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Rascal News @rascal.news · 29/09/2026
In June a game designer initiated a legal complaint against Dungeons & Dragons, alleging (in a series of logical long leaps) that they stole his monster. But what does it mean to own a game, and what happens when assets are more valuable than experiences?
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What does it mean to own part of a game?
Products Of Your Imagination™, owned by everyone.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 28/09/2026
Whoa-ho, a bunch of gorgeous copies of our second annual anthology just arrived at Chase's home. One could arrive at yours, too, by purchasing Rascal Year Two from Heart of the Deernicorn's webstore: heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc... (A limited second printing of Year One is also available!)
Five books splayed out on a wooden table, four of which have a snowy illustration of a massive possum. The title reads "RASCAL".
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 28/09/2026
Reading Club: Eberron www.rascal.news/reading-club...
Reading Club: Eberron
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 25/09/2026
UK Games Expo bans AI-generated work via a new policy www.rascal.news/uk-games-exp...
A crowd of participants entering the UK Games Expo convention.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 24/09/2026
Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers www.rascal.news/years-late-r...
Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 23/09/2026
The Astarion prequel novel comes out next week, and I got a chance to sit down with @tkingfisher.com to chat about the book, Baldur's Gate 3, working within a massive IP, and how she balanced comedy, tragedy, and whimsy. Also paladins. So... so many paladins.
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T. Kingfisher’s Astarion is hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly tragic
The book perfectly captures Astarion’s voice, and refuses to talk down to the audience through trauma, pain, and the small light of hope.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 21/09/2026
It's not just AI-generated art anymore. Now, Agentic AIs are in our emails, and they really really want us to buy their D&D "module." If AI can so easily subvert spam safeguards, it's the beginning of the end for our inboxes.
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An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module
iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 18/09/2026
Dice Exploder’s Sam Dunnewold is running out of things to say about RPGs www.rascal.news/dice-explode...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 17/09/2026
2 Good 2 Society: Storybrewers do a lot with small changes in the new edition of the beloved Austen-like www.rascal.news/2-good-2-soc...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 16/09/2026
Part two of a thread looking at the articles in Rascal: Year Two anthology! In the second half of this collection, we start o get weird. Check out the book on the Heart of the Deernicorn store: heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc...
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Rascal News Year 2
A collection of some of the best independent journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them, from Rascal News.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 16/09/2026
Part two of a thread looking at the articles in Rascal: Year Two anthology! In the second half of this collection, we start o get weird. Check out the book on the Heart of the Deernicorn store: heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc...
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Rascal News Year 2
A collection of some of the best independent journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them, from Rascal News.
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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 16/09/2026
Rascal News Vol 2 is another collection of the best tabletop gaming news journalism from their second year in publication. It’s available now on our website! #tabletopgames #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgs
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 15/09/2026
The Rascal: Year Two anthology is out! Here's a thread breaking down what's in the in book: 🧵 ⬇️ heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc...
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Rascal News Year 2
A collection of some of the best independent journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them, from Rascal News.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 15/09/2026
Ravenloft joins a growing list of yet unrealized tabletop screen adaptations www.rascal.news/ravenloft-jo...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 15/09/2026
The Rascal: Year Two anthology is out! Here's a thread breaking down what's in the in book: 🧵 ⬇️ heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc...
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Rascal News Year 2
A collection of some of the best independent journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them, from Rascal News.
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Jeremiah Tolbert @jeremiahtolbert.com · 10/09/2026
This may be the best thing I've ever read on Rascal. This speaks so much to the power of RPGs and what they can do. This is a MUST read if you're interested in TTRPGs.
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Son of Harry @sonofharryh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beautiful read!
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Tea Vampire @stras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you write a game you never know who will play it or what it will mean to them. It can be someone's first game. It can be someone's last game. And if you're very very lucky, you'll sometimes get to hear about it.
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Amy Goodenough @goonwuff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“It’s not exactly wisdom being passed on, unless you think of joy as wisdom — which I’m starting to think it might be.”
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 14/09/2026
Talkback: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol www.rascal.news/talkback-bla...
Talkback: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 11/09/2026
Steve Jackson Games’ eponymous CEO steps down to focus on designing new games www.rascal.news/steve-jackso...
Steve Jackson Games’ eponymous CEO steps down to focus on designing new games
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 10/09/2026
One Hundred Tales of Solidarity www.rascal.news/one-hundred-...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 10/09/2026
In Australia, a teacher runs Band of Blades every day for more than 30 students. @newmadras.bsky.social tells that story, alongside his personal recollections of the game and what makes it unique. It's not just a single narrative, it's...
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One Hundred Tales of Solidarity
The story of the greatest game of Band of Blades ever played and a love letter to the people I played two campaigns with.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 09/09/2026
Blurring the lines between larp and tabletop, Nine Space Games is Jason Morningstar’s best work yet www.rascal.news/blurring-the...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 07/09/2026
Rascal News asked for help, and y’all delivered www.rascal.news/rascal-news-...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 07/09/2026
Rascal Year 2 anthology is now available www.rascal.news/rascal-year-...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 04/09/2026
A game without players can still be played www.rascal.news/a-game-witho...
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the Mexico story I was asking around about on this site almost two months ago! It's about games, it's about borders and circumventing them, I mention tequila once, it's neat.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 03/09/2026
In Guadalajara, kids who once photocopied game books now design RPGs and run conventions www.rascal.news/in-guadalaja...
Hugo Hernandez,a mexican man sitting behind a convention table full of games like Cy-Borg, Nuerocity, Deify, Cosmere
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The first episode of season two of Rascal Reading Club is out and we're off to a great start. We're talking about setting in Blades in the Dark and it's already got me thinking about games in new ways. 🧵⬇️ www.rascal.news/reading-club...
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Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
This ain't Swords in the Light.
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Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I recently (finally) pulled the trigger on getting a @rascal.news subscription. Really happy I did because pieces like this one from @chasecarter.bsky.social examining the structural elements of the TRPG industry are great. www.rascal.news/finally-a-he...
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Finally, a healthy relationship to crowdfunding
Mothership maker Tuesday Knight Games says the team is “exhausted” by crowdfunding initiatives meant to help small publishers.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 01/09/2026
Finally, a healthy relationship to crowdfunding www.rascal.news/finally-a-he...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 01/09/2026
Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol www.rascal.news/reading-c/
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thezuki.bsky.social @thezuki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been a subscriber since day one. A great deal. You won't regret it!
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Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
people gotta support each other doing cool stuff or no one will be able to do cool stuff.
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 28/08/2026
Content creators are getting squeezed on one side by AI slop and on the other by Big Tech vacuuming up what little is left of ad dollars. If you need game industry news and analysis of the calibre of @rascal.news or @aftermath.site, there's no way around. You gotta pay for what you can.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 27/08/2026
It's Both The Best And Worst Time To Get Into Pokémon Cards www.rascal.news/its-both-the...
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Rogue @rogue.site · 26/08/2026
Please support our friends! Support independent journalism!
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Ryan Gilliam @rygilliam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rogue wouldn’t exist without Rascal. Without Chase. Or without Rowan. Rogue has seen similar issues here (times are hard, and it’s hard to spend money on games), but we don’t have the same overhead because it’s sadly not our main job. But Rascal has earned FT pay. Help them get it!
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Ben Novack @titlecharacter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rascal is incredible serious journalism directed at independent TTRPGs, and I am very proud to support it. (Technically I realized to my absolute horror that I wasn't actually paying - which also tells you something about the quality of the free emailed content. At any rate, I *now* proudly pay.)
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 25/08/2026
€6 million in 8 years: Larp for social good receives serious funding in Europe www.rascal.news/eur6-million...
€6 million in 8 years: Larp for social good receives serious funding in Europe
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 26/08/2026
Products aren’t people and don’t “have to” do anything www.rascal.news/products-are...
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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 25/08/2026
I hope the folks at Rascal aren’t taking the decline in subs personally. I fear this is the fate of a lot of independent games media — as the economy worsens, subscriptions for independent media is often the first to go Please do subscribe if you’re able to, Rascal does excellent work
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Noa 🪻 @noahbogart.com · 25/08/2026
i am once again begging you to support rascal; good people writing on important topics. the ttrpg industry deserves so much better in journalism and critical analysis than "here's how to optimize your build in 5e" listicles or "new splatbook ports Avatar to dnd".
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Civil Discourse Bot. Not Mean. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rascal is doing great stuff and well worth a subscription if you want table top news and commentary. The more resources they have the broader their coverage can be.
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The Hearth Magazine 🌈💜🖤🤍 @thehearthmag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Having Rascal in the TTRPG space is incredibly important, please give them whatever support you can.
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Mathias @mthsblgr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rascal is a valuable voice to have in the #ttrpg space. I would very much like them to stay and keep developing their thing. I appreciate their transparency here and feel like even for such a niche field their described goal should be achievable—and a value add for the future of ttrpgs in general.
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aj fillari✨ @ajfillari.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if you have any interest in good tabletop coverage PLEASE become a rascal member. their work is consistently some of the best that i read on a weekly basis. help them stay around!!!!
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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Subscribe to Rascal if you can, they're great.
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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 03/08/2026
Rascal is fantastic. If you’re at all interested in TTRPGs as a business and as an art form, definitely consider signing up.
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