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

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?

UNBOXED • Rob Burman kicks off a new series that takes a closer look at classic games. This issue, there’s a real buzz about Hive

GUN-DAMN THIS LOOKS FUN! • Everything you need to know about the new Gundam Trading Card Game

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

3 MORE TRICK TAKING GAMES

POCKET POWER • Keeping games handy – Chris Handy of Perplext gives us the story behind his chewing gum sized Pack O Games and more

THE TROUBLE WITH TARIFFS • We’ve heard whispers of tariffs impacting our gaming, but what does it actually mean?

A LIFE OF LUXURY • Are board games worth what we pay for them now?

TABLETOP MATHS

YOUR QUEST AWAITS • Your yearly reminder that Zine Quest is returning – spend your February picking up innovative explorations by TTRPG creators!

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • Each the month, we double down on a theme, and we just couldn’t resist galloping straight into the Wild West. In this edition, you’ll meet some characters you can develop further, a setting to base your adventure within, and a premise that will go on to form the bones of your next RPG quest

10 OF THE BEST ROLL & WRITES • Grab your pen, we’re looking this month at some of our favourite Roll and Write style games. Most often, you’re going to see dice, a pad of paper, and a few pencils (or dry-erase markers and boards for the fancy among us), that have you carefully making decisions to place the result of the die on your paper, building combinations, hopefully not running out of space, and getting the most points at the end. Of course, we’re breaking our own rules straight away by including Flip and Write games within this style, but rules were made to be broken! Except when playing the games, of course…

THE BEST OF THE SCENE RIGHT NOW • It’s a new year and we are all anticipating the gaming treats we will experience this year. The indie RPG scene is bright and vibrant with games both numerous and varied

ENCHANTED ESCAPADES • The story behind Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls

LORCANA DENY IT’S GOING WELL! • Disney Lorcana has been one of THE tabletop gaming stories of the past year. Where are we now?

ON THE C♣RDS • A monthly look at the world of Trading Card Games. This month? Plundering the competition…

SAMOA

CLUES IN TWOS • Two words

BANG! LEGENDS • Teaching an old dog new tricks

TIGER & DRAGON • “See this tile? I’m going to beat you with it.”

A GENTLE RAIN • Peaceful and cosy

SNOWCREST • Eat, pray, tableau build

TEA GARDEN • A theme that’s ripe for the picking

THE LAST OF US: ESCAPE THE DARK • Lost in the Dark

LUMICORA • A reef encounter

CASCADITO • Knizia rolls & writes

POWER GRID: OUTPOST • Power to the meeple!

MASKMEN • It’s all about a bout

FORKS: SECOND EDITION • Is this super quick card game worth forking out...