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“TableTop Gaming” Articles

Free Play 146 | Review Bombed

Community Content Producer Andy - aka Prodigas - asked us our thoughts on review bombing, why people feel the need to score games 0 out of 10 that haven’t even been released or give 0 or 1 scores to balance out the ratings of popular games with high ratings. Horizon Forbidden West is one such game that got hammered by negative reviews before it was even out yet. What about the idea that art is subjective? And can you share your experience with something in a review in a constructive way, even if it wasn’t necessarily a good experience? That’s what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play podcast.

Free Play 145 | Games That Teach Us Things

Community Content Producer Kyle Matthews sent us Overisles is a tabletop RPG currently on Kickstarter to teach sign language and promote deaf awareness. The game is developed by Hatchlings Games along with the deaf community and a high school D&D team. We dig into the details about Overisles and other games that can teach valuable skills this week on the Free Play podcast.

Free Play 144 | Non-Gaming Partners

Hold onto your butts beacuse this week Free Play is teaming up with Moviga to bring you a cross-promotional, 2-part episode LIVE from TantrumCon 2022.

LTN Advent Calendar 2021: Joy and Tabletop Roleplay

Each week, as we make our way through this Advent season, LTN Writers will provide short nerdy devotionals for you and your family to enjoy. You can find them all here. Also, if you want more nerdy advent content, check out our Advent Calendar from 2018. Our third Advent devotional centers on the joy of […]

Free Play 123 | Make Your Own Game Awards

What does it take to give awards out to tabletop games?

Community-Building Tabletop Games of 2019

The LTN Writers bring you their favorite examples of community building tabletop games they played in 2019.

Beard Bros. | Ep. 25 · Architects of the West Kingdom

This week on the Beard Bros Game Show, Matt and Bubba talk about Architects of the West Kingdom, a wonderful worker placement and resource management game from Garphill Games.