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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AT A GLANCE
HOW THEY REMEMBERED THEIR FIRST TIMES • Dan Jolin looks back on five years of interviewing designers about their debuts, and finds a lesson in there for anyone keen to create their own game one day
10 OF THE BEST WOODEN GAMES • Our hobby is dominated by cardboard, with a heavy sprinkling of plastic. Yet, for many of us, some of the games that introduced us to gaming also utilised beautiful wooden components; games like Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne stood apart with the organic joy of their pieces. This month, we thought we would celebrate the games out there that exclusively use wood in their composition.
RoleCall • Summer is here, and so are the big dogs of nerd-dom. Expect everything from Middle-earth to Kronos (that’s where the Klingons live) in this month’s ROLL CALL
SCOTLAND YARD • Get your ‘looking at the board’ caps on (yes, literally) for this game of cat and mouse across old London town
SMALL BOXES ON THE CARDS • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time This month: small box games that pack a big punch
THREE SOLO RESIST GAMES
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JUSTIN KEMPPAINEN • The designer of Wrath of the Lich King tells us about getting over Pandemic, and then falling in love again
THE WAR GOES ON • Ten years on from the second edition being released, we return to the Lord of the Rings game that sparked a love of Tolkien on the tabletop
ENCAPSULATE: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
ONE TO RULE THEM ALL? • Tristan Hall tells us why this card game is the Tolkien masterpiece on our tabletops
FIVE ADVENTURES FOR A FELLOWSHIP • Tristan picks his five favourite expansions for the expansive The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.
THE MANY FACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH • We take a trip around the Middle-earth games that you can make your own
FORMING A FELLOWSHIP • Join us for a look at a direct retelling of the original story of Lord of the Rings, which became what is often called one of the first ‘modern’ co-operative board-games.
REGICIDE • It’s (standard deck of) cards on the table time with this brutal boss battler
BRETWALDA • We discover how to become the Anglo-Saxon king
HAITI
WHAT’S IN A GAME? HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO SPEAK? • We all know games are good for us, but in what way? Each month in this new series, Tim Clare untangles the science and philosophy behind what makes games good.
BAKER BUTCHERS ENLIGHTENED EVENINGS • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations
WRITE FOR THE GALAXY • Can we fit the fight for the galaxy on a piece of paper? We’re about to find out
LAND OF THE RISING FUN • The Japanese hobby scene is starkly different to the English-speaking world’s, so we thought we’d pop in to the biggest event in the Japanese calendar Tokyo Game Market. Here’s our report.
PLAYED
STORM WEAVERS • It blows
DICE THEME PARK • Another day in paradice?
GET ON BOARD: NEW YORK & LONDON • Megabus
ETERNAL PALACE • One thick coat
ROLLING REALMS REVIEW
TACOPOCALYPSE
LUCIDITY: SIX-SIDED NIGHTMARES • A nightmare… no, not like that!
FIRST RAT • A rat race you won’t want to escape
MARVEL CHAMPIONS: THE CARD GAME – SINISTER MOTIVES • A web slinging showdown
KARDASHEV SCALE • A familiar feel with a sci-fi coating
PATHFINDER GOBLIN FIREWORK FIGHT • We be goblins, you be advised to stand...