How to be a better player

Depending on how deep you are into a particular niche of the tabletop hobby, the above reply may be unremarkable or completely incomprehensible. Like most pursuits, tabletop gaming comes with lots of

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Now, cast your mind back to the last time you had fun. No, not the stylised, curated-for-cachet, posted-to-socials-before-it’s-over kind, but the spontaneous, all-en

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“CATAN has really gone downhill,” a friend of mine grumbled one evening in our D&D intermission. “They’ve clearly sold out. Everything is so cheap and nasty, and it barely even fits together”. I’m not

Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s

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