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In 2023, actual play came into its own as a style of performance that is so much more than D&D players rolling dice and cracking wise. These are the five best moments of the year.

I’m sure, at some point, I’ll get tired of Monster Hunter Stories 2, which comes out today for the Switch and is, I’m happy to say, excellent. Not unlike a Pokémon that’s all boss fights, the game’s available to play in demo form if you’d like to get a taste of its adorable monster-taming, egg-hatching, gear-crafting rock-paper-scissoring. The game’s done an excellent job of capturing essential elements of the mainline Monster Hunter games and adapting them to turn-based combat. But if that doesn’t thrill you — or if you’ve put in hundreds of hours of monster hunting at...