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“I feel like we told a good story”: Pandemic Legacy creators Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau on ending the series at its beginning

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: “No-one has ever won Dungeons & Dragons”: How Mythic Odysseys of Theros embraces the messier side of D&D 5E

Minotaur illusion.
10 best social deduction games to play after Werewolf

Love the way you lie.
Feature: Magic: The Gathering Core Set 2021 preview - absurd abilities and welcome reprints make for the best Core Set in a long time

Creature comforts.
Best app-assisted board games

You'll appsolutely love these 11 board games for how they seamlessly integrate technology into gameplay to make for an experience unlike any other.

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Feature: 8 ways the Desperados pen-and-paper RPG faithfully captures the video game (Sponsored Content)

d6 shooter.
10 best dungeon-crawler games you should delve into next

Deep dive.
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.
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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Feature: I solved a small-town mystery over WhatsApp in the tense, thrilling teen drama RPG Alice is Missing - Kickstarter preview

Enjoy the silence.
Playing Scythe online has given my life stability in a time of great uncertainty

Steel yourselves.

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10 best auction board games you can bet on for a good time

A winning bid.

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Feature: Outstanding in their Field: The Blood Bowl custodians who have championed tabletop fantasy football for 30 years

Alive and kicking.

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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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6 best escape room games to play at home

Find your way out while staying inside.

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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: Deadlands’ first big update in 15 years is looking like the best edition of the Weird West RPG yet - Kickstarter preview

Manitou good to miss.

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Feature: Pathfinder Adventure Path creators on setting the gold standard in tabletop RPG campaigns

On the right Path.
Feature: Sea of Legends is an ambitious pirate adventure board game with a treasure trove of tales to tell - Kickstarter preview

Sun, sea and sandbox.
10 best train board games to play after Ticket to Ride

All aboard as we run down the best train board games on the tabletop.

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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.
Playing Diplomacy online transformed the infamously brutal board game from unbearable to brilliant

Another backstab at it.

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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.
Feature: Unofficial Dungeons & Dragons miniatures are allowing Patreon creators to turn their hobby into a career

High of the beholder.
Feature: How family classic Yahtzee inspired board gaming's latest trend, the roll-and-write

Rolling with it.
10 best Easter board games to play over the bank holiday weekend

With springtime themes and cute animals, it’s time to crack into the best Easter board games.
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: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount is the most worthwhile D&D 5E book yet, whether you’re a Critical Role fan or not

Im-Mercer yourself.

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Feature: Schnapsen: the Austrian card game that healed a grieving family

A gaming gift through the generations.
Feature: “It was the beginning of a gaming revolution”: Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone talks fantasy, bringing D&D to the UK and the birth of Warhammer

The way is full of peril.

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Feature: Dungeons & Dragons 5E: Eberron - Rising From the Last War lead designer takes us on a magic-powered airship ride through divided lands and the remnants of war

Full steam ahead.

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Feature: The authors of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were roleplaying long before Dungeons & Dragons

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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Feature: Scythe, Pandemic Legacy and Yogi creators on the unending, essential process of playtesting board games to perfection

“It’s a confirmation that all your good ideas aren’t that good.”

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Feature: From Star Wars to Stranger Things, tabletop RPGs are letting fans explore and expand the pop culture worlds they love

Fan power.
Saving Throw: How Dungeons & Dragons helped me combat my social anxiety

Helping handbook.

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10 best Dungeons & Dragons 5E RPG campaigns

Modern D&D campaigns that are critical hits.

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Feature: How ambitious music-mixing card game DropMix escaped obscurity to become a modern cult classic

Harmonixed.

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Cards Against Humanity is a terrible party game because it laughs at the expense of others

Party pooper.

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Feature: Magic: The Gathering’s Unsanctioned Un-set is a surreal smackdown that breaks all the rules - and it’s perfect for beginners

Un-real.

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Feature: Magic: The Gathering’s Theros: Beyond Death set is a wild, cosmic ride through myth and madness

Hera today, gone tomorrow.

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Feature: ‘Making Cyberpunk Red almost killed us’: Mike Pondsmith on the return of the tabletop RPG, catching up with 2020’s future and Cyberpunk 2077

From predicting the internet to breaking it.
The Resistance: Avalon, a party game about lying, is the perfect icebreaker

Arthur truth.

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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.
Feature: Mutant Year Zero: How the end of the world created one of the tabletop’s brightest companies

A Ligan of their own.

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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.
Feature: Pokémon TCG’s Sword & Shield expansion has British whimsy, haunted tea sets and a super-sized Snorlax - hands-on gameplay impressions

Can you Nickitt? (Yes, you can.)
Why tabletop roleplaying is best when it’s all in your mind

Mind yourself.
Feature: 10 easily forgotten Dungeons & Dragons 5E rules you’re getting wrong - and why you should be using them

Mind Strayer.

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"It's difficult to keep things fresh": Pandemic creator Matt Leacock on Legacy, co-ops and Lego

A viral success.

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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.
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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10 best rules-light and storytelling RPGs for beginners

Tabletop RPG games light on rules, and heavy of story.

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“I won’t rest until Instagram influencers are posing with the game book”: Quest creator TC Sottek on making the world’s friendliest RPG

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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Feature: Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters bridges the gap between board game and RPG

Once bitten.
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?
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.
Feature: 7 incredible pop culture worlds that should be turned into tabletop RPGs, from His Dark Materials to Avatar

Who wouldn’t want to play a Sesame Street TRPG?

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Feature: Shedding light on World of Darkness, the gothic-punk universe of RPG Vampire: The Masquerade

A bloody good time.

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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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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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Feature: Fake board games: the counterfeits of Pandemic, Catan and more putting happiness, health and the hobby at risk

“We’ve had some real shocks where you feel like you have to wash your hands immediately.”

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Board games form human connections in a world that increasingly seeks to sever them

Check mates.
Feature: A first look at Parks: Memories, this year’s follow-up to the beautiful board game about hiking across the US

Taking a new path.

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Feature: From Doom to Cthulhu Wars: Sandy Petersen on 35 years of tabletop design, Lovecraft and leaving video games behind

“I got my toys!”

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Feature: ‘There are dogs operating blacksmith shops and being apothecaries’: Inside the world of Animal Adventures: Gullet Cove, an RPG for pet lovers

Pawcerers and Barkbarians.

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Why Legend of the Five Rings should be the next fantasy RPG to become a TV show after The Witcher

Toss a koku.
Magic: The Gathering's Theros: Beyond Death is a perfect tribute to Greek mythology

Homer run.

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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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Feature: The afterlife of Android: Netrunner - the community taking a beloved card game's future into their own hands

“It felt like losing a friend.”

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Feature: Adeptus Titanicus: the staggering Warhammer 40,000 game where stories loom as large as mechs

"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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Feature: 10 hours with Magic: The Gathering Arena got me back into trading card games

Sparky rekindled.

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Feature: Five predictions about the future that the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG did - and didn't - get right (so far)

Twenty-twenty vision.
6 cheap and easy hacks to organise your board games

Bag it up, bag it in. Let me begin.

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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.
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.
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: 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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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’.
In being both profound and playable, Pax Pamir 2E became one of the most important board games of 2019

Gaming the Great Game.

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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: We played the worst Christmas board games on the UK High Street so you don’t have to

Christmas crappers.

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Feature: A dream far, far away? Meet the world’s best Star Wars X-Wing players struggling to turn the tournament scene pro

"I don't see a future where a miniatures game player is professional.”

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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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Going Solo: How playing tabletop games alone went from sad to rad

Party for one.

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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'

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Feature: Choosing when to settle down is everything in Flotilla, one of 2019’s most unique board games

Catch you on the flip side.

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10 best legacy board games that aren’t Pandemic Legacy

Play for keeps in these top legacy board games.

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