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DICING WITH DESTINY
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h boy—I reached children and rather forgettable. 01 The box art for Fantasy Flight’s 2016
original trilogy game, Rebellion, by
the Millennium
These days, things couldn’t
O Falcon!” trills a be more different. The board artist Darren Tan.
mop-haired child
gaming industry has radically
as he moves his changed and expanded, undergoing but primary among them is a
Han-and-Chewie token across an astonishing, designer-led widespread desire to disconnect
a colorful game board. “The renaissance: games have become from digital environments.
Force is with you!” says the more engaging to people of all ages, “You’re seeing people
dungarees-wearing girl sitting exploring countless different themes socializing more in real life and
across the table from him. Then in a variety of innovative ways, moving away from their phones
a stentorian narrator announces and often boasting impressively or playing video games over the
over an incongruous, jazzy high production values. internet,” says Matt Jarvis, editor
soundtrack, “You too can play Unsurprisingly, Star Wars board of the U.K.’s Tabletop Gaming
the space fantasy Star Wars game games have evolved, too. Whether magazine, “as well as a revival in
Escape From Death Star…” you want a quick card game, a physical items, which has also
This cheesy 1977 television furious, sprawling tabletop battle, seen vinyl records come back into
commercial was most people’s or an absorbing, epic strategy popularity, for example. It all feeds
first-ever glimpse of a Star Wars game, then there has never been into this appeal of just sitting
board game. With a spinner to a better time for you to get into around a table with friends.”
determine moves and a deck of Star Wars board gaming—even if Frank Brooks, designer of the
cards that could help or hinder all you want to know is who would recently released second edition of
players’ attempts to get their heroes win in a dogfight between Wedge Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars:
from ‘the garbage dump’ to the Antilles and Hera Syndulla. X-Wing agrees. “Games are a really
safety of Yavin 4, Kenner’s Escape great way for people to interact
From Death Star wasn’t exactly The Big Bang with each other in a physical
the most sophisticated of tabletop The current tabletop resurgence space, doing something fun as a
gaming experiences; it was strictly for is the result of numerous factors, group,” he says. This is especially
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