future where colonisation never occurred, Coyote & Crow allows indigenous Americans to become the heroes of their own stories.
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Feature: The dark history of antisemitism in board games
Tabletop games have been used to express hate in ways both explicit and shockingly mundane for centuries.
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Feature: 4 scary movie easter eggs in The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 (Sponsored Content)
From flamethrowers to husky dogs.
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Five games by five designers that capture the real Global South, in their own words.
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Paizo employees have their recognition, but the hardest fights might still be on the horizon.
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The next GM-less storytelling game from Wanderhome and Wickedness creators.
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Feature: Ranking all 25 Pikachu on the Pokémon: TCG Pikachu V-Union card
A shocking result.
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The greatest game that never happened.
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Feature: Experimental lyric RPGs are pushing the poetic power of roleplaying forward
By destroying the boundary between players and characters, lyric games innovate new ways to play - or, sometimes, not play at all.
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Feature: Wonder Book looks the part of an imaginative kids game, but doesn’t play like one
Don’t judge a board game by its cover.
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Feature: Far Cry Beyond board game bears little resemblance to the video game series
A far cry from what we wanted.
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Feature: Azul: Queen’s Garden sprouts fresh ideas whilst sticking to its roots
Wake up and play the roses.
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“We took the mystery of Istanbul and dialled that up to 1000%.”
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“What is an RPG, but a seed of imagination designers give to players and game masters so they can grow gardens of their own?”
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Feature: 10 board games to look for at Essen Spiel 2021 - preview
The biggest board games at the biggest show.
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“I need to slow down, but it's not happening.”
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Feature: The Civilization board game pioneered epic strategy a decade before Sid Meier
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tech tree.
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Magpie Games talks supply chain logistics, shielding design from bloat and contributor pay.
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Feature: 10 board games to look for at Gen Con 2021 - preview
From sequels to beloved classics, to new releases from renowned creators.
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A personal history of a worker-placement pioneer, 20 years, two continents and multiple generations in the making.
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“If this is the only game I ever get to make, I should just do the thing I love the most.”
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Feature: Where to Start With… deckbuilding board games
Building up your confidence.
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Location, location, frustration.
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Once you’ve done your research.
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Feature: Roleplaying games were around hundreds of years before Dungeons & Dragons
The seminal tabletop RPG drew from generations of wargaming, storytelling and parlour games.
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“When including more diverse representation, disabled people continue to be excluded at alarming rates.”
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The character’s version of representation frustrates AAPI fans.
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“A really big thing is having an arena where you feel like you have some control over the stories that are told.”
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Big tabletop events are likely to return this year, but they might look very different.
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How publishers are adopting eco-friendly practices to help the planet.
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Feature: Weekend Play Report - Ex Novo, and the joy of mapmaking games
Routing to recreation.
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It stands heads, shoulders and horns above the disastrous Dark Souls.
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Exploring one of the titles in Jewish roleplaying anthology Doikayt.
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Feature: Cancelled Warframe-inspired RPG highlights the destructive toxicity of online fandom
“This is a demonstration of a vocal minority of angry trolls getting what they wanted.”
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Feature: Queer players find more than a game in Dungeons & Dragons - they find a safe space
“We are here to play whoever we want to.”
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Feature: Good Old Plays: The throwback RPGs giving modern roleplaying “a breath of fresh air”
OSR designers are reviving the genre’s roots with compact rules, player-led storytelling and creativity in abundance.
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Less Harry Potter than high school.
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Feature: Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons
The tabletop games and designers taking players from fantasy stories to real-world change.
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Feature: D&D's answer to American Idol changed the RPG - and its winner's life - forever
You could say it was open to ‘Ebberyone’.
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“We like people to make difficult choices that are also fun choices.”
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Together, they hope to overcome national restrictions and find a deserving audience.
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Feature: d007: How the all-but-forgotten James Bond RPG changed roleplaying
Tomorrow Never Dice.
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A D&D film was promised to rival Star Wars, but its cinematic debut ended up a box-office bomb. What happened?
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Boldly Action/Bonus/Moving where no one has gone before.
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Lead designer Ryan Verniere talks team building and trusting vision to others.
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Feature: Board games are expensive, so we tried to make our own for a tenner
It went about as well as you’d expect.
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Feature: 10 Catan house rules that make the classic board game even more fun
Don’t settle for less.
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Board game café owners and retailers on the impact of lockdown and social distancing.
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Feature: Here are some of the best tabletop sessions from PAX Online x EGX Digital 2020
Queue up some of the best videos you might’ve missed at the online convention.
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Feature: 7 board games to check out at PAX Online x EGX Digital
Get onboard with these tabletop titles.
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Exploring the Dungeons & Dragons cosplay community, how to start and why it’s worth doing.
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Feature: The fatigue and loneliness of playing tabletop RPGs online in a pandemic
For players used to the intimacy of face-to-face sessions, taking games such as Dungeons & Dragons onto the internet can be exhausting and alienating.
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Feature: ‘It was a mess’: The disappearance and return of legendary ’80s board game Dark Tower
In 1981, there was no game bigger. Then it vanished. What happened to Dark Tower, and why is there such hunger for it to come back?
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Reprints and rares both essential and exorbitant.
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“I would lie awake at night thinking how fun a dungeon crawl would be.”
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And the connection between poisonous mushrooms and Magic.
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“There were a whole lot of people that thought it was an evil company.”
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Two halves make a whole lot of fun.
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Feature: How Magic: The Gathering’s biggest fan landed the role of a lifetime as its head designer
Mark Rosewater on discovering the card game, working with Richard Garfield and balancing his professional and personal passion.
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Feature: Indie video game platform Itch.io has given tabletop RPG designers a new way to thrive
Through kindness and community.
