Chase Carter

Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 22:06 UTC

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

Individually, the promotional artwork for D&D 2024 is fine. Even great! Together, it paints the the safest, designed-by-committee version of the industry's reigning game. Where the hell is D&D's visual identity?

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

Self-accountability post: I'm overwhelmed and taking off early. Had a blog in the works, but it can wait. There are emails to answer, but they can also wait. Come monday, I'll be restructuring some of the ways I work so that I'm both more reliable and healthier. See ya, nerds.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 01:05 UTC

I love a tabletop RPG with a bounded experience and a clear vision of the story it wants to facilitate. Last Train to Bremen is a whopper of an American folktale about outrunning the Devil and your own sins.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

Ken I get the impression you're not imagining his scenario hard enough.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 00:12 UTC

Surprising nobody, bright-eyed Web3 proponent Dave Scott personally undermined Evil Genius Game's promise not to get involved with blockchain or NFTs.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

In absolute shambles

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

Just say you want the popularity shine, and especially don't cast D&D's economic and cultural dominance as "shared language". It is okay to simply want money, y'all.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

I'm skeptical how much can change when the company refuses to move beyond 2014's glory years. We will probably get "better D&D", whatever that looks like. But it ain't catching up with the rest of tabletop. That's an issue of inertia (both corporate and creative).

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

D&D is smartly attempting to heave its colossal game into the wake of plenty other smaller RPGs with much smarter design.

And yet, they are unwilling to relax the anxious, white-knuckle grip on the last ten years of products.
www.polygon.com/24180523/dnd...

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

Email press@rascal.news for info about submitting an announcement to the site, at the very least! but also send us a press kit!

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

I was not prepared for Austin's dropping Recess as a superhero inspiration, but their argument won me over. Check out the rest of our talk about Kids in Capes and what's changed in the latest mixture of dice and precocious youngsters.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

Free thinkers when the public is made audience to their aggressive, petty insults: "Oh, no! This is a chilling effect on my speech!"

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

Oh that'd be rad! This is a Rascal project, so obviously if we can throw some money at the community then I'd rather do that. Appreciate the recommendation! I'm pretty sure I have Tony's email, so I'll ping y'all there.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:47 UTC

haha fair! I want to print enough small zines (10 pages, max) to distribute while walking the Gen Con floor each day (maybe leave some at a table). This is likely a call for publishers who have the ability and capacity for that kind of job. Or would it be more feasible to search out self-pubbing?

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

Nah, this is purely a promotional and fun thing for @rascalnews.bsky.social while at Gen Con. We won't have a table or anything.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

Zine folks: I'm speccing a project to print a number of physical zines to hand out at Gen Con. This is my first time: who should I talk to and what do I need to know going into it?

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:17 UTC

Weird is the right word, for sure. If he was a garden variety 20th century misogynist, I think the showrunners could have simply excised all of it. I cannot tell you it's worth sticking it out. But it's sure interesting to watch them try to balance the scales.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

oh gosh haha buckle up for gender politics. It's made more interesting by the show's attempt to wrestle with Robert Jordan's....political particularities re: gender.

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Chase Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

My guiding principle as a tabletop journalist is that nobody should be forced to read BoardGameGeek forums for news. Dicebreaker was, IMO, one of the best options for four years. We were building something great. Ziff Davis thought otherwise.

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