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Jan 23, 2025 | 
rascal.news | Justin A. Joyce
tabletop — 12 min read There is a beloved, long-running comic book series that you cannot read. You can experience it, have it read out to you, and even contribute to it. But there are no store shelves that stock it. When the time comes, its creators and I settle in for some chatter. We figure out who the characters in this newest issue will be, and what kinds of storylines they’re hoping to find.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
February is a peak time for game designers and gamers looking for something new. We are entering into the annual event known as Zine Quest/Zine Month. For those unaware, Zine Quest/Zine Month is an event started by Kickstarter in 2019 with a focus on letting tabletop roleplaying game designers come forward to produce smaller projects in the form of zines.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
Power Rangers has been fueling fantasies of Saturday morning, multicolored, tokusatsu action for over thirty years now. It’s impossible to not have felt the touch of the morphin’ time, whether its been you or some child in your life who has fallen down the rabbit hole. For some, Power Rangers isn’t enough, and maybe you’ve gone further, checking out its origins in Super Sentai or its older brother series Kamen Rider.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
Pathfinder Second Edition has been successfully filling the void for those who left Dungeons & Dragons by the wayside, or just want to try something new. For those looking for a medieval fantasy game with a wealth of choices, tactical options, and robust mechanics for enhancing role-play, Pathfinder 2e is basically heaven. For those unaware of the differences between Pathfinder 2e and its long-lived predecessor, they are wildly different beats.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Mike Harrington |Justin A. Joyce |Dwight A. McBride |Heather Richardson
Jackson, Mississippi (2017) | Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress / Public DomainJackson is the capital city of the state of Mississippi and was named after the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson (who was responsible for the Trail of Tears—one of many forced relocation marches for people who were Indigenous to the land—and a slave owner).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
You read that right. Those looking for a way to bring the ATLUS JRPG series to their tabletop don’t have to wait anymore for an official game. Shin Megami Tensei – The Roleplaying Game: Tokyo Conception first released in Japan in 2004, but despite its positive initial reception, it has only reached English-speaking markets this year via LionWing Publishing.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Justin A. Joyce
I moved out of New York City, to Oregon, right before the pandemic began. I didn’t realize how much I missed it right away. This homesickness burned through my blood slowly, radioactive and toxic. Sitting alone in my nowhere home and my nothing-to-do town, the mind wanders towards friends, family, but mostly the city. My routes, my landmarks, my screens, and my murals. Right before I left, I was playing Marvel’s Spider-Man, and my dad noticed me swinging by Madison Square Garden.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
justin-joyce.medium.com | Justin A. Joyce
Justin Joyce·Follow6 min read·--This article was originally written on Nov. 5th 2024 and scheduled to automatically go up on Nov. 7th 2024. Today is Election Day 2024. I will not know who actually wins the election tonight, because my job has me working an overnight shift, where I will be cut off from the outside world during the hours where a victor is declared. Upon returning home, I will almost certainly crash into bed instantaneously.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
Elestrals has been sweeping through the card game world for a year now, and it’s about to become more accessible. Released in 2023 on the back of an overwhelmingly successful Kickstarter campaign, Elestrals has been taking off as well as an indie trading card game about mythology possibly could. Players from across every major card game on the market have been converting to Elestrals, even card game content creators have made whole new accounts to play the game more and spread the word.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Justin A. Joyce
Wizards of the Coast recently debuted the newest version of Dungeons & Dragons, which has left a lot of players uncertain about their current characters. Dungeons & Dragons 5e 2024 Revision (D&D2024) has been presented as an update to the D&D people have been playing since 2014, but the new rules and smaller changes are significant enough to invalidate older content.
