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Throwback Review: Ghostbusters RPG (1986)

When people talk about influential RPGs from the 1980s, Ghostbusters often gets treated like a charming side note. It shouldn’t

Throwback Review: Traveller Boxed Set (1977)

When people talk about the foundations of tabletop roleplaying, the conversation usually starts with Dungeons & Dragons. That makes sense.

Wargaming Gives Me Something RPGs Often Don’t

I’ve been realizing lately that a lot of my frustration with roleplaying games has nothing to do with the games

The Social Contract Is the Real Rulebook

Every RPG comes with a rulebook. Some are sleek and tight. Some are sprawling tomes that double as blunt weapons.

Area RPG Player Spends $4,300 On Convention Experience, Plays In 11 Hours Of Games, Talks About Them For 3 Years

Local tabletop enthusiast Rachel Morgan confirmed Sunday that she has concluded her annual four-day RPG convention experience, having successfully participated

Pathfinder Launches Printed Miniatures Line with Titan Forge

Launching this April and powered by Titan Forge, the new Paizo Printables Tribe looks aimed squarely at the kinds of

The Myth of the “Perfect Campaign”

Every Game Master has one. The campaign idea. The one with continents mapped, pantheons named, secret villains seeded in session

Is D&D Dead? Or Am I Just Not Hearing the Dice Roll Anymore?

A few years ago, you couldn’t avoid Dungeons & Dragons news if you tried. A new hardcover dropped and it

Local Dungeon Master Confirms Campaign Will Be “Player-Driven,” Has Already Written 187 Pages of Lore

Area Dungeon Master Kyle Merriweather confirmed Monday night that his new fantasy campaign will be “completely player-driven,” despite having already

GM Introduces Plot Hook, Party Immediately Opens a Tavern

A tabletop role-playing campaign took an unexpected turn Friday night after a game master introduced a carefully prepared plot hook,