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Improve your D&D games by exploring the new worlds featured in this collection of fantasy maps
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Improve your D&D games by exploring the new worlds featured in this collection of fantasy maps
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Cult card game Warlord: Saga of the Storms plans a grand return of “the game you already know how to play”
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Hades 2 has mastered tastefully sexy character designs, so why can’t fantasy board games do the same?
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Make your next dungeon more dangerous with the online trap generator from Dungeons & Ruins
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The best Ghibli-inspired D&D 5E adventures and settings for fans of Spirited Away, Totoro and more
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Monolith Board Games Acquires Rackham Assets
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A new edition of Risk 2210 A.D., a gritty offshoot of the classic board game, is now available to preorder
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Black Powder and Brimstone Brings MORK BORG’s Darkness To Witchhunting Schisms
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No more arguments about movement and line-of-sight in games like Warhammer? This mobile app wants to handle it all for you with a picture
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MÖRK BORG meets church orthodoxy wars in folk horror RPG Black Powder and Brimstone
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Munchkin and GURPS maker called 2023 a “golden age for gamers” amid second year of sales loss
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'Light Speed: Arena' Adds Computer Vision Tech
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‘Halfbeard’s Daughter’ is For the Bard Who Wants to Seduce Every NPC and More on Kickstarter
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Stewpot’s melancholy RPG about finding calm after a life of adventure gets a hardcover book
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Adventure Time RPG’s original ‘Yes And’ system still in the works, will be released after D&D 5E version
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ToV Tuesday! What changed in the final book after your playtest comments
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Jim Ward Game IPs, Including 'Metamorphosis Alpha,' Sold
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The Laundry RPG’s second edition imagines nightmares just slightly more horrific than office work
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Frolic and fight with the fae in this celtic-inspired 5th edition RPG book
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Old-school RPG adventure The Gardens of Ynn takes a roguelike, Annihilation approach to Alice in Wonderland
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Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters
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Award-Winning Video Game ‘Don’t Starve’ is Making Its Way to the Tabletop World
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Mystic Punks RPG’s half weird magic and half grungy counter culture vibes get an official book
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Super-lightweight RPG Cairn dives back into the forest with a more fleshed out second edition
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Outside the Box – March 22nd: Para Bellum’s Steelheart Djinn & More
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Odd Synchronicity?
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ZWEIHANDER RPG Reforged Edition Delve into the dark and gothic world of Zweihander, a d100 RPG that offers the…
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Monster Hunter World board game maker to publish D&D alternative Tales of the Valiant’s starter set
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