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.

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Tabletop Gaming

WHAT’S HOT? • Join us as we take a look at some of the new games that are getting people talking. What’s being viewed and reviewed, and is it right up your street or something you’re crossing the road to avoid

UPCOMING INDIE RPGS THE INDIE ROUNDUP • Sports and tabletop games have always had an uneasy alliance and there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to bridge the divide. In recent years, boardgames have started to reverse that trend with titles like Heat, Rallyman GT, and Long Shot: The Dice Game. The world of sports is full of drama off and on the arena of play, and it is here that RPGs can shine

ESSEN SPIEL 2025: HOTTEST GAMES OF THE SHOW • Four days, more than 1,700 games and only so much luggage space? Chris Marling sorts the wheat from the chaff at Germany’s monster games event

A HONKING GOOD TIME! • Two nights away from the world in the company of great games and great gamers, what else could you ask for?

DRAGONMEET 2025 • John Dodd, Owner and Director of Operations, gives us a tour around Dragonmeet’s new location, as the show successfully up sticks from Hammersmith to London Excel

LUCCA COMICS & GAMES 2025 • Italy’s premier pop culture celebration rocked our world

“AN EXCITING, TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE” • Matt Mercer on Daggerheart, ego death and the future of Critical Role

STRANGER THINGS • How that opening Dungeons & Dragons scene set the tone for the whole show

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: THOMAS KOEGLER • The asmodee CEO talks acquisitions (but not his fave game) and inviting a superhero to dinner!

50 YEARS OF GAMES WORKSHOP • From living in a van to being one of the most inspiring figures in gaming, Sir Ian Livingstone on the highs and lows of an iconic UK brand

GAMING: THE GODFATHER OF • From Deep Blue to DeepMind, Arthur Tonnerre ponders what chess, Go and Settlers of Catan can teach us about thinking machines

Immerse yourself in the world of tabletop GAMING

EPIC SUCCESS • Game designer Matt Gilbert introduces the refreshed Mantic Games releases bringing all-out war to a tabletop near you

ON THE CARDS • We’re done when I say we’re done!

EXCITED WHISPERS • Can you hear the Whispers: Gargoyles are coming to Disney Lorcana

KEEP ON RUNNING • A whopping 361 players from 29 countries facing off in a game kept alive by the fans? Iain McAllister jacks into the Netrunner World Championships to gauge the state of this early collectible card game

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and worker placement isn’t part of a recruitment agency. If the terminology used to describe the games we know and love can feel like trying to learn a new language, let our glossary demystify, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all

UNBOXED: MOONSTONE • Tom Greenway, creator of Moonstone, describes what it’s like being an indie publisher and the challenges of making it in the world of miniature gaming

FROM WOODCREEK WITH LOVE • George Chrysostomou heads to a 19th century town in Toronto to hear GM Deborah Ann Woll and player Anjali Bhimani tell spooky Tales from Woodcreek

WITNESS ME! • It all went a bit Mad Max when Apocalypse World was hammered out in The Forge. But husband-and-wife writing duo Meguey and Vincent Baker have more everyday apocalypses on their mind as the 15-year-old RPG gets a third edition

tabletop Legacy… ALAN EMRICH • Few figures in the gaming industry loom as large as Alan...