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

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

JOHN D. CLAIR • The LA-based creator of Mystic Vale and Rolling Heights casts his mind back to his food-flinging 2013 debut Rumble Pie

10 OF THE BEST FAMILY GAMES • Families come in all shapes and sizes, and so do the games we love to play. Whether your family is trying to be considerate of Grandma, or little ones who’ve graduated from My First Board Game, we’ve got something in this list for everyone.

Role Call • Diceless RPGs and a tabletop take on Dark Souls? It’s going to be an interesting Spring if ROLE CALL has anything to say about it!

KINGMAKER • This 1974 War of the Roses game is getting a remake later this year, so we thought it was a good time to see whether it was worthy of ascension

The Soloist GETTING THE SOLO BUG • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: catching the solitaire gaming bug, and learning to love it.

THREE SOLO GAMES TO GIVE YOU THE BUG

my favourite game ALAN PAULL • The co-owner of Surprised Stare Games offers us a glance at the 70s miniatures-meets-boardgame war experience of Seastrike

LIFE FINDS A WAY • We chat to the scientists who are bringing legacy Dino-DNA to our tabletops

around the world in 80 plays JORDAN

BLASEBALL: THE CARD GAME • Batter Up! The Fictional Sport Finally Gets A Real Card Game

LOOPER • We jump into the 80s that never was, while still trying to get home in time for tea

DO EUROS FEEL LUCKY, PUNK? • Euro Games are typically lauded for the limited role that luck plays in their rules. Simon Castle looks at why that might be a mistake.

the independent shelf CORE SPACE: FIRST BORN • We return to Core Space to experience the new standalone game, First Born

20 YEARS OF YU-GI-OH! • We look back on a game that’s still going strong after 20 years

Ludological Lamentations PACK IT AWAY OR PACK IT IN! • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

MEEPLES & MONSTERS

ENCAPSULATE 2004 • It’s nonstop hits this year, as we look at one of the biggest years for modern tabletop gaming

TALES FROM THE LOOP: THE BOARD GAME • The tallest of tales

STROGANOV • Horses, songs and scenic Siberia

PATHFINDER: ABSALOM CITY OF LOST OMENS • Explore the Big Smoke

DINOSAUR WORLD • Putting the ‘Bit’ in ambitious

CULTS OF CTHULHU • The creepiest church in town

DIABOLIK: HEISTS AND INVESTIGATIONS • Classic comic cops and robbers

HIBACHI • A delicious mix of dexterity and planning

ARKWRIGHT: THE CARD GAME • Beige: the base-coat of big business

MASCARADE

KINGLESS

WE CARE • Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a co-operative card game

OLTRÉÉ • Happy homecoming

ELECTOR COUNTS • Count us in

SANCTUARY: THE KEEPERS ERA • Solid card slinging

IT’S A WONDERFUL KINGDOM • Sometimes less is more

THAT TIME YOU KILLED ME • Timeless

MINT BID

FAMILY BUSINESS

CLOUDAGE • Bring out the blimps!

CLOUDAGE • We get cloudbusting with Alexander Pfister

ALMADI • A diamond in the rough

DICE TRIP: GERMANY • Just stay at home

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE CARD GAME – REVISED CORE SET • We’re going on an advent–Oh wait. We’re dead.

HIPPOCRATES • Is your reason for...