announcements
HOPE DIES LAST: ENNIE-winning Daggerheart Designer Wants you to Stick it to the Man
Forge tales of defiant heroes fighting overwhelming odds across genre-spanning campaign frames.
Latest Stories
news
Does winning the Diana Jones Emerging Designer award help you stand out at Gen Con? The winners say yes.
Come hall or high water, the business cards will go on.
announcements
Muted Swallow
A Eureka Actual Play series of narrative, intrigue, mystery, and possibly lesbianism.
announcements
Games for Scholarships is now LIVE!
There are 324 games for just $10!
Review
Down Among The Dead continues to suffer from Pirate Borg’s fundamental flaws
Culture without those who keep it alive.
podcast
Let's plan Rascal Reading Club season 2
Should we follow the natural path or roll the dice?
announcements
"Maiombe Tank Safari - A Solitaire Mech Hunting Game" Has Landed Onto Itch.io
Hunt and be hunted by feral combat drones in this solo journaling game inspired by the Wretched & Alone system.
announcements
Babylon, You are Everything.
The Heart is a Dungeon is back with their biggest story yet.
features
Queer games require queer structures
Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”
announcements
Dreadnauts Takes Mothership's Panic Engine to the High Seas
Dreadnauts: Maiden Voyage is a new ttrpg created by Plus One Experience and Hexplore RPG
announcements
Just released! Secret Communion: Final Movements
A two-player TTRPG of the forbidden love between a god and a mortal, from Far Horizons Cooperative.
announcements
Announcing Ghosts Beyond the Scar, a New Five-Act Campaign for Lancer
A mystery-driven campaign of piracy, corporate intrigue, and tactical mech combat set in a remote frontier system.
new games
Asher’s Ridge puts you in the writer’s room of the next big paranormal hit
Embrace your inner David Lynch.
news
Rowan, Rook and Decard workers unionize with IWGB Games Worker Union
Staff at the studio behind Heart, Spire, and Eat the Reich hope their decision spurs even more small-team unions.
Rascal Radio
State of the Rascal, podcast edition
What's in the dumpster?
features
D&D’s Gen Con keynote promises a great return from parts undefined
All gas, no rearview mirrors.