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Despite a tumultuous year, Monte Cook Games seems more stable than ever
Is Cypher’s crowdfunding success the cipher to crack their secret?
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.
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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: Thomas Manuel
Couldn't get worse at least, right? Right?
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My one-shot character trick is asking “why is this your fault?”
What’s in a blame?
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Hearts of Wulin is a parade of over-the-top feelings and action at the same time
I love a game where the best thing to do is also the worst.
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License to Kill: A Tale of Two Hellboys
In this column about licensed RPGs, let’s look at two adaptations of the Big Red guy.
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Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
Warning: can cause game design.
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The Other Satanic Panics
How RPGs become scapegoats for murders across the world.
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Carved in Stone is both a history book and an eye-catching RPG
Publisher Brian Tyrrell and archeologist Heather Christie paint a pretty Pict-ure.
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Solving secret puzzles at the Japanese mystery school
Alanna Yeo talks nazo, design cultures, and her unique ARG-style experience at Nazogaku.
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A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
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License to Kill, a new irregular column about RPG adaptations
It’s a whole new world™ out there.
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Tom Vasel wants indie designers to stop guilt tripping him
Directives from an ivory dice tower.
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier
The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.
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I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror