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

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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

THE INDIE ROUNDUP • If you watched Westworld and thought the frontier lifestyle looked like a desirable holiday location, then these RPGs set in the Wild West are for you. Wearing cowboy boots improves your dice rolls, we promise, or it’s free rot gut all round

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: BLOOD BOWL • Salesman-turned-games-designer Jervis Johnson explains how a fantasy pastiche of American football became an iconic hit

TABLETOP SCOTLAND 2025 • Take a tour around Edinburgh’s premier games event

SERGE LAGET • Warm and caring with a genuine sense of fun and anarchy, Serge Laget’s visions live on at the tabletop

around the world in 80 plays LEBANON

WHAT A LOVELY WAR • The times they are a changing, as Rift technology warps the face of humanity’s war and rewrites its future. But one thing stays the same – you’ll still be able to place your existing Konflikt ’47 miniatures on the tabletop

ARE DIGITAL GAMING TABLES THE FUTURE? • High-definition maps, coloured lights, digital dice and immersive audio are just some of the options on the table

TABLETOP UPGRADES 5 WE LOVE • Sometimes it’s the small changes that make all the difference

RESOURCEFUL BY NATURE • Modern games are tapping into the design of the most influential TCG since Magic: The Gathering – that you’ve probably never heard of

ON THE CARDS • Put a pin in it

YOU’RE GONNA WANNA CHANGE THAT • Rotation is coming to a number of TCGs and it’s going to make some players feel very dizzy

SMALL BUT MIGHTY • Hadi Barkat, founder of Helvetiq – the publisher behind hit games like Bandido and Odin – tells us why size matters

LEARNING THROUGH RPGS • We all enjoy a good TTRPG with friends, but have you ever considered their educational value?

10 OF THE BEST PODCASTS • Podcasts have taken traditional media by storm over the past 20 years, moving at pace from niche to world domination. They’re great for travelling, boring jobs and trying to get to sleep. If you’re new to the experience or looking for a new series, here are some great gaming podcasts, ongoing or complete, to introduce yourself to

MORE THAN THE MAIN EVENT • Did you know UK Games Expo Director Richard Denning is also the Founder and Game Designer of Medusa Games? We wanted to find out more…

PUTTING YOURSELF ON THE MAP • Is there a Ticket to Ride destination for everyone?

YOU MEET IN A TAVERN.. • RPG Taverns is building a gaming community and using its bonus action to make it easier for newcomers to dip their toe into the D&D pond

HEAVEN BOUND • League of Legends trading card game Riftbound is more than just another TCG, as players in China will be happy to tell you

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • We’ve gone from the Wild West to the depths of a haunted theatre, and this month, we’re zoning in on a genre that is starting to make waves again. We’re diving under the sea, for...