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Rascal Dot News: A Reader’s Guide
For new readers in the new year.
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Rascal's Community-Sourced Best of 2025
What some of our readers considered the best of a pretty rough year
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The Year Ahead 2025: Lin Codega
Games remain, as ever, good.
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The Year Ahead 2025: Chase Taylor-Carter
Resident curmudgeon shambles back into room screaming vindication.
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The Year Ahead: Thomas Manuel
Couldn't get worse at least, right? Right?
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The Year Ahead 2025: Caelyn Ellis
We catch up with Caelyn before she gets too lost in the nog.
Rascal Radio
Holiday Special 2025
Clearing out the Question Dungeon, Part I of ???
features
Austerity Killed Narrative Wargaming (And, Statistically, Your Nan)
How politics impacts play.
tabletop
My one-shot character trick is asking “why is this your fault?”
What’s in a blame?
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GAMA appoints new interim executive director, Zaria Davis, with a background in advocacy and restorative practice
The search for the next executive director goes on.
culture
Double teamed by Goth Mommy and TOOL at The Game Awards: A personal tragedy
WARLOCK isn’t just Wizards of the Coast’s newest video game project, it’s also my lesbian kryptonite.
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Draw Steel studio says Crack the Sun will be an epic campaign about a worldrending conquest
Five acts, two villains, and one gigantic campaign.
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Brotherwise Games’ Plotweaver RPG takes its first unaided steps
Leaving the Cosmere’s nest.
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Revolt! interrogates power but falters in conversation
Telling stories about violent regime change is cathartic and entertaining, and maybe that's all it needs to be.
Public Articles
The trials and tribulations of tabling at conventions
Colin Le Sueur discusses his post-mortems and why he writes them.
culture
Jason Carl announces his departure from Paradox Interactive after an eventful decade
This is in the midst of one of Paradox’s most tumultuous periods, and World of Darkness’ active revival.