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.

Tabletop Gaming

Welcome

A VERY MERRY BIRTHDAY • Disney Lorcana is celebrating its birthday, and we’re bringing out the cake and party hats with an interview with designer Ryan Miller

DISNEY LORCANA • The latest updates in Disney Lorcana

Immerse yourself in the world of tabletop GAMING

HOW TO READ A TRADING CARD • New to the TCG world? Here’s how to instantly analyse the cards in your hand

WAIT, THAT GOT A TRADING CARD GAME!? • We’ve been reminiscing the golden years of trading card games, where if a franchise breathed too loudly, it would be turned into a trading card game (TCG). How many do you recognise?

WHAT IS TRADING CARD GRADING ALL ABOUT? • Breaking down the card grading process for when you pull an exciting card

STICK TO THE BASICS • On a journey to start playing trading card games? We’ve got some tips and explanations to help you along the way

FAMILIAR CHARACTERS NEW GAME • Ever tried a franchise-led TCG? We have the lowdown on some standouts from tabletop history

ON THE CARDS • We look ahead at some of the biggest trading card game news of the month and discover what’s on the cards…

SOLFORGE: FUSION • What happens when you mix a Magic: the Gathering Champion and game designer with the creator of Magic: the Gathering? SolForge: Fusion!

COMMUNITY WINS • What happens when support for a card game ends, but its fans don’t give up?

CROUCHING TIGERS AND HIDDEN BLADES IN AMSTERDAM • Time for Flesh and Blood players to Traverse the Universe and end up at Pro Tour: Amsterdam where the best of the best fight to see who will come out on top

AN ODE TO FAMILY DISNEY LORCANA • Why Disney Lorcana makes sense for the family

TCG CUBES 101 • Who knew trading card games could be cheap and competitive?

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • Every month, we focus on the topic of the issue, and find ways to craft narratives that can be applied to any RPG title you may be playing. We’re currently talking about trading card and card games, the tropes of which can connect amazingly to the world of RPGs. Remember, you can always alter this base to suit the game you’re playing. It’s your campaign, after all

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and worker placement isn’t part of a recruitment agency. If the terminology used to describe the games we know and love can feel like trying to learn a new language, let our glossary demystify the terminology, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all

GETTING STARTED WITH DECKBUILDING • Star Realms is a gateway to the galaxy of games that keep getting better

10 OF THE BEST CARD GAMES • Card games are often some of the first games we truly learn to play on our own, whether that’s a thousand games of “Snap!” as a four year old, or the first cheeky games of Pontoon at school for buttons or lunch money. Yet sometimes we get waylaid as grown-ups and think we need to play “proper” games, with boards and pieces and multiple-hour play-times. Here are a few great entries from the world of great card games.

A TABLETOP TIMELINE: DISNEY’S GOLDEN YEARS • Diving into the archives of Disney’s tabletop releases

ATTRITION IN GAMES • Wizard needs food badly

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ATTENDING ESSEN SPIEL • Some convention(al) wisdom

GAMES OF THE YEAR, YEAH? YEAH! • The 45th Spiel des Jahres award was the most surprising for years

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