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The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow brings traditional horror conventions to gaming
As we go through Spooky Season and a bunch of horror video games, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow was an instant favorite for how it played with tropes that were common to literature, especially gothic horror conventions.
Tavern Watch Plays Shadowdark, Episode 2: Never trust strange furniture
It's spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we're playing something appropriately spooky -- Shadowdark!
Life is oh so hard when you’re an adorable foster kitten
Happy Monday, friends!
Tabletop map-making website Inkarnate allows, then bans AI-generated art in a user-driven win for human artists
One of the most popular online tools for digital tabletop map-making is Inkarnate, an easy-to-use website that has found itself struggling through a string of controversies in recent weeks.
Gravity Circuit is the free game on the Epic Games Store this week
In addition to a few free items and other things for free-to-play game Albion Online, this week the Epic Games Store is giving away a fun side scroller for free.
Ease yourself into the Halloween season with a therapist who happens to be a vampire in Vampire Therapist
I am a huge fan of all things horror, from brooding and creepy to extreme gore that borders on parody, but sometimes during Halloween month, you have to ease your way in to the creepy vibe with positive self-talk and a little cognitive behavioral therapy.
All of the cute things featured in the Midnight Deep Dive
Last week we got an extensive preview of the upcoming Midnight expansion across the board, and that included many fleeting glimpses of cuteness.
Tavern Watch Plays Shadowdark, Episode 1: It was a dark and stormy night
It's spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we're playing something appropriately spooky -- Shadowdark!
Nightingale is this week’s free game from the Epic Games Store
In addition to a few free packs for free-to-play game Firestone, this week the Epic Games Store is giving away a great open world survival crafter for free.
DMsGuild game jam calls for creators to make their own Baldur’s Gate D&D adventures
DMsGuild is calling all TTRPG content creators to participate in their premiere game jam, an event where you can create and submit themed Dungeons and Dragons-compatible content to DMsGuild starting October 1 and ending November 2, with a large release of all submitted content on November 4 at 2pm pacific time.
