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It's the Dice Exploder 2025 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Lin Codega and Diogo Nogueira to go over a whole bunch of game mechanics that we think represent where rpgs were at in 2025 and where they might be going in the future.

Further Reading

Mythic Bastionland by Chris McDowall

Praise the Hawkmoth King by Sage the Anagogue

I want to fight my friends in the back of a moving truck by Seraphina Garcia Ramirez

Traffic Lights Are Communication Tools by Meguey Baker

Daggerheart

Draw Steel

The One Ring starter set

Sam Sorensen’s overview of Over/Under and one of Lin’s pieces on the aftermath

Apocalypse World 3e Kickstarter (now finished)

Socials

Rascal.news

Weird Games and Weirder People

Lin and Diogo on Bluesky.

Sam on Bluesky and itch.

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