Role Playing

Role Playing is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: battlestar-galactica-the-board-game, betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill, captain-sonar.

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution. Playtime is around 120–240 for 1–4 players with adventure, dice elements.

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction board game where players command a ship and attempt to guide it toward various locations. Each player is a member of one of three asymmetric factions, each with its own preferred destination.

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Feed the Kraken

Descent: Legends of the Dark is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Descent: Legends of the Dark

Destinies is a board game featuring dice-rolling, map-addition, role-playing. Playtime is around 90–150 for 1–3 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Destinies

Etherfields is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Etherfields

Eric M. Lang is a Canadian game designer. He began his career as a playtester for FASA before publishing his first game, Mystick independently in 2000. He has since worked with publishers Fantasy Flight Games, WizKids and CMON, among others. He is the recipient of the 2016 Diana

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Cthulhu: Death May Die

Stuffed Fables is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, role-playing. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with adventure, animals elements.

Stuffed Fables

Too Many Bones: Undertow is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–180 for 1–2 players with adventure, dice elements.

Too Many Bones: Undertow

Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a genre of literature characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Elements of romance, magic, and the supernatural are also often present. Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramati

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Sword & Sorcery

Captain Sonar is a strategy board game about submarine warfare designed by Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier, and launched in 2016 by Matagot at Gen Con. Teams of players attempt to locate the map coordinates of the opposing team's submersible, and damage it using their weapons s

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Captain Sonar

One Deck Dungeon is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–45 for 1–2 players with card-game, dice elements.

One Deck Dungeon

Roll Player is a euro-style board game designed by Keith Matejka and published in 2016 by Thunderworks Games. In the game, players compete to design the best fantasy adventurer, through dice rolling and card drafting mechanics.

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Roll Player

A nickname, in some circumstances also known as a sobriquet, or informally a "moniker", is an informal substitute for the proper name of a person, place, or thing. It is distinct from a pseudonym, pen name, stage name, or title, although the concepts can overlap. A nickname may b

Monikers

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak is a board game featuring hidden-roles, role-playing, roles-with-asymmetric-information. Playtime is around 10 for 3–10 players with bluffing, card-game elements.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game is a board game featuring action-retrieval, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game

Ultimate Werewolf is a card game designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games. It is based on the social deduction game, Werewolf, which is Andrew Plotkin's reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 game, Mafia. The Werewolf game appeared in many forms before Bézier Games p

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One Night Ultimate Werewolf

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death

The Sheriff of Nottingham is the main antagonist in the legend of Robin Hood. He is generally depicted as an unjust tyrant who mistreats the people of Nottinghamshire, subjecting them to unaffordable taxes. Robin Hood fights against him, stealing from the rich, and the Sheriff, i

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Sheriff of Nottingham

Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a board game featuring dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Star Wars: Imperial Assault

Eldritch Horror is a tabletop strategy board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2013. The players explore locales around the world filled with Cthulhu Mythos horrors.

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Eldritch Horror

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set

Mice and Mystics is a fantasy-themed dungeon crawling cooperative board game designed by Jerry Hawthorne and published by Plaid Hat Games in 2012. In the game, the players take on the roles of fantasy characters transformed into anthropomorphic mice, on a quest to defeat an evil

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Mice and Mystics

Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game

Mansions of Madness is a tabletop strategy game designed by Corey Konieczka and published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2011. Players explore a locale filled with Lovecraftian horrors and solve a mystery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansions_of_Madness

Mansions of Madness

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a board game created by Corey Konieczka and first published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2008 based on the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series.
Players take the roles of characters from the series, trying to guide the Galactica and its fleet to

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Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a two to five player high fantasy dungeon crawl published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. Descent was designed and produced by Kevin Wilson. The game is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's licensed Doom: The Boardgame. In Desce

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Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game published by Avalon Hill in 2004, designed by Bruce Glassco and developed by Rob Daviau, Bill McQuillan, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff. In the first phase of the game, players all begin as allies exploring a haunted house fille

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Betrayal at House on the Hill

HeroQuest, is an adventure board game created by the American board game manufacturer Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop in 1989, and re-released in 2021. The game is loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the game itself

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