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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Welcome

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

THE BEST OF THE SCENE RIGHT NOW • A look at the indie RPGs that deserve your attention this month

OUT OF THIS WORLD • The making of SETI: Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

STROKES OF STARDUST • It’s not just great design that makes a board game sing, but its art too. Ondrˇej Hrdina (Ondra) explains bringing SETI to life

UNBOXED - THE CREW:THE QUEST FOR PLANET NINE • Designer Thomas Sing looks back at the creation of the cooperative adventure that’s just the trick for fans of card games

around the world in 80 plays KAZAKHSTAN

A MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB • Where do you go when a Kickstarter fails?

HISTORY REPEATED • Remembering the foundations of the hobby amidst the magic of the new

FAIR GAME • Titles inspired by public domain stories

FIFTY-ISH MINITUES TO WIN • Six dice and Videotape - The short-lived life of VHS Interactive Video Board Games

10 OF THE BEST WORKER PLACEMENT GAMES • The worker placement mechanic has been popular since its first appearance sometime around the turn of the century. Fans of eurogames, in particular, are drawn to the leisurely process of plopping down a meeple for exclusive access to an action. In most cases, this involves collecting exciting things such as wood and grain, or partaking in white-knuckle activities like draining a peat bog, but there are now many examples demonstrating how the mechanic has migrated to less bucolic themes too.

FLAGONS AND FESTIVALS • Behind the scenes at Manchester’s newest festival

FORGOTTEN TOMES • Behind the scenes with The Shop on the Borderlands, home to new and out-of-print RPGs

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • Every issue, we give a few prompts and hints for you to take and expand upon, and if you combine some of those past concepts, you may even be able to craft an adaptable campaign that will be relevant regardless of the RPG you are playing

YOU MEET AT A TAVERN • Behind the door of the RPG trope

ON C THE RDS • Why is it always sold out?

HUMUNGOUS AMONG US OMNIBUS • You’re busy fixing some wiring at work when you get a message calling an emergency meeting

I-LAND ON VICTORY • Sailing to Archazia’s Island to find out what’s next for Disney Lorcana

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE • Doing whatever a Spider can, in the newest addition to The Marvel Multiverse RPG

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

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE • I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request

FREE RIDE USA • It’s about the journey ‘and’ the destination

VIDEO GAME CHAMPION • Become the ultimate gamer

PAUPERS’ LADDER SECOND EDITION • The world is your hazard-filled oyster

THE CROWS OF COPPERSHELL BAY • And there’s much to crow about

TALKING TABLETOP • After a fantastic review, we caught up with Paul Stapleton about his incredible world-building games

LURE • Something fishy’s...