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

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PLAYING OVER PAYING • Fan Boy Three founder David Sailbury approaches the idea that buying more than playing might not be good for us

10 OF THE BEST INTERGENERATIONAL GAMES • A family comes in all shapes and sizes, and so too do the games that might suit them. When trying to transcend those generations though, where do you even start? Well, there’s no better way to get people together for an afternoon of bonding (we make no promises about potential arguments) so we’re focussing this month on ten of the best intergenerational games

Role Call • It’s a month of ships here at ROLE CALL, whether they’re in space, on the stormy seas or gliding through the air

HIVE • This game will give you the bug for abstract games once again

THREE STEPS TO STARTING A SOLO RPG SESSION • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: setting up a session

THREE GREAT STARTER RESOURCES

RICHARD SCARSBROOK • Richard Scarsbrook, one of the founders of popular gaming café Chance & Counters, tells us why he still wants to terraform Mars

MICROMACRO & CASCADIA • James Wallis plays all of the Spiel des Jahres winners so you don’t have to. This month we return to the award to discuss MicroMacro and Cascadia – and ask: Is the red pöppel of the Spiel des Jahres still the ultimate must-play marker?

FLAMECRAFT • We enter the enchanting world of chatting to dragons in…

THE MIRRORING OF MARY KING • Welcome back to the weird mind of Jim Felli – but rather than psychedelic frogs, this time we’re channeling our inner medium

A WAR ON ALL FRONTS • We talk to Mantic’s Ronnie Renton as they expand their eclectic portfolio with a new family-friendly board games division.

HOPPING MADNESS • We pull up a chair to chat with BananaChan about her Silver ENNIE winner, Jiangshi: Blood In The Banquet Hall

GET IN YOUR LANE • We checkout the hybrid deck game from the creators of Ascension and Magic: The Gathering

DROP ANCHOR! • We check out Leder Game’s new pirate adventure with the designer, Greg Loring-Albright

ICELAND

WHAT’S IN A GAME? A COVERSATION WITH ONESELF • We all know games are good for us, but in what way? Each month Tim Clare untangles the science and philosophy behind what makes games good

KINDNESS KILLS (THE JOY) • Each month our in-house agony aunt answers your ludological lamentations

ENCAPSULATE 2009 2009 • The hits keep coming and new companies keep founding

ON THE CARDS • We dive into the mysterious world of the Tarot with the designers who use these cards for their games

PLAYED

BLOOD ON THE CLOCKTOWER • Worth the wait

DICE REALMS • Let the good times roll

DICE REALMS • We chat to Thomas Lehmann about his new dice-building classic

ESCAPE PODS

TURBO SLEUTH

DEAD RECKONING • The game that puts the “Arrr” into carrrd crafting

MESSINA 1347 • Beating the Black Death one cube at a time

HIROBA • Competitive zen gardening for sudoku fans

LUCHA WARS! • Better masks than Covid-19

RESCUING ROBIN HOOD • Tights and fights

CANVAS • It certainly paints a pretty picture

NEMO’S WAR • One man against the world.

SPACE STATION PHOENIX • Build it up, break it down

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