Pax Unplugged 2024
PAX Unplugged is a tabletop gaming-focused event specifically tailored to lovers of board games, RPGs, miniatures, cards, and more. Featuring thought-provoking panels, a massive expo hall filled with the best publishers and studios, new game demos, tournaments, and a community experience unlike any other.
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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Pax Unplugged 2024 Spotlight
Roll Hope, adventurer: Daggerheart's release date has been revealed
Fantasy TTRPG fans can get their hands on the Darrington Press-produced game May 20, 2025, provided they ordered from Darrington Press directly
Grant DeArmitt
Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and other books from Kurt Vonnegut are beloved classics, and now his lost board game has been rediscovered for the world to play
At PAX Unplugged 2024, Popverse spoke to Geoff Engelstein, who uncovered and publicized the long-shelved Kurt Vonnegut-designed board game, GHQ
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Matthew Mercer is changing the game (literally) with the Daggerheart TTRPG. At PAX Unplugged 2024, he explained why
Probably the most anticipated game showcased at PAX U this year was Daggerheart, in part because Critical Role's own Matthew Mercer not only helped design it, but actually introduced it to an assembled crowd in Philadelphia.
Grant DeArmitt
How horror movies helped me find my love of tabletop gaming at Philadelphia's PAX Unplugged
Unplugged & Undead: A horror hound at PAX
Grant DeArmitt
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Roll Hope, adventurer: Daggerheart's release date has been revealed
Fantasy TTRPG fans can get their hands on the Darrington Press-produced game May 20, 2025, provided they ordered from Darrington Press directly
Grant DeArmitt
Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and other books from Kurt Vonnegut are beloved classics, and now his lost board game has been rediscovered for the world to play
At PAX Unplugged 2024, Popverse spoke to Geoff Engelstein, who uncovered and publicized the long-shelved Kurt Vonnegut-designed board game, GHQ
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Matthew Mercer is changing the game (literally) with the Daggerheart TTRPG. At PAX Unplugged 2024, he explained why
Probably the most anticipated game showcased at PAX U this year was Daggerheart, in part because Critical Role's own Matthew Mercer not only helped design it, but actually introduced it to an assembled crowd in Philadelphia.
Grant DeArmitt
How horror movies helped me find my love of tabletop gaming at Philadelphia's PAX Unplugged
Unplugged & Undead: A horror hound at PAX
Grant DeArmitt
Wizards of the Coast retcons back a beloved & funny mistake from the early days of Magic: The Gathering back into the game (and tells the whole story behind it all)
There's a difference between Lemures (chaotic elemental spirits) and lemurs (adorable primates), but one of the artists of the early Magic: The Gathering didn't catch hat. Now, the mix-up features as a meta joke in an all-new card
Grant DeArmitt
How to win friends and teach people to play Magic: The Gathering, according to Wizards of the Coast & Good Luck High Five
At the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Power Hour (hosted by Gavin Verhey and Maria Bartholdi in Philadelphia), PAX Unplugged 2024 went through a kind of mystic initiation, one that will allow them to initiate friends of their own
Grant DeArmitt
Wizards of the Coast designer reveals three Magic: The Gathering mechanics that they've wanted to do (but haven't figured out a way to make it work)
At PAX Unplugged 2024, Magic: The Gathering designer Gavin Verhey (who led the Final Fantasy edition of Universes Beyond) told attendees which mechanics they can expect never to see in a game
Grant DeArmitt
Greetings from Krampus (and Ravensburger AG's Horrified!) at PAX Unplugged 2024!
Horrified, the hugely successful horror board game from Ravensburger AG, is adding Krampus to their Monster Menagerie. At PAX Unplugged 2024, Popverse got all the deets
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Matt Mercer gave us the dark and dour deets on his Daggerheart campaign
When Critical Role's Matthew Mercer got to talking about the campaign he designed for 2025's Daggerheart TTRPG, he was all too happy to make us all less happy
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role created its own Delicious in Dungeon TTRPG with an upcoming Daggerheart campaign
At PAX Unplugged 2024, Critical Role cast members and Daggerheart creators introduced us to BeastFeast, a campaign built on a "defeat then eat" mentality toward monsters
Grant DeArmitt
A brand new Lord of the Rings card game is coming to the US in 2025, and Popverse got a first-look at PAX Unplugged 2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is a cooperative adventure through J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, set to release in January 2025. But at PAX Unplugged 2024, Popverse got to play a hand
Grant DeArmitt
