ALUBARI: A NICE CUP OF TEA

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At a Glance

While the events calendar for 2020 is a complete mess, you can still save a date for us

First Turn

The master tactician behind Root casts his mind back to his historical 2015 debut: Pax Pamir

Ten of the Best

Feeling under siege these days? We’ve gathered together some of the best ‘tower defence’ games. Games that see you trying to survive waves of enemies, and sometimes, give you the chance to build your defences. Most of these can be played solo, a useful thing to know for these strange times

Role Call

We’ve got a whole pile of revolutionary new RPG books inbound this month, ranging from sci-fi mysteries through to post-mortem adventures

Have You Played?

Lead your friends astray with cleverly laid wordtraps, misleading puns and outright bluffing in a game that’ll teach you a lot about how your friends read the world in Decrypto

All the Jahres

James Wallis replays the winners of the Spiel des Jahres so you don’t have to

My Favourite Game

Writer of the Kings of War Roleplaying games, and soon to be released Devil’s Run RPG, Marc Langworthy takes us to the futuristic trenches of Corvus Belli’s Infinity to show us what sci-fi wargames should be

The Indie Shelf

The terror of the supernatural deep comes to us… in ‘zine form

Unearthed Artefact

++YEAR 3158++UNAUTHORISED TRANSMISSION++ --GAME FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION-- {lockdown}

Cardboard Manifesto

Tidy boxes, tidy minds. Or something like that. We explore the smallest hill on which to die when talking about games: how good the storage is in the box

Microgame of the Month: Robo-Oh, No!

A FREE GAME FOR YOU TO PLAY INSIDE EVERY ISSUE OF TABLE TOPGAMING!

Around the World in 80 Plays

This month we hop back over to Central Europe, setting

Event Report: Airecon 2020 Picture Special

Unbeknownst to us at the time, Airecon was likely to be the last convention we attended for a few months. Here’s a celebration of some of the best bits from the show

Shop Spotlight

Managing director Steven Johnston talks us through the wargaming scene in Middlesborough

Tabletop Time Machine

Way back in the stone age (c.1970s) I had what I thought

The Defence of Procyon III

War is a messy, complicated kind of hell for the most part – especially when fighting on two fronts. Except for when you apply the mind of David Turczi – a designer attempting to wrestle with the challenge of designing an Ameritrash wargame, with the heart of a Eurogame

How We Made

Christian Martinez explains how he created the Celtic themed Inis

Roll Player

As soon as we began telling stories, we also began creating new worlds, filling them with exuberant details from our imagination, shaping them to be our escape from everyday life. We explore the world of Roll Player and discover how a game about creating fantasy characters started a whole new universe

My City

Legacy games seem to be at the height of their popularity, so it’s unusual that Reiner Knizia is making one – after all, doesn’t he usualy set trends? We discuss city building, legacy and what’s so wrong with downtime

Court of the Dead

Overthrowing the current regime often has a lot of appeal, but smart schemers know that there needs to be something there to fill the power-vacuum. Will it be you? Tom Gilliland offers us the choice between selfishness and salvation

How to Play RPGs Online

Roleplaying games have always been the easiest games to take with you. A handful of dice, a book to refer to if you get stuck, a pen, some paper, and your imagination are all you need. So it makes sense that these adventures in the theatre of the mind translate to our currently, slightly more online, times…

EXPLORER’S GUIDE TO WILDEMOUNT

Cracking open the pages of the latest tie-in between

CLINIC: DELUXE EDITION

Writing about a hospital game during a pandemic is

SHADOWS OF KILFORTH: A FANTASY QUEST GAME

You just can’t keep a good Gloom down

DUNGEON MAYHEM: MONSTER MADNESS

Monster Madness is the second expansion for the cutesified

THE ISLE OF CATS

It’s not purrfect, but it’s better than the musical

VILLAGEO

Town planners often get a bad reputation. Their love

ZOMBIES!!! VEGAS

Zombies!!! Vegas is a new instalment in the Zombies!!!

AFTERSHOCK: SAN FRANCISCO AND VENICE

A global crisis has led to the collapse of vital infrastructure

DWARVEN MINER REFORGED

Rather Dashing Games’ reboot/ sequel Dwarven Miner

BLACK VOID

A whole lot of something

DICETOPIA

Your (not so) friendly neighbourhood dice

VOTE ME

Improv is a critical skill for the blossoming politician.

HATS

Although, it is not a trick-taking game, Hats, a small

ORIFLAMME

Is this the banner of a new champion?

MIYABI

There’s a certain draw to gardening for board game

THE DEADLIES

Among the almost infinite number of cards games that

NINE TILES PANIC

As one of Oink’s bigger games, Nine Tiles Panic is

WAVELENGTH

Don’t touch that dial

EXPEDITION TO NEWDALE

Goodness gracious me, just me

ROBOTECH: ATTACK ON THE SDF-1

A great co-operative game brings players together where

ANIMAL KINGDOMS

Every kingdom has laws which must be followed without

FAFNIR

Fafnir is a chicken that lays gems. For some reason

ODYSSEY OF THE DRAGONLORDS

‘Epic’ is a word that gets thrown around pretty loosely

ADVENTURE MART

Lose yourself in the magical world of retail

Painting Guide

Flick on the bat-signal. We’ve got a colour palette that, even if we weren’t born in, we have at least adopted

Dungeon Master’s Guide to Roleplaying

Pouring enemy spam on to players is no fun, but an organically occurring flow of enemies who heard the noise down the hall makes for dramatic showdowns and getaways. We discuss when to call in the reinforcements