The number of tabletop games that come out in a single year these days is nothing short of incredible, and to say that this list of what the tabletop team here at GamingTrend put forth is definitive and exhaustive would do a disservice to the hundreds of games that we
What a year for Magic: The Gathering. I kept trying to formulate my thoughts on this last year for Magic and eventually, I found myself rereading my own words from an editorial I wrote about the loss of draft boosters. In it, I wrote this: “Good, bad, or ugly 2024
Pennsylvania’s Bodhana Group is one of the first and only organizations to examine the clinical impacts of tabletop RPGs. Even before reading their literature and research on the topic, you’ll find a lot of parallels between running tabletop RPGs and modern talk therapy. Both contain innumerable soft skills
It’s been nearly four years since we ran an actual play mini campaign on Roll20 (“Return to the Glory”); the height of the pandemic, when we were all huddled in our houses, trying to figure out how to play games that usually required everyone to be in the same
Take a journey with me, it’s October 16th, 2023 and you’ve just read an article on Wizards of the Coast’s website about the death of Draft Boosters. Draft (and Set) Boosters will be no more shortly into 2024. Shocked, you spit your Mountain Dew all over your
Editor’s note: This editorial is intended to be a satirical response to recent comments made by Travis Worthington in an interview with Polygon’s Charlie Hall about the use of AI generated art as disclosed in the new Terraforming Mars crowdfunding campaign. GamingTrend recently announced that it will not
2022 was an amazing year for Gaming Trend’s tabletop team: We more than doubled our crew, reviewed more tabletop games than any year prior, went to more conventions than ever before, and, of course, played more games in 2022 than ever! Instead of just giving you a “Top X
Hello and welcome to the first edition of the “Does it Solo?” series. If you found your way here and have no idea what this is, check out the series introduction below.
For the first edition of the series, I am looking at Dead Reckoning from AEG. Why? Because it
