Features Archive
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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: Matt Jarvis' Top 5
Ahead of the Pax.
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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 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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Why Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is the best tabletop RPG you aren't playing
A roleplaying game to lose your head over.
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Feature: Welcome to Dicebreaker!
Your new home for all things board games, RPGs and tabletop, plus silly jokes.
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Feature: Here are the best new board games to play at PAX Unplugged 2019
The 10 games we’re most excited to check out this weekend in Philly.
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I was a bisexual teen bloodsucker: how Vampire: The Masquerade saved me from early-2000s homophobia
A monstrous supernatural hunter gave me the space and security to, in some weird way, be myself.
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"I don't see a future where a miniatures game player is professional.”
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Catch you on the flip side.
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Dungeons & Dragons' best worst spell: Cooking up chaos and comedy with Conjure Food and Water
'45 pounds of bland but nourishing food'