Rascal News

Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

The folks at @rascalnews.bsky.social do amazing work and are currently running a peldge drive. Go help out if you can. www.rascal.news/rascal-pledg...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

Solo RPG No-Tell Motel (from @kenlowery.bsky.social) has a killer murder mystery mechanic, but the real attraction is all that juicy, juicy goss.
www.rascal.news/come-for-no-...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

On Monday June 24, the CRIT Awards cancelled their ceremony at Gen Con due to "safety concerns" amid online harassment from Zionists. So far, neither Gen Con nor the CRIT Awards have offered definitive answers.
www.rascal.news/crit-awards-...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

Consider supporting Rascal today! We'll be slinging weird, horny, unhinged blogs alongside deeply reported journalism all month, and, with your help, for a very long time.
www.rascal.news/#/portal

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

We will end the drive on Aug 3 at our Gen Con panel, Meet the Rascals. We’ll go over where we succeeded, where we failed, and what we’re doing next. We might also have some exclusive Rascal goodies.

gencon.com/events/262337

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

To show folks what they’ll get if we get enough subscribers, we will commission work from TEN freelancers. We also have a calendar of events which will be updated throughout July. AND! At least once a week we’ll be streaming on Twitch!
www.twitch.tv/rascalnews

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

Rascal doesn’t sell ads, data, or accept sponsorships. We are completely and totally reader-funded. We currently have about 1050 paying subscribers. We want to get about 500 new subscribers in July to support our little site through a full calendar year.

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

Rascal's growing... but we need your help. Our July pledge drive will feature new voices, streams, and even a podcast pilot. Subscribe to Rascal News and support independent, alternative, roguelike journalism in the TTRPG industry.
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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

Absolved of baseless AI allegations, D&D 2024's art direction is still guilty of being boring.
www.rascal.news/dungeons-dra...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:08 UTC

Cancer Season is for crybabies, bleeders, and moon lovers. Find all of these and more in this month's game horoscope from Rascal's resident skeptic, @lincodega.bsky.social

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

In this weeks Lay It On The Table, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social lives her Survivor Villain fantasy in Deathmatch Island - and thinks about what it means to play an "evil" character along the way

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

Vignette-driven RPG Last Train to Bremen (by Caro Asercion) pits four doomed musicians against the Devil. But first they'll need to survive each other.
www.rascal.news/in-last-trai...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

Publisher Evil Genius Games' promise not to develop any NFT or blockchain technology for its tabletop RPG company lasted about four months.
www.rascal.news/rpg-publishe...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 22:29 UTC

New to the AP game, @panictable.bsky.social takes the best parts of high-production actual play and character-focused filmmaking to create a Mothership AP about flawed teens trying to survive a catastrophic mine failure

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

Kids in Capes, the latest tabletop RPG from Hunters Entertainment, trades bikes and brooms for preteen-sized masks. Designer Austin Taylor tells us how the biggest and most ambitious game yet will set itself apart.
www.rascal.news/kids-in-cape...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

On June 6, @TabletopWU held their first public negotiations with the Hex & Co lawyer Andrew Hoffman who previously told them to "go to hell" Their next in person meeting won't be for three months, since Hoffman will be at his summer vacation home

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 00:53 UTC

Never Stop Blowing Up is a hack of Kids on Bikes, which was inspired by Savage Worlds, which took design notes on character creation from Universalis, which modified an ante system from Baron Munchausen... A blog about design lineage and Dimension 20 www.rascal.news/dimension-20...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

It high up on our list of things to implement, for sure! Always happy to copy other worker-owned outfit's homework lol

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

Wonders of the First's AI art is only the tip of the iceberg. $1.25 million in funding, a Kickstarter cancellation, and likely brigading bans, all in the name of creating the collector’s perfect card game. Or so one Web3 evangelist says.
www.rascal.news/wonders-of-t...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

With 30 minute episodes and an all-femme cast led by
@thatbronzegirl.bsky.social, Magic & Stuff by Buzzfeed Animation Lab is an animated on-ramp to TTRPGs.

Rascal sits down with the show's producers to talk about how this Saturday Morning Cartoon AP came to be.

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

EXCLUSIVE: A sneak peak onto
@transplanarrpg.bsky.social's first in-studio actual play Godkiller: Last Hope

Rascal sits down with
@byconniechang.bsky.social and
@seaplaysrpg.bsky.social to talk divinity, agency, redemption, and of course, killing gods

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

The physical release of Possum Creek Game's Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast prompts the question: when is a tabletop RPG really, truly out? @jdragsky.bsky.social helps us find an answer.
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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 00:21 UTC

Tabletop journalism struggles against the same tide of layoffs, consolidation and corporate greed facing all digital media, but we have much less ground to cede.
www.rascal.news/tabletop-jou...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 22:01 UTC

Our announcement section is submitted by the public and double-checked by Rascal before it publishes, but it's separate from editorial. Think of it like the classifieds in a newspaper. We only posted this one since Dropout provided us with an extra comment. - Chase

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 17:35 UTC

In a comment to Rascal, a spokesperson confirmed that the new season of Dimension 20 will be played with Never Stop Blowing Up—a homebrewed system heavily inspired by Hunters Entertainment's Kids on Bikes.

Watch the new trailer on Rascal.
www.rascal.news/dropout-rele...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 00:34 UTC

TV Audiences love Encounter Party, and now they're pushing for an Emmy nomination

Rascal spoke to
@neddonovan.bsky.social and Brian David Judkins about how they made their vision for a prestige television actual play a reality

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 21:00 UTC

The designers behind @mothership.bsky.social didn't plan on spending three years producing the sci-fi horror RPG's boxed set, but COVID, toddlers and the stress of financial success had other ideas.
www.rascal.news/launching-th...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

If you're a TTRPG or Actual Play creator, take the survey here:

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

With more people than ever trying to make a career in TTRPGs and actual play, @friede.bsky.social's new study wants to find out how many jobs the industry is actually supporting—and what it means for the "tabletop community" moving forward

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Dungeons & Dragons' cover for the 2024 DM's Guide trades high fantasy vibes for everyone's favorite character: Glup Shitto
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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

The IWGB now officially accepts independent tabletop workers, and its inaugural members have big dreams for a collective future.
www.rascal.news/independent-...

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

I Didn’t Think About Tabletop Games For 11 Days, And So Should You
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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

Godkiller: Oblivian is BlackwaterDND's intimate audio AP about confronting your destiny at the end of the world. Rascal talks with Christian Navarro, Jannes Wessels, and Em Carlson tabletop games

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

The Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG attempts to blend MMO tactics with a gentler Fifth Edition ruleset, resulting in a messy amalgam that won't satisfy FF14 fans or roleplayers.

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio is @bananachangames.bsky.social's exploration into the horrors of microcelebrity.

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

Eldritch Automata looks at the mecha power fantasy and says "not today, satan." Check out this interview with lead designer, Nick Francia on horror, hope, and what it means to be subsumed by duty.

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

The new @ttgda.bsky.social offers a library of educational resources and legal guidance for board game, TCG, and TTRPG designers.

Rascal interviewed co-founder @senfoonglim.bsky.social about why an association like this is needed in the rapidly growing tabletop industry

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Rascal News @rascalnews.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

In this weeks Lay It On The Table, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social explores the impermanence of identity and post-apocalyptic vampire gunslingers in Bloodbeam Badlands

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