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A year ago I found myself in the woods of some Nordic world with the deeply unpleasant feeling of being watched. Around my table: three hunters, one invisible tracker, and that low, creeping tension that built with every turn. That was Beast, and I hadn't managed, since then, to recapture that sensation of being both predator and prey, somewhere between Brotherhood of the Wolf and a game of Werewolf where the wolf could actually bite you. So when Don't Panic Games announced t

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