features
It's Both The Best And Worst Time To Get Into Pokémon Cards
Interest in Pokémon is at an all-time high. That's both good and bad for collectors.
Rascal Radio
Radio Hour: Scootin' for a Mutin'
Fast, loose, and wrong.
new games
Looters reframes treasure and dungeon crawling as class conflict
Mordite Press’s newest game is more than just an anti–D&D.
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.
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.