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Darrington Press
Darrington Press is the tabletop game imprint for Critical Role Productions which launched in October 2020. It is led by Ivan Van Norman with Matthew Mercer as the creative advisor. The publishing label primarily produces board and card games along with role-playing games. It won two ENNIE Awards in 2022 – "Fan Award for Best Publisher" and "Best Setting Gold Award" for ''Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn''. The publishing label is named after the fictional player character Taryon Darrington played by Sam Riegel in '' Critical Role'''s first campaign who, in-universe, published a book on his exploits with the adventuring party Vox Machina. History In October 2020, Critical Role Productions announced a "new board and card game" imprint called Darrington Press; it is led by Ivan Van Norman with Matthew Mercer as the creative advisor. ''ICv2'' commented that "Critical Role has broadly influenced tabletop gaming since splitting from Geek & Sundry in 2018". During the lau ...
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Critical Role Productions
Critical Role Productions, LLC is a multimedia production company incorporated in 2015 by the members of the creator-owned streaming show ''Critical Role''. The first two shows from the company, ''Critical Role'' and ''Talks Machina'', originally premiered on Geek & Sundry. The company moved to their own studio space in 2018, and began putting out new shows on their own Twitch and YouTube channels. A split from Legendary Digital Networks was completed in early 2019, at which point Critical Role Productions took over production responsibility for the ''Critical Role'' and ''Talks Machina'' shows. History Geek & Sundry era (2015–19) Critical Role Productions was founded by the members of the creator-owned D&D streaming show ''Critical Role'' in 2015. The group had originally begun playing at home in 2012. Felicia Day approached the group about playing it in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry, after hearing about the group's private tabletop role-playing game from Ashley ...
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Out Of Print
__NOTOC__ An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published. The term applies to all types of printed matter, visual media, sound recordings, and video recordings. An out-of-print book is a book that is no longer being published. The term can apply to specific editions of more popular works, which may then go in and out of print repeatedly, or to the sole printed edition of a work, which is not picked up again by any future publishers for reprint. Most works that have ever been published are out of print at any given time, while certain highly popular books, such as the Bible, are always "in print". Less popular out-of-print books are often rare and may be difficult to acquire unless scanned or electronic copies of the books are available. With the advent of book scanning, and print-on-demand technology, fewer and fewer works are now considered truly out of print. A publisher creates a print run of a fixed number of copies of ...
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Jeb Havens
Jeb Havens is a game designer, video game developer, industry activist and singer-songwriter. He has worked for companies such as Cyberlore, Electronic Arts (EA), and Google, and is known for his work in video games such as '' Playboy: The Mansion'', '' Disney Princess: Magical Jewels'', and the ''Spore'' series. Havens designed several party games throughout his career, including the 2021 board game ''Uk'otoa'' published by Darrington Press. As a recording artist, Havens released his debut album in 2016. Noted as one of the few prominent openly gay professionals in the video game industry, Havens promoted and contributed to public discussions about LGBT issues within the industry during the 2000's. Life and career Havens began working as a professional designer for video games and software in 2003. Havens served as the lead designer for the ''Private Party'' expansion pack for the 2005 video game '' Playboy: The Mansion'' published by Cyberlore. Under his leadership, the d ...
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Card Game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with international tournaments being held, but most are folk games whose rules vary by region, culture, and person. Traditional card games are played with a ''deck'' or ''pack'' of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the ''face'' and the ''back''. Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are shuffled together to form a single ''pack'' or ''shoe''. Modern card games usually have bespoke decks, often with a vast amount of cards, and can include number or action cards. This ...
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Exandria
The flexibility of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') game rules means that Dungeon Masters (DM) are free to create their own fantasy campaign settings. For those who wanted a pre-packaged setting in which to play, TSR, Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and other publishers have created many settings in which ''D&D'' games can be based; of these, the ''Forgotten Realms'', an epic fantasy world, has been one of the most successful and critically acclaimed settings. Many campaign settings include standard sword and sorcery environments, while others borrow Asian, Central American, swashbuckling, horror and even space-travel themes. These are official ''D&D'' campaign settings that have been published or licensed by TSR or WotC. ''Theros'' and ''Ravnica'' originated in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' franchise, another property of WotC. A number of the settings here are no longer published or officially licensed, though all have active fan bases. ''Birthright'' A setting in which th ...
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Candela Obscura
''Candela Obscura'' is the name of both an American actual play web series and a tabletop role-playing game system. The ''Candela Obscura'' show is a horror anthology series in which actors play a tabletop role-playing game of the same name. It was created by Taliesin Jaffe and Chris Lockey, directed by Steve Failows and produced by Failows and Maxwell James for Critical Role Productions. It is Critical Role's first series to use a game and a system owned by the company. Over the course of a few episodes, different casts of characters join the secret order Candela Obscura and form a circle to investigate several supernatural phenomena, guided by a Lightkeeper. The chapters of ''Candela Obscura'' are mostly conceived as self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters within the same fictional universe called the Fairelands. It premiered on May 25, 2023, on Twitch and YouTube and is broadcast on the last Thursday of each month at 19:00 PT. The first chapte ...
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Actual Play
Actual play, also called live play, is a genre of podcast or web show in which people play tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) for an audience. Actual play often encompasses in-character interactions between players, storytelling from the gamemaster, and out-of-character engagements such as dice rolls and discussion of game mechanics. The genre emerged in the early 2000s and became more popular throughout the decade, particularly with the 2015 debut of ''Critical Role'', an actual play webseries featuring professional voice actors. History According to Evan Torner writing in ''Watch Us Roll'', actual play is rooted in phenomena including magazine "play reports" of wargames and internet forums dedicated to role-playing games. With the emergence of esports, livestreamed gaming, and Let's Plays, actual plays of TTRPGs became a popular podcast and webseries format, and contributed to the resurgence of TTRPGs in the 2010s and 2020s. In 2008, the creators of ''Penny Arcade'' part ...
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Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargaming, miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail (game), ''Chainmail'' serving as the initial rule system. ''D&D'' publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry, and also deeply influenced video games, especially the role-playing video game genre. ''D&D'' departs from traditional wargame, wargaming by allowing each player to create their own Player character, character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Mas ...
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ComicBook
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. "Comic Cuts" was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside of the popular lurid "Penny dreadfuls" (such as "Spring-heeled Jack"), boys' "Story papers" and the humorous Punch (magazine) which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The interweaving of drawings and the written word had been pioneered by, among others, William Blake (1757 - 1857) in works such as Blake's "The Descent Of Christ" ( ...
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Banana Chan
Banana Chan is a Chinese Canadian game designer and writer. Career Chan has written for many games, such as the third edition of '' Betrayal at House on the Hill'' (2022) and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021). Chan and Sen-Foong Lim wrote and designed '' Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall'', which was published in 2021, and was covered by outlets such as ''Huffington Post'', '' Forbes'', and '' Dicebreaker''. She is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company ''Game and a Curry''. Awards and Nominations Awards In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game for her live action roleplaying game ''They’re Onto Me''. In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards. The same year, she won three ENnies Awards: '' Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall'' (Silver Ennie for "Best Setting"), ''Questlings: RPG'' (Silver Ennie for "Best Family Game / Product"), and ''Dune – Adventures in the Imperium: Core Rulebook'' (Gold Ennie fo ...
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Gen Con
Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, and strategy games. Gen Con also features computer games. Attendees engage in a variety of tournament and interactive game sessions. In 2019, Gen Con had nearly 70,000 unique attendees. Established in 1968 as the Lake Geneva Wargames Convention by Gary Gygax, who later co-created ''Dungeons & Dragons'', Gen Con was first held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The convention was moved to various locations in Wisconsin from 1972 to 1984 before becoming fixed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1985, where it remained until moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2003. Other Gen Con conventions have been held sporadically in various locations around the United States, as well as internationally. In 1976, Gen Con became the prop ...
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Playtest
A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and design flaws before releasing it to market. Playtests can be run "open", "closed", "beta", or otherwise, and are very common with board games, collectible card games, puzzle hunts, role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...s, and video games, for which they have become an established part of the quality control process. An individual involved in testing a game is referred to as a playtester. An ''open'' playtest could be considered open to anyone who wishes to join, or it may refer to game designers recruiting testers from outside the design group. Prospective testers usually must complete a survey or provide their contact information in order to be considered for participation ...
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