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

AT A GLANCE

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We asked… • Getting someone started in the hobby is an important job for gamers. So we asked, what’s your go-to game to gift someone as their first ‘proper’ board game experience?

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WHERE IS MY INDEX?! • I can’t understand why anyone would release a rulebook without one, weeps Chris Lowry

10 OF THE BEST GAMES FOR LONG WINTER NIGHTS • Winter is cold, dark and miserable. It’s no fun at all. Which makes it the perfect excuse to have a few mates over and really get yourself stuck into something distracting. We take a look at ten tasty treats to liven up your evenings by the fire…

Role Call • Adventure calls from locations as wild and fantastical as the Fire Kingdom, the Shire and… London? Welcome to ROLE CALL.

CAMELOT: THE BUILD • In a hobby obsessed with building castles, Camelot offers us the unusual challenge of doing the interior decorating

THE THRIFTY VERSUS SOLO EXPERIENCE • This month: how production quality makes for different solo vibes

THREE GREAT SOLO GAMES FROM THRIFTY TO PREMIUM

CHRIS LOWRY • Indie roleplaying game designer and Beyond Cataclysm publisher Chris Lowry explains why Level 7: Escape will always have a special place in his heart

OUTBREAK • The Escape The Dark series brings its atmospheric gameplay to triple-A video game The Last of Us

KING OF MONSTER ISLAND

6 YEARS OF TROIKA! • Troika! Is six years old this year, an auspicious age for a game revolving around rolling six-sided dice. We pop over to the game’s creator’s sphere with a party hat and D6 slices of cake

TROIKA! ADVENTURES • There’s already a few ways to have fun with Troika! here’s a few of our favourites

SPIRES END: HILDEGARD • A choose your own adventure with the lightest of touches

BECOME THE GAMES MASTER • A new boxed RPG from board game makes Gigamic promises to make anyone capable of being the games master – but does it deliver?

NW MACEDONIA

WELCOME TO GAME NIGHT • Join us for the ultimate guide to making your gaming sessions a night to remember

GAMES FOR ALL OCCASIONS • Flexible games that can hit the table at (almost) any player count

WHAT’S IN A GAME? THE ART OF LOSING • 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

BUGGING FOR THE SILENT TREATMENT • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

The Year of Dicemania

WHAT GOES AROUND… • One of the most alluring dexterity games out there right now comes from a pair of British designers, we chatted to George about why Carrooka is worth a spin

PLAYED

STARSHIP CAPTAINS • Set phasers to fun?

MASSIVE DARKNESS 2: HELLSCAPE • A shining example

ATIWA • The bat-tle to save the forest

CARNIVAL ZOMBIE • No time to clown around

GASHA

MARVEL CHAMPIONS: THE CARD GAME – MUTANT GENESIS

SPLENDOR: DUEL • A real gem of two-player gaming

CRIMES & CAPERS: AND THE WINNER IS… DEAD! • A murder mystery that’s all dressed up

KUZOOKA • Putting the ape in great escape

TRUDVANG LEGENDS • Shouting saga, saga, saga, saga

OAK • Fun and folklore

MANTIS FALLS • It’s high time to leave town

WORLD’S FAIR 1893 • Showcasing the classic Euro of yesteryear

HOGS OF WAR •...