Publisher: Dancing Lights PressIn This Issue:
The Soft Reboot
Revisiting the Black Box Movement
RPG Manual Cost as Barrier to Entry
Game Design: The Man in the Arena
Do What You Can
Black Box: Everything is a Remix
Politics in Roleplaying Settings
Black Box and Remix Culture
Freebies, Trolls, and What Have You
Guide Instead of Gamemaster
System Rather Than Rules
Why “Player” Is In But “Game” Is Out
Dancing Lights Press Forums
Current Print-on-Demand Problems
Making Alignment Useful
Opposing Character Death
Writing a Fantasy Heartbreaker
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Fraught Fellowships, Vol. 2: Ad Arcanum (for Vaesen)
Publisher: Free League Publishing In this exciting new series from Melpomene Games (authors of three Vaesen Mysteries, ‘The Gold in the Green’, ‘The Double’, and