{
  "id": 14984852,
  "title": "The creator of last year's cult hit RPG The Necromancer's Tale is back with The Lich Wars, a storybook RPG that follows 30 years of undead botheration",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/the-creator-of-last-years-cult-hit-rpg-the-necromancers-tale-is-back",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-16T15:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-creator-of-last-years-cult-hit-rpg-the-necromancers-tale-is-back-with-the-lich-wars-a-storybook-rpg-that-follows-30-years-of-undead-botheration"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Psychic Software have announced The Lich Wars, a standalone prequel for their widely acclaimed RPG The Necromancer's Tale. Widely acclaimed by me , anyway. I'm pretty wide, these days – the local Morrisons keeps doing discounts on 80-biccy packets of bourbon creams. I liked The Necromancer's Tale specifically for how it wove a whole RPG around the narrative dynamics of a single RPG class, with…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}