podcasts
Radio Hour: Documents and Daggers
The best defense is a good offensive backstab.
Chase Carter
A labor and culture journalist with over a decade of experience with daily news, investigative reporting and criticism. He has spent 3+ years covering tabletop at Dicebreaker with an eye towards workers' rights, business and independent artists.
news
Paizo lays off 12 employees in the fallout of Diamond Comics’ bankruptcy
The Pathfinder and Starfinder publisher seeks to rebuild book trade as union protections soften blow to staff.
Rascal Radio
Radio Hour: Entering a Horse Race on a Donkey, feat. Jenna Stoeber and Tomas Franzese
All the president's hype men.
unions
MTG Arena’s nascent union faces “optional” meetings, letters to homes, and management closing ranks
With a union vote looming, United Wizards of the Coast faces classic union busting from the tabletop industry’s largest company.
new games
Little Wolves takes top honors at the 2026 Indie Groundbreakers Awards
IGDN’s annual laurel-foisting celebrates tabletop RPGs from small but talented teams beyond the usual spotlight.
features
Bludgeon wants you to embrace roleplaying in your own, radical way
This RPG from an Indian team approaches classes, and divinity, beyond Western conventions.
D&D
First Dungeon Crawler Carl, now D&D Beyond: the time of the Drop has come
The age of supplements is over.
interview
Gamefound wants to throw another successful RPG Party after learning hard lessons
"If we can be a third pillar in the RPG space rather than another monolith, that just feels really healthy."
Rascal Radio
Radio Hour: Scouting Days
🎲Listen to Episode 36 in your podcast player of choice! In the latest episode of the Rascal Radio Hour, Chase and Caelyn are joined by Wargamer's resident haunt-lover, Mollie Russell, to discuss (among other games) Call of Cthulhu's campfire scouts-meets-cosmic horror RPG – Campfire
unions
United WotC workers prepare to defend Wizards of the Coast’s first ever union
“We're not being heard, we're not being taken seriously or treated with respect.”
unions
Magic: The Gathering Arena developers unionize, alleging forced AI use and return-to-office mandates
“We know the workers that make the game can and should be treated better.”
Public Articles
The Gang Offers a Discounted Subscription Bundle
Five other outlets, creators, and journalists are joining Rascal to build something bigger.
new games
Alien RPG starter set Hope’s Last Day might be too good of an introduction
When you fill up on chips, but the chips are slathering, murderous predators.
Rascal Radio
Countless Bridges
The heavy burden of being more popular than Timothee Chalamet.
features
From blog posts to mighty 1,200-page books: Stonetop's creators reflect on a decade-long journey
And how their belief in the power of community has only sharpened.
new games
MIIRU's leaden horror doesn't weigh down satisfying sequel
Deicide, part deux.