Features Archive
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Co-creators Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson-Morgan on drawing from classic sci-fi and moving away from D&D’s “old racist shit”.
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Feature: Here are some of the best tabletop sessions from PAX Online x EGX Digital 2020
Queue up some of the best videos you might’ve missed at the online convention.
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The mind behind Riot’s latest tabletop release on designing a traditional game, relying on memory and the potential for a League of Legends roll-and-write.
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Feature: 7 board games to check out at PAX Online x EGX Digital
Get onboard with these tabletop titles.
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Exploring the Dungeons & Dragons cosplay community, how to start and why it’s worth doing.
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Feature: The fatigue and loneliness of playing tabletop RPGs online in a pandemic
For players used to the intimacy of face-to-face sessions, taking games such as Dungeons & Dragons onto the internet can be exhausting and alienating.
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Like chess? Here's why you’ll love its Japanese cousin, shogi
Generals interest.
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Feature: ‘It was a mess’: The disappearance and return of legendary ’80s board game Dark Tower
In 1981, there was no game bigger. Then it vanished. What happened to Dark Tower, and why is there such hunger for it to come back?
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'Red was always kind of in development, but the video game really pushed it into overdrive.'
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a perfect evolution of the video games
It’s super effective.
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Reprints and rares both essential and exorbitant.
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“I would lie awake at night thinking how fun a dungeon crawl would be.”
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“There were a whole lot of people that thought it was an evil company.”
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Digital board games don’t match the physical experience - and that can be a good thing
Some tabletop games aren’t the same when you can’t touch their bits and pieces... or are they?
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Two halves make a whole lot of fun.
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And talks joining forces with his brother Drew for Wehrlegig Games.
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The designers discuss closure in Season 0, the trilogy’s influence and whether there’s a chance they’ll ever return.
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Black board games are key to the future of tabletop
New voices and perspectives at the table benefit everyone.
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Feature: How Magic: The Gathering’s biggest fan landed the role of a lifetime as its head designer
Mark Rosewater on discovering the card game, working with Richard Garfield and balancing his professional and personal passion.
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Oath could finally deliver on the exciting lost potential of legacy board games
All of the memories with none of the sacrifice.
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Railroading doesn’t have to be a dirty word in tabletop RPGs
Giving players just enough guidance can enhance, rather than diminish, their role in a story and world.
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Feature: Indie video game platform Itch.io has given tabletop RPG designers a new way to thrive
Through kindness and community.
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Feature: Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer on world-building in D&D and creating Wildemount
Plus, whether he’d rather live in the homeland of Vox Machina or the Mighty Nein.
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Feature: "They’re gods you could go have a beer with": Eric Lang talks Ankh: Gods of Egypt
Behind the stories, surprises and down-to-Earth deities in the epic finale to the designer’s mythic trilogy.
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Feature: Burgle Bros. 2 board game preview - a tighter co-op caper that sneaks in new surprises
Ocean's 11 by way of legacy board games, Betrayal at House on the Hill and Left 4 Dead.
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Feature: Where to Start With… deckbuilding board games
Building up your confidence.
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Feature: 30 years on, fantasy board game HeroQuest is still inspiring modern dungeon-crawlers
From Gloomhaven to Star Wars: Imperial Assault, the legacy of a groundbreaking classic.
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Feature: Schnapsen: the Austrian card game that healed a grieving family
A gaming gift through the generations.
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And the connection between poisonous mushrooms and Magic.
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My one dream, my only dungeon master.
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One of the best board games about war illustrates its futility
What is it good for? Money!
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“It’s a confirmation that all your good ideas aren’t that good.”
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Saving Throw: How Dungeons & Dragons helped me combat my social anxiety
Helping handbook.
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From predicting the internet to breaking it.
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Feature: Pack o Game is the perfect board game collection for players tight on space and cash
A Handy little something.
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Feature: Cyberpunk Red lore guide: the world of the tabletop RPG from 2013 to 2077
Welcome to life on the edge.
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If you want to get into trading card games, Keyforge is the best place to start
Fanning the æmbers.
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Feature: Scythe’s Automa designer on making cardboard AI feel human in solo board games
Singular achievement.
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Why tabletop roleplaying is best when it’s all in your mind
Mind yourself.
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Feature: The joy of modding board games, from house rules to total conversions
Whether you're adding small personal touches or embarking on an ambitious remake, modified board games are a key part of the tabletop hobby.
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How podcasts, social media and Adobe InDesign inspired one of the freshest roleplaying games in years.
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Feature: The Dungeons & Dragons diet: how to eat like an RPG adventurer
Roll on the side?
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Struggling to learn Magic: The Gathering? Try playing aggressively
What is aggro, and why does it suit new players who like to go on the offensive?
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Feature: That time the US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook
"It was dumb, not to put a fine point on it.”
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How deckbuilding in Dominion helped me find real-life happiness
You play the cards you’re dealt.
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Who wouldn’t want to play a Sesame Street TRPG?
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Playing Dungeons & Dragons to win is the most boring way to play
Or; why D&D is like chocolate biscuits and pasta sauce.
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“We’ve had some real shocks where you feel like you have to wash your hands immediately.”
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Feature: Tabletop RPG releases 2020: 10 upcoming roleplaying games you should play this year
From the first Warhammer: Age of Sigmar RPG to Nordic horror and underground cities
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Hera today, gone tomorrow.
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Feature: Board game releases 2020: 10 upcoming board games you should play this year
Pandemic Legacy: Season 3, new Gloomhaven and Root creator’s next game lead the biggest tabletop titles of the next 12 months.
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“It felt like losing a friend.”
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"We wanted each death to be memorable."
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Feature: Meet the Original Dungeons & Dragons diehards still playing by '70s rules
Refusing to roll with the times.
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Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Imperial Settlers designer Ignacy Trzewiczek
The designer of Robinson Crusoe, Detective and more picks his favourite board games of the year.
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Game of the Year 2019: Matt Jarvis' Top 5
Ahead of the Pax.
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Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason
Creative director for Lovecraftian RPG Call of Cthulhu selects his tabletop games of the year.
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Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Sushi Go! designer Phil Walker-Harding
The mind behind Bärenpark, Imhotep and the delicious card game series picks his top five games of 2019.
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Game of the Year 2019: Sara Elsam's Top 5
Crime, cannibals and cursed potions.
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Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Root and Pax Pamir 2E designers Cole and Drew Wehrle
Wehrlegig Games on the appeal of tabletop experiences with an ‘uncompromising vision’.
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Game of the Year 2019: Alex Meehan’s Top 5
A detective skulks into a bar on a quest to forge a key and eat a salad.
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