Historical

Root and Pax Pamir creator plans to remake historical board game about Chinese opium trade

Jamming traffic for a second time.

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John Company, Pax Pamir maker to produce art installation 1819 Singapore as an actual board game

Cardboard imitating art imitating life.
Rising Waters transforms the Great Flood of 1927 into a co-op board game of resistance and community

Mississippi meeples.

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Use gifts, force or guile to control the throne in board game Catherine: The Cities of Tsarina

Russian to victory.
Inaugural Zenobia Award nominees include Haitian revolution, Indonesian independence as historical board games

Winners will be announced October 15th.
John Company 2E Kickstarter demolishes its crowdfunding goal on the first day

Thanks to the ‘Wehrle Effect’?

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Roman Empire RPG Lex Arcana visits Dacia and Thrace in new sourcebooks

More like Pecks Romana
Someone spent £3,500 painstakingly - and authentically - recreating the millennia-old Game of Ur at home

Including making their own bitumen.

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A new historical tabletop award wants to spotlight and mentor underrepresented voices

Winners will receive up to $4,000 and direct publisher mentorship on a prototype.
Votes for Women board game marks 100 years since women’s suffrage in the US

Kickstarter campaign launched on centenary of 19th Amendment.
Operation was originally a desert survival board game called Death Valley

Cavity Sand.

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