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

MARTIN TAKAICHI • The Swedish creator of the Tales From the Loop board game looks back at his video-game-adapting debut, 2019's Crusader Kings (co-designed with Tomas Härenstam Nils Karlén and Jon Manker)

10 OF THE BEST ESCAPE ROOM GAMES • Sometimes you just want to get out. And then, sometimes, you want to stay in but try to get out. Ideal for gatherings of more casual gamers, the escape room genre of games bridges the gap between a big puzzle and a party. Here’s ten of our favourite escape room games for you to play at home.

Role Call • We’re looking forward to a pair of fancy 5E settings, a new Who and a pair of supplements in this month’s ROLE CALL

PIT • This shouty party game classic is nearly 120 years old and deserves a revisit

INSPIRING A RESISTANCE • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time This month: the inspiration for Resist!

THREE SOLO RESIST GAMES

READ ON ANY DEVICE ANYWHERE!

PETER C. HAYWARD • We learn to Circle the Wagons in this minimalist microgame from Steven Aramini, Danny Devine and Paul Kluka with That Time You Killed Me designer Peter C. Hayward

BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS • We explore the competitive card game scene with Flesh & Blood champion Matt Rogers

TIME FOR AN UPRISING • While we’re focusing on what competitive play means for Flesh & Blood, there’s an uprising afoot. We spoke to the game’s designer and founder of Legend Story Studios, James White, about the new set, called Uprising.

HOW TO BECOME A FLESH & BLOOD CHAMPION • We asked Matt Rogers for his tips on becoming a competitive card game champion.

REAL TIME STRATEGY • Can the designers of the Escape the Dark… series bring us a true taste of real time strategy games on our tabletop?

COMBINED ARMS • THE WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN GAME

CELEBRATING LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT AND TOLKIEN ON OUR TABLETOPS

GAMES AREN’T JUST FOR GAMERS • Games transcend their intended audiences, if we let them, argues Chris Lowry

LONG SHOT: THE DICE GAME • We look at the oddities of this horse racing hit, and find ourselves on the edge of our seats for the final furlong

GO BIG OR GO HOME • Monster mountaineering has never felt so appealing

IRELAND

SERIOUSLY? • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

20006 • As the board game industry continues to expand, numerous board games themselves see their own beloved expansions

I HAVE THE POWER • We call on the power of Castle Greyskull to make a new He-Man miniatures game

PLAYED

VOICES IN MY HEAD • Brain boxed

FREIGHT CARS • Pieces of fr-eight

LUNA CAPITAL • Moon tycoon

FJORDS • Your chance to out-do Slartibartfast

ASSASSIN’S CREED: VALHALLA ORLOG DICE GAME

ROLL IN ONE

ART DECKO • Galleries and salaries

HIDDEN LEADERS • Tug of war with a splash of personality

RELOAD • Drop, Fight, Reload

FREE RADICALS • Free, but at what cost?

CRESCENT MOON • May it never wane

ECHOES: THE MICROCHIP

THREE SISTERS

ZOMBIE PRINCESS AND THE ENCHANTED MAZE • No brainer

FIRE AND STONE • A paleolithic playground of discovery

THE THING: INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31 • Trust’s a tough thing to come by these days

EVERWAY: SILVER ANNIVERSARY EDITION • Reject dice, embrace destiny

MYSTIC VALE: ESSENTIAL...