Roleplay and Table Top

In Magic, each card may appear no more than four times in a deck, basic lands aside. That is why the community calls four identical copies a playse...

Every Magic player knows the moment: game night is coming up, and your desk is piled high with deck boxes, dice, playmats and the cube you have bee...

In Magic, a playset means four copies of the same card, the most a deck may contain. Anyone who builds seriously therefore likes to collect four of...

Sixty cards, fifteen in the sideboard, plus a handful of dice and counters: that is all a classic tournament deck needs. A huge box for a hundred c...

On Ravnica, the city plane of Magic: The Gathering, ten guilds hold sway, each with its own colour pair and its own leader: the law-keepers of the ...

Anyone who has ever built a cube, meaning their own hand-picked collection of hundreds of cards from which the whole group drafts its decks, knows ...

Every collection knows this moment: the shoebox full of cards is full, your favourites are lying somewhere between bad buys, and the one card you n...

At the Strixhaven academy of magic, you don't simply pick your classes, you end up in one of five colleges. Silverquill swears by the power of word...

The rattlesnake this box is named after moves sideways across the desert sand, and its namesake opens exactly the same way: to the side instead of ...

At some point, one deck just isn't enough. First comes the Commander deck, then a second one, then maybe a cube: a hand-picked collection of severa...

A samurai cared for his katana with the utmost devotion, because the blade was both protection and honour. Something similar applies to card player...

A Commander night at a friend's place is logistically a small house move: everyone brings at least one deck of 100 cards, plus a playmat, dice for ...

Some players love lavish artwork on their playmat. Others just want a calm surface where their cards take centre stage. What matters most to them i...

Anyone who has ever played a round of Commander knows: the deck is only the beginning. Then come tokens, dice as counters, the note with the life t...

Magic: The Gathering reinvents itself several times a year. Every set takes players to a different world, sometimes to a race across the Multiverse...

Anyone who has ever played a match on a bare wooden table knows the problem: cards are hard to pick up, sleeves slide around, and somewhere there's...

Every collector knows the moment: the shoebox phase is over, the cards are piling up in rubber bands, and somewhere in between lies a rare card tha...

Commander, also known as EDH, is the most popular multiplayer format in Magic: every deck consists of exactly 100 cards, each of them only once, le...

In Magic, each of the five colours has its own character, and things only get exciting when two of them work together. Red and white stand for the ...

Every collection starts with a single deck. Then a second one comes along, a Commander deck for game night, a few favourite cards in rigid sleeves,...

For trading cards, the trip to game night is a true hero's journey: squashed in a backpack between a water bottle and a sandwich, always in danger ...

Magic thrives on its worlds. With Edge of Eternities, the game moved into the vastness of space, to the edge of a star system full of secrets, wher...

Four is a magic number in Magic: no more than four copies of any card may go into a deck. Serious deck builders therefore collect in playsets, alwa...

If you've ever played on a kitchen table with crumbs, coffee rings and a sticky spot from yesterday, you know that queasy feeling when your freshly...

Four brothers in the sewers of New York, a wise rat master named Splinter and a diet that feels like it's a hundred percent pizza: the Teenage Muta...

In Magic you can put no more than four copies of any card in your deck. The community calls those four a playset, and anyone who builds decks serio...

In the Mortal Realms of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar you can often recognise an army by its helmets long before it sets foot on the battlefield. There ...

It starts at some point. The sun? Heretical. The flowers by the wayside? Heretical. The Servus skull, the Squigs, the Capillary Tower? Everything. ...

A squig is basically a mouth with legs: perfectly round, red, packed with teeth and without any recognisable plan. The green skinned Grots keep the...

Some monsters in the dungeon attack the party with claws. The Gibbering Mouther goes for the ears first: a slimy mass made of everything it has swa...

There is one creature in the dungeon that makes even hardened adventuring parties think very seriously about retreating: the beholder, a floating s...

In kaum einem Logo steckt so viel Geschichte wie in einem simplen Et-Zeichen. Seit 2014 sitzt zwischen Dungeons und Dragons ein Ampersand, in desse...

Kaum ein Filmgenre lebt so sehr vom Zusammenhalt wie der Gefängnisausbruch: ein Löffel, ein Poster an der Wand, ein Plan, den erst die ganze Gruppe...

Jeder kennt diesen einen Moment: Du führst das Rennen seit drei Runden souverän an, die Ziellinie liegt schon in Sicht, und dann kommt von hinten e...

Auf Murano, der Glasbläserinsel vor Venedig, entstand vor Jahrhunderten eine Technik, die ihrem Namen alle Ehre macht: Millefiori, tausend Blumen. ...

Imagine this: dragons, dark dungeons, epic battles – and nobody has to be the game master. That's exactly what makes Pathfinder legendary: The worl...