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The Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Arches National Park; these are some of the most iconic American landmarks—places I would love to visit when the country’s administration becomes less hostile to travellers and minorities. But for now, I can dive into Bump In The Dark, a tabletop RPG set in the distinctly Americana region of Iron Country. “[Iron Country] was the setting for an ongoing Monster of the Week campaign I was running,” said designer Jex Thomas in an email to Rascal.

If you’re even slightly tuned in to the Games Workshop grapevine or you’ve walked into your FLGS in the past few days, you’re probably aware that the eleventh edition of Warhammer 40,000 has just been released in the form of the traditional Big Box**, titled Armageddon. You may also have noticed that Rascal has featured absolutely no coverage of it whatsoever. In fact, I’ve not written anything about Warhammer since November, and I’ve written about Dungeons & Dragons four times since then.

After just about three months since one team of workers at Wizards of the Coast officially announced their intent to unionize, the United Wizards of the Coast — CWA union has been officially elected following a two-week voting period. This follows a year-long organization effort within WotC before the announcement.

announcements — 2 min read 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. Find out what’s happening in our vibrant, positive community of creators, and bask in our weird accents and our references to things like jandals, always blowing on the pie, and how our dentist was an elf in the Lord of the Rings movies.

announcements — 3 min read 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 game begins with you and your friends nearly dying. The spotlight falls on the rusty van that almost drove you off the road. It swerves back and forth between both lanes as it leaves you there frozen on the empty highway.

news — 2 min read Source: Exalted Funeral At GAMA’s recently concluded Origins Trade Fair, the seminal Apocalypse World by Vincent and Meguey Baker was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design’s Hall of Fame. This is a rare accolade for a roleplaying game, as most of the previous inductees are board games. Apocalypse World will only be the eighth RPG to be included, joining Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, GURPS, Champions, Amber Diceless, and Cyberpunk.

💡 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. Golem Productions has announced the full release of Ravaged by Storms, the first campaign book designed for PIRATE BORG.

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. Five years ago, Cyberrats launched on Kickstarter. Inspired by XCOM, it promised a 12-session campaign of an alien invasion that players were meant to lose.

Listen to the latest episode in your podcast player of choice! This week, in the last episode of our first season, we're discussing recently released fantasy game, Stonetop. We're discussing how it works as a kind of textbook for running games and using it to to launch into big questions about the variosu ways games support GMs. After the very brief introduction to the game, brief for a big game like this, the first section that you get in Stonetop directly is called Getting Started.

When I first wrote about Under Hollow Hills (the tabletop roleplaying game by Vincent and Meguey Baker about a fairy circus that travels between the fairy and human worlds), I mentioned that I was struggling to give my character stakes. My problem, which I articulated before, is that the game is not interested in creating a formalized, resource-driven experience path for characters.