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The most chaotic board games from Gen Con 2022

Psychic Pizza Deliverers Go to the Ghost Town may be our game of the show

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Read an exclusive excerpt from R.A. Salvatore’s new Drizzt novel, Glacier’s Edge

Book 2 in The Way of the Drow is out now

By Charlie Hall
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Cards Against Humanity to donate sales from ‘forced-birth Republican hellholes’ to abortion funds

By Ana Diaz
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Gen Con organizers ‘deeply troubled’ over Indiana’s abortion ban, some vendors back out

By Charlie Hall
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The new miniatures for The Witcher tabletop RPG are hot AF

By Charlie Hall
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Queer creators win big at Gen Con’s Ennie awards for 2022

By Charlie Hall
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Heroscape, the beloved hex-based battle game, is back with a new starter set

By Charlie Hall
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Forgery accusations against longtime retro game seller leave collectors shaken

‘On one hand, this was someone I considered a friend for many years. On the other hand, his guilt was unquestionable’

By Khee Hoon Chan
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Gen Con 2022: All the best board games, RPGs, and card games from Indianapolis

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SolForge Fusion wants to be the next generation of tabletop deck building

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Warhammer 40K’s newest tabletop RPG embraces the series’ pulp-fiction roots

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Burncycle promises an action-packed robot Ocean’s 11, but at times it feels like drudgery

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Pendragon RPG blends the mysticism of The Green Knight with Crusader Kings

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New D&D Starter Set Dragons of Stormwreck Isle is a Target exclusive until October

By Charlie Hall

A decade on and Monte Cook Games is still setting the bar for innovation in tabletop RPGs

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HeroQuest expansion leans into replayability, giving players more characters to explore

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Fans have taken back Android: Netrunner, the popular card game discontinued in 2018

Project NISEI has given new life to the popular Living Card Game

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D&D: Onslaught is both a pricey collectible and a miniatures skirmish game

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D&D’s Spelljammer reboot will require some very specific content warnings

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Dungeons & Dragons' weirdest setting, Spelljammer, then and now

By Charlie Hall and Jeffrey Parkin
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Leviathan-class steampunk miniatures will compete with Star Wars X-Wing, Armada

By Charlie Hall
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Pokémon cards worth $500K stolen, collector says

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Level Up 5th Edition adds extra complexity to 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons

Advanced combat mechanics are only the beginning

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Rogue Trader will explore the far reaches of the Warhammer 40,000 universe

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Magic’s Unfinity set will include stickers so players can make their own cards

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Magic: The Gathering’s Fortnite cards are up for pre-order, but not for long

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The D&D movie’s first trailer is stuffed with all the things that make D&D fun

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves star Sophia Lillis knows Critical Role brought you here

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A clip from a video where five people are gathered around a table with a large board game. The background set looks like a forest with cardboard cut out trees and a faux cabin wall on the right side. The player at center of the table has an excited and terrified look on their face as the player on the left prepares to place something on the board. The rest of the players look on with intense trepidation.
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Last Friday brings Friday the 13th vibes to Camp Overboard

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A new actual play ports Jane Austen into Dungeons & Dragons

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Three board games that let you live out campfire ghost stories

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Dungeons & Dragons teases a return to Planescape

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Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is D&D’s answer to Star Trek

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Wordle is getting an official party game

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