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

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NO MORE COMPONENTS PLEASE! • Ben Maddox tells us why we should give up on the plastic and embrace the humble cube

10 OF THE BEST BIG GAMES IN SMALL BOXES • It’s great to pop a few games in your bag for a trip away, and even better if they have some meat on the bones. Here’s ten of our favourite small box games that require some genuine brain power.

Role Call • We've got a lot of adventuring to do in this month’s ROLE CALL, with trips to the far future, a draconic island, and… the slightly less far future

BETRAYAL AT HOUSE ON THE HILL • We take a look at the endlessly replayable Betrayal at House on the Hill – and discover our inner traitors

The Soloist THE VALLEY STANDARD • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: a system for journaling

my favourite game TOM BREWSTER • Shut Up & Sit Down’s Tom Brewster tells us why Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile is the storytelling game for him

40 YEARS OF FIGHTING FANTASY • Forty years on we look at a series that brought so many gamers, and designers, into the hobby

THE TOP 10 FIGHTING FANTASY BOOKS

TITANS OF FIGHTING FANTASY • What’s your favourite book in the series?

SPELLJAMMER RETURNS • Time to brush up on your fantasy astrophysics as we hop into a space galleon to discover what’s out there amongst the spheres

OUT OF TIME (AS WELL AS SPACE) • The reappearance of Spelljammer for many is a blast from the past. We asked game designer and roleplaying game adventure connoisseur Chris Bissette for what the setting means to him

VENGEANCE: ROLL & FIGHT • Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but the real-time action dice rolling Vengeance: Roll & Fight might heat things up a bit

JIANGSHI: BLOOD IN THE BANQUET HALL • Hopping vampires and running a restaurant collide in this ENNIE award winning roleplaying game

UNDER SIEGE • The next step for the Undaunted series is a big one – a huge part of World War II and a frankly huge box. Welcome to Stalingrad

TO THE SKIES

around the world in 80 plays ESTONIA

WHAT’S IN A GAME? HAVE YOU GOT AN ALIBI? • We all know games are good for us, but in what way? Each month Tim Clare untangles the science and philosophy behind what makes games good

ACCIDENTALLY SOLO AGAIN • Each month our in-house agony aunt answers your ludological lamentations

2008 • Sci-Fi and Silliness abound as massively influential games come into orbit!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN! • Our live show is finally back – and here’s a peek at what you might be able to get your hands on in Manchester.

SEVEN HOT GAMES TO SEE & PLAY AT TTGL • That’s what we’re here to do, right? Here’s a few of our picks for games to get your hands on.

NOT AT PLAY • It’s not all games after all – here’s a few of the gaming adjacent highlights from the upcoming show

FIVE INDIE GEMS TO CHECK OUT • There’s been an indie games boom over the last few years, and here’s some of our favourites to see at the show

PLAYED

AIR, LAND & SEA: SPIES, LIES & SUPPLIES • A good war deserves a sequel

SOUNDS FISHY • Hard of Herring

LEGENDS OF SLEEPY HOLLOW • Gothic Americana ready to haunt your kitchen table

THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI • It’s a pirate’s life for one of us

HONK!

FULL THROTTLE

MERCHANTS OF THE DARK ROAD • Winter is coming. But...