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

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AT A GLANCE

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THE APP’S ALRIGHT • We argue that app-enabled games have come of age, and are ready to make your games more enjoyable – rather than getting in the way

10 OF THE BEST CARD GAMES OF 2023 • 2023 looks to be a big year for card games, wether they’re collectable, living or trading. Here’s our top picks for card games that are going to make waves in 2023.

Role Call • In this month’s ROLE CALL we’re all about the smash-and-grab, from heists and cool shades through to Viking raids

TUNNEL GOONS • One of the lightest, silliest roleplaying games ever deserves your attention. Meet Tunnel Goons, your new favourite RPG

The Soloist MAPS • Each month we explore the world solo gaming one move at a time, this month: mapping and worldbuilding games

THREE GREAT SOLO GAMES WITH MAPPING

my favourite game CHRIS BISSETTE • Indie roleplaying game designer and host of the Tabletop Gaming Indie RPG Book Club Chris Bissette tell us why The Vanilla Game is pretty much perfect

PARANOD [ABOUT] ANDROIDS • With the explosion of AI tools for art and writing, we ask, will it change gaming forever? We talk to designer and artists to get their take…

LOOK OUT HONEY, ‘CAUSE I’M USING TECHNOLOGY

THE USEFUL AI – A STAND IN AN INSPIRATION • Chris McDowall on the usefulness of AI artwork

JOHAN NOHR

ALL’S WELL THAT AI’S WELL

HOMEWORLD: FLEET COMMAND • Epic Space Combat Comes To The Tabletop With Over 100 ships

around the world in 80 plays BELGIUM Words by Chad Wilkinson

NO RULES REQUIRED • Our round up of the good, the bad and the ugly of non-gaming, nearly-gaming, sort-of-gaming stuff

EXASPERATED WITHOUT EXPLANATION • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

THE END IS NIGH • We join a kitbashed revolution that feels a few tens of thousands of years in the future, with The Doomed

WHAT IS KITBASHING?

WHAT’S IN A GAME? DO NOT PASS GO • 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

PRIDE, PREDJUDICE AND UNFATHOMABLE COSMIC HORROR • The genteel world of unspeakable horrors we’re all used to is about to be shocked to its core with the vicious social hierarchy of the 1800s in: Regency Cthulhu

THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS • We take a gamble on this new push-your-luck-meets-engine-building card game, and we think you should too

THREE MINING CLASSICS • Love digging for victory? Here’s three mining-themed classics that are like striking gold

2013 • A Good All-Round Year for Gaming

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FROSTHAVEN • The cold doesn’t bother me anyway!

EVERGREEN • Unlock the God complex within you.

DARK VENTURE: BATTLE OF THE ANCIENTS • Unearthly beings battle to the death in bizarre environments.

EVERYBODY WINS • The best of the best

PUZZLE STRIKE II • A tacky, plastic, flashing scepter? Count me in

TIME OF EMPIRES • Your empire best strike back

BEER & BREAD • Fulfil your wildest hops and dreams

ECO: CORAL REEF • Prepare for choppy waters

CASTLE PANIC: BIG BOX • Saving the Kingdom from infinite disasters

THE GUARDIANS OF HAVERSACK • Family friendly sack building

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS • Time to take the high ground

SLUGBLASTER • Warp travel on a...