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In mid-September, Lap-Sun Chan wrote to the courts to drop the lawsuit he brought to Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons & Dragons, concluding a three-and-a-half month legal scuffle between a relatively unknown game designer from Flushing, New York and the multi-million dollar tabletop game publisher. In June,  Chan originally filed a complaint against Wizards, accusing them of stealing an idea from a piece of his  game design published in 2016, which he had also turned into a short film in 2022.

This is a community submitted press release. Our Announcements section is free to post to and free to submit too, please help us keep this valuable industry resource available by subscribing to Rascal. The War of the Spear ravaged the people of the Meridian. The Treaty of Hokaia gave them three centuries of peace. Now the gods—and the forbidden magic—threaten destroy all they built. The Celestial Tower is fallen; the Watchers dead or scattered; the Sun Priest no more.

Listen to the latest episode in your podcast player of choice! Welcome back to the Rascal Reading Club! We return with a walk through memory lane by revisiting Eberron, the D&D setting by Keith Baker that was introduced in 2004. We talk about how it changes alignment, the general "encyclopedia" style of setting, and how orientalism is also a format.

This is a community submitted press release. Our Announcements section is free to post to and free to submit too, please help us keep this valuable industry resource available by subscribing to Rascal. If you're into board and video games, or novels, you'll eventually stumble over Francesca's incredible maps, now collected in a book published by Editions Caurette and designed by Spiridon.

As part of its new AI policy published on September 24, UK Games Expo (UKGE) has announced that any products created “completely or in significant part” with AI tools will be prohibited at the annual tabletop convention. This includes any images or written text used across all forms of tabletop games, books, and merchandise.

On September 21 2026, the Kickstarter project for a three-book adventure compilation called To Insanity and Beyond posted an update that dismayed and angered backers. An unnamed member of Bite-Sized Gaming explained that adventures would no longer carry the Mothership RPG third-party license or engine compatibility, nor its previous art direction — basically, everything would change but the name.

announcements — 3 min read Questiny the Board Game This is a community submitted press release. Our Announcements section is free to post to and free to submit too, please help us keep this valuable industry resource available by subscribing to Rascal. Professional magician, Leon Simmonds, takes 5 years to develop a love letter to 80s & 90s tabletop RPGs. Questiny is a cooperative dungeon crawler for one to found players.

This is a community submitted press release. Our Announcements section is free to post to and free to submit too, please help us keep this valuable industry resource available by subscribing to Rascal. Celebrating the 5 year anniversary of its release, NOVA is back and better than ever with NOVA 2. It's time to go NOVA! NOVA is a action-packed scifi TTRPG. Set in a world where the sun exploded, you pilot badass mechs, diving out into the dangerous Dusk to fight off the many threats that lay in wait.

I remember when I fell in love with Astarion. It was in Act One of Baldur’s Gate 3, and we were just about to cross a bridge from the village into another part of the woods where the Goblin Camp is located, and we came across an exsanguinated boar. Two puncture holes in its neck, no sign of a struggle, and when I push Astarion for more information he mentions that it’s clearly the work of a vampire and he didn’t want to worry me — he’ll keep watch tonight.

On September 11, a game designer by the name of Valdris sent Rascal an email asking for access to our announcement section so that they could advertise their five-page, one-shot adventure. In their own words, they wanted to announce “The Wrong Song - a complete, ready-to-run D&D one-shot for 3-5 players, levels 1-3.