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Tag: Roleplaying games

  • Leisure James: Designer board games vs AI

    As a recent AI scandal has highlighted, the tabletop gaming industry’s strength lies in focusing on human creativity, not churning out more slop

    Leisure James: Designer board games vs AI

  • DnDexit, or why I think OneD&D will fail

    If Wizards of the Coast get their way scrapping the Open Game license, it will be a disaster for creatives in the roleplaying industry – but it will also hurt them.

    DnDexit, or why I think OneD&D will fail

  • The One Ring RPG Review: You Can Never Go Back Again

    So, a bit of background for context of this review: I’ve been roleplaying since I was 9, back in 1983. Over the last 30 years I’ve played all sorts of games, mostly GMing, but never really got that sense of unbridled joy and creation that I got from playing those games as a kid when…

    The One Ring RPG Review: You Can Never Go Back Again

  • Microscope: roleplaying history fractally

    I’ve been exploring quite a lot of roleplaying games recently, but Microscope is probably the most unique I’ve come across thus far. Arguably, it isn’t even a roleplaying game, although roleplaying is part of it. The goal of the players is not to play a character but to create a fictional history, potentially spanning tens…