Miniature painting documentary The Grim & The Dark has arrived, and our resident space marine-botherer Caelyn has thoughts.

If this header doesn't make you want to read the article, there's no other way I can convince you.

PODCAST: Thomas and Chase discuss, among other things, WotC president John Hight's obsession with a singular use case for generative AI technology.

A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

I pull off like four no-rim swish segues on this episode. Listen to me at the Hight, er... height of my power.

Really enjoyed playing through this game solo, and I bet it would be fun for a small group!

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX: “I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

Caught up with a couple of the tabletop RPG publishers embroiled with Diamond and its debtors over ransomed consigmnent stock. Brankruptcy court sounds like an expensive, boring hell.

agent 47, welcome to england

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Zero-hour contracts are some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard of, so of course these board game cafe workers wanna toss em in the Thames.

Zypher's designer, @araukana.bsky.social, learned illustration by painting the RPG's fantastical world one page spread at a time. They talk about colors, breathing life into a breathing world, and the power of comics.

This essay is so fucking good. It's not about games but games people should read it. vajra.me/2022/03/17/t...

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

Huge, huge congrats to @amabel.bsky.social @fredserval.bsky.social @charlietheel.bsky.social and @danthurot.bsky.social - all consistently pushing the bounds and exploring new depths with their work, so great to see them all recognised here

We'll rot here. There's no hope for us.

THEY LET ME WRITE ANOTHER BOOK "You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

Going Solo: our accelerator for journalists launching their own venture on their own is officially HALF SOLD OUT. 10 (maybe 9?) more spots left in this cohort. Starts October 2. projectc.biz/going-solo

Caelyn chats to the creators of skirmish minis game Planet Shark about their ongoing Kickstarter and future plans.

You can explore the holdings, and the collecting foci, here:

Started a Daggerheart campaign last night with group spread across the RPG experience gamut. So far, it lives up to its "easier to learn/play D&D" reputation, and I'm enjoying more support for narrative-focused play. Big question for me is campaign support and the power ladder.

...what, now?

Hit a wall in Silksong Act II, only to realize there was a whole two regions left of the Citadel that I simply forgot to explore about 10 playtime hours ago. Whoops! Anyway, I'm now a very powerful bug.

eeee yay im excited to share my review of strange antiquities on rogue!!

This is my favourite part of @therisingtithes.bsky.social's latest column. (continued in the thread)

Wrote about Silksong as a cause célèbre slate.com/culture/2025...

Kickstarter and its ilk have warped the imagination of the tabletop industry. Thankfully, studios are beginning to guide their businesses under a fundamental truth: crowdfunding sucks.

I loooove this project by @cyborgurl.bsky.social (and had been a fan of her work for a while). Would highly recommend reading her notes on why and how she condensed games like Diplomacy, AD&D: Tomb of Horrors, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for her classes

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I scoured this box a few times in order to figure out what it was and how it worked and I came away very impressed. I am curious about opinions on this thing in a year after people attempt to bring people into the hobby with it.

Look at @crapstacular.bsky.social, already stretching into interviews with fascinating people!

If any GMs/facilitators play solo or mapmaking RPGs as prep for their group campaigns (especially when painting broad strokes of their world), hit me up with favorites and interesting titles! Personal curiosity, but maybe also a blog?

If you want to know why I bother with weirdo pervert gamer shit I wrote a little about why for @roguesite.bsky.social’s launch week www.rogue.site/editorials/s...

If any GMs/facilitators play solo or mapmaking RPGs as prep for their group campaigns (especially when painting broad strokes of their world), hit me up with favorites and interesting titles! Personal curiosity, but maybe also a blog?

Central Michigan University Press to release physical versions of Mountain Witch, Dog Eat Dog, and Princess With A Cursed Sword in a new series led by Tim Hutchings

Great article from Nicole here about who gets to "police aesthetics" and how everything online is morphed into a business model. This quote rattled every bone in my body:

so excited to be back on @404media.co with a story about how lofi girl grew from a YouTube channel into a chill beats empire ✨✨✨✨

The first British-coded bugs you meet in Silksong huddle in a daub hut and send you out to collect dog guts for their stew. Glad to see Australians still taking the piss out of the old empire.

For our subscribers at the Party Member tier and above, Lay it on the Table IS BACK!

Some long-delayed thoughts on Yochai Gal's Beyond the Pale. I really liked this one.

Collective support network @ccuttrpg.bsky.social wants to build a more secure future for Canadian tabletop designers.

My undergrad at A&M coincided with Obama's term, during which I saw a student org parade an effigy of him around a campus public space. That same space also regularly hosted a hellfire-and-brimstone Baptist preacher shouting exactly what you imagine. They're so mad about no longer being tolerated.

Really chilling to watch Libs of Tiktok become the governing strategy of the Republican Party

The UK maintains a ton of quality coffee roasters (recent fav is Horsham), and yet this country seems allergic to selling me a pour over cup.

"The strength of this adventure is that it celebrates without flinching away from exploring complex questions of how religion differs from culture, how migration intersects with violence, and most importantly, how self-protection can so easily sour into virulent xenophobia."

TTRPG devs who have contributed to this bundle, I would love to ask you a few questions on this! Hit me up here: [email protected]

The podcast in question:

Getting my assed kicked by a bunch of ants

Sandwiched inside this interview is WotC president John Hight once again delivering two thumbs up for LLM-generated material in the company's games. He's gonna feed players however much slop they'll allow.

For Rascal, I chatted with @graycastlepress.com on the closure of Tiny Table Index, and its importance to small-scale TTRPGs