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Broadly speaking, board games are really just light role playing games. Monopoly simulates being a turn-of-the-century robber baron, while Risk asks you to step into the spurs of a primary-colored Napoleon. Even chess uses the tropes of feudalism to abstract out its two-toned power struggle. However satisfying board games are mechanically, they’re not known for telling a good story. That has traditionally been the domain of such role playing games as Dungeons & Dragons, and the complexity of the rule sets that facilitate that storytelling has meant these games are, again broadly speaking, only accessible to teenaged minds and older. Something wonderful happened in 1989 with the release of Hero …

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