culture
Tabletop companies are waiting for the ship to come in on tariffs
As Trump plays Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots with global economics, the RPG industry braces for unknowable costs.
Chase Carter
A labor and culture journalist with over a decade of experience with daily news, investigative reporting and criticism. He has spent 3+ years covering tabletop at Dicebreaker with an eye towards workers' rights, business and independent artists.
tabletop
Paizo and R. Talsorian court indie designers for their next projects
Fresh success from traditional methods.
tabletop
Urban Shadows finally cashes its ten-year-old debt
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
culture
State of the Rascal 2025
Plenty of miles behind us, and more on the horizon.
Rascal Radio
What the heck is Android: Netrunner?
Remap Radio's Cado Contreras finally talks about their favorite card game.
Lay it on the Table
Talking ‘bout Cybergeneration
The Rascals take a detour through 1995 on their way to explore 2027.
tabletop
Zine Month 2025: Solo RPGs
Roll-o solo-dolo.
tabletop
Possible Worlds Games will publish 12 new RPGs by 2028
Founder Tyler Crumrine envisions other roads for artists.
Rascal Radio
Rascal develops some vulnerable masculinity
Fellas, is it gay to do mutual aid?
culture
Livestream: Haunting the airwaves of a creepy college
Go Birds? Go, birds!
Public Articles
EDH Brackets won’t solve Magic: The Gathering’s social problem
Tools are nice, but you can’t foster community with checklists.
tabletop
Keep the Faith does for Religion what Dialect did for language
This half-board game, half RPG stares directly into the political heart of modern faith.
tabletop
Am I a terrible friend? And other thoughts while playing Letters to Sandra
What’s a little invasion of privacy between pals?
culture
Rascal Celebrates its First Birthday with a Pledge Drive
Support another year of independent tabletop journalism.
Rascal Radio
Rascal deploys malicious compliance
And categorically rejects binaries.
tabletop
Flatmates in Space: Gareth Damian Martin talks genre and Citizen Sleeper’s tabletop destiny
A fully realized tabletop RPG lies on the other side of some big questions.