D&D fans who had their first look at the newly announced game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked from Resolution Games may have experienced deja vu. The upcoming project, based on the Demeo Action Roleplaying System, looks and feels a lot like another product that was recently officially canceled by Wizards of the Coast: the VTT (virtual tabletop) Sigil. While there is no correlation between the two products, it’s still an interesting coincidence.

Sigil was supposed to revolutionize the way that Dungeons & Dragons, the world’s most successful tabletop role-playing game (for the moment), is experienced. Promising an immersive, fully 3D virtual tabletop experience, Sigil’s development was followed with great interest by the fandom, only to see those hopes crushed by its cancellation just one month after launch.

First announced in 2022, Sigil was developed with Unreal Engine 5, and it was supposed to bridge the gap between hardcore tabletop D&D players and the more casual video game fans who may have heard about the game through Stranger Things, Critical Role, or........

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