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  • And That’s the Way the Coast Crumbles…
  • Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful Experience
  • Liminal Horror is Solid
  • Mausritter: It’s a game
  • Some last words

    In October of last year I wrote a review of Mausritter. Sometime earlier this month, someone wrote a response to it in which they pitted me against Mausritter. Pitted my games against Mausritter. They said I claimed that Mausritter wasn’t art and that therefore I thought my stuff was art, and more so that those…

    Read more: Some last words
    March 17, 2023
  • And That’s the Way the Coast Crumbles…

    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.

    Read more: And That’s the Way the Coast Crumbles…
    January 15, 2023
  • Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful Experience

    Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful Experience

    Lutong Banwa made me feel human while sitting in an America that seeks to make me inhuman.

    Read more: Lutong Banwa: A Beautiful Experience
    November 26, 2022
  • Liminal Horror is Solid

    Liminal Horror is Solid

    Liminal Horror, despite its vicious cover and its promises of death, is an inviting game that promises you something and then delivers.

    Read more: Liminal Horror is Solid
    November 24, 2022
  • Mausritter: It’s a game

    Mausritter: It’s a game

    There’s nothing bad to say about Mausritter. As a guidebook, it has everything you need. The folks at Losing Games and Games Omnivorous have leveraged Kickstarter in such a way that you’ll never be left wanting when you sit down to play Mausritter. They had a simple goal: erase Mouse Guard from everyone’s mind and…

    Read more: Mausritter: It’s a game
    October 5, 2022
  • Behind the Masks: Who We Were at the Table, by Kyle Tam

    Behind the Masks: Who We Were at the Table, by Kyle Tam

    This 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…

    Read more: Behind the Masks: Who We Were at the Table, by Kyle Tam
    July 18, 2022
  • How Imagination Was Demonized, by Bethany Loy

    How Imagination Was Demonized, by Bethany Loy

    This 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…

    Read more: How Imagination Was Demonized, by Bethany Loy
    June 28, 2022
  • Reviewing Lancer, the Mecha TTRPG.

    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…

    Read more: Reviewing Lancer, the Mecha TTRPG.
    June 22, 2022
  • Power Fantasies in RPGs, by Sharang Biswas

    Power Fantasies in RPGs, by Sharang Biswas

    Sharang 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…

    Read more: Power Fantasies in RPGs, by Sharang Biswas
    June 16, 2022
  • Reviewing Red Giant

    Reviewing Red Giant

    The 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…

    Read more: Reviewing Red Giant
    June 14, 2022
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