Substacks recommended by Mike Mearls

Recommended by Mike Mearls

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

Prismatic Wasteland

By Prismatic Weekly

Tabletop RPG blogger at Prismatic Wasteland and creator of the Ennie-winning adventure, Barkeep on the Borderlands.

SuperJoost Playlist

A weekly take on gaming, tech, and entertainment by business professor and author, Joost van Dreunen.

The Bottom Feeder

Computer Gaming's Cranky Old Uncle In the Attic

Grognardia Games Direct

By James Maliszewski

Get news, discussion, and regular previews of roleplaying games projects currently in development by Grognardia Games.

Ludological Alchemy

By The Alchemists

Wherein we discuss roleplaying game design and its effects on our games, our experiences, hopes, dreams, friendships and desires.

Bastionland Presser

By Chris McDowall

Tabletop RPG content from Bastionland Press

The GameDiscoverCo newsletter

By Simon

Analysis, data and insight about how people find & buy video games in the 2020s.

RPG Design Theories

By Monte Cook

Thoughts behind tabletop roleplaying games and why we love them.

SlyFlourish.com

Helping GMs run great TTRPGs

The Glatisant: A Questing Beast Newsletter

By Questing Beast

Essays, links, and videos navigating the old-school RPG world.

Push to Talk

By Ryan K. Rigney

Interviews with people doing interesting things with video games

@andrewchen

By Andrew Chen

Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI

Win Conditions

By Sean McCoy

A deep dive newsletter on publishing games in the tabletop industry. From the creator of Mothership RPG, #dungeon23, and co-creator of Two Rooms and a Boom.

Arcane Mutterings

Recommended by Mike Mearls