AI Can't Replicate My Terrible Sense of Humor You might think that a smaller cast would result in a leaner, meaner podcast, but as episode 34 of the Rascal Radio Hour demonstrates, the lack of a third wheel (complimentary) means that there's no-o...

The UK based Rascals team up to talk crowdfunding, AI, classic TCGs, and pretending to win the FA cup.

The Meow Wolf RPG takes the rule of cool to extremes Designer Tiger Wizard answers questions about TAVERS, the newest vibes-heavy, rules-light game from Exalted Funeral.

Tiger Wizard talk TAVERS, the official RPG of the Meow Wolf series of interactive art exhibits spreading across the USA.

Fatherfog’s creator loves scary fairy tales to bits Mothership studio swaps empty space for creeping mists.

Fatherfog creator Alan Gerding is serious about horrific fairy tales and assured us the new RPG's name is not just a riff on Mothership.

Free League expands third party license to include more games and more languages Freer League.

Free League's open game license now covers more of its original games and in multiple languages.

Making change matter in Under Hollow Hills When improvement and experience are of the table, how do immortal characters evolve?

Under Hollow Hills is deeply, almost singularly concerned with exploring how individual experiences have the power to change characters in irrefutable ways.

Trans tabletop game designers! Post your work in this thread and I'll share them! If you want to talk to me about your game, feel free to DM me or drop me an email (it's in my bio). Everyone else, please take a look and give the thread a share! #TDoV #TransDayofVisibility

Glatisant’s evocative tale for two players shows non-romantic love can cut just as deep Engage in a chivalric expedition against the Questing Beast.

Love is on the cards in Glatisant.

Esoteric Ebb’s tabletop roots travel deeper than the big ampersand The voices in a character’s head have fascinated designers for decades.

Scratch below the obvious D&D inspiration, and you'll find Esoteric Ebb owes a lot to tabletop RPGs where everyone controls a single character.

Omios Ures is a D&D artist’s weirder, post-heroic fantasy Conan after Conan.

"I don't know if pursuing newness for the sake of newness feels very sincere. I think it's more important to make something that's uniquely 'you' rather than 'new'."

An interview with Matheus Graef about the art and designer of his "Conan after Conan" RPG, Omios Ures.

Rascal Reading Club: Deathmatch Island The Most Impossible Fun Thing gets more possible.

New episode of our book club podcast now in your feeds!

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Forge bonds through pit stops and awkward road trip conversations in Runeway A comforting, nostalgic jaunt underpinned by an anti-fascist vision.

Road trips, runes, and reclamation - the designers of Runeway talk journeys of self-discovery and refusing to cede control of culture to fascists.

The exchange that inspired the post

Some coverage from Rascal for THE HOUSE EDGE! Featuring an interactive subtitle

Triangle Agency x FIST crossover The House Edge now available for playtesting Fist and edge are both in the headline, you can make your own joke.

Triangle Agency crowdfunding stretch goal The House Edge is here, and it has grown far beyond its initial conception as a crossover with FIST.

What we mean when we talk about crunch The history and role of crunch as a description for RPGs.

What exactly does crunch entail? What are some of the history or baggage tied to this term? And how do rules and mechanics define the rich, fictional worlds that their games are based on?

Asked and answered in the latest letter from a series we're now calling Gut Check!

Sword World may no longer be revolutionary, but Japan’s dominant fantasy RPG is still more than a historical curiosity Down the tabbit hole.

After thirty nine years, Sword World is getting an official English translation with a crowdfunding campaign due later this year.

Totally apolitical Ubisoft franchise (not that one, nor the other one; no, the other, other one) set to receive an RPG adaptation Arkhane Asylum’s Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division The Roleplaying Game

Online cover shooter franchise The Division is getting an RPG adaptation and that seems like a terrible idea.

Totally apolitical Ubisoft franchise (not that one, nor the other one; no, the other, other one) set to receive an RPG adaptation Arkhane Asylum’s Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division The Roleplaying Game

Online cover shooter franchise The Division is getting an RPG adaptation and that seems like a terrible idea.

Sword World may no longer be revolutionary, but Japan’s dominant fantasy RPG is still more than a historical curiosity Down the tabbit hole.

After thirty nine years, Sword World is getting an official English translation with a crowdfunding campaign due later this year.

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

Fighting for justice in the cyberpunk city of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword Where cyberpunk and wuxia collide.

“In those days, the only way I had to work out the disagreement was to make a game where we could disagree."

Emily Zhu (朱保敬) tells us about the cyberpunk wuxia of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword, and why genre alone fails to capture the RPG's belief that violence can be beautiful and liberatory.

Fighting for justice in the cyberpunk city of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword Where cyberpunk and wuxia collide.

“In those days, the only way I had to work out the disagreement was to make a game where we could disagree."

Emily Zhu (朱保敬) tells us about the cyberpunk wuxia of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword, and why genre alone fails to capture the RPG's belief that violence can be beautiful and liberatory.

Today marks the publication of the final installment of the #Over/Under diaries. All 28 entries, recalling 30 days of an intense 24/7 emergent play-by-post @mothership.bsky.social-inspired larp laid over a megagame, is available to read, for free, on Rascal.

Over/Under Diary: Day 30 I am still Dreaming

#over/under Day 30: Yesterday, Over/Under ended. Today we sign each other's yearbooks, open up AMAs, and many go to new play-by-post Discord games. All of us pull away, slowly, from the Dream. A bittersweet end to a game that became exactly what the players wanted it to be.

Over/Under Diary: Day 29 A comedy always ends with a wedding

#over/under Day 29: The Dream comes to an end... after nearly 30 days of scheming, backstabbing, assassinations, cover-ups, and selling more sycorax than we knew what to do with, the game is over. The Discord shuts down. The channels go dark. And it ends, like all comedies, with a wedding.

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

This is hands down one of our funniest episodes, and it's because Thomas and Caelyn relentlessly hound me for over the littlest things (complimentary).

I wrote a thing for Rascal about YZE games. Came out pretty good I think!

Attempted Aura Farming BJ Fans and NIPL Games.

Rascal Radio Hour brings back three members of the team to discuss licensed games, the Neopets RPG's seeming death, and ribald bits about a certain Nazi-killing Blazkowicz.

Over/Under Diary: Day 28 Successor

#over/under Day 28: Otso's scheming, prophesizing, and general meddling pays off: cybercowboy Big Dog Beefstink proposed to Solarian Church boss, Metropolitan Sampsa. The church begins one last big push for conversions as we near the end of the game, less than 24 hours away.