The electric state

The Electric State might seem oddly familiar. Perhaps you’re vaguely aware that a Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown movie version has appeared on Netflix. Or maybe, you’ve got a wider appreciation for s

Sometimes it can seem like roleplay games always come down to dungeons filled with dwarves and goblins hacking at each other with swords. Just studying t-shirts at a gaming con tends to imply a homoge

Mythic Bastionland is the latest RPG from epic designer Chris McDowall. Chris represents a sort of chimeric force within the world of roleplaying design; he takes decades-established concepts and proc

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o

Tales of the Old West is a Wild West RPG, built on the same Year Zero engine that’s used to run Free League games like Alien and Tales from the Loop. Aiming to pull off some kind of game design trick-