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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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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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“To an outsider we were success incarnate, but inside we were hollow”: How my dream job at a board game startup became a nightmare
What appeared to be a Kickstarter darling and fast-growing company was a carefully projected illusion.
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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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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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MTG Arena on mobile is great, but it highlights one of the game’s worst accessibility issues
Word (size) up.
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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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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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Dead of Winter bridges the intimidating gap between casual and complex board games
Gravely underappreciated.
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Magic: The Gathering’s pop-culture crossovers are full of potential, but must learn from the mistakes of The Walking Dead
The multiverse is the perfect home for The Lord of the Rings, Warhammer and more - if handled correctly.
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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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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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Tabletop roleplaying taught me that failure is okay - and often more interesting
1 to watch.
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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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Root’s show-don’t-tell storytelling makes its world feel alive
Eyrie-lly want to go back there.
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How logging your board game plays can curate your collection - and save you money
Stats the way I like it.
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Vampire: The Masquerade shows the right way to confront an RPG's problematic past
Listen up, D&D.
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The Chess Effect: How The Queen’s Gambit turned me into a chess obsessive
What a feeling, when we’re castling on the ceiling.
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Games of the Year 2020: Wheels on Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - Baker Street Irregulars
An elementary choice.
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Games of the Year 2020: Junk Art co-designer Sen-Foong Lim
Making maps, committing crimes and finding friends.
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Games of the Year 2020: Alice is Missing and Icarus creator Spenser Starke
Dark labyrinths, train travel and shelf stacking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So many games, so little time: How FOMO and the cult of the new changed board games
Play it again, Sam?
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X-Wing’s thrilling space combat is the perfect tabletop answer to Star Wars: Squadrons
I’m not such a bad pilot myself.
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Eldritch Horror makes you care about its characters because you’re just as doomed as they are
Carefully Lovecrafted.
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a perfect evolution of the video games
It’s super effective.
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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?
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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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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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Playing Scythe online has given my life stability in a time of great uncertainty
Steel yourselves.
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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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Playing Diplomacy online transformed the infamously brutal board game from unbearable to brilliant
Another backstab at it.
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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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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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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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How deckbuilding in Dominion helped me find real-life happiness
You play the cards you’re dealt.
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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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Board games form human connections in a world that increasingly seeks to sever them
Check mates.
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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: 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’.
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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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Dungeons & Dragons' best worst spell: Cooking up chaos and comedy with Conjure Food and Water
'45 pounds of bland but nourishing food'