features
Playtest Material is for the writers
The new critical outlet champions long form arguments on why games and gameplay are art.
Rascal Radio
Radio Hour: Two Many Vampires
Candela Obscura has one shooter, and they're on the mic.
news
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the AI board game startup
When a watchdog becomes a laundromat.
new games
Lumberjills is a joyful homage to the Women’s Timber Corps in WW2
Sawing, dancing, and loving without prejudice.
opinion
What does it mean to own part of a game?
Products Of Your Imagination™, owned by everyone.
podcast
Reading Club: Eberron
What does it mean to make a setting for D&D?
news
UK Games Expo bans AI-generated work via a new policy
Enforcement of its “absolute discretion” remains unclear at the UK’s largest tabletop show.
news
Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers
Somehow, World of Game Design returned.
features
T. Kingfisher’s Astarion is hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly tragic
The book perfectly captures Astarion’s voice, and refuses to talk down to the audience through trauma, pain, and the small light of hope.
features
An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module
iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.
news
Dice Exploder’s Sam Dunnewold is running out of things to say about RPGs
New hosts, Seraphina Garcia Ramirez and Em Acosta, will be taking over from next year.
new games
2 Good 2 Society: Storybrewers do a lot with small changes in the new edition of the beloved Austen-like
"If you make the games you want to play, then the people who you want to play those games will appear.”
Dungeons & Dragons
Ravenloft joins a growing list of yet unrealized tabletop screen adaptations
A (mostly) exhaustive list of things that aren’t real and probably will never be real.