2d Sans Faces

2d Sans Faces, also written 2 Dés Sans Faces and commonly abbreviated 2dsf, is a tabletop game publishing house based in Romandy, the French-speaking region of Switzerland. Its publishing activity centers on role-playing games, licensed translations, original game development, fictional settings, and reference material connected with the leisure industry. Rather than operating as a mass-market entertainment conglomerate, the organization occupies a specialist position within the Francophone tabletop role-playing scene, where publishers often combine editorial work, translation, licensing, game design, and community-oriented distribution. The company was founded in January 2001 with the aim of publishing the first French licensed translation of Nobilis, a contemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Jenna K. Moran. This initial project established an editorial model based on bringing distinctive international role-playing properties to French-speaking players. The catalog subsequently expanded through licensed or collaborative editions of games from different genres, including the second edition of Nightprowler and Tigres Volants, both published in 2006. Nightprowler is a medieval role-playing game associated with designer Croc, while Tigres Volants is a science-fiction role-playing game created by Stéphane “Alias” Gallay. The publisher adopted the legal form of a cooperative society under Swiss law. This structure allowed it to select its cooperative members and supported a relatively focused, participatory approach to publishing. The available reference material does not identify individual directors, managers, or cooperative members, so the organization is best documented through its catalog and publishing history rather than through a publicly established executive roster. From 2017 onward, 2d Sans Faces published a French adaptation of Itras By, a Norwegian surreal-fantasy role-playing game by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. The project illustrates the publisher’s continuing interest in unusual, story-driven, and artistically distinctive role-playing formats. In addition to its publishing role, 2d Sans Faces has worked as a design studio. It created the Freaks’ Squeele superhero role-playing game for Ankama, linking the organization to a broader French-language comics and entertainment ecosystem. The catalog also includes La collection Maxbrown, a contemporary horror tabletop role-playing game by Pierre “DrNemrod” Saliba, listed for 2025. This later project indicates an ongoing willingness to publish original or newly developed material alongside translations and licensed properties. Across its history, the brand has therefore combined international adaptation, French-language editorial production, and original design work. 2d Sans Faces is associated primarily with tabletop role-playing rather than conventional boxed board-game publishing, even though it may be described broadly as a game publisher. Its market identity is specialist and Francophone, with an emphasis on games that offer strong fictional worlds, distinctive genres, or nontraditional narrative structures. Publicly available reference material does not provide reliable information about revenue, workforce size, distribution scale, current management, or ownership beyond the cooperative form. Its present status is treated as active because the catalog includes a 2025 publication, although the scope of its current operations is not fully documented.

2d Sans Faces was established in January 2001 in Romandy, Switzerland. Its founding publishing objective was to produce the first French licensed translation of Nobilis, Jenna K. Moran’s contemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game. This debut placed the company within the specialist Francophone role-playing market and gave it an editorial identity built around translating and publishing games with developed fictional worlds. The publisher later broadened its catalog with licensed or collaborative role-playing projects. In 2006 it published the second edition of Nightprowler, a medieval role-playing game associated with Croc, and Tigres Volants, a science-fiction role-playing game created by Stéphane “Alias” Gallay. These releases demonstrated a willingness to work across contrasting genres rather than concentrate on a single setting or play style. As a legal entity, 2d Sans Faces adopted the form of a cooperative society under Swiss law. The structure enabled the organization to choose its cooperative members. The available sources do not name the members or provide a detailed account of its internal governance, but the cooperative model distinguishes the publisher from a conventional publicly traded or large corporate games company. From 2017, 2d Sans Faces published the French adaptation of Itras By, a surreal-fantasy role-playing game originally created in Norway by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. The adaptation extended the company’s translation and localization work into a deliberately surreal and experimental form of tabletop storytelling. The organization has also operated as a design studio. In that capacity it created Freaks’ Squeele, a superhero role-playing game, for Ankama. This work connected 2d Sans Faces with a larger French creative publisher and showed that its activities included commissioned or partner-led design in addition to publishing games under its own editorial activity. A later catalog entry is La collection Maxbrown, a contemporary horror tabletop role-playing game by Pierre “DrNemrod” Saliba, listed for 2025. This release suggests continued activity and a catalog that combines translated works, licensed editions, and original French-language projects. The published material does not establish the company’s current financial scale, distribution network, executive leadership, or detailed product availability. Its documented historical profile is therefore that of a small, specialist Swiss cooperative publisher and game-design studio serving the Francophone tabletop role-playing community.

1. 2025La collection Maxbrown

   La collection Maxbrown, a contemporary horror tabletop role-playing game by Pierre “DrNemrod” Saliba, was listed as part of the publisher’s catalog.

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2. 2018Itras By French edition

   The French translation of Itras By was published, bringing the surreal-fantasy game by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen to the Francophone market.

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3. 2017Beginning of Itras By adaptation

   2d Sans Faces began publishing the French adaptation of Itras By, a Norwegian surreal-fantasy role-playing game.

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4. 2006Publication of Nightprowler and Tigres Volants

   The publisher released the second edition of Nightprowler and Tigres Volants, expanding its catalog into medieval and science-fiction role-playing.

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5. 2001Foundation and first Nobilis translation

   2d Sans Faces was founded in January 2001 to publish the first French licensed translation of Nobilis, a contemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game by Jenna K. Moran.

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A specialist Francophone tabletop role-playing publisher and design studio focused on licensed translations, distinctive international games, original settings, and genre-led narrative experiences.

• NobilisContemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game2001

  2d Sans Faces founded its publishing activity around the first French licensed translation of Jenna K. Moran’s Nobilis. The game belongs to the contemporary fantasy role-playing tradition and was the publisher’s initial major editorial project, establishing its role in bringing international tabletop games to French-speaking players.

• Nightprowler, second editionMedieval tabletop role-playing game2006

  The second edition of Nightprowler is a medieval tabletop role-playing game associated with designer Croc. Published by 2d Sans Faces in 2006, it added a darker historical-fantasy-oriented property to the publisher’s catalog and complemented its work in contemporary fantasy and science fiction.

• Tigres VolantsScience-fiction tabletop role-playing game2006

  Tigres Volants is a science-fiction tabletop role-playing game created by Stéphane “Alias” Gallay. Its publication in 2006 showed 2d Sans Faces working with a Francophone science-fiction property and broadened the range of genres represented in its role-playing catalog.

• Itras BySurreal fantasy tabletop role-playing game2018

  Itras By is a French adaptation of a Norwegian surreal-fantasy role-playing game by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. 2d Sans Faces published the adaptation from 2017, with the French edition appearing in 2018, reinforcing the publisher’s interest in unusual narrative formats and international localization.

• Freaks' SqueeleSuperhero tabletop role-playing game

  Freaks’ Squeele is a superhero role-playing game created by 2d Sans Faces in its capacity as a design studio for Ankama. The project represents the company’s design and development work for an external partner, in addition to its role as a publisher of licensed and translated games.

• La collection MaxbrownContemporary horror tabletop role-playing game2025

  La collection Maxbrown is a contemporary horror tabletop role-playing game by Pierre “DrNemrod” Saliba. Listed for 2025, it represents a later addition to the catalog and extends 2d Sans Faces’ genre range into modern horror.

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