reading club
Rascal Reading Club: Burning Wheel
Attack their beliefs.
Thomas Manuel
A journalist, playwright and game designer from India. He's the host of the Yes Indie'd podcast and the writer of the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter.
crossword
Rascal Crossword 4: Getting Generic
Werds, werds, werds.
podcast
Talkback: Draw Steel
A podcast is just a series of negotiations.
D&D
First Dungeon Crawler Carl, now D&D Beyond: the time of the Drop has come
The age of supplements is over.
features
Gradient Descent, Psi*Run, and what it means to be human in the age of AI
Looking for answers in all the wrong places.
podcast
Rascal Reading Club: Draw Steel
Who is a hero and who is the monster?
features
How Wizards of the Coast almost published a Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
And the story of who actually did.
crossword
Rascal Crossword 3: Cyberpunk!
The future happened.
features
Monte Cook on dungeon design, Gygaxian feedback, and shaping the $5 PDF
And why he didn't stay on the design team for D&D 5e.
Public Articles
Readers, we're experimenting with the paywall
More access for all.
new games
Evil Hat’s new game about kids fighting off aliens started as a one-pager
Em Hubbard talks about the journey of designing and pitching Rocket Club.
Rascal Radio
Talkback: Deathmatch Island
The people want player advice!
new games
If “frame a scene” sounds scary, try this one weird trick
Sorry, For The Queen, there’s a new beginner-friendly, card-based story game in town.
tabletop
Omios Ures is a D&D artist’s weirder, post-heroic fantasy
Conan after Conan.
reading club
Rascal Reading Club: Deathmatch Island
The Most Impossible Fun Thing gets more possible.
tabletop
An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D
Rascal talks to 3 players about the good stuff.