Opinion
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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Opinion
Tabletop roleplaying taught me that failure is okay - and often more interesting
1 to watch.
Feature
Magic: The Gathering’s new Strixhaven set enrols in some higher learning and packs a satchel full of historic spells
Less Harry Potter than high school.
Opinion
Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
No Knowledge (Arcana) check required.
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.
Feature
Kaldheim is another excellent Magic: The Gathering set that’s caused more chaos for the card game as a whole
Trickery to untangle.
Opinion
Root’s show-don’t-tell storytelling makes its world feel alive
Eyrie-lly want to go back there.
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’.
Opinion
How logging your board game plays can curate your collection - and save you money
Stats the way I like it.
Feature
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game’s designers on tracking down the perfect tabletop adaptation
“We like people to make difficult choices that are also fun choices.”
Opinion
Vampire: The Masquerade shows the right way to confront an RPG's problematic past
Listen up, D&D.
Opinion
The Chess Effect: How The Queen’s Gambit turned me into a chess obsessive
What a feeling, when we’re castling on the ceiling.
Feature
Our Shores designers want their Kickstarter to be the first wave of Southeast Asian RPGs going mainstream
Together, they hope to overcome national restrictions and find a deserving audience.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Wheels on Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - Baker Street Irregulars
An elementary choice.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Junk Art co-designer Sen-Foong Lim
Making maps, committing crimes and finding friends.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Alice is Missing and Icarus creator Spenser Starke
Dark labyrinths, train travel and shelf stacking.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Delve creator Anna Blackwell on the solo roleplaying of Thousand Year Old Vampire and Ironsworn
Plus why you should play The Wretched and The Artefact.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Hellboy and Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace designers Sophie Williams and James M. Hewitt
The co-founders of design studio Needy Cat Games run through their top two-player picks.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2020: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall co-creator Banana Chan
From games about a magician's dog to RPGS about eroticism, here are Banana Chan's favourite Games of this year.
Opinion
Magic: The Gathering in 2020: Strong sets struggle to steer the card game away from a worrying direction
Community’s resilience during lockdown undermined by divisive design and controversial business decisions.
Feature
The Dungeons & Dragons movie at 20: How the RPG’s first big-screen blockbuster suffered a critical fail
A D&D film was promised to rival Star Wars, but its cinematic debut ended up a box-office bomb. What happened?
Interview
Blades in the Dark creator John Harper talks Chamber, Paragon and new details on his Fast & Furious-inspired RPG
Life one quarter of a hack at a time.
Feature
Star Trek: Discovery stars share their exploits and lessons from playing Dungeons & Dragons together
Boldly Action/Bonus/Moving where no one has gone before.
Feature
“It's more important for us to be deeply loved than to be deeply successful”: How dark fantasy RPG Blackbirds took flight
Lead designer Ryan Verniere talks team building and trusting vision to others.
Best Games
10 hottest upcoming board games for 2021
These are the hottest board games hitting the shelves in 2021.
Best Games
10 best board games to play at Christmas instead of Monopoly
Gather the family around some proper Christmas crackers.
Feature
Board games are expensive, so we tried to make our own for a tenner
It went about as well as you’d expect.
Opinion
So many games, so little time: How FOMO and the cult of the new changed board games
Play it again, Sam?
Best Games
10 best fantasy board games
These fantasy-themed board games are perfect for ye olde tabletop.
Opinion
X-Wing’s thrilling space combat is the perfect tabletop answer to Star Wars: Squadrons
I’m not such a bad pilot myself.
Opinion
Eldritch Horror makes you care about its characters because you’re just as doomed as they are
Carefully Lovecrafted.
Feature
“We had to quarantine our games”: Friendly local game stores’ struggle to survive during coronavirus
Board game café owners and retailers on the impact of lockdown and social distancing.
Interview
Bardsung: How Critical Role, Final Fantasy and a piece of potato peel inspired this year’s most ambitious dungeon-crawler
Designers on Mat Hart and Sherwin Matthews on taking inspiration from classics for an RPG board game that doesn't skimp on the roleplaying.
Best Games
10 best horror tabletop RPGs for telling spooky stories
Zombies, vampires, aliens and monsters galore await you.
Interview
D&D and Betrayal co-designer Elisa Teague to head up Clank!, Kids on Bikes and Overlight studio’s RPG output - exclusive
Senior producer talks next year's 5E adaptation of Power Rangers, Renegade’s plans for original games and the potential of a Clank! RPG.
Best Games
Like Among Us? Here are 6 board games you should play
In space no-one can hear you scheme.
Feature
What can board game Pandemic teach us about the real thing? We played with a disease expert to find out
Cardboard versus reality.
Interview
Lancer: Inside the cockpit of the mech RPG looking to a positive future for roleplaying - and the universe
Co-creators Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson-Morgan on drawing from classic sci-fi and moving away from D&D’s “old racist shit”.
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.
Interview
Tellstones designer Chris Cantrell talks following Mechs vs Minions, going small and taking inspiration from The Princess Bride
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.
Feature
7 board games to check out at PAX Online x EGX Digital
Get onboard with these tabletop titles.
Best Games
10 most influential board games since Catan
The brightest spots of the tabletop’s golden age.
Feature
“There’s something about cosplaying a character that draws you closer to them”: How D&D cosplay provides another way to roleplay
Exploring the Dungeons & Dragons cosplay community, how to start and why it’s worth doing.
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.
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?
Best Games
10 best Games Workshop games that aren’t Warhammer
Some hidden gems from the biggest miniatures company on the planet.
Interview
Cyberpunk Red co-designer Cody Pondsmith on bringing the RPG’s future to the present, keeping its ‘80s style and building up to 2077
'Red was always kind of in development, but the video game really pushed it into overdrive.'
Feature
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is a positive sign that Dungeons & Dragons is working on its problems - preview
Iggwilv you read it?
Opinion
The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a perfect evolution of the video games
It’s super effective.
Feature
Magic: The Gathering’s Double Masters set has an unrivalled card selection - at an eye-watering cost
Reprints and rares both essential and exorbitant.
Feature
"We had big dreams!": Dice Throne Adventures creators on going co-op and making 'Gloomhaven Lite'
“I would lie awake at night thinking how fun a dungeon crawl would be.”
Feature
Magic: The Gathering and Keyforge creator Richard Garfield on 35 years of making the games he wants to play
And the connection between poisonous mushrooms and Magic.
Best Games
17 best Tabletop Simulator mods for popular board games
Play some of the most popular board games on your PC with these top Tabletop Simulator mods.
Best Games
10 best Dungeons & Dragons 5E subclasses you should play in your next campaign
Follow the Path of the Totem Warrior, become an Arcane Trickster and make a pact with The Fiend.
Feature
The real-life tragedy and sensationalised fantasy behind D&D-inspired movie Mazes and Monsters
“There were a whole lot of people that thought it was an evil company.”
Best Games
10 best Magic: The Gathering Core Set 2021 cards
We pick out some of the most powerful creatures, game-changing spells and absurd abilities in M21.
Opinion
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?
Feature
Magic: The Gathering’s hugely entertaining new format Jumpstart is the perfect introduction to the TCG
Two halves make a whole lot of fun.
Interview
“We're not trying to make fun games. We're trying to make good games”: Root, Pax Pamir and Oath designer Cole Wehrle argues on (and off) the tabletop
And talks joining forces with his brother Drew for Wehrlegig Games.
Interview
“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.
Opinion
Black board games are key to the future of tabletop
New voices and perspectives at the table benefit everyone.
Feature
“No-one has ever won Dungeons & Dragons”: How Mythic Odysseys of Theros embraces the messier side of D&D 5E
Minotaur illusion.
Best Games
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.
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.
Opinion
Oath could finally deliver on the exciting lost potential of legacy board games
All of the memories with none of the sacrifice.
