Public Articles
Tracing Citizen Sleeper’s circuitous vector from tabletop to hit video game
Broken bodies, broken dice.
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.
culture
Five years on, Solo But Not Alone keeps a torch lit in support of mental health resources
"Sometimes the best thing you can do is support people who need you directly.”
tabletop
Tossing out Aladdin: Egyptian writers breathe life into Cairo:Otherscape
Ra and Egyptomania are out. These writers want the gods of their rural grandparents.
culture
ENNIE Awards’ updated submission policy won’t accept AI projects… next year
The organization “will no longer accept any products containing generative AI or created with the assistance of Large Language Models or similar technologies.”
culture
Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”
Twitter/X links banned after platform owner Elon Musk’s threw two Nazi salutes
Lay it on the Table
Rascal Catches The Last Train To Hell (via Bremen)
Caro Asercion's game of doomed musicians delivers one hell of a shot
tabletop
Realis ditches traditional character sheets for prose poetry
How players in Austin Walker’s upcoming tabletop RPG arm themselves with Sentences.
tabletop
Austin Walker's Realis finds the magic in language
When I design a tabletop RPG, I always synthesize Berserk and sentence diagrams.
Public Articles
Close enough, welcome back Morrowind
The Electrum Archive simply has the juice, er… I mean ink.
Rascal Radio
Rascal buys land for its sixth news factory
And prints 20 billion business cards.
Public Articles
Update: Journalism should not roleplay as marketing
A hard talk about the role of the media, or at least tabletop media
Public Articles
We should all be mad about Dungeons & Dragons gambling machines
Online gambling doesn't need tabletop's help to further metastasize society.
tabletop
The Year Ahead: Chase Carter
Resident curmudgeon reflects, reads tea leaves
Rascal Radio
Rascal finally understands the reason for the season
Episode Five of the Rascal Radio Hour
Public Articles
Vallejo workers allege extensive factory neglect and “authoritarian” management amid ongoing strike
Unionized Acrylicos Vallejo staff claim management is moving gradually to the bargaining table.
tabletop
Play To Z’s board game bid proves Shut Up & Sit Down still wears the crown
Influence is king of the cardboard castle.