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Do you want your tax return to depict a hero lost in a maze? Or perhaps your holiday cards could do with the festive colors of the five-headed dragon Tiamat? Good news! Dungeons & Dragons stamps are now available for pre-order from the US Postal Service! Depending on the geek-type...

I'm a huge fan of games that suddenly start playing differently. And I'm an armchair game tinkerer. And I have a bookshelf full of decades of awesome Munchkin stuff. So, putting it together . . . The premise: Start with Munchkin Steampunk. You all are steampunk munchkins, doing steampunk munchkinly...

Today's random idea: a text-based RPG campaign (maybe via Discord?), where all players communicate via emojis. Why? Who can say . . . maybe it's like A Quiet Place, only instead of "aliens can detect any noise," it's "aliens or an online intelligence can detect human text." Hey, I'm an...

Like many of you all, I play a lot of games (and not just those by a certain fine purveyor of spiffy products). One series hit my radar recently – after sitting in the closet of shame for the past few years – that we really enjoy. It's the Decktective...

With combined editor and production-artist credits that exceed 400 projects just for Steve Jackson Games, Nikki Vrtis has been a force for gaming goodness since her days at West End Games in the early 2000s. If you've picked up a GURPS project in the past 16 years, the odds are...

Gen Con is partnering with The Heinlein Society and the Versiti Blood Center of Indiana to host a blood drive. All confirmed donors will receive an exclusive free Loot Crate and a chance to win a daily giveaway. This includes a Grand Prize worth over $2,000:   Loot Crate Contents:...

Our friends over at Diecast Media Network are working on a cool project, and they need your help to make it a success.   Driven Dreams is an annual event that aims to give diecast cars to kids in need. What sets this project apart from others is that participants...

Wait . . . "discord at the gaming table" doesn't sound great? Well, that's why capital letters and brand names are so important! It's been a few years since I've had an ongoing tabletop RPG campaign, and even longer since I've had one where there were secrets and lies flying...