Tabletop RPG
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Tavern Watch Plays Fallen London, episode 1: Late to our own unscheduled rendezvous
Several years ago, London was carried off by bats to the Neath, an enormous cavern beneath the world. Things have not gotten any less strange since, and yet life goes on but just a…
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Tavern Watch Plays Pirate Borg, episode 4: That was a load-bearing vampire
All good things must come to an end, and sometimes, so must all foul things — like vampiric rituals meant to bring one’s wife back from the dead by opening the very gates of…
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Tavern Watch Plays Pirate Borg, episode 3: What’s behind crypt door number three?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a bunch of crypts in the lowest level of a vampire’s lair, holding silver, lurking undead enemies, a secret our big bad guy doesn’t want found,…
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Tavern Watch Plays Pirate Borg, episode 2: La Corona de Piña and other treasures
Deep in the bowels of the vampirate-laden Maelstrom, our scurvy scallyways discover something truly unexpected: an entire forest, inside the hull of a ship. Not only that, but those crows seem to be cawing somewhat…
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Tavern Watch Plays Pirate Borg, episode 1: Into the Maelstrom
On the briny seas of the Dark Caribbean sails a ship unlike any other; a ghostly ship, made of rotting wood with sails of red flesh, heralded by an ominous green fog, and crewed…
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Tavern Watch Podcast: Two ancient demons accidentally made a good TTRPG (we hope)
Against all odds, the Dungeons & Dragons Warcraft crossover book seems like it might actually be good. It could’ve gone the way of the cheap cash grab, but instead early previews make it look…
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Tavern Watch Podcast: Gods (and patrons), Paizo in PDF, big stompy mechs, and more TTRPG news
There are a lot of interesting things to touch on in the tabletop RPG space in this month’s Tavern Watch Podcast, especially if you’re a fan of Paizo’s games like Pathfinder or Starfinder. Paizo offering…
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Hands-on with Last Call at the Arcantina, a WoW tabletop experience exclusive to BlizzCon
One of the least advertised things on the BlizzCon 2026 map was a small area in the World of Warcraft section labeled “Last Call at the Arcantina“. It turned out to be a hyper-short…
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Tavern Watch Plays Fallout, episode 3: Deals with dinosaurs (or just big chickens)
Some days in the Wasteland, you accidentally stumble into a robot-operated dinosaur cloning facility, and then you have to make an ethical judgment on what to do with the lives of intelligent (and very…
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Matt Mercer to DM Questwatch, an Overwatch-themed TTRPG session, live at BlizzCon on September 13
Besides being the voice of Cassidy in Overwatch, you might know Matt Mercer from his other non-voice-acting job, DMing (and now playing) on a little show called Critical Role. Now, it appears those two…
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