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Luke Gygax, son of Gary Gygax, is building a new role-playing game with the rules of D&D

By Charlie Hall

Teburu could be the digital board game system that finally catches on

By Charlie Hall

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Luxury dice dominate at Gen Con

Dispel Dice, Level Up Dice, and dozens more litter the floor with beautiful, painful-to-step-on treasures

By Charlie Hall

Roll-and-write board games are having their moment in the sun

By Dan Arndt

How to kickstart your miniature Jeff Goldblum collection

By Charlie Hall

The most chaotic board games from Gen Con 2022

By Charlie Hall

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

By Charlie Hall

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

The convention’s departure would be a significant loss for Indianapolis

By Charlie Hall

The new miniatures for The Witcher tabletop RPG are hot AF

By Charlie Hall

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

By Charlie Hall

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

By Charlie Hall

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Gen Con 2022: All the best board games, RPGs, and card games from Indianapolis

By Polygon Staff

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

By Sarah Johnson

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

By Charlie Hall

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

By Charles Theel

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

By Charlie Hall

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

Co-founders Monte Cook and Shanna Germain talk about keeping it weird — and inclusive — for a decade

By Michael Rancic

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

By Charlie Hall

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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

By Charles Theel

Leviathan-class steampunk miniatures will compete with Star Wars X-Wing, Armada

By Charlie Hall

Gen Con’s most ambitious new board games

By Charlie Hall

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Cyberpunk Red review: This pen-and-paper game is the key to understanding Cyberpunk 2077

By Charlie Hall

New board game lets Bruce Lee fight Buffy, Bigfoot, and Jurassic Park velociraptors

By Charlie Hall

Pathfinder 2e review: Dungeons & Dragons’ biggest competitor comes into its own

By Charlie Hall

The best new board games from Gen Con 2018

By Charlie Hall

A special episode of Quality Control: Gen Con 2018

By Charlie Hall

The writer of the Witcher TRPG has advice for having sex at the table: Don’t

By Charlie Hall

The Expanse, once a homebrew tabletop RPG, is going legit

By Charlie Hall

Cyberpunk creator welcomes CD Projekt’s use of first person, exploration of political themes

By Charlie Hall

KeyForge is a remarkable new card game gunning for both Magic and Hearthstone

By Charlie Hall

The next Witcher RPG is coming to Indianapolis in August

By Charlie Hall

Breaking Bad and The Godfather both get their own board games

By Samantha Nelson

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