actual play
A high-octane meditation on player agency
Episode 4 of Never Stop Blowing Up is a Fast & the Furious parody with a little game theory on the side.
Rowan Zeoli
actual play
Chaosium brings actual play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
In partnership with Scottish institutions, the Call of Cthulhu publisher will host two shows at the famous avant-garde showcase.
tabletop
LARPing on the edge of nuclear apocalypse
An interview with the designers of Eyeball to Eyeball: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
actual play
Mechanics, murder, and more than a few non sequiturs
The third episode of Never Stop Blowing Up starts in the middle of an assassination attempt on Jack Manhattan. Oddly appropriate timing.
Lay it on the Table
Playing games during an attempted assassination
A story I will be telling until the end of time
actual play
But I don’t have any money: Actual Play and Porn
I’m so sorry, this never happens at my home game.
actual play
Crime Rings, Copaganda, and So Much Gender
Rascal Recaps: Never Stop Blowing Up Episode 2 - “And That’s Whirred Up”
community
Moonbeam’s revolution of the creator ecosystem begins in tabletop
In a Rascal exclusive, the creators behind the new streaming platform explain their vision for a better digital future
tabletop
Escaping the adolescent surveillance state
Part-TTRPG, part art-book, Night Fable is a surreal escape from the panopticon of modern childhood.
actual play
Never Stop Blowing Up is actual play’s medium-blending summer blockbuster
In a new series, Rowan recaps the first episode of Dimension 20's new season in all it’s meta-campy glory
tabletop
Magnolia: City of Marvels delves into the politics of artistic rebellion
Fantasy Punk is here to free us
Gen Con 2024
CRIT Awards pulls ceremony from Gen Con citing “safety concerns”
Many online blame the convention for folding to a right wing outrage campaign and forcing the event to end
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Lay it on the Table
In which I try, and fail, to be evil
Deathmatch Island is the Survivor meets Battle Royale TTRPG of my dreams
actual play
The Panic Table yearns for the space mines
If the kids from Stranger Things played Mothership, you’d end up with The Panic Table
community
Bitcherton, please
An interview with the cast of Bitcherton on crowdfunding their improvised Regency comedy podcast