Lin Codega is an award-winning entertainment journalist focusing on science fiction and fantasy media. They specialize in tabletop roleplaying games, pop culture, fandom, and queer intersections.
tabletop
This decade’s Satanic Panic is encapsulated in the F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act, aimed at reinforcing "reality" while curbing students' rights to creativity and expression.
tabletop
As the Eaton Fire crept closer, I divided my collection along lines of affection and replaceability, easily finding reasons to bring every game with me .
tabletop
"All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
tabletop
An errant killjoy returns to yap a bit.
tabletop
Wyrmwood lays off 50% of their workers, films the aftermath, and puts the whole thing on YouTube for content... including a response to Rascal’s request for comment.
tabletop
Treating your tabletop game like a collaborative writer’s room will make you a better storyteller.
tabletop
In an effort to support backwards compatibility, the proposed changes to D&D Beyond (and the subsequent retraction) divided the user base along lines a decade apart.
rascal on rascal
The final read on the pledge drive, two weeks of darkness, and a new mini-boss.
community
Blood donations received at Gen Con alleviated shortages across the state of Indiana and beyond.
Pledge Drive
Chase finally gets to make a podcast.
tabletop
James Mendez Hodes was there when the deep magic was written.
actual play
They had us in the first half, I’m not gonna lie.
tabletop
A scripted podcast starring Jon Hamm will inject notoriety to a missing persons case that is, at its core, desperately boring and deeply sad.
horoscopes
✨ brat, hot to go, kira kira ✨
tabletop
If you’ve got the license for a nostalgic mid-aughts IP, the best thing to do is crowdfund a TTRPG.
play list
Games for the gays, the girls, and the gay girls who can’t stop singing H-O-T T-O G-O! during character creation and end up wondering why their tiefling bard is such a hot mess all the time.