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.

WHAT TURNS A GOOD GAME NIGHT INTO A GREAT ONE? • Trusted reviews with must-play recommendations to help you choose games everyone will enjoy!

Tabletop Gaming

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HOT? WHAT’S • Join us as we take a look at some of the new games that are getting people talking. What’s being viewed and reviewed, and is it right up your street or something you’re crossing the road to avoid?

UPCOMING INDIE RPGS

INDIE RPG INTERVIEW: TIM DENEE

FROM The Vaults • With a history spanning 11 years, we crack open past issues of Tabletop Gaming magazine to rediscover the games, creators and conversations that shaped the hobby

THE FROG TRAFFIC JAM • Leap before you look: Designer Chris Handy and Artist Magda Markowska explain why Quagmire is the year’s most deceptive tactical treat

MAGDA MARKOWSKA

THE GAMER’S GUIDE CAFÉ • Sheffield’s community-focused café brings its game insights to Tabletop Gaming Live

GAME ADJACENT • This month’s coolest accessories, add-ons and other game-related gear

10 OF THE BEST GAMES FROM THE 1990S • For many who have spent decades in the hobby, the late 1990s began a golden era of design. Despite there being no ’90s games currently in the Board Game Geek top 100, this decade provided the blueprint for most of the games we play today. So, you might ask, are there any titles still too good to miss today? Well, I’d suggest you try these on for size…

GEN CON REVEALS: D&D ROADMAP 2027 • From Dark Sun to Azeroth and, yes, a galaxy far, far away, Wizards of the Coast has revealed a bold new wave of releases for D&D in 2027 – with Darth Vader himself leading the charge

ARE YOU ROLLING WELL? • The inaugural Rolling Well conference looked at the positive effects gaming can have on health and wellbeing

THE LUKE LITTLER EFFECT • Target Darts is connecting the world and gamifying darts to build upon its new army of fans in a huge shake up for the sport. Matt Chapman saw how sinking ships and blasting aliens is creating a game everyone can play.

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and worker placement isn’t part of a recruitment agency. If the terminology used to describe the games we know and love can feel like trying to learn a new language, let our glossary demystify, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all

ON THE CARDS • The happiest place on Earth

MAKE YOUR MIND UP • Does a card game with a single licence beat those that embrace multiple licences?

AS NATURAL AS THEY COME • Dungeon Master Harry McEntire and players Holly Bennett, Doug Cockle, Alex Jordan, Ben Starr and Aoife Wilson make up Natural Six, one of the coolest live-play groups performing today. Matt Chapman tracked them down at MCM London Comic Con to talk diary dilemmas and exploding sauce packets.

UNBOXED: WINGSPAN • Creator Elizabeth Hargrave talks expansion with Wingspan Pocket and why she believes the original game been such a high flyer

TRY THIS IF YOU LIKED… DNUP

COLLECT! • Are you a better animal collector than Noah?

DISNEY VILLAINOUS COME, WE FLY! • “Oh, look. Another glorious Villainous expansion. Makes me sick!”

OH MY SOCKS! • Two pairs beat three-of-a-kind

QORK • Is it a corker?

THE DAILY WEATHER • Does this solo game have a sunny outlook or is it a total wash out?

THE MOLE • If you know, you know

WHAT THE SKETCH? • Quick on the draw

CARCASSONNE LABYRINTH • The best of...