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?

GAME CHANGING • Rob Burman, creator and inaugural editor of Tabletop Gaming, looks back at its creation and launch

WILD AT HEART • The story behind the board game with a mission

UNBOXED: DOBBLE • Rob Burman uncovers the dark secret of the hugely successful Dobble

THE BEST OF THE SCENE RIGHT NOW • Another month, another journey through the weird, creative, and boisterous parts of tabletop RPGs. This month we are going to join mysterious agencies, fight against the man, visit dying virtual worlds, betray each other in Berlin, and quest for the elusive zine

10 OF THE BEST LEGACY GAMES • The arrival of ‘Legacy Games’ over a decade ago was one of the most significant developments in modern tabletop gaming. Games where your choices would affect subsequent games, changing them forever in unexpected ways, have been popular ever since, but here are ten of the best…

JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED • One year down, and four sets on – has Star Wars: Unlimited conquered the Galaxy?

YOUNG PADAWAN

LONDON TOY FAIR 2025 • Time to play: What we found, and what it means

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 PARTY GAMES

PLAYING THE LONG GAME • Tim Clare investigates the longest games

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • We’re back again with Your World, Your Rules, the column that gives you creative inspiration to build the RPG campaigns that you’ve always wanted to play through

ON THE CARDS • Here Comes the Boom!

WHEN LORE LEADS TO FABLES • There are adventures ahead in Disney Lorcana

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FORGED IN FIRE • The blades are out, as Iain takes us through notable Forged in the Dark games

MUST PLAY MUST PLAYS • Reviewers pick their standout games

around the world in 80 plays BORNEO

DOBBLE CONNECT • Not quite matching up to expectations

GNOME HOLLOW • Mushrooms for the whole family

EXPLORERS OF NAVORIA • Cute loot pursuit - like root or toot?

NASSAU • Much more than a Rum and Pirates remix

LIFE IN RETERRA • Rebuilding (Re)terra firma

HEAT: HEAVY RAIN • Fun to drive, whatever the weather

ARCS • Conflicting feelings in The Reach

UNMATCHED: SLINGS AND ARROWS • If board games be the food of love, play on

SETI: SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE • Where no point salad has gone before

SPECTACULAR • Animal magic

YOKOHAMA • Phenomenal trading power, itty bitty meeples

DOGGERLAND • 10,000 years in the making

SNEFERU • Built to last or pyramid scheme?

FAIRY RING • The scores keep mushrooming…

KREEL MANOR: THE DUNGEON CRAWL CARD GAME • Worst House Party Ever

THE ELECTRIC STATE • A jolt to the system

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