Welcome! The seasons are changing, the harvest is coming, and our lives are suffuse with community and creativity. This issue, our featured reviews both cover different flavors of early access: Kati t...

A new expansion for Beneath! The Dungeonfloor! Plus other rarities and curiosities!

Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.

TTRPG where you play as pocket-sized monsters in a Pokapocalyptic world

Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.

Magic system based on Indonesian occult practice

On making positive claims and contributions.

YouTube video by snow

A Gauntlet Dungeon for Simple DeeEnDee

Investigate a sabotaged shipyard in this NULL_SPACE job!

The shrouded hopping ghost of Indonesia

Available for Windows

Should I just run Mothership for the rest of my life?

Welcome to Critical Bearings, a place for critical engagement with the art form of Actual Play. I’m Esther, and I love Actual Play and media criticism. My relationship with criticism began to take sh...

A game jam from 2026-06-15 to 2026-09-22 hosted by Jellyfishlines & FinleyJinley. You know that thing in TTRPGs that has been bothering you? Maybe it's factor of design, the industry, the wider aspect...

An adventure for Cairn 2e featuring weird happenings in a mountain town and a snowbound temple.

unrepentant yearning for cairn 2e

itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

Fight problems with Poetry and cards.

Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...

TW: the game i'm reviewing is about body horror, which i’m not discussing in depth and leaving in the footnotes anyway if you wanna skip them, but be warned~...

unrepentant yearning for cairn 2e

Apprehension is worth the effort

Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.

An arboreal depthcrawl for Cairn.

A Sci-fi Forestcrawl for the 2026 Appendix N Jam

A Scenario for Violence

On the Beauty of RPGs

A reading informed review of Eco Mofos!!

As I write this, Deathbringer , the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its  Backerkit campaign  and h...

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project.  Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. Art by Goran Gli...