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In one of the more surreal Lay It On The Tables, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social describes her experience at the Rom Com Drama Bomb launch party...during the attempted assassination of a former president.

Playing games during an attempted assassinationwww.rascal.news A story I will be telling until the end of time

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For this month’s Brush Wielders Union podcast I spoke with @lincodega.bsky.social @rowanzeoli.bsky.social and @chasecarter.bsky.social the founding journalists of @rascalnews.bsky.social!

BWU Podcast Episode 64: An interview with the founding staff of Rascal News! | Brush Wielders Unionwww.patreon.com Get more from Brush Wielders Union on Patreon

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I don't push these teaser promos out but I'm really proud of this episode in which I spoke with the staff of @rascalnews.bsky.social about the importance of journalism in tabletop gaming. The whole episode will be free on Monday but here's a taste in the meantime for non-Union members!

BWU Podcast Episode 64: An interview with the founding staff of Rascal News! | Brush Wielders Unionwww.patreon.com Get more from Brush Wielders Union on Patreon

Actual play, porn, games, sex—it's all basically the same thing. Except, you know, when it's not. Rascal takes a long... hard... look at the latest TTRPG discourse.

But I don’t have any money: Actual Play and Pornwww.rascal.news I’m so sorry, this never happens at my home game.

If you want to know how the pledge drive is going, join @lincodega.bsky.social, @chasecarter.bsky.social, and @rowanzeoli.bsky.social for a rascally Q&A at www.twitch.tv/rascalnews Happening RIGHT NOW!!!

rascalnews - Twitchwww.twitch.tv Lin Codega, Rowan Zeoli, and Chase Carter are building a cooperative, reader-funded tabletop RPG website. Subscribe here: https://www.rascal.news/

Rascal is launching its first pledge drive! We are a worker-owned, reader-supported outlet; we don't sell ads, data, or information. We just write about games. Here are some ways to support the drive and keep three bardpunk dirtbag journos writing about TTRPGs: www.rascal.news/rascal-pledg...

Playing as The Dark Urge strips bare the delusions of noble bloodshed in Baldur's Gate 3. If the Durge's full-throated desire to see viscera and gore turns your stomach, why are you really here? Isn’t violence the point? www.rascal.news/the-dark-urg...

I Interviewed Halsin’s Voice Actor, And I Wish I Had The Courage To Be Unhinged www.rascal.news/i-interviewe...

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Waiting room of medical office. Would be so bored but I got a sub to @rascalnews.bsky.social so I'll be entertained for awhile. Hey, did you know they're doin a pledge drive? Go support them and get access to awesome articles! www.rascal.news/rascal-pledg...

Rascal's got big plans, but we need your helpwww.rascal.news Support Rascal during our first pledge drive as we aim for sustainability and a steady freelance budget.

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The folks at @rascalnews.bsky.social do amazing work and are currently running a peldge drive. Go help out if you can. www.rascal.news/rascal-pledg...

Rascal's got big plans, but we need your helpwww.rascal.news Support Rascal during our first pledge drive as we aim for sustainability and a steady freelance budget.

Solo RPG No-Tell Motel (from @kenlowery.bsky.social) has a killer murder mystery mechanic, but the real attraction is all that juicy, juicy goss. www.rascal.news/come-for-no-...

On Monday June 24, the CRIT Awards cancelled their ceremony at Gen Con due to "safety concerns" amid online harassment from Zionists. So far, neither Gen Con nor the CRIT Awards have offered definitive answers. www.rascal.news/crit-awards-...

Rascal's growing... but we need your help. Our July pledge drive will feature new voices, streams, and even a podcast pilot. Subscribe to Rascal News and support independent, alternative, roguelike journalism in the TTRPG industry. www.rascal.news/rascal-pledg...

Absolved of baseless AI allegations, D&D 2024's art direction is still guilty of being boring. www.rascal.news/dungeons-dra...

Cancer Season is for crybabies, bleeders, and moon lovers. Find all of these and more in this month's game horoscope from Rascal's resident skeptic, @lincodega.bsky.social

Oh you're a Cancer? How's that bleed treating you?www.rascal.news Honestly if you're not crying because of the sheer overwhelming love you have for your character, you're not doing game right.

In this weeks Lay It On The Table, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social lives her Survivor Villain fantasy in Deathmatch Island - and thinks about what it means to play an "evil" character along the way

In which I try, and fail, to be evilwww.rascal.news Deathmatch Island is the Survivor meets Battle Royale TTRPG of my dreams

Vignette-driven RPG Last Train to Bremen (by Caro Asercion) pits four doomed musicians against the Devil. But first they'll need to survive each other. www.rascal.news/in-last-trai...

Publisher Evil Genius Games' promise not to develop any NFT or blockchain technology for its tabletop RPG company lasted about four months. www.rascal.news/rpg-publishe...

New to the AP game, @panictable.bsky.social takes the best parts of high-production actual play and character-focused filmmaking to create a Mothership AP about flawed teens trying to survive a catastrophic mine failure

The Panic Table yearns for the space mineswww.rascal.news If the kids from Stranger Things played Mothership, you’d end up with The Panic Table

Kids in Capes, the latest tabletop RPG from Hunters Entertainment, trades bikes and brooms for preteen-sized masks. Designer Austin Taylor tells us how the biggest and most ambitious game yet will set itself apart. www.rascal.news/kids-in-cape...

On June 6, @TabletopWU held their first public negotiations with the Hex & Co lawyer Andrew Hoffman who previously told them to "go to hell" Their next in person meeting won't be for three months, since Hoffman will be at his summer vacation home

Tabletop Workers United negotiations stalled by lawyer’s belligerence and subsequent vacationwww.rascal.news Hex & Co’s desire to speed up the bargaining process has been stymied by ownership’s obstinate and outright hostile legal counsel

Never Stop Blowing Up is a hack of Kids on Bikes, which was inspired by Savage Worlds, which took design notes on character creation from Universalis, which modified an ante system from Baron Munchausen... A blog about design lineage and Dimension 20 www.rascal.news/dimension-20...

Dimension 20 knows that iteration is how the hobby—and the industry—evolves.www.rascal.news Kids on Bikes isn’t built to support Actual Play; but a hack of it could be fit to purpose.

Wonders of the First's AI art is only the tip of the iceberg. $1.25 million in funding, a Kickstarter cancellation, and likely brigading bans, all in the name of creating the collector’s perfect card game. Or so one Web3 evangelist says. www.rascal.news/wonders-of-t...

With 30 minute episodes and an all-femme cast led by @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social, Magic & Stuff by Buzzfeed Animation Lab is an animated on-ramp to TTRPGs. Rascal sits down with the show's producers to talk about how this Saturday Morning Cartoon AP came to be.

Buzzfeed’s first actual play blends D&D with Saturday Morning Cartoonswww.rascal.news Magic & Stuff is an all-queer, all-femme animated twist on a classic AP format

EXCLUSIVE: A sneak peak onto @transplanarrpg.bsky.social's first in-studio actual play Godkiller: Last Hope Rascal sits down with @byconniechang.bsky.social and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social to talk divinity, agency, redemption, and of course, killing gods

Godkiller: Last Hope is the beginning of a new cycle for Transplanart.co Connie Chang and Sea Thomas’ first in-studio foray is a divine cinematic experience

The physical release of Possum Creek Game's Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast prompts the question: when is a tabletop RPG really, truly out? @jdragsky.bsky.social helps us find an answer. www.rascal.news/despite-rele...

Tabletop journalism struggles against the same tide of layoffs, consolidation and corporate greed facing all digital media, but we have much less ground to cede. www.rascal.news/tabletop-jou...

In a comment to Rascal, a spokesperson confirmed that the new season of Dimension 20 will be played with Never Stop Blowing Up—a homebrewed system heavily inspired by Hunters Entertainment's Kids on Bikes. Watch the new trailer on Rascal. www.rascal.news/dropout-rele...

Dropout releases official trailer for Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Upwww.rascal.news The ten-episode season will be led by Game Master and Dimension 20 creator, Brennan Lee Mulligan.

TV Audiences love Encounter Party, and now they're pushing for an Emmy nomination Rascal spoke to @neddonovan.bsky.social and Brian David Judkins about how they made their vision for a prestige television actual play a reality

How Encounter Party won over TV audienceswww.rascal.news Brian David Judkins and Ned Donovan set their sights on getting an Emmy for Actual Play

The designers behind @mothership.bsky.social didn't plan on spending three years producing the sci-fi horror RPG's boxed set, but COVID, toddlers and the stress of financial success had other ideas. www.rascal.news/launching-th...