Tabletop Gaming News — January 2025

Tabletop Gaming, Wargaming, Miniatures and RPG news from around the world

Where Am I? You maybe don’t want to know...

Single-player Lovecraftian reality-bending horror games must be en vogue, as we’ve had another cross our desk. ‘The Crawling Chaos’ by Planet Smasher Games is giving its starter a good kicking in February. You might want to stifle that yawn, as this game has mechanics that send traditional roleplaying, er, roles, base over apex.

What's the frequency Kenneth?

Thought Punks unveils “Secrets in the Static”, a tabletop roleplaying game where reality fractures through corrupted broadcasts. Set in Wavelength, a town lost to official records and trapped in an endless broadcast loop, players face psychological horror as a mysterious signal transforms their world into echoes of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive.

A selection of eary 90s white dwarf and dragon magazines showing the classic stylings
Too many updates, too little time!

Happy 2025! We all hope you’ve had a great start to the year. It’s been a whirlwind for us. Many changes in the front end of the website as we prepare for the launch of the mobile app this spring! You’ll be able to get your daily gaming news on the go! Or when you go. Each to their own.

Darrin Drader

Darrin Drader has been a prolific roleplaying game designer for two and a half decades You may have seen his work with Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Legendary Games, or his own publishing company, Darrin Drader Designs (DDD). He's been gaming since 1984 and provides a perspective that bridges modern game design and old school sensibilities. This year, you can discuss this column with him in person as he guests at DragonCon.

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Fiona Dickinson

Fiona's love of tabletop gaming began as a search for a hobby that she and her wife Amy could enjoy together and use to become more sociable. 15 years later, and not only has tabletop gaming been a connection to a network of friends and like-minded people around the UK, it also spawned a (now retired) board game blog, and eventually became the idea of a business - Tabletop Rescue. Tabletop Rescue grew from Fiona's love of bargain hunting at UK charity shops and car boot sales into a pre-owned tabletop games business that is now the number one seller of pre-owned board games on Ebay UK. Still a board gamer at heart, the business has led her to a new-found appreciation of TTRPGs, Warhammer and Magic the Gathering too.

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Graeme Davis

Graeme Davis played his first roleplaying game in 1978, published his first paid article in 1982, and got his first games industry job in 1986. He is best known for his work on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay , but has contributed to over 100 games and supplements over the years, as well as 50 video games. Among his current projects is the Monster of the Month Club, a Patreon-driven collection of creatures from myth and folklore presenting system-agnostic stats (yes, it is possible!), with fantasy, historical, and modern-day adventure seeds and much more. Find it at https://www.patreon.com/MonsteroftheMonthClub

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