Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop Gaming is the UK’s only monthly magazine dedicated to all types of gaming on your tabletop. From board games, card games, roleplaying games and miniatures we have you covered every month in 100 pages.

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Tabletop Gaming

Welcome

BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BOARD GAME GEEK • If you’re interested enough in games to be holding Tabletop Gaming magazine in your hands, you’ll likely be familiar with at least the existence of Board Game Geek, if not a regular visitor to it. But what is it, where did it begin, and why is it important?

BOARD GAME GEEK: THE FIRST GAMES • An entry on Board Game Geek is a must for any new game, but who won the race and got there first?

TEETERING TOP • You might think that achieving a Board Game Geek entry that has ratings putting your game into the 100 best is a perfect time to pat yourself on the back and think job well done. Except it’s not always so simple, and we’re looking at those teetering around it and why

BOARD GAME GEEK TOP 100 • We’re taking a tour through the best rated games on Board Game Geek. But how many have you played? Tick them off as you go to find out!

70 OBSESSION LETS US PLAY IN A REGENCY WORLD WE FIND MORE FUN THAN EXPECTED • Regency might be shorthand for nobility and country houses, rather than its actual time period, but why is it so fun?

BOARD GAME GEEK: HIGHER OR LOWER • Are Board Game Geek rankings predictable? Let’s find out…

57 LISBOA’S REALISM MAKES IT A COMPELLING SIM TITLE • Simulation titles are always popular in video games, but how do we approach them on tabletop? Lisboa shows us the best way

56 MANSIONS OF MADNESS (SECOND EDITION): SURVIVAL ISN’T GUARANTEED • What is it about Mansions of Madness that keeps us coming back to die at the hands of the monsters again and again?

52 OPEN WORLD GAMING IN AN ANALOGUE WORLD • When you could go anywhere, Sleeping Gods is the best place to go

BOARD GAME GEEK: THE GOLDEN GEEK AWARDS • A huge community of gamers make up Board Game Geek, so could their awards be some of the most representative of our favourites? We’re delving into the Golden Geek Awards

33 EVERDELL: WHAT SHOULD YOU BUY? • We’ve probably all seen the towers of Everdell games on the shelves of friends, but that begs the question – with a number of expansions, and variants, which ones should make the cut for your own? We run through your options – though, there’s a space hogging Ultimate Collection to consider!

HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION • Is the Board Game Geek ranking system for everyone? We look at whether there are leanings to certain game types, and why that might be

27 THE CARD GAME THAT COMBINES DIFFERENT GENRES IN A BRILLIANT WAY • When sticking to one genre simply won’t do, George delves into the mythos with Arkham Horror: The Card Game

25 WINGSPAN • Birds and board games turned out to be a winning combination for Wingspan – so we tried it too, by speaking to Josh Jones, editor of Birdwatch, the UK magazine for all things birding

NUMBER ONE – BRASS: BIRMINGHAM • An interview with the designer of the jewel in the Brass crown, Martin Wallace

EVERYTHING CHANGES • Chris Marling investigates how ranked games have changed over the last decade

10 OF THE BEST UNDERRATED GAMES • Every year thousands of new games are released. Even here at Tabletop Gaming, where we review hundreds of them, it can be difficult to keep track of the brightest and best titles - let alone gems from the past that everyone else has missed! Here we’ll look at a few that games that have kept players playing over the years, but perhaps don’t always get the love they deserve

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and...