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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WHAT’S HOT? • 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: BEN ROBBINS

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

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

JOLLY GOOD SHOW • The king is dead but the war is far from over in Avalon: The Riven Veil, as Game Designer Jamie Jolly pits factions against each other in the Arthurian epic from Shadowborne Games.

CON KING OF THE NORTH • Missed Edinburgh’s premiere games event? Or bumped into us while we there? Catch up with the highlights or potentially spot yourself in our whistlestop roundup

THE STONEMAIER BLUEPRINT • Steve Conoboy argues that the shared DNA of titles created by Stonemaier Games makes them instantly recognisable, despite their huge thematic differences

ACCESSIBILITY IN BOARD GAMES: A HIDDEN ISSUE • Of the thousands of games that release every year, many still suffer the same issues of accessibility that have plagued the board game scene since it began. Accessibility Expert Alysa Thomas is leading the fightback

UNBOXED: AZUL • Veteran games designer Michael Kiesling reveals the quirky inspiration for Azul and offers tips to become a tile-laying master

10 OF THE BEST GAMES FROM THE 2000s • As the 2000s neared, many were worrying about Y2K online armageddon, while offline there were predictions that phone apps would destroy the board game hobby forever. Instead, the new millennium saw the continued rise of tabletop games, with several of the most important titles in its history being released. Somehow, all this happened more than 25 years ago, so for those readers who weren’t around then, here are the must-play board games that debuted in the aughts.

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

25 YEARS OF THE T’AU EMPIRE • A quarter of a century after the T’au Empire joined the perpetual war of the 41st millennium, the alien race’s designers explain how they were created

AND THE WINNER IS… • Games Inventor David Parlett scooped the first ever Spiel des Jahre award with his racing game Hare & Tortoise. Editor Matt Chapman relives that moment with him and looks back on a career jam-packed with gaming goodness

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON! • The Pokémon TCG is finally getting the party started for its 30th Anniversary

ON THE CARDS • Let’s all go to the lobby!

REALITY FRACTURE • Jace loses the plot in Magic: The Gathering’s latest set, as his scheme to rewrite the multiverse creates some cool new planeswalker echoes.

COZY STICKERVILLE

FINAL TITAN • Next into the ring, it’s Santa Claus versus a sand wyrm!

MYTHIC BATHS • Family-friendly fiend freshening

NOT MUSHROOM • Not mushroom for error

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