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

We asked… • What was your favourite memory from UK Games Expo?

10 OF THE BEST GAMES I WILL ALWAYS PLAY • Given its my first issue, rather than listing a personal Top 10, here’s 10 games I’ll always jump at the chance to play!

A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING • Why our game libraries need better organization

LORCANA • We chat with designer Ryan Miller and artist Matthew Robert Davies about the gameplay and gorgeous artwork behind the upcoming Disney Collectable Card Game

CHRISTOPHER JOHN EGGETT • The ex-editor of this very magazine finally reveals his favourite game! Not that you couldn’t have guessed it…

ALCHEMISTS • Pioneering design concocting a pretty puzzle

OMAN

The Soloist CLASSICS WITHOUT COMPANIONS • No-one free? Thankfully there’s fantastic solo modes with tabletop classics

THREE SOLO CARD GAMES

Ask Ben ORDER IN THE GAMING ROOM • Our resident independent counsel, Ben Maddox, weighs in on another tricky dilemma

UK GAMES EXPO 2023 • We look back at the biggest tabletop gaming event in the UK!

PREVIEWS • With so many wonderful games at the convention, we take a moment to highlight some of the smaller upcoming independent designs showcased, giving you the games to watch out for in the future!

STAR WARS: LEGION WORLD QUALIFIERS • We find out who won the UK’s biggest ever Star Wars: Legion tournament

PLAYTEST UK • We meet with Rob Harris, director of the voluntary group helping budding game designers realise their dreams

ENCAPSULATE 2017 • When Kickstarter became King

WHAT’S IN A GAME? CONFIDENCE GAMES • This month Tim Clare looks us dead in the eye, asking if you’re confident enough to put your pride on the line?

FLAMME ROUGE • It’s a photo finish in France as four cycling teams race for victory!

THE GATEWAY CODENAMES • A classic competitive caper as two teams try to retrieve their secret agents first!

YAHTZEE • It’s a mini discovery this month as a member of the TTG team uncovers a family favourite!

THE NUMBER • Even Odds of Entertainment

POWER PLANTS • Unlocking the magical energy of chlorophyll

WORDCRAFT • Word up

GREENVILLE 1989 • Stranger Things Have Happened

THE ROAD TO INNSMOUTH

HOLIDAY HIJINKS #4 THE CUPID CRISIS

WHINE NIGHT

I’M A LITTLE CRABBY

TWISTY TRACKS • Loopy locomotives

SUB TERRA II: INFERNO’S EDGE • Getting into a lava fun

INSIDE JOB

TICKET TO RIDE • All aboard as we look back on the world’s bestselling train game, with four connecting routes to expanding your tabletop journey

DISTILLED • Crack open a cardboard cask

FIGHTERS OF THE PACIFIC • Fly or Die in the Sea and Skies

MOON • Cosmic Wonder

TINY EPIC VIKINGS • My little blood rage

KINGMAKER • Long Live the King

OROS • Oh my demigod

EUROPA UNIVERSALIS: THE PRICE OF POWER • The heavy heavy hit

EVOLUTION: NEW WORLD • Adapt or die

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL • Gain the whole world… and lose your soul?

FINDORFF • We built this district on peat and brick!

VILLAGE: BIG BOX • The only game in the village

BRAZIL: IMPERIAL • Historic in both mechanics and theme

SHADOWGATE: THE LIVING CASTLE • Old School Dungeoneering

TAROT CARD GAMES • How it came to be and the games continuing...