culture
Why We Love Playing The Monster
An essay about carnival, Ken St. Andre, the Purge, and Apocalypse Keys
culture
Play as Learning: TTRPGs in the Classroom
A new style of class-based progression mechanics
culture
My First Miniature Painting Competition: A Stroke-by-Stroke Hobby Report
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metallic Green
tabletop
How the Cold War influenced RPGs
It turns out there was a reason people were making games about mutation.
Rascal Radio
Rascal crawls into your ears, screams about games
Resident anklebiters finally unlock aural journalism.
tabletop
Rascal Recommends: Halloween Horror Films and Games
Epicurean eeks.
culture
Rolling a Nat 20 will not save the American Project
Adventurers for Harris dodges technical disaster but not the moral pit of American politics
culture
I Didn't Think The Electric State Trailer Could Hurt Me
I was wrong.
culture
Dreams, TTRPGs, and Radical Imagination
When all of your time is focused on survival, it can feel impossible to imagine a brighter future.
culture
Where am I supposed to play my games?
Utopia isn't a destination, but it might be a dice-filled corner of my home.
community
Hurricane Helene’s Impact on Tabletop
Games do not exist outside of climate change
Lay it on the Table
It's games all the way down
Vectors of trust in Seven Part Pact and They Came To Play Ball
community
Ancient Tales of Faraway Lands
The old new girl on her journey to becoming a Rascal
culture
Woke Tacos Salted With the Tears of Would-Be Culture Warriors
Why the controversy over D&D artwork exposes a lack of humor and an ignorance of what actually goes on a TTRPG table.
community
BigBadBoycott organizers reach agreement with tabletop convention leadership
“Big Bad's leadership has acted and failed to act in ways that have been harmful to the community, especially to people of colour.”
culture
Corporate AI will save creatives for last
The LLM-powered call is coming from inside the house.