Features (Page 8)
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5 most exciting board games for tabletop thrillseekers
Searching for non-stop action for your next game night? You’ve found it.
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“If there’s going to be a new Descent game, it has to come from a great idea and not just exist for the sake of being made.”
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Heads will roll.
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Board games to play if you like Catan
Don’t settle - trade the tabletop classic for something fresh.
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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms’ best gameplay mechanic isn’t new to Magic: The Gathering
Treasure decks are stronger than ever.
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“I take roleplaying with me whenever I’m performing in any other medium.”
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Alongside its descendants and its future.
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The best D&D references in MTG's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set
From character classes to critical rolls.
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Card times.
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“If this is the only game I ever get to make, I should just do the thing I love the most.”
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11 hidden board game Easter Eggs you might’ve missed
In-jokes, pop-culture references and tributes to other tabletop titles a-plenty.
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Feature: How visionary comic book artist Moebius inspired a new wave of weird tabletop RPGs
Jean Genius.
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Feature: Where to Start With… deckbuilding board games
Building up your confidence.
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“The first [Darrington Press] product was important, it needed to be familiar to fans.”
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8 best planes in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse
These planes were made for walking.
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Monopoly Deal is the only Monopoly worth playing, because it understands why the board game sucks
Being bad feels pretty good.
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“I understand that playing as The Man may be uncomfortable.”
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Cryptkeeper, eat your heart out.
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6 best Space Marine chapters in Warhammer 40,000: Ninth Edition
A good place to Astartes.
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Critical Role’s Campaign 2 finale shows just how far the hit Dungeons & Dragons series has come
Forever throwing fluffernutters.
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6 Queer tabletop RPGs that everyone should play
Representation done right.
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Location, location, frustration.
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Nova RPG creator on bringing Destiny and Overwatch-inspired 'looter shooter' action to the tabletop
Designer Spencer Campbell talks insights, inspirations and washing his hands of gamers.
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9 best print-and-play board games you can download at home
Discover new tabletop experiences from your own home with these top print-and-play games.
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Feature: Modern Horizons 2 could finally make good on the promise of a game-changing Magic: The Gathering set
Once you’ve done your research.
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GMs shouldn’t always break the rules in tabletop RPGs
Tend the rules.
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Once More Into the Void tells emotionally fraught RPG stories in a Mass Effect 2, Picard framework
The duo behind the upcoming game talk translation, betrayal and the joy of being a Renegade.
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One of board gaming’s first celebrities reflects on designers’ rising recognition.
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Travel to infinity and beyond with these starfaring roleplaying games.
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New RPG book ARCON is ready to leave tired ideas about cyberpunk settings in the past
Building a better dystopian sandbox.
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Feature: Roleplaying games were around hundreds of years before Dungeons & Dragons
The seminal tabletop RPG drew from generations of wargaming, storytelling and parlour games.
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10 best worker-placement games
Take your places.
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Magic: The Gathering is more ban-happy than ever, and it’s holding MTG Arena back
Getting the banned back together.
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Feature: Dungeons & Disabilities: Can tabletop RPGs redeem their problematic portrayal of disability?
“When including more diverse representation, disabled people continue to be excluded at alarming rates.”
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Shawn Tomkin has reached the stars with Ironsworn: Starforged, but he couldn't do it alone
The designer talks influences, making a good thing even better and the importance of community feedback.
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5 great Magic: The Gathering formats you’ve never played
Allure of the Unknown.
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The greatest board game stories are told around the tabletop, not on it
Playing with your tale.
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Feature: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is the greatest comic book RPG you haven’t played
Thor subject.
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Isaac Vega and Lindsey Rode discuss launching Rose Gauntlet Entertainment and the label’s debut release.
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SPONSORED: 7 most unique board games that are truly original
You’ve never played anything like these before.
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Unmatched is the Avengers Assemble of board games - it successfully unites a team of unlikely heroes
Kneel before this excellent tabletop series.
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What appeared to be a Kickstarter darling and fast-growing company was a carefully projected illusion.
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One More Multiverse co-founder on helping give tabletop RPGs a ‘good nudge into the mainstream’
Sara Alfageeh talks focusing on indies first, helping designers make a living and giving players customisability.
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4 best out-of-print board games that deserve to come back
Live, Die, Reprint.
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As thrilling as it is simple, Pack Wars is one of Magic: The Gathering’s best overlooked formats
Here’s how - and why - to play.
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10 best movie board games that are actually good
Not all games based on movies are bad - and we’re here to prove it!
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Feature: Magic: The Gathering players say Killian Lu is the “Panda Expressification of Asian Culture”
The character’s version of representation frustrates AAPI fans.
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Lines and veils, and other RPG safety tools, open up tabletop roleplaying for everyone
Ensuring comfortable, collaborative creativity around the table.
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The best board game box art you could hang on your wall
This gallery of beautiful box artwork has everything from adorable woodland critters to a noir crime scene.
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Call of Cthulhu’s epic Masks of Nyarlathotep shows the perfect way to run a RPG campaign over years
Into the Months of Madness.
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Is Strixhaven a good entry point for the Magic: The Gathering newcomers? Well, it’s complicated.
For the cardboard curious.
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“A really big thing is having an arena where you feel like you have some control over the stories that are told.”
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11 best Dungeons & Dragons board games
Find new ways to explore the fantasy world with your party of adventurers in these D&D board games.vvv
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Disability representation in tabletop gaming matters - here are the games doing it right
Recent years have seen stories and characters that avoid ableist tropes, though there’s still work to be done.
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9 best Disney board games for House of Mouse fans
When going to Disneyland isn’t an option.
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10 best tabletop fantasy RPGs that aren’t Dungeons & Dragons
The finest fantasy tabletop RPG games out there right now.
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Big tabletop events are likely to return this year, but they might look very different.
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The best, worst and weirdest haunts in Betrayal at House on the Hill
Pick your poison.
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Feature: Green Players: The tabletop studios and designers incorporating sustainability into board games
How publishers are adopting eco-friendly practices to help the planet.
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Feature: Weekend Play Report - Ex Novo, and the joy of mapmaking games
Routing to recreation.
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Feature: Magic: The Gathering illustrators reveal how card artwork gets made
Art decko.
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Feature: Monster Hunter World: The Board Game shows the right way to adapt a video game for the tabletop
It stands heads, shoulders and horns above the disastrous Dark Souls.
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Dice: The ultimate ranking, from d4 to d20
Roll call.
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Feature: Solo RPG The Wretched is a fantastic, if unintentional, pandemic anniversary game
All systems go kaput.
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Feature: ‘It’s been a life-saver’: The Warhammer fans who’ve taken tournaments online during lockdown
Forward Slaanesh.
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Dead of Winter bridges the intimidating gap between casual and complex board games
Gravely underappreciated.
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Feature: Tabletop RPG Emet captures the powerful shared experience of being Jewish with humour and tragedy
Exploring one of the titles in Jewish roleplaying anthology Doikayt.
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Feature: Cancelled Warframe-inspired RPG highlights the destructive toxicity of online fandom
“This is a demonstration of a vocal minority of angry trolls getting what they wanted.”
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The multiverse is the perfect home for The Lord of the Rings, Warhammer and more - if handled correctly.
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7 best Dungeons & Dragons settings for your next campaign
Dive into a fiery plane of demons or sail across dark stormy waters in these exciting D&D locales.
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Feature: Animon Story is shaping up to be the perfect tabletop RPG for Pokémon and Digimon fans
Roll for PokéDEX.
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Magic: The Gathering is at its best with more people - here’s why
All hands on decks.
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Feature: Queer players find more than a game in Dungeons & Dragons - they find a safe space
“We are here to play whoever we want to.”
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Feature: Colourful board game Kroma is a flashy concept that quickly flickers out - preview
Hue goes there.
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How Dungeons & Dragons helped me discover my gender identity
I was playing a man in real life - why not a woman in my escapist hobbies?
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10 best World War 2 board games
Recreate the global conflict from its sweeping global strategy to moment-to-moment firefights.
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Feature: Good Old Plays: The throwback RPGs giving modern roleplaying “a breath of fresh air”
OSR designers are reviving the genre’s roots with compact rules, player-led storytelling and creativity in abundance.
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Flameo, hotpeople!
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6 things the new Dungeons & Dragons movie needs to do to become a critical hit
Not including a cameo from Jeremy Irons.
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10 best Cthulhu board games that aren't Arkham Horror
Cultist classics.
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Less Harry Potter than high school.
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Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
No Knowledge (Arcana) check required.
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Feature: Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons
The tabletop games and designers taking players from fantasy stories to real-world change.
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Trickery to untangle.
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Root’s show-don’t-tell storytelling makes its world feel alive
Eyrie-lly want to go back there.
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Feature: D&D's answer to American Idol changed the RPG - and its winner's life - forever
You could say it was open to ‘Ebberyone’.