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@laurieoc.bsky.socialReposted by @rascal.news"Is Playtest Material also an attempt to legitimize role-playing game-related things as art? Maybe. RPG people at the moment do struggle to access funding sources and spaces that are open to other writers and performers, [and] one hopes that we can begin to open some of those doors."
@rascal.newsMTG Arena prepare Wizards of the Coast's latest unions for renewed resistance
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@rascal.newsPlaytest Material is for the writers
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@rascal.newsReposted by @rascal.newsThe folks who create Dungeons & Dragons and Magic The Gathering are unionizing with @uwotc-official.bsky.social and they have identified a new pain point -- the inability to own the work they create off the clock.
@rascal.newsThe workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up
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@rowanzeoli.bsky.socialReposted by @rascal.newsWhats the cool local game store in your town that might be interested in carrying a fun little anthology of indie RPG criticism (It's Rascal Year One and Two)
@rascal.newsThe folks who create Dungeons & Dragons and Magic The Gathering are unionizing with @uwotc-official.bsky.social and they have identified a new pain point -- the inability to own the work they create off the clock.
@rascal.newsFrancesca Baerald’s new book celebrates a decade of mapping some of gaming’s most beloved worlds
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@newsnerd.bsky.socialReposted by @rascal.newsThanks to @rascal.news for hosting me! I got to chat with @chasecarter.bsky.social about PAX Unplugged Houston, Patreon funding data,Fantasy heartbreakers, vampires and a ton more!
I am also apparently Candela Obscura’s one shooter. Adding this to my tags.
@rascal.newsRadio Hour: Two Many Vampires
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@rascal.newsYou do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the AI board game startup
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@rascal.newsLumberjills is a joyful homage to the Women’s Timber Corps in WW2
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@rascal.newsIn 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?
@rascal.newsWhoa-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:
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(A limited second printing of Year One is also available!)
@rascal.newsReading Club: Eberron
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@rascal.newsUK Games Expo bans AI-generated work via a new policy
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@rascal.newsYears-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers
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@rascal.newsThis review does include spoilers, but there is a spoiler bar that warns you when you're about to get to them. I don't think these spoilers (in my opinion) would take away from the novel. The best tragedies always tell you the end before you get there.
@rascal.newsThe 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.
@rascal.newsIt'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.
