Sunday Feature: Wartime creates surge in Ukrainian tabletop role-playing games

Sometimes dismissed as childish fantasy, tabletop roleplaying games are creating a horror that the players can control. Plus: our nuclear emergency thinking.

Editor’s note: This week we posted a story highlighting a trans activist in Ukraine; after all, Russia cited LGBTQ+ rights as a reason for the war. We didn’t anticipate the negative reaction: more than 1,000 readers unsubscribed, and we lost paid subscribers as well.

For a publication that is just two months old, it was devastating. We work seven days a…