Tabletop Gaming Magazine Podcast

Tabletop Gaming Magazine Podcast

The team at Tabletop Gaming chat about board games, card games, miniatures, wargames, RPGs and more! For more from Tabletop Gaming, visit tabletopgaming.co.uk.

Episodes

S2E46 Kingmaker with Alan Paull

March 24, 2022 • 68 mins
We talk about the return of Kingmaker, a board game first published in 1974 with a loyal fanbase. Alan Paull joins us in a nice pub in Cambridgeshire to discuss reworking the game for a new edition to be released by Gibson Games via Kickstarter later in the year.

Kingmaker, originally designed by Andrew McNeil, is a game set in the War of the Roses and uses a flood of modern mechanics we take for granted, such as...
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S2E45: Airecon 2022 Moon, Blaseball, Dogfight

March 12, 2022 • 55 mins

Airecon 2022 Report: Blitzkrieg Sequel ‘Dogfight’ Announced and Moon First Look

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S2E44: James Naylor on Kickstarter, Blockchain, and Five Deep Games

February 18, 2022 • 60 mins
We talk to James Naylor about the recent Kickstarter scandals about distributed ledger technology (i.e. blockchain/nft/crypto adjacent stuff) and get his top five "deep" board games (by which we mean, games that he's really played to death over the last couple of years).

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S2E43: Dark Souls RPG with Richard August

February 4, 2022 • 43 mins
We get your “why 5e?” questions answered. Dark Souls The Roleplaying Game was announced this week by Steamforged Games. We got in touch with the game’s designer, Richard August, to discuss the kind game that it is and how it’s all going to work. 

The announcement also cam...
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S2E42: Chaosium at Dragonmeet with Mike Mason and Lynne Hardy

December 21, 2021 • 27 mins
We caught up with Chaosium’s Mike Mason and Lynne Hardy to have a double-dip on Rivers of London RPG, Call of Cthulhu and tease a couple of new book coming from the publisher of Lovecraftian horror.

First: Mike Mason tells us about a new six part ‘College of Cthulhu’ campaign that sees investigators start as “spotty college kids” and over the the course of the proceeding years of horror, become grizzle...
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S2E41: Dragonmeet

December 5, 2021 • 207 mins
We spent the day wandering a busy but safe Dragonmeet chatting. The show is still on today (Sunday 5th) – so head over to Novotel Hammersmith if you're on the hunt for your next gaming fix. Apologies for some of the rough and ready editing here, or: enjoy the ambience!

Find Dragonmeet and buy tickets here: https://www.dragonmeet.co.uk/ 

Our music is by Body in the Thames: h...
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S2E40: Alone Against The Tide

November 19, 2021 • 32 mins

Call of Cthulhu is 40 years old – and to celebrate we’ve put together a low-budget low-talent actual play of the solo adventure Alone Against The Tides. We’ve used some ambient noises from ZapSplat to flesh it out, and, to give it that special something, recorded it very tired with a bit of a cold.

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S2E39: Down in Yongardy with Chris Bissette

November 15, 2021 • 30 mins

We sit down with Chris Bissette to talk about his new Fighting Fantasy style adventure book for Troika, Down in Yongardy. We discuss his motivations for creating the game, and a little bit about the setting and The Law.

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S2E38: Thousand Year Old Vampire with Ben Maddox

October 28, 2021 • 40 mins
We chat to Ben Maddox of Five Games For Doomsday about his recent foray into the solo indie RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire. Ben has been recording an actual play podcast of the game with dramatic readings and a touch of audio theatre. We discuss the game and it's usefulness to writing, Ben's experiences of the game, and untangle the idea of 'progress' in a journaling game.


FG4D Website: https://fivegamesf...
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S2E37: Vaesen: Mythic Britain, Catan 3D and Necromolds

October 19, 2021 • 52 mins
Welcome to issue 60, which will be landing in your local shops or on your doormat on the 22nd of October, just in time for Halloween.

We’re celebrating this spooky time of year with an exclusive scenario for Vaesen: Mythic Britain. Over 14 pages in the magazine we offer up a full, unreleased scenario for you to get started dealing with the folklore of Britain. 

Chris and C...
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S2E36: Issue 59, Awards, Advent Calendar, Snakesss, Oltree and Game Art

October 1, 2021 • 56 mins
In this multi-day, multi-location podcast (we ran out of battery and then got kicked out of the studio) we bring you a preview of issue 59, which is in shops now – go get yourself a copy, you can listen to this on the way.

Now you've done that we can also say a huge thank you to all of our nominees and winners in the first ever Tabletop Gaming Awards. Head over to the website to read who won categories like "best...
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S2E35: Hachette Boardgames UK and Gaming In France

September 7, 2021 • 27 mins
We talk to Flavien Loisier from Hachette Boardgames UK about Oltréé, Antoine Bauza's latest masterpiece. We also talk about Hachette's UK expansion and the companies they've been acquiring along the way. Plus, Flavien talks to us about the way board game culture exists in France – which might be mind blowing. 

Check out our board game advent calendar: https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/games-store/advent-...
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S2E34: Issue 58, What Next?, Descent: Legends of the Dark and Paper Dungeons

August 24, 2021 • 58 mins
Chris and Charlie chat about the new issue and a handful of games review therein, including: What Next?, Descent: Legends of the Dark, and Paper Dungeons. 

We also talk about going to UK Games Expo, and our favourite parts from the show.

Our music is Cloud Meetings by Body In The Thames, which you can find here: https://bodyinthethames.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-meetings&nbs...
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S2E33: The Horned Rat with Pádraig Murphy

August 23, 2021 • 33 mins
We chat to Pádraig Murphy about The Horned Rat, the latest addition to the Enemy Within campaign for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. We discuss the joys of the Skaven, the under empire, and the structure of the new campaign.

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S2E32: UK Games Expo 2021

July 30, 2021 • 91 mins
We roamed the floors of UK Games Expo 2021 on Friday, and here's who we met along the way.

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S2E31: Chess and Chess alike with Matthew Vernall

July 26, 2021 • 78 mins

We talk to Tabletop Gaming’s accidental chess expert, Matthew Vernall about Chess, chess variants, and games that are a bit like chess. Join us for our first external in-p...

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S2E30: Bloodborne: The Board Game with Alex Sonechkina

July 6, 2021 • 54 mins
It's Bloodborne: The Board Game time as we bring you this special edition of the podcast with Chris Eggett and Alex Sonechkina. So grab this issue's painting guide, which is all about the beasties and heroes of Yharnam, as we trickle something like an absolute fan-cast into your ears. We also get a bit confused about Bloodborne/Dark Souls lore, which shows you that, at very least, we've played the games more than we've been on the ...
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S2E29: The 50 Best Party Games Ever & Blood On The Clocktower

June 22, 2021 • 79 mins

We’re having a party! Join us in the celebratory episode of the Tabletop Gaming Magazine podcast where we chat about the upcoming issue: a 50 Best Party Games Ever special...

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S2E28: RPG Round Up with Richard Jansen-Parkes

June 2, 2021 • 68 mins
We sit down with Richard Jansen-Parkes to discuss a whole host of RPGs, new, upcoming and from the past. We discuss Dune: Adventures In The Imperium, Electric Bastionland,  Games Omnivorous, Mausritter, Mork Borg, Those Dark Places, AGON, Dungeons & Dragons, Altered Carbon, Ice Fleet and more!
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S2E27: Issue 55, Friendly Local Game Stores PLUS: Martin Wallace on the State of Board Games

May 25, 2021 • 74 mins

Tabletop Gaming Magazine Issue 55 is here, and we’re giving you a sneak peek. PLUS we have a bonus clip from our interview with Martin Wallace where we ask the very broad question about what he thinks about the state of games. The answer is broad, and does not disappoint.

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