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In Praise of In-Person Play
We need to pay attention to what is happening to our hobby.
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Gen X Teenage Gaming Tales: Playing in the Information Desert
In the 1980s, lack of information shaped how gamers and non-gamers perceived the hobby.
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Review – The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity
What was it all like before everyone started squabbling about tabletop roleplaying? What was it like when everyone just played the old school way?
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The Three Factors Revised
The Three Factors approach to classifying tabletop RPGs gets a few refinements.
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Tattoos in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
As a GM or player there are myriad ways to use tattoos in your game, as Erwan Roudaut explains.
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The Three Factors
What if there were a way to classify games without making reference to what agendas they support?
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The O.G. Vault Dwellers for Your Post-Apocalyptic Campaign
The US government’s survivability plans can provide useful inspiration for your post-apocalypse campaign.
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Experimenting with an In-Campaign One-Shot
With a one-shot you can provide a new perspective inside an ongoing campaign without derailing the central narrative.
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Bring Verisimilitude to Your Post-Apocalypse Campaign
Two nonfiction books provide lots of information and inspiration for gamemasters interested in running post-apocalypse campaigns.
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Star Wars: Edge of the Empire – The Actual Play Review
The dark underbelly of the galaxy has always drawn Star Wars fans. How well does the Edge of the Empire game evoke it?