news

Does winning the Diana Jones Emerging Designer award help you stand out at Gen Con? The winners say yes.

Come hall or high water, the business cards will go on.

Review

Down Among The Dead continues to suffer from Pirate Borg’s fundamental flaws

Culture without those who keep it alive.

podcast

Let's plan Rascal Reading Club season 2

Should we follow the natural path or roll the dice?

features

Queer games require queer structures

Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”

new games

Asher’s Ridge puts you in the writer’s room of the next big paranormal hit

Embrace your inner David Lynch.

news

Rowan, Rook and Decard workers unionize with IWGB Games Worker Union

Staff at the studio behind Heart, Spire, and Eat the Reich hope their decision spurs even more small-team unions.

Rascal Radio

State of the Rascal, podcast edition

What's in the dumpster?

features

D&D’s Gen Con keynote promises a great return from parts undefined

All gas, no rearview mirrors.

features

Path Apparatus tackles lifepath systems through scholarship and play

We discuss how lifepath games invite introspection and imagination.

features

Before larp arrived, Australians had their own brand of freeform roleplaying

Wordplay, down under.

news

The big announcements from GenCon 2026 [with sparkling analysis]

It's only commentary if it's from the Indianapolis region.

State of the Rascal

State of the Rascal: August 2026

An earnest appeal and radical honesty.