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

AT A GLANCE

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KNOW YOUR NUMBERS

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT IN WILDERFEAST FROM HORRIBLE GUILD

REBELLION UNPLUGGED PICK UP SECOND ROLEPLAYING GAME EVER PUBLISHED WITH TUNNELS & TROLLS

We asked… • What is the very boardgamey thing that you would like to see added to more roleplaying games?

10 OF THE BEST GAMES TO TEST YOUR FRIENDSHIP • Games are meant to bring us together, but sometimes they’re great for creating a bit of friction in a group. Here’s our top picks for games to fall out over…

NOT A FAN OF FANS • I’ve got a secret to tell you…

BIG REVIEWS

Role Call • Curious what’s coming up in the wonderful world of tabletop RPGs? Well, then you’d better check out our ROLE CALL!

A LA CARTE • This 1989 dexterity classic is worth cooking up a storm for

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

ALL IN HAND • We ripple shuffle our way into solo games you can play with a single deck of cards

BILL MULLANEY • Kitbashing king Bill Mullaney (of BillMakesStuff on YouTube) tells us the story of how his adventure evenings are a family affair… with HeroQuest

THE SUN NEVER SETS ON CATAN • As we say goodbye to Klaus Tueber, we celebrate how Catan has brought many new players to the hobby – and will do, for years to come

DOWN WE GO • Looking for your Dungeons & Dragons replacement? We discover the game that put the ‘fun’ in funnel with Dungeon Crawl Classics

AUSTRIA

THE GATEWAY PANDEMIC • Welcome to the world of hobby gaming. We’re back with your chance to save the world from a deadly virus, together, with Pandemic

FLICK FLEET • Fight the galaxy with your fingertips

LOOK AT THE STARS • Look how they shine for you

CHALLENGERS • An unexpected tournament

LOFOTEN • How to kill a theme and get away with it

FUSE: COUNTDOWN • Rolling to dodge disaster… again.

CORAL

I WOULD DESTROY THE RING

PAN’S ISLAND • Will the superb production values of this hide and seek game hook you in?

7 WONDERS: EDIFICE • Cooperation works wonders

PLANET B • I love it when a planet comes together…

ACQUIRE • Merger manipulation and mass monetary mauling.

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

ENCAPSULATE 2016 • Cream of the Crop

ISS VANGUARD • Boldly going where no price tag has gone before

WOODCRAFT • I will never ‘log off’

DICE KINGDOMS OF VALERIA • Same world. Smaller scale.

HAMLET • Too twee, or not too twee, that is the question

RISE • Set society on the right track

MAGNA ROMA • Rome could be built in a day

PLUNDER • Build your own boat

MECH A DREAM • Wired wooliness

THE CITY OF THE GREAT MACHINE • A Clockwork Conundrum

MOBILE MARKETS • Put a ring on it

BLAZON • Up in arms

FROSTPUNK: THE BOARD GAME • Caught between a generator and a cold place

ENDURANCE • A cold piece of play

WHAT’S IN A GAME? THE POWERS OF TOWERS • 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...