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Announcing: Mousetrap
Mousetrap joins Violent Delights on Kickstarter
Monthly Mecha: Screaming Metal by Snow
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
Rascal Interview: Agency, frustration, and secrets in Asa Donald's SPINE
Podcast interview on SPINE
To Play Is To Explode
On the Beauty of RPGs
Monthly Mecha: RIG by Not Writing Games
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
🎤 David Harris on Adaptation and the Public Domain Game Jam
Six-time winner of the Public Domain game jam
Feature: Cyberrats in Space
June's Mid-month Feature: Cyberrats in Space, crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
Chess has Baggage
Designing with and around "baggage"
🎤 Jason Morningstar on Boxed RPGs
The designer of Fiasco, Desperation, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Monthly Mecha: Anti-Desert, Lichen Arrowsmith, and Lyric Mecha RPGs
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
Chess is a Boxed RPG
"Unboxed" RPGs and repurposing board game components.
Chess Series
🎤 Seraphina on RPGs, Board Games, and Eisegesis
The author of "What do we mean when we say a game supports play?"
Essays on TTRPGs
Chess Supports Roleplay
Reading into chess and other abstract games.
The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter
Monthly Mecha: Reverse Battleship w/ John Mulligan of Exeunt Press
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
Essays on TTRPGs
The Problem with Production Value
A Retrospective on SPINE and Production Value
Essays on TTRPGs
Playing Alone Together
My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.
Essays on TTRPGs
The GM Is Dead
In Firebrands, The GM Is Dead.
The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter
Monthly Mecha: NOVA 2e w/ Spencer Campbell & Galen Pejeau
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter
Monthly Mecha: Girl Frame w/ Isabelle M. Ruebsaat
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
A Timely Note: A Bloggies Nomination and Kickstarter Prelaunch
No essay today, folks, just a quick message to see if you'll... * Vote for "Books in TTRPGs" as the Best Series for this year's Bloggies; and/or * Follow the prelaunch for Violent Delights: A chess-based RPG about Romeo and Juliet. Bloggies 2026 Nomination
Essays on TTRPGs
Solo RPGs: An open or shut case?
On open-ended and close-ended solo rpgs and what group play can learn from them
The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter
Monthly Mecha: HOME by Deep Dark Games
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter
Monthly Mecha: Mecha Game Jam Highlights and Mech TTRPG Bundle
Mecha TTRPGs Monthly