A weekly tabletop RPG newsletter delivering a new ready-to-run dungeon, lair, or hideout map with an overview, location descriptions, and encounters. Content is written for D&D-style games, with monsters, saving throw DCs, and adventure hooks.
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A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.
A studio newsletter from the makers of the tabletop RPG Hollows, covering game design decisions, community jams and behind-the-scenes stories. Readers get design insight into tactical combat and monster building, plus personal anecdotes from the designers.
A weekly newsletter revisiting classic and contemporary fantasy through archival interviews, art showcases, and fantasy news roundups. Readers get illustrated deep dives into authors, artists, gamebooks, and old-school fantasy culture.
RPG Drop is an independent hub covering tabletop roleplaying games and crowdfunding through interviews with designers, cartographers and publishers. Its issues offer in-depth creator conversations on craft, business practice and the state of Kickstarter and the hobby.
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