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On this episode of the Tavern Watch Podcast, we're talking about the return to Strixhaven (where their undergraduates can now prepare spells like D&D Wizards), some of our upcoming favorite crowdfunding projects -- among them the multiplayer expansion to Ion Heart, Austin Walker's debut game Realis, and the genre-straddling Cypher System megadungeon Jewel in the Sky -- and also how when you leave fans alone with high-quality free products they'll do things like convert the core rules of Ars Magica into the easy to read and use Markdown format.

As it releases today, the Epic Games Store is giving away Prop Sumo for free this week.

Spring is in bloom in the northern hemisphere, which means it's time for game developers, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplay aficionados, and nerds in general to descend upon Boston for PAX East.

It's just another average day in Ternion City: four agents of the Triangle Agency, paragons of order keeping reality safe from anomalous activity that wants to rend it asunder, find themselves confronted with the job of what to do with the remains of a Wuhan-Baxter corporate killsquad, while their final member comes face-to-face with her biggest challenge so far: an extremely well-presented business pitch slide deck.

Lovers of wanton consequence-free violence rejoice!

Welcome back to serene Ternion City, where things are heating up in the case of the missing-then-returned-but-boneless Zbarro renovators.

It feels a little weird to lay off a thousand people and then continue to give away games for free, but the Epic Games Store is apparently immune to cognitive dissonance so they're giving away Havendock and Hyper Echelon for free this week.

Welcome back to beautiful Ternion City, where the agents of the Triangle Agency are looking out not just for your best interests, but all of reality.

Break out the wire strippers and voltimeter, Electrician Simulator is free this week on the Epic Games Store.

World of Warcraft introduced Player Housing to the community as part of the lead-up to the Midnight expansion, and Blizzard is taking that commitment seriously.