Physical Games

• Catalogue, not shop
• What a physical game brings
• Rules
• Official source
• Related reading

The physical collection brings the Universe to a table: board games, card games, puzzles, and games designed for young adventurers. It is browsed by category at /physical-games/{category}, which is the right shape for the material — someone looking for a card game and someone looking for something to play with a child are not browsing the same shelf, however much the underlying world is shared.

Catalogue, not shop#

This is the important boundary. The Games vertical describes what exists. Anything to do with purchase — availability, price, variants, cart, checkout, orders, shipping, returns — belongs to the Xdripian Emporium, which is the commerce vertical and the only accurate source for any of it. A catalogue page that makes a game sound appealing is not an offer.

What a physical game brings#

Tabletop material tends to formalise parts of the Universe that prose leaves loose: a card game has to decide what a faction can actually do, and a board has to decide what the map means. Those decisions are game design rather than canon, which is why the Codex keeps a Game Manuals tome separate from its lore corpus.

Rules#

Physical games ship with their own rules. Where the Codex describes a game, it is describing what the game depicts, not how it is played — and where the two ever seem to disagree about a mechanic, the game's own rules govern the table.

Official source#

Canonical source for this subject: Physical Games — Xdripia Games. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.

Related reading#

• Xdripia Games Guide — The catalogue of video games and physical games set in the Universe.
• Browsing Collectibles — How the public catalogue is explored and what a listing does and does not promise.
• Game Manuals and Source Map — Where the rules of a game live, and where its place in the Universe is documented.