TAKENOKO

WELCOME

Summer has arrived in both sun and rain,

AT A GLANCE

TABLETOP GAMING LIVE 2020 CANCELLED 2021 dates announced,

ISAAC CHILDRES

Just do this in a way where, if

10 OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY IN UNDER 15 MINS

We’ve all been there, running around with a pocket watch like the white  rabbit, keeping an eye on the fifteen minutes to spare before time runs out, and watching it tick away instead of doing anything. Well, put down the pocket watch, and fill that time with these quick games instead

ROLE CALL

Summer is here, and so are a whole heap of new games and supplements to try out at the garden table

ALL THE JAHRES

JUST ONE Year of win: 2019 Designers: Ludovic

FEROX 

Join us for a nostalgic trip to in the gut-turning world of 80s video nasties, B-movie gore, and exploitation cinema in, Ferox

TALKING TABLETOP: FEROX

We talk to Brad and Ryan of Craft Fair Games about their attempt to bring grindhouse to your house

FRANK WEST

Frank West, creator of Isle of Cats and The City of Kings, shows us the safe way to look at Eclipse, and how it shaped him as a game designer

SWEDEN

After last month’s journey through the expansive lands

LEARNING AS WE GO

Games have something to teach us, if only we’d listen, says James Wallis

THE ORKEGON TRAIL

A FREE GAME FOR YOU TO PLAY INSIDE EVERY ISSUE OF TABLETOP GAMING!

TIER AUF TIER

So many of the animals died. Animal upon

C400 GWYDDBWYLL

The Ballinderry gameboard, found in West Meath in

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Elizabeth Hargrave returns in her full-sized post-Wingspan follow-up butterfly migration game, Mariposas

SUBURBIA

We talk to Ted Alspach about building skyscrapers and settling down in Suburbia

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LORDS OF VEGAS

Taking a stroll down The Strip with Mike Selinker and James Ernest as we look back on one of their biggest board game achievements

MARKING TERRITORY

We talk strategy with Stanislav Kordonskiy in his unique wargame set in the medieval land of the Kievian Rus, and the controversy it sparked today

ONE POINT OF DIFFERENCE

We discover the art of itten, the Japanese games publisher s culpting their way into our hearts

THE GHOST WHO WALKS

They don’t all have to assemble, in fact, some superheroes don’t have ‘super’ powers at all. We talk to Mikael Lyck, the designer of a card game about a superhero you’ve probably never heard of

ALL THE THINGS THAT BILBO BAGGINS HATES…

Middle-earth is usually a harrowing place of running from barrow-wights or rousing dragons, but not if we  go right back to the start

RURIK: DAWN OF KIEV

Designer: Stanislav Koronskiy | Publisher: Piecekeeper Games R

OCEANS

Designers: Nick Bentley, Dominic Crapuchettes, Ben Goldman, Brian

THE LOST CITADEL

Designers: Various | Publisher: Green Ronin There have

RATZZIA

Designer: Sophia Wagner | Publisher: Devir Games Solidarity

UNDAUNTED: NORTH AFRICA

Designer: Trevor Benjamin & David Thompson | Publisher:

UNDAUNTED:NORTH AFRICA

Can you introduce yourselves? David Thompson: I grew

KING OF TOKYO: DARK EDITION

Designer: Richard Garfield | Publisher: IELLO Special editions of

PATHFINDER 2ND EDITION: BESTIARY 2

Designer: Various | Publisher: Paizo Varied and exciting

SILVER & GOLD

Designer: Phil Walker-Harding | Publisher: NSV Seven years

CHARTAE

Designer: Reiner Knizia | Publisher: Galactic XVgames Chartae

KUNIUMI

Designer: Ignazio Panades | Publisher: XVgames In Japanese

NESSOS

Designer: Takaaki Sayama & Toshiki Arao | Publisher:

MONSTER BABY RESCUE!

Designer: Vladimir Suchy | Publisher: Delicious Games Vladimir

BEAK, FEATHER & BONE

Designer: Tyler Crumrine | Publisher: Tyler Crumrine 33

HI LO FLIP

Designer: Garrett J. Donner & Michael S. Steer

BREAK THE CODE

Designer: Ryohei Kurahashi| Publisher: IELLO At some point

LORDS OF WATERDEEP

Designers: Peter Lee & Rodney Thompson | Publisher:

TIME STORIES REVOLUTION: THE HADAL PROJECT

Designer: Kevin Delp, Melissa Delp, Manuel Rozoy |

NI NO KUNI II: THE BOARD GAME

Designer: Bryce Johnston & Steve Margetson | Publisher:

GAME OF HAM

Designer: Uncredited | Publisher: Game of HAM LLC

METRO X

Designer: Hisashi Hiyashi | Publisher: Gamewright Hisashi Hiyashi

STARCADIA QUEST: BUILD-A-ROBOT

Designer: Eric M. Lang, Fred Perret, Guilherme Goulart,

PAPAGENO

Designer: Kevin Kim | Publisher: HELVETIQ Papageno is

UNDERWATER CITIES

Designer: Vladimir Suchy | Publisher: Delicious Games The

UNDERWATER CITIES: NEW DISCOVERIES

Designer: Vladimir Suchy | Publisher: Delicious Games Underwater

GODTEAR ETERNAL GLADE STARTER SET

PAINTS & TECHNIQUES » Agrax Earthshade » Baharroth

PRE-WRITTEN PLANNING

We explore the myths at the heart of using pre-written campaigns, and whether it’ll really save you more time than just sketching a campaign out on the bus on the way home