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One of the things that we tried this year was crosswords! It came from the general idea that Rascal should be a more playful space... also well, Defector does it — but the main reason is that we thought it would be cool to actually be able to play on the site! www.rascal.news/rascal-cross...
Rascal Crossword 1: Retro Reviews
We heard you liked games.
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I learned about the existence of "Australian Freeform" from a talk at this year's @analoggamestudies.bsky.social conference and I immediately sent off an email to Benjamin to learn more, especially seeing that @garthnix.bsky.social made a surprise appearance in the story.
Rascal News@rascal.news · yesterdayBefore larp arrived, Australians had their own brand of freeform roleplaying www.rascal.news/before-larp-...
Before larp arrived, Australians had their own brand of freeform roleplaying www.rascal.news/before-larp-...
Adding some context to this: Rascal's membership peaked in January this year at around 2500 subscribers. This was due to our 1$ sale in December where around 300 people signed up. But ever since then, it's been a steady decline... (1/x) bsky.app/profile/rasc...
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State of the Rascal: August 2026 https://www.rascal.news/state-of-the-rascal-august-2026/
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Crawling down real mine shafts, riding real helicopters over real deserts, and jumping off real roofs into slightly less-real magical portals.... Read the beautiful story of how a group of high school students in Colorado invented their own special kind of game: www.rascal.news/larping-cthu...
Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun
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🌞☕📰 Spent my morning on the deck reading @aftermath.site @mothership.blog @darkertimes.bsky.social @jank.cool @rascal.news and listening to @plante.bsky.social's Post Games Support independent worker-owned journalism doing things you love and want to see more of in the world ❤️🔥
From Gen Con, the @ennie-awards.bsky.social have finished up their awards ceremony. Big names made out big, quite a few indies got nods from the public, and horror continued to trend in popularity.
Daggerheart and Crooked Moon won big at the 2026 ENNIE Awards
Alongside Legends in the Mist and Dolmenwood, four games took home 20 out of 48 awards.
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@rascal.news mention! Just feeling a little hype-y. Also yes! @wargamer.com ‘s team is here live and they are doing fantastic work. I know @danarndtwrites.bsky.social and @ragepandapajamas.bsky.social are also doing some interviews here as well.
Adobe InDesign’s generative AI feature is a sneaky, unhelpful mess, says tabletop designers www.rascal.news/adobe-indesi...
Adobe InDesign has a new, unpopular feature that AI generates alt-text in your PDFs - and this has already impacted several RPG designers. For @rascal.news: www.rascal.news/adobe-indesi...
Adobe InDesign’s generative AI feature is a sneaky, unhelpful mess, says tabletop designers
“I won't ever trust Adobe to roll out new features without defaulting them to enabled.”
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John Hight’s departure from Wizards of the Coast further dismantles digital dreams www.rascal.news/john-hights-...
John Hight’s departure from Wizards of the Coast further dismantles digital dreams www.rascal.news/john-hights-...
John Hight’s departure from Wizards of the Coast further dismantles digital dreams www.rascal.news/john-hights-...
Playing a fifteen year old boy named Godammit made my twenty-session campaign of Apocalypse World smaller, angrier, fiercer, and forced me to be more honest about the place of violence in our game. At the end of the campaign, Godammit looked at a weapon and called it brother.
The only real boy in Apocalypse World
Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.
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Listening to this great interview with @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social and @rascal.news - about the engrossing dolo game Spine and much more. Find it below!
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w agoInterview: Agency, frustration, and secrets in Asa Donald's SPINE www.rascal.news/interview-ag...
RPG Trader’s digital storefront wants to be the creator-friendly, RPG-focused alternative www.rascal.news/rpg-traders-...
Creators of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast are betting on audio guides to set their new horror RPG apart www.rascal.news/creators-of-...
From podcast to convention: the team behind Between Two Cons talks challenges and success after inaugural event www.rascal.news/from-podcast...
"It’s easy to see roleplaying as a niche activity ... But including it in an archive alongside performing arts, festivals, and traditional food — not to mention ... — reveals how much there is no silo, but instead a spectrum of deeply human activity." #rpg #ttrpg #larp #culture
Rascal News@rascal.news · 3w agoFinland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving www.rascal.news/finland-reco...
Two cool things about this story: 1. Allowed us to learn about other sick Finnish traditions, including transplanted immigrant culture; 2. Divorcing RPG and roleplay from their commerical defintions blows wide open the possibility space for all these other forms they can take.
Rascal News@rascal.news · 3w agoFinland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving www.rascal.news/finland-reco...
Finland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving www.rascal.news/finland-reco...
