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The downtown library branch will host hours of presentations, gaming sessions and gaming-based vendors between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Grown-ups don’t get to play enough.

Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks are being remade for 2024, with the Dungeon Master’s Guide receiving extra attention. What if, instead of a book filled with worksheets, the DMG became something more?

We’re switching formats! As I am incapable of saying no, this is an overstuffed edition. Soon I will start saying no. Or i’ll go weekly with this. One or the other.

Tabletop RPGs are beginning to turn away from grimdark fantasies toward something more optimistic. Hopepunk, and its sibling solarpunk, show another way forward for humanity.

*Captain America voice:* So, you want to change tabletop systems post-Dungeons & Dragons OGL? I think I can help you out.

The best tabletop role-playing games that we played in 2022 include some old favorites like Fiasco and Monster of the Week. But there were plenty of surprises in this list as well. Good TTRPGs are timeless; here’s how we spent our time this year.

The creator of The Ground Itself is back with World Ending Game, a tabletop role-playing game about endings, available as a PDF or physical book.

D&D is hot right now, but the indie RPG landscape is absolutely booming. Here are the best independently produced TTRPGs of the year, including Wanderhome and .dungeon.

What is it? Substrata is a virtual reality art exhibition hosted by Epoch gallery, an artist-run virtual experiment. The project is shown in collaboration with the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA), an artist-run space founded in 2012 by Alice Könitz, in a pavilion built by Könitz with context created by Peter Wu+ of Epoch. It includes works by: Patricia Fernández, Nikita Gale, Won Ju Lim, Gina Osterloh, Paul Pescador, Kristin Posehn, Gabie Strong, Sterling Wells, Haena Yoo. Curator’s Not...