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The weekend of 5-7 September marked the inaugural Strange Days Festival of Forteana. Organiser Matt Page’s promise of ‘The most extraordinary weekend of your life’ was spot-on. Strange Days took place

For miniature gamers of a certain age, it’s likely their first experience of miniature gaming was receiving a copy of HeroQuest under the Christmas tree in the early 1990s. HeroQuest’s thrilling tale

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

For my entire lifetime, the undisputed titan of miniatures wargaming has been Games Workshop. Its key titles Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 involve tabletops filled with tiny plastic warriors; specifi

Until just after 10pm, it was a normal Saturday night at The Spaniard’s Inn on Hampstead Heath. Glasses clinking, the background radiation of chatter and high spirits, staff dashing to and fro because