The electric state

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

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-

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

The Terror Beneath is a sinister investigative RPG that transports players to an alternative 20th century Britain. The designer, Scott Malthouse, who is supported by Brainbug Design’s illustrations, i