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With a New Edition Looming, I’m Being Seduced by Horus Heresy Again

5 days ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

miniatures — 6 min read Warhammer: The Horus Heresy was the first wargame I wrote about professionally. Having done some tabletop RPG pieces for Dicebreaker (RIP), I successfully persuaded editor Matt Jarvis to let me write about Games Workshop’s big new release of 2022. Horus Heresy is commonly referred to as 30K because it’s set ten millennia before 40K. Also because referring to it by the abbreviated subtitle is a bit dodgy.
Announcing Dungeon Tryouts: The Ultimate Party Game of Fantasy Misadventure

1 week ago | rascal.news | André Proulx

announcements — 3 min read This post is for subscribers only
New York-based Tabletop Workers United win a union contract after prolonged battle

1 week ago | rascal.news | Chase Carter

Workers at three New York City-based board game cafes have successfully ratified a union contract nearly two years after first organizing. Tabletop Workers United, which represents over 100 staff from Hex&Co, The Brooklyn Strategist, and The Uncommons, says the contract will last three years and is the first of its kind for tabletop businesses in New York.
Hobby Hole: Zeo Genesis Tollvangelion

1 week ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

miniatures — 7 min read After a detailed look at a terrain project last time, today we’re checking out two sets of minis I’ve painted recently. My featured projects have tended towards the grim and the dark, which is a painting style I do like employing but only in moderation. I like variety, and I’d go spare if I did things the same way every time, so these two undertakings are both on the brighter and more colourful side. First up is a couple of minis from Zeo Genesis.
Videogame you’ve probably never heard of based on an RPG you probably haven’t played gets a remake

1 week ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

Episode 15 of the Rascal Radio Hour brings some big opinions to the table regarding industry awards, conventions, and (checks notes) Belonging Outside Belonging games? Hoo, boy. And I thought it was spicy when Chase and Rowan were alone on the mic. Instead, Thomas sits opposite our regular host for
Soft Moves and Soft Power

2 weeks ago | rascal.news | Chase Carter

Rascal Radio — 3 min read Episode 15 of the Rascal Radio Hour brings some big opinions to the table regarding industry awards, conventions, and (checks notes) Belonging Outside Belonging games? Hoo, boy. And I thought it was spicy when Chase and Rowan were alone on the mic. Instead, Thomas sits opposite our regular host for his first one-on-one podcast full of financial pessimism, stressing out friends, and media recommendations.
D&D's Monster Manual is an empty, distracting feast

2 weeks ago | rascal.news | Cameron Kunzelman

There’s a local Mexican restaurant that I frequent. It’s the standard thing: beans, rice, a mean margarita, the works. In this restaurant, there are huge TVs on the wall. Depending on the day, these are tuned to different things. Sometimes you get sports. Sometimes you get the local news. Most of the time, and in fact every time that I have been there for lunch for almost the past year, I have gotten something called “TheChiveTV,” which I have learned is a part of the AtmosphereTV device.
Dragon Slayers Coming to Kickstarter

3 weeks ago | rascal.news | Spencer Campbell

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. Dragon Slayers is a fantasy TTRPG by Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs. You’ll take on the role of Heroes, going on exciting quests, delving dungeons, finding magic items, and of course, slaying dragons. Dragon Slayers uses the award winning rules system of Spencer’s 2021 game Slayers.
Cephalofair Games’ Mister Johnson Goes to Washington

3 weeks ago | rascal.news | Lin Codega

tabletop — 4 min read While Trump and the courts continue to play tariff tennis, more small businesses are finding themselves faced with tough decisions — as we’ve seen over the past weeks, tabletop is not among the least of the industries affected. One segment that professionals and hobbyists have been watching carefully is the effect tariffs will have on games that were crowdfunded before the trade war began.
Dispatches from UKGE, the British tabletop front

3 weeks ago | rascal.news | Chase Carter

culture — 6 min read My first impression of the space around UK Games Expo 2025 was that it all felt very American. The National Exhibition Centre, or NEC, sprouts from the fields and forests outside of Birmingham and nestles against both an airport and a train station.