Jul 27, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min · 16 segments
Thomas and Chase wade into a forum controversy over Deathrbringer that's about something other than the purile art and misguided promises of lethality. They also discuss delays to the Wolfenstein RPG…
Chase Taylor CarterHostThomas ManuelHostI first wanna, like, point readers back to our website, rascal.news, and tell you about some interesting stuff that we read, or we, we, uh, that you can read that we wrote over the last couple weeks since I last talked to you.
Um, I'll first start off with a story that you, uh, published, Thomas, about Finland putting tabletop role play in its sort of like national, like, repository of living culture.
They have decided that tabletop role play is important enough to the Finnish country and its people to be sort of, you know, uh, uh, edified in, in, in its, in its, like, big sort of cultural archive.
And yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a nice thing because the National Inventory of Living Heritage that Finland maintains, uh, which every, I think, uh, sort of country that has signed a specific UNESCO convention from 2003 should be maintaining.
But this inventory just includes, like, so many aspects of, like, Finnish culture, sort of intangible heritage is the kind of idea of it.
Uh, like, uh, one of the things that stood out to me was that the F- the Bengali festival Durga Puja, which is a, you know, is...
I didn't know was celebrated anywhere, anywhere else, but apparently there are enough immigrants in Finland where that is an important enough festival that that's in the Inventory of Living Heritage.
... that a country recognizes an immigrant tradition alongside its indigenous traditions, alongside-
... you know, alongside role playing, which, you know, uh, is a, is a tradition that is not native, uh, to Finland in any way.
But, you know, doesn't mean that a country can't have its, its own way of doing things and acknowledge that.
I first wanna, like, point readers back to our website, rascal.news, and tell you about some interesting stuff that we read, or we, we, uh, that you can read that we wrote over the last couple weeks since I last talked to you.
Um, I'll first start off with a story that you, uh, published, Thomas, about Finland putting tabletop role play in its sort of like national, like, repository of living culture.
They have decided that tabletop role play is important enough to the Finnish country and its people to be sort of, you know, uh, uh, edified in, in, in its, in its, like, big sort of cultural archive.
And yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a nice thing because the National Inventory of Living Heritage that Finland maintains, uh, which every, I think, uh, sort of country that has signed a specific UNESCO convention from 2003 should be maintaining.
But this inventory just includes, like, so many aspects of, like, Finnish culture, sort of intangible heritage is the kind of idea of it.
Uh, like, uh, one of the things that stood out to me was that the F- the Bengali festival Durga Puja, which is a, you know, is...
I didn't know was celebrated anywhere, anywhere else, but apparently there are enough immigrants in Finland where that is an important enough festival that that's in the Inventory of Living Heritage.
... that a country recognizes an immigrant tradition alongside its indigenous traditions, alongside-
... you know, alongside role playing, which, you know, uh, is a, is a tradition that is not native, uh, to Finland in any way.
But, you know, doesn't mean that a country can't have its, its own way of doing things and acknowledge that.
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