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And That’s the Way the Coast Crumbles…
Read more: And That’s the Way the Coast Crumbles…We need to demand more. We are worth so much more. It is good and right for communities to be critical of companies and not be eager for them to own our spaces.
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Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful Experience
Read more: Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful ExperienceLutong Banwa made me feel human while sitting in an America that seeks to make me inhuman.
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Liminal Horror is Solid
Read more: Liminal Horror is SolidLiminal Horror, despite its vicious cover and its promises of death, is an inviting game that promises you something and then delivers.
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Mausritter: It’s a game
Read more: Mausritter: It’s a game*This review has been slightly edited due to a rebuttal article that I feel misrepresented what I thought my point was. But that’s my fault. I’ve edited the article to (hopefully) reflect my position better. **I would never claim a ttrpg can’t be or isn’t art. I do not like the product/art distinction. I think…
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Behind the Masks: Who We Were at the Table, by Kyle Tam
Read more: Behind the Masks: Who We Were at the Table, by Kyle TamThis article originally appeared in the first issue of the Nerves Zine (2021). Special thanks to Kyle for allowing it to be reposted. AGENT SKINNER If I think back on where I was mentally, having broken up with my ex that very day, I wouldn’t have played the game. I would have canceled the game…
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How Imagination Was Demonized, by Bethany Loy
Read more: How Imagination Was Demonized, by Bethany LoyThis was originally published in the first issue of the Nerves zine (2021). Bethany was kind enough to allow it to be posted on the site. My father glanced away from his driving to give me a worried look. “Dad, It’s going to be okay.” I reassured my only ride. “Nobody has actually died because…
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Reviewing Lancer, the Mecha TTRPG.
Read more: Reviewing Lancer, the Mecha TTRPG.This article begins with John completing a time machine and traveling back to the year 2006. John appears in their childhood bedroom with their Fourteen Year Old Self [from now referenced as 14]. John: I’ve come from the future to ask you some questions. I’m struggling to review this book. Holds up Lancer, the 2020…
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Power Fantasies in RPGs, by Sharang Biswas
Read more: Power Fantasies in RPGs, by Sharang BiswasSharang was the first pitch I received for the Nerves Zine (2021). It’s an honor to have this up on the site now. When I was in middle school, my friend Luc and I dreamed—in an idle sort of way—of taking over the world. He would give me Ireland, he said, to turn into a…
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Reviewing Red Giant
Read more: Reviewing Red GiantThe purpose of a tabletop roleplaying game book is to make you want to play it. That’s rule number one. All else can go out the window for all I care. Forget layout, forget gimmicks, forget ad-copy, forget poetry. I don’t care how you accomplish it. The book should ache to be played. If its…
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Graphic Design is Hip-Hop, by Lone Archivist
Read more: Graphic Design is Hip-Hop, by Lone Archivistby Lone Archivist It’s the early 2000’s. Steven Ellison has a solid music career and a burgeoning label but isn’t yet a household name. He hasn’t been nominated for a grammy or scored the original animation Yasuke. He’s worked closely with Stephen Lee Bruner but the 1985 cartoon still comes up first when you Google…