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Trains, guns and Japanese warfare.
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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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Magic, gloom and My Little Pony.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Endgame, March of the Machine, wraps up the card game’s years-long storyline with a fan-pleasing finale
Battles throughout the multiverse.
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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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There’s magic in the air.
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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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Tell us what’s on your table.
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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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Mech miniatures classic BattleTech is a surprisingly approachable, affordable - and brilliantly compelling - way into wargaming
The decades-old franchise continues to be well worth picking up for the first time.
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Pokémon TCG’s Scarlet & Violet expansion isn’t groundbreaking, but it does have some great Paldean newbies - hands-on preview
The long and Klawf of it.
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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.’
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Jubensha: the mix of Cluedo, Werewolf and LARP that became a Chinese phenomenon
How playable murder-mysteries exploded in popularity and weathered the pandemic.
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Tell us what’s on your table.
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Tell us what’s on your table.
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Star Wars: Legion is the tabletop miniatures game fans of the films deserve
Checking in with Star Wars’ answer to Warhammer 40,000, five years on.
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One is a bad time for Magic: The Gathering’s characters, but a very good time for players
Toxic, but not in a bad way.
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Broken Weave: Inside the D&D 5E tragic fantasy world shaped by Elden Ring, Annihilation and living through a pandemic
“It’s a tale of what comes after everything falls apart.”
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Let us know what’s on your table lately!
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Let us know what’s on your table lately!
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Exploring Sword World, Japan’s answer to Dungeons & Dragons from the studio behind the Elden Ring tabletop RPG
The history of legendary tabletop creator Group SNE.
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New cards, old nostalgia and digital ambitions: Yu-Gi-Oh! at Jump Festa gave a glimpse at how the TCG will mark its 25th anniversary
As the home of Yu-Gi-Oh! prepares to celebrate the iconic series.
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What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been enjoying!
Let us know what’s on your tabletop.
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This X-Wing-style miniatures game lets you build your own ships like Lego - and it's one of 2023's unmissable releases
Snap Ships Tactics is far more than its toy gimmick.
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What is OSR? A newcomer’s guide to the Old School Renaissance RPGs reviving classic D&D
From retro clones of original D&D to modern successors to ‘70s roleplaying, OSR has never been bigger - or better.
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Witchcraft board game Septima strikes a magical balance between cooperative and competitive
Cast a spell on you.
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Dark Souls: The Board Game’s revised edition fixes many of the original’s flaws, but introduces a few of its own
A definite improvement, at a cost.
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SPONSORED: How well do you know Dungeons & Dragons? Roll for WIS with our quiz!
Test your knowledge of D&D lore, rules and history.
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Warhammer Underworlds is a fast and furious entry point to Age of Sigmar and the world of miniatures
Obligatory Punderworld.
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Role’s co-founder isn’t worried about D&D’s plans for the online RPG space
CEO and co-founder Elle Dwight talks to Dicebreaker about actual play, intimacy in streaming and the dragon-branded elephant in the room.
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We’ve played the Elden Ring board game - here’s how it works, and what we thought
90 minutes in the Lands Between.
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Dinosaur Island and Machi Koro studio employees allege toxic workplace directly caused by “negligent” owners
Several former employees, contractors and designers say the environment within the rising star publisher grinds people down to “anxious, overworked” stubs.
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In Dungeons & Dragons’ Dragonlance book and board game, war is no joke - preview
First scenario is compared to Dunkirk.
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Storybreakers characters: Winona Whisperbane, the ranger with a bow and nowhere to use it
A babe in the woods
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Storybreakers characters: Hunter Burrows, a veteran tortle reporter who got too close to the truth
Headlines in a half-shell.
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8 tips on how to master Catan from the board game’s World Champion
Quetzal Jiménez reveals his strategies for trading your way to victory in the tabletop classic.
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Storybreakers characters: Caryaries West, the spoilt bard and wannabe news anchor
A half-elf out of water.
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News reporters in a fantasy world: The lore behind our new D&D series Storybreakers
Advantage on Investigation.
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The History of Black Lotus: Magic: The Gathering's legendary Holy Grail card
From forbidden artifact to half-a-million-dollar icon.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Warhammer 40,000 decks are a roaring success for fans of both games - if you can stomach the price
And the perfect place for newcomers to get into the TCG.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG is a fawning but promising tabletop adaptation of the anime - quickstart preview
Difficult dance steps keeps this jazzy adaptation from truly swinging.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! European champion Marcus Patel on his unbeaten Rikka deck and the social side of TCG tournaments
Returning to in-person events after COVID.
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Sea Salt & Paper could be the next pocket-sized card game go-to after Love Letter - Essen Spiel 2022 preview
Small deck energy.
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What’s the future of Yu-Gi-Oh? We go hands-on with the TCG’s latest video games at TGS to find out
Master Duel, Duel Links, Cross Duel and Rush Duel impressions from this year’s Tokyo Game Show.
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Bad Baby Lich Lords' designers wanted to create the Saturday morning cartoon of card games
Necro-frantic fun.
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Dorfromantik: The Board Game is just as chill and charming as the video game, but you can now play with friends - Essen Spiel 2022 preview
Exactly what you’d hex-pect.
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The King of Tokyo co-op board game is a lot more of the same: Essen Spiel 2022 preview
A monster box.
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We tried to land a plane with dice and coffee in co-op board game Sky Team - Essen Spiel 2022 preview
Touching down next year.
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Wingspan’s two-player version intensifies the original game: Essen Spiel 2022 Preview
And features some fantastic ducks!
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Frosthaven’s characters feel fresh, but its combat system doesn’t: Essen Spiel 2022 Preview
City building elements remain a mystery.
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Ahoy is the beginner-friendly Root I didn’t know I wanted - and it’s left me hooked
A-sea-mmetrical.
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Fantasy adventure board game Oltréé is a brisk, brutal and beautiful successor to Talisman and Eldritch Horror
A modern co-op classic in the making?
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Coyote & Crow is ready to expand its indigenous science-fantasy world beyond the tabletop RPG
A new bundle of adventures, card game and other projects open space for fresh voices to tell stories in their own way.
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How new tabletop RPG The Zone embraced, and then kicked, AI-generated art
Journeys of self-destruction.
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RPGs as therapy: How fictional worlds help vulnerable people explore real-life emotions
The support workers using roleplaying to manage trauma, addiction and loss.
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Dominaria United is a hugely satisfying return to Magic: The Gathering’s founding plane
Story, gameplay, cards - they're all here in abundance.
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Monty Python RPG creators on taking the piss out of D&D, letting players get silly - and why it’s not just Holy Grail
“Python’s approach was, 'Do what makes us laugh.' So we’ve made the game we want to play.”
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Pokémon’s new TCG world champions talk practice, travel and the realities of being the very best
Top players, commentators, YouTubers and more Pokémon fans reflect on the 2022 World Championships.
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Rivet Wars: Reloaded is like an Advance Wars board game - here's how it plays
RTS and video game influences meet a dieselpunk World War I.
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SPONSORED: Ranking Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances characters based on whether I could take them in a fight
It’s going down in the House of Mouse.
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Pokémon TCG's thrilling first UK World Championships were well worth the long wait
The first Worlds held outside the US - and since COVID - offered a weekend of climactic battles and unabashed fandom.
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Arceus and Flying Pikachu soared to victory in Pokémon TCG's 2022 World Championships
We break down the winning deck list from Worlds 2022.
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‘We wanted Star Trek in D&D’: Spelljammer creator Jeff Grubb on the origins of the cult-classic setting
As Adventures in Space returns for 5E.
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Empire’s End flips civilisation-building games on their head in a destructive bidding battle
Rome might’ve been built in a day, but it can be destroyed in under an hour.
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Digital Duels: How Yu-Gi-Oh! players are enjoying the TCG - without needing cards
Cyber Spike.
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Rolling Together: Indie RPG creators joining forces to change the industry for good
“This kind of collective endeavour really helps push people into making something better.”
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“Playing at an all-trans POC table is a life-changing experience”: Transplanar creators on the importance of supporting diverse actual-play shows
“It’s crucial that we’re able to tell our stories.”
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The forgotten story of D&D creator TSR’s failed attempt to break into comics and become the next Marvel or DC
“DC Comics were very pissed off.”
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How did McDonald’s, Monopoly and the US Mafia get tangled up in scandal?
Fraud and a McFlurry, please.
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Double Masters 2022 revisits some of Magic: The Gathering’s greatest cards at an unjustifiable cost
Reprinting money.
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Who is Vecna? Everything you should know about the D&D, Stranger Things and Critical Role villain
Diving into one of Dungeons & Dragons’ biggest bads.
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Could Arcs be the first misfire from Cole Wehrle? Our impressions of Root creators’ latest board game
A galactic disappointment.
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10 things you didn't know about the early history of D&D
From the RPG’s turbulent beginnings and the Satanic Panic to the fall of original publisher TSR.
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How button football, Brazil’s favourite tabletop sport, scored a goal during the pandemic
Back of the ‘Net.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!’s new Dimension Force set and latest bans are turning the TCG’s competitive scene upside-down
Recent releases and the return of powerful classics have made the meta less predictable than ever.