Features (Page 3)
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Feature: Yu-Gi-Oh!’s strangest monsters are back, and they could shake-up the TCG’s competitive scene
Looking back on the long and bumpy history of ritual monsters.
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The Spiel des Jahres doesn’t deserve to be board gaming’s biggest award in 2023
40-plus years on, the German prize is still the most prestigious accolade a board game can receive - despite a very spotty history of winners.
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It’s about time we got a Viva Pinata board game
A smashing idea.
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Best of the rest: 8 Spiel des Jahres winners you haven’t heard of
Winning board gaming's biggest Game of the Year prize doesn’t always mean going down in the history books.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Cats, casters,currents and cantankerous gods.
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An Inception version of Blades in the Dark would be a dream collaborative RPG
It’s time to bring the franchise out of limbo.
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Principal designer Sandro Sammarco talks lore, adaptation and storytelling ahead of an open beta for the upcoming RTS.
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Feature: Here’s how the Adventure Time RPG’s new Yes And system works
Come on, grab your dice.
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10 must-see board games to check out at Gen Con 2023
From excellent publishers to exciting licensed games.
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D&D 5E's worst subclass has finally got a fix in One D&D
This much-maligned Monk subclass might finally be worth playing.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
One bumper edition!
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10 best D&D character creators
Spark inspiration and get roleplaying quickly with these character creation tools.
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Empyreal is the perfect train game for people who don’t like train games
One to choo-choo-choose.
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10 best Commander cards in Magic: The Gathering 2023
One in a hundred.
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“It's always been important to engage with this kind of work. It just wasn't done before.”
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Fantastical adventures
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One set to guide them all.
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6 tabletop RPGs like Final Fantasy to play after you finish FFXVI
Da-da-da-daa-dice.
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An exclusive first look at KC Shi’s upcoming game of cooking, combat and eco-awareness as its quickstart rules release.
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Why the Disney Lorcana lawsuit matters, and every tabletop creator should be paying attention
Protecting ideas lies along a thin line of safeguarding creators’ work without stifling creativity and innovation.
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Feature: South Korea’s Yu-Gi-Oh! scene is a TCG community unlike anywhere else in the world
The heart in the cards.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Monsters, mayhem and Mordor.
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6 tabletop RPGs like Fable to play until the new game releases
For the finest adventures in Albion.
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5 best solo RPGs you can play by yourself
Introspective retrospective.
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Feature: Sudoku meets Minesweeper in nifty puzzle board game Tiwanaku - hands-on impressions
It’s definitely a grower.
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Love wrapping your head around board games? You should read Ulysses
Say Yes this Bloomsday.
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Not exactly meteoric.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Painting, apawthecary and more!
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Feature: Blue-Eyes White Dragon for dessert? We tried Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Japan-only 25th anniversary food menu
The hungriest heart of the cards.
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Can it go the distance?
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Feature: Candela Obscura’s first mystery will be solving the horror RPG’s identity crisis
The first new tabletop RPG from Critical Role feels more like Diet Blades with a splash of Vaesen.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Masks, magic, marines and music.
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10 board games and tabletop RPGs to check out at UK Games Expo 2023
It's time to take a trip to Birmingham.
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Commander is the best way to play Magic: The Gathering
Bigger is better.
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Ameritrash is dead - long live Ameritrash
How two opposing styles of board game found harmony.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Suffragettes, legends, Romans and mice.
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Poll: Do you prefer playing with miniatures or meeples?
Counter-attack.
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6 best Cyberstorm Access cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!’s latest set
Unleash the set's evolutionary new cards.
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An unproven deck faced near-unbeaten consistency amidst the first mid-season rotation in over a decade.
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Poll: How important is a board game's artwork to you?
Different strokes for different folks.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Playing games Till the Last Gasp.
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Feature: Dead Cells’ board game nails the roguelike genre - and I’m finally hooked
Hands-on with the latest video game adaptation.
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As well as Terra Mystica, Anachrony and Trickerion.
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Poll: What's your favourite setting for board games?
Let's do the time warp again.
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7 tabletop RPGs like Zelda to play when you’ve finished Tears of the Kingdom
Take the hero of time into your roleplaying games
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Feature: Warhammer 40k’s 10th Edition has turned me around from the missteps of 9E
Consumed by the Leviathan.
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Feature: March of the Machine: Aftermath is a Magic: The Gathering oddity in every possible way
Picking up the pieces.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
From real history to great fiction.
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How Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom channel the spirit of D&D and tabletop RPGs
Freedom is the number one Hy-rule.
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Is Critical Role’s Campaign 3 the end of Exandria?
Signs point to Campaign 3 being the last, at least with the Critical Role cast we’re used to.
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Poll: Do you buy fewer board games nowadays?
Hey big spender.
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SPONSORED: 5 ways The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying brings Middle-earth to D&D 5E
One Ring to roll them all.
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I’ve never been this close to ditching D&D - but will others follow?
Inertia and dragons.
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10 best March of the Machine: Aftermath cards in Magic: The Gathering’s latest set
Boast in the machine.
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Poll: Are you going to pick up Warhammer 40,000: 10th Edition?
A change of Leviathan proportions.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Magic, moles and Mancunians.
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The wargame’s fun, welcoming community outshone long queues, limited tables and crowded talks.
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10 best Fire-type Pokémon cards
Hot picks.
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Mario Party proves that unfair board games like Monopoly can be fun
Nasty, but nice.
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6 best cheap board games under £15
Spend less, play more.
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The traditional ‘Jaguar Game’ has broken down barriers to education and conservation awareness.
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Feature: Every spell cast in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
From Arcane Gate to Chaos Bolt.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Trains, guns and Japanese warfare.
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Poll: Do you prefer hexes or squares in your board games?
Shaping your mind up.
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Clash of Cultures is the greatest Civilization board game without Sid Meier in its name
You have discovered Entertainment.
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6 best Aliens board games to play this (and every) Alien Day
They’re coming outta the goddamn shelves!
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One D&D's new Dungeon Master’s Guide could fix 5E's biggest problem
The new Dungeon Master’s Guide is getting a big reset.
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Feature: The history of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Exodia, the most complicated win condition in trading card games
Victory for an arm and a leg?
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Magic, gloom and My Little Pony.
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Poll: How many games do you back on Kickstarter each year?
Put your money where your mouth is.
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Battles throughout the multiverse.
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The most legendary Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in the TCG’s new Legendary Collection
You’ve activated my nostalgia trap card!
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Feature: Pokémon TCG champions give their tips on how to be the very best
You teach me and I’ll teach you.
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The D&D movie skips over Cleric and Monk, but will they feature next time around?
Not every D&D class is in attendance, but that could change with Honor Among Thieves 2.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
There’s magic in the air.
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7 best hidden movement board games
Stealth on your shelf.
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Forget Honor Among Thieves sequels or a TV show – Dungeons & Dragons should get a stage musical next
Pray for bardic inspiration.
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Feature: An introduction to Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel, the faster, simpler reboot breathing fresh life into the TCG
Why you should play Rush Duel, if you ever can.
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A bunch of eXtremely eXtraordinary and eXacting eXamples of 4X games.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Tell us what’s on your table.
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Feature: The next D&D movie could see the party level up – here’s what to expect
What a little XP could do for Honor Among Thieves’ adventurers
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6 D&D adventures that should inspire the Honor Among Thieves sequel
Classic modules worthy of the big-screen treatment.
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The decades-old franchise continues to be well worth picking up for the first time.
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Without Catan, board gaming as we know it today wouldn’t exist
A look back on Catan’s lasting legacy following the death of designer Klaus Teuber.
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5 things Honor Among Thieves gets right about D&D - and 3 it gets wrong
The Dungeons & Dragons movie already looks like a hit, but how faithful is it to 5E?
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5 best miniatures paints that aren’t Citadel - and what to use them for
Broaden your painting horizons by dipping your toe, or your brush, into some ranges other than Games Workshop’s hobby juggernaut.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Tell us what’s on your table.
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Honor Among Thieves owes a lot to this classic D&D adventure
The new D&D movie’s baddies and setting of Neverwinter pay a debt to an underrated Fourth Edition module.
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Author and D&D expert Michael Witwer on the elf ranger’s long history - and why he deserves a movie.
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The long and Klawf of it.
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Feature: An Awkward transition: How the creators of your favourite PS2 quiz game went from pixels to paper
‘I like the purity of board games; you can just really focus on creating the fun.’