Rascal News

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new games

Looters reframes treasure and dungeon crawling as class conflict

Mordite Press’s newest game is more than just an anti–D&D.

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features

AITA because I (fairy prince, 1573yo) can't stop wiping people's memories?

Moves in Under Hollow Hills are a double-edged sword, creating passive geasa that encourage fundamental, magical truths about characters.

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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.

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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?

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features

Queer games require queer structures

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

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new games

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

Embrace your inner David Lynch.

A wolfish humanoid wearing a headdress of scrap metal preaches to a gathered crowd. One hand is raised, while the other holds an open book.

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.

An illustration of several figures dressed in medieval outfits, such as knights and wizards. It's the cover of Path Appararatus.

features

Path Apparatus tackles lifepath systems through scholarship and play

We discuss how lifepath games invite introspection and imagination.

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features

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

Wordplay, down under.

Products aren’t people and don’t “have to” do anything

€6 million in 8 years: Larp for social good receives serious funding in Europe

Radio Hour: Scootin' for a Mutin'

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Poets wanted for 'Ballads of the Lilypond'

Halo meets the Last of Us in this new TTRPG.

Rusałka Beckons You To Retell A Tragic Fairytale

Let Me Be Your Thrall: Aftertaste

Latest Stories

Looters reframes treasure and dungeon crawling as class conflict

AITA because I (fairy prince, 1573yo) can't stop wiping people's memories?

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

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

Let's plan Rascal Reading Club season 2

Queer games require queer structures

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

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

State of the Rascal, podcast edition

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

Path Apparatus tackles lifepath systems through scholarship and play

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