Craft or Hammer?
This company, recently purchased by Microsoft, is known for making many popular game franchises on PC, including Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft, Overwatch, many of which are still popular to this day.
What is Blizzard Entertainment?
"Molly's Game" is a movie based on real events surrounding an underground poker tournament that is rumoured to have been attended by this celebrity.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
In the classic board game Battleship, players take turns blindly firing torpedoes at each other in order to sink each other's fleets, which each contain this same set of ships.
What are the 5 ships: Aircraft Carrier, Battleship, Cruiser/Destroyer, Submarine, and Destroyer/Patrol boat?
Paired with a flagship Nintendo game, this early first-person shooter took advantage of the light gun technology to allow the player to shoot at moving targets while a furry friend gathered the results on screen.
What is Duck Hunt?
The names of a demon lord, illithid, and a famous, one-eyed, one-handed lich were all repurposed by the main characters of "Stranger Things" to describe these three antagonists of the series.
Who are the Demogorgon, the Mind Flayer, and Vecna?
Starcraft is a sci-fi game series that draws heavy inspiration from this Games Workshop franchise.
What is Warhammer 40k?
This company makes a card game of the same name and is also known for doing various online marketing stunts where they sold knock off chips ("Prongles"), sterilized bull feces, and literally nothing "for the low price of $5 USD".
What is Cards against Humanity LLC?
This strategic move in chess, that is both defensive and offensive at the same time, is the only move that involves two peices at once.
What is Castling?
This game is named after its protagonist who is known for battling robots and machines, and eating chili dogs.
What is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Dice, most commonly seen with 6 sides, come in a variety of shapes with variable numbers of sides. In D&D (and many other systems) this is a standard polyhedral set of dice.
What are these 7 dice: A d4, a d6, a d8, 2d10, a d12, and a d20?
These two biological swarms from the Starcraft and Warhammer franchises respectively are known for traversing the universe and devouring biological life to feed their own hivemind networks.
What are the Zerg and Tyrranid Swarms?
This best-selling trading card game brings the player to a multiverse of worlds and environments, such as Yavimaya, Kamigawa and Mirrodin, travelled by demigods known as planes walkers.
What is Magic: the Gathering?
In this series of board games, players compete to build rail networks that span across various parts of the world connecting destinations found on randomized tickets.
What is Ticket to Ride?
The first of a long-standing series that still releases new instalments to this day, this game allowed the players to pick "4 warriors of light" to go on a grand adventure to save the kingdom from the Chaos based time loop perpetrated by the evil "Garland".
What is Final Fantasy?
The game of Dungeons & Dragons has been around since 1974 and has seen many iterations. Each iteration is referred to as an edition, of which there have been this many.
What is 5? We are currently on 5th edition rules.
(concessions can be made for answering 6/7/8 if the answerer can back that up with knowledge of basic/advanced editions in early versions and 3rd being split into 3 and 3.5)
This race of anthropomorphic rats are known for their cultural bend toward betrayal and "murder-kill" in an effort to increase their status and position in their underground empire.
Who are the Skaven?
In October 1993, this creator of company Wizards of the Coast's most popular card game proposed to his first wife by sneaking a proposal spell card into his deck during a play testing session with her.
Who is Richard Garfield?
In this hide and seek style board game, one player plays as a notorious criminal whose moves are invisible to the other players who try to hunt them down. The others all work as officers for a police department who's famous headquarters shares the same name.
What is Scotland Yard?
This Atari 2600 game, based on a Stephen Spielberg film, is infamous for being a large contributor to the video game crash of 1983.
What is E.T. the Extra Terrestrial?
This famous actor is well known as a huge D&D nerd (having been playing since the 80s), and is rumoured to even bring his experience as a D&D player to his work in his movies such as "Pitch black" where he plays as a infamous criminal who can see in the dark but is blind in the light.
Who is Vin Diesel?
This actor/voice actor has had many appearances over the years in popular TV shows such as "That 70s Show", "Criminal Minds", "Two and a Half Men", and "the Big Bang Theory" is also beloved by the Starcraft fan base as the voice of Mar Sara Marshall and leader of Raynor's Raiders, Jim Raynor.
Who is Robert Clotworthy?
A "deck builder" is a game in which the player must create a deck with which to play in order to overcome obstacles or meet certain objectives. This popular video game based deck builder challenges the player to overcome a tower full of various monsters and traps through the eyes of 4 distinct characters: The Ironclad, The Silent, The Defect and The Watcher.
What is Slay the Spire?
In this English version of the German board game "Funkenschlag" by Friedemann Friese, players play as the owners of power companies competing to make the most profit via buy power plants in auctions and purchasing fuel to run those power plants through a supply and demand style economy.
What is Power Grid?
This American only Nintendo game featured a main character known for being an "ace pitcher", who travelled tropical islands battling beasts with a yo-yo to save his uncle from the aliens who abducted him.
What is Startropics.
This legend, who died in 2008, co-created Dungeons & Dragons was still authoring rule books for the game as recently as 1985.
Who is Gary Gygax?