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In a earth full of more modernized MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy Fourteen, it's easy to forget that the 21-year-old RuneScape is still going strong. Developer Jagex has been bought and sold a couple of times in the final few years but it appears that its acquisition terminal year by The Carlyle Group has provided opportunities for diversification and growth if contempo news is anything to go by.

In a press release today, Jagex revealed that it joined forces with Steamforged Games in order to create two table-elevation games based on RuneScape. Neither game has a proper noun attached at nowadays, just the announcement stated that ane will be a board game, while the other will be a more fully-fledged TTRPG, in which Jagex promises "fresh-simply-faithful adaptations of archetype quests and characters." The board game volition take between one and v players on quests throughout RuneScape's world of Gielinor, with crafting, cooking systems, and more. The TTRPG, meanwhile, will feature a core book allowing players to arts and crafts their own experiences in the world of Gielinor, with the ruleset described equally "fully compatible" with D&D 5E.

The games will launch afterward this year, with the TTRPG coming directly to storefronts and the board game boot off on Kickstarter. The crowd-sourcing arroyo is not unusual for Steamforged, which has previously launched successful board game adaptations for properties like Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Horizon: Cypher Dawn.