Rascal News

Jess Lanzillo is ready to invite monsters back to the table An interview with the new creative director of World of Darkness about returning to her first roleplay love.

World of Darkness' new Creative Director, Jess Lanzillo speaks to Rascal about returning to the shadows, gives a few insights into her time at Wizards of the Coast, and explains why games like Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Lost "were asking the right questions decades ago."

White Wolf denies using Generative AI in tabletop RPGs A recent spate of job postings fuelled concerns that the revamped tabletop publisher would pursue AI usage in new books.

A question regarding AI tools in several job postings is "standard and required" of parent company Paradox Interactive, according to Vampire: The Masquerade maker White Wolf.

The studio denied using LLM-powered tech in any tabletop RPG art or writing.

If you've picked up the zine and like the weird little guy on the back cover, please check out @goblinbuns.bsky.social's art! They've been doing art commission work for a good few years now, but it's the first time their work has appeared in print.

New!

Rascal: Year One (also available in #Booth449 at Gen Con)

Sentients

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The rascal Zine at the indie press revolution booth

If you are at Gen Con and weren't able to pick up a copy of the Rascal Zine, you can pick them up at the IPR booth!

an exploration of such an important topic given everything happening with Collective Shout, and also just unbelievably beautiful prose by @therisingtithes.bsky.social. incredibly worth a read!

The rascal Zine at the indie press revolution booth

If you are at Gen Con and weren't able to pick up a copy of the Rascal Zine, you can pick them up at the IPR booth!

Oh no I forgot to delete the wrong ones!!!!

use code DJNAY to subscribe to some award-losing journalism at a discount.

We lost twice... because the original post says "everyone's sleep" 😭

(Jokes aside, congratulations to Daybreak and Rosa Estes.)

(The discount code is real. We would like you to subscribe!)

The Results of the Diana Jones Award Are... Can’t wait to tell my mom that we’re now an [award-winning/award-losing] website!

Everyone's sleep but we've got to post the Diana Jones Award results!!! LUCKILY I planned for this and wrote one that works whether we win or lose... just need to load that up and boom there we go, phew, saved the day once again...

no problem!

To be clear: Kids on Bikes, Alice is Missing, and WoD are all distributed by Renegade, not produced by them.

Renegade Games secures tabletop game rights to Dungeon Crawler Carl, promising an RPG and board games Welcome to the Dungeon, we’ve got fun and games… and a talking cat.

LitRPG powerhouse Dungeon Crawler Carl to drop the "lit" in new multi-project deal with @renegadegamestudios.com

Saying nothing is free An object lesson in bad PR from Czech Games Edition.

Saying nothing is free.

Presently panicking between airports but ICYMI I wrote a thing

if nothing we touch is ever pure — touch everything

Fantastic article. Highly recommend people pay in to read it in full, as @therisingtithes.bsky.social has some really powerful reflections on how erotic games & fag art connect to race for them. I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while.

It’s *hard* to manufacture the conditions to embody your eros among comrades, with transgression & desire; & also so beautifully liberating. But the conditions that have permitted this model of ttrpg to flourish are threatened.

I really have to hand it to @therisingtithes.bsky.social for this essay

I love horny games but I'm also afraid of them What are we losing if we let people censor the perverted stuff?

Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social digs their fingers deep into complicated feelings around erotic games. Half personal introspection, half vociferous endorsement of art in peril.

I love horny games but I'm also afraid of them What are we losing if we let people censor the perverted stuff?

Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social digs their fingers deep into complicated feelings around erotic games. Half personal introspection, half vociferous endorsement of art in peril.

Saying nothing is free An object lesson in bad PR from Czech Games Edition.

Saying nothing is free.

Updated this article to include itch's July 28 addendum, which answers broad questions about content policies and (lack of) timelines. Also, the platform denies intentionally removing games from people's libraries.

An excerpt from an interview article at Rascal.news. It reads, "Frequently, I have the conversation where somebody says, well, a good actual play should do this, and I am the one who raises my hand and says, actually, that's not necessarily the case. We don't do that. [They say] a good actual play should really have sound design that puts the viewer in the scene, and that's an important detail to bringing actual play to life. And it's like, well, no, we really consciously don't do sound design because the silence is a third player at the table; we want that silence to be at play. "

There's a paragraph from an interview at @rascal.news that surprised me. It reminded me of a show I saw in college, and also how ideas repeat themselves, regardless of industry, or the medium of art, maybe.

That performance was the first time I ever cried in the audience of a theater.

EXCLUSIVE: Fight for your name on the Streets of Jade James Mendez Hodes and Fonda Lee discuss the nuances of adapting the bestselling Green Bone Saga for a tabletop RPG.

Exclusive! Rascal @lincodega.com was thrilled to be the first to sit down with game designer @lulavampiro.bsky.social and author @fondalee.bsky.social to talk about the upcoming tabletop RPG, Streets of Jade, based on Lee's bestselling Green Bone Saga.

oh yeah, i got to interview two really extremely cool and smart people about a ttrpg based on the Green Bone Saga.... maybe you've heard of it?

The TTRPG will be published by @evilhat.bsky.social and they have a form available for anyone who wants to playtest the game. Streets of Jade will be crowdfunded at a later date.

The two co-authors discussed why they chose to use the Paragon system, what jade privilege means in Janloon, and how to create an expansive pan-Asian cultural world in a way that encourages everyone to focus on their characters.

EXCLUSIVE: Fight for your name on the Streets of Jade James Mendez Hodes and Fonda Lee discuss the nuances of adapting the bestselling Green Bone Saga for a tabletop RPG.

Exclusive! Rascal @lincodega.com was thrilled to be the first to sit down with game designer @lulavampiro.bsky.social and author @fondalee.bsky.social to talk about the upcoming tabletop RPG, Streets of Jade, based on Lee's bestselling Green Bone Saga.