Last week, one of the best things in board gaming—hell, in all of gaming as a whole—quietly came to a sad end. Two giants of the cardboard-and-plastic world, Games Workshop (GW) and Fantasy Flight Games (FFG), announced they were ending their eight-year partnership. The divorce seems amicable, but it cuts adrift a large and unimpeachable back catalogue of games which combined GW’s much-copied-but-never-bettered IP with FFG’s production values and visual flair.

It’s a tragedy for the hobby.