Rowan Zeoli

tabletop — 21 min read Credit: Possum Creek Games / Katie Hicks Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is an acclaimed tabletop RPG from small press Possum Creek Games, collecting the stories of several residents of the eponymous house into 48 chapters with distinct rules. Its writing was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2024 and won an Origins Award in the same year for best core product, alongside four ENNIE nominations in 2025 that include best writing and cover art.

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culture — 13 min read The town of Terezin was initially a holiday resort for Czech nobility. In 1940, it became the site of one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous concentration camps, Theresienstadt ghetto, and around 148,000 Jews were sent there over the course of the its life. Around 33,000 people died there of starvation and disease, and another 88,000 were sent to death camps like Auschwitz.