Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is the first tabletop game series from Warchief Gaming.
Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is the first tabletop game series from Warchief Gaming.
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Warchief unveils Chris Metzen’s fantasy board game world Auroboros

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chris Metzen, the former Blizzard game designer that helped bring us StarCraft and Warcraft, has announced the first game for his tabletop gaming firm, Warchief Gaming. The fantasy title is Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent, and it’s based on Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that Metzen created as a teenager.

Auroboros is a brand new role-playing game (RPG) series ksing the D&D 5th Edition rules, and the first release is dubbed Worldbook: Lawbrand. This is a sourcebook based on the campaign that Metzen ran in his childhood with friends in the 1980s and 1990s before he started working at Blizzard. The company is launching a Kickstarter campaign starting on April 20.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.