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

Welcome

ROLLING THE DICE • Dice, adventure, and comradery, D&D celebrates its 50th anniversary

THAT’S HOMEBREW! • Eight D&D Fifth Edition rules that are so common in games, that you may never have known they’re homebrewed

GETTING STARTED WITH RPGS • So, you’ve never played an RPG before? Have no fear, we’ve got a quick guide for what you need to know!

ON THE DOWNLOAD • The tabletop hobby is one that is anchored in the physical – but when we have to, how do we go digital?

BEST OF THE INDIE SCENE • D&D may be the best known, but what if you fancy playing something else?

A BEGINNERS’S GUIDE TO SOLO TTRPGs • No group? No problem!

D&D AND ME • Tristan Hall, designer of Gloom of Kilforth, muses the experiences of RPGs that shaped his design career

ROLEPLAY? NO WAY! • Taking the RPG out of D&D, Chris Marling has the best ways to play in the epic Dungeons & Dragons world, without needing to do the roleplaying alongside it…

BENEFITS OF D&D FOR KIDS • Mae Funnell takes us through why parents shouldn’t sleep on the benefits of RPGs for their children

INTRODUCING BEYOND CATACLYSM • A.K.A. Starting a Gaming Company by Accident

ON THE SAME PAGE • How do you keep all of your players on the same page?

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • Each month, we dive into the topic of the issue, and coincidentally, we’re discussing RPGs this time around. So, this presents a chance to look at one of the biggest tropes of the RPG world and how it can be best utilised within a campaign. As always, these are just the basics, where you go from here is entirely up to you as you morph these concepts and premises to suit the narrative you’re building. And don’t worry, you can apply these basics to any RPG you like to play, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Star Wars Roleplaying Game

WIZARDS, WITS AND DICE ROLLS • Standing on the shoulders of turtles, we’ve a Q&A with the designers of the new Discworld RPG

ON THE CARDS • We look ahead at some of the biggest trading card game news of the month and discover what’s on the cards…

BE PREPARED • …For competition, as Ross Gilbert investigates the Disney Lorcana competitive scene in detail

around the world in 80 plays CHILE

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 the terminology, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all

HOLLYWOOD 1947 • Play it, folks, play as time goes by!

RAFTER FIVE • There’s room on the raft, Jack

THE PLOT THICKENS: DETECTIVE • You’re going to need the deerstalker and your thinking cap for this one

CARDS VS GRAVITY PRO • A perfect pub game

MASS EFFECT: THE BOARD GAME – PRIORITY: HAGALAZ • For those who know Krogans from Quarians

SAND • A gritty experience

FREAKY FROGS FROM OUTASPACE • Ain’t seen nothing like it, in any convention hall

CARTAVENTURA D-DAY • Vive la France!

SOSIG • Lay cards to become the weiner

YOKAI SKETCH • Drawing a Blank

DINO DAYS • Sunday’s child is… a triceratops?!

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