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.

Tabletop Gaming

Welcome

AT A GLANCE

GILL HOVA • The creator of High Rise and The Network on his difficult 2010 debut, Prolix

10 OF THE BEST SURVIVAL BOARD GAMES • For solo and cooperative games, there’s nothing more motivating that survival. It’s a simple desire that helps you makes choices on the board and around the table. It encourages thematic and dramatic choices, and when your group is defeated, it’ll only make you stronger next time. With all that going for it, here’s our favourite survival games…

Role Call • It’s a supplemental kind of month here at ROLE CALL, but just because we’re light on new rules doesn’t mean we’re light on awesome books

GALAXY TRUCKER • With the second edition of Galaxy Trucker recently busting through our atmosphere, there’s no better time to return to this junk-rummaging asteroid-dodging classic

COMPACT QUESTING • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: solo pocket dungeon delvers

THREE GREAT SOLO COMPACT QUESTING GAMES

JACK CAESAR • The writer for River Horse’s The Dark Crystal Adventure Game, offers us a mechanical tune-up on Android: Netrunner

ROLL FOR MAGIC SCHOOL • There may not be an official Harry Potter RPG, but we’ll use Gamp’s Law to transfigure something else into something close. Here’s our guide to playing Harry Potter without an official RPG

CHOOSE YOUR RPG HOUSE • Use our roleplaying sorting hat to find the right RPG for you to begin your wizarding journey.

MOROCCO

YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR WAY • Pick the rate that suits you and your budget!

TO LINK THE FIRST FLAME • We answer your questions about how the real Dark Souls begins

THE JAPANESE DARK SOULS RPG

SIX DARK SOULS ADVENTURE HOOKS • Here are six quick adventure hooks of our own devising (or lifted from fan theories), that might get you started in planning your own adventure…

ROBOT WARS • Bigger and badder, we talk to designer James Hewitt about Steel Colosseum

YOUR FAVE SUCKS (AS AN RPG, ANYWAY) • Anna Blackwell argues that your favourite TV shows shouldn’t be asked to make the leap to roleplaying games

GOCAINE • We see if we can make the big score with this abstract drug-running simulator

BROUGHT TO LIFE • We discover the magic words powering the Essen ’21 hit, Golem

BADGE OF HONOUR • We remix heraldry in the curious puzzler that is… Blazon

ALPHA ANTAGONIST DESERVES A BETRAYAL • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL • We round up our favourite board games podcasts from across the world

ACTUAL PLAY PODCASTS • While there’s plenty of scope to hear groups of hobbyists talking about their favourite games, sometimes it’s best just to hear people play. Here’s a few stand-out actual play roleplaying game podcasts.

2003 • As we edge closer and closer to the Second Golden Age of Board Games, we remember those pioneers that made it possible.

ALL HALLOWS EVE ALL THE TIME • We talk to a studio making almost exclusively spooky themed games and ask – who is that behind the mask?

TRICK OR TREAT PARADE • Some of the upcoming titles from the new horror-movie-themed studio

PLAYED

THE ONE RING: SECOND EDITION • Rising heroes meet rising shadows

WISE GUYS • Gin, guns, and glamour

GHOSTBUSTERS X MEN IN BLACK: ECTO-TERRESTRIAL INVASTION • Crossing of Streams

LIVING FOREST • Battle forest fires with...