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

WHAT’S HOT? • Join us as we take a closer look at some of the new titles that are catching the eye of the gaming community. Which games are getting people talking and are they worthy of a spot on your shelf?

WELLMET • John Dodd, owner of Dragonmeet – if the ink’s dry on that paperwork – checks out of the Novotel and heads for Excel, taking the small convention feel with him

LUCCA COMICS & GAMES 2025 PREVIEW • Critical Role’s Italian job heads up a stellar gaming lineup at Lucca’s pop culture celebration

CITY UNDER SIEGE • George Chrysostomou spends a weekend at the Carcassonne Game Festival

BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE • The exciting new version of Star Wars: Legion is out now, and we caught up with Will Shick of Atomic Mass Games to find out what happens next

Immerse yourself in the world of tabletop GAMING

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK • asmodee Kids is adapting iconic games for a younger generation: think Splendor Kids and Dixit Kids!

YOU SANK MY… BRENDA TALAJIC • Jeffrey Chan, founder of Ice Makes, mixed Battleships with Dead by Daylight to make the modern horror classic Terrorscape. He reveals what’s lurking in Season 2

THE INDIE ROUNDUP • As the nights draw in and the days get colder, we gather together. The warmth of home, company and a good story pulls us in. It’s the season of spooky tales and spine-tingling narratives and this issue’s column takes you into the dark corners of the indie RPG scene, with games to delight and terrify in equal measure

BIG LITTLE MINIS • Edward Morris and Chris Foley of XWC Miniatures and Moon Beast Games are bringing HP Lovecraft’s creations to (larger than) life

THE HORROR OF GMING! • Becky Annison and Joshua Fox tackle the terrors of deep space and disappointed roleplayers with their innovative game systems

10 OF THE BEST HORROR GAMES • Horror on the tabletop comes in many forms: creeping dread, frantic survival or the chaos of shooting monsters with a shotgun. From Lovecraftian madness to vampiric chases, these games deliver the thrills, tension and occasional nervous laughter that make horror gaming such a blast

around the world in 80 plays NORWAY

UNBOXED: TRICK TAKING • This issue we widen our scope out from a single game, as trick-taking expert Taylor Reiner teaches us a few new tricks

ON THE CARDS • I’ll have it on the side

IT’S GOOD TO BE DUMB(O) • Dumbo from the Fabled set is flying high, but who else has made their mark?

tabletop Legacy… KORY HEATH • Few designers have mastered the modern abstract as well as Kory Heath, who includes Zendo, The Gang and Blockers in his canon

TIMELINES • A trip through the Realms of Wizards of the Coast

WHAT’S IN THE BOX? • Beadle & Grimm’s took the idea of creating premium Dungeons & Dragons products and packed handcrafted, imaginative experiences into every box. Jon Ciccolini lifts the lid on its latest city-based shenanigans

BIOMOS • Somewhere deep in the cosmos, life is forming

RINGER • You gotta roll with it

BRICK LIKE THIS! • Are you one brick short of a load?

DYING MESSAGE • Can you read the hastily scrawled signs?

EMERALD SKULLS • All gambling, all the time!

HITSTER: GUILTY PLEASURES • Bring on the cheese!

HOT STREAK • Laugh at dummies in suits, make money

OCTOCUBE • Will you be attracted to this magnetic set collector?

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