Wyrd Science - Vol. 1 / Issue 5 - Future Imperfect

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Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabeltop games. In this issue...

Quickstart!

Get up to speed with the world of tabletop gaming as we discover an actual play show with a difference and a new club for zine fanatics then take you from a salubrious secret speakeasy in Austin Texas to the rarefied exhibition halls of the British Library and onto our favourite Berlin games shop...

Main Features!

• Future Imperfect - Shannon Appelcline looks back over the history roleplaying games’ love affair with grim and indeed dark dystopias
• A Party Of Adventurers... - Walton Wood speaks to W.F. Smith about the ENNIE Award winning Barkeep on the Borderlands 
• Die Another Day - Kieron Gillen returns to Wyrd Science’s pages fresh from releasing his triumphant DIE RPG 
• Standees In The Way Of Control - Dan Thurot looks at three board games that tackle social and political issues head on 
• Rogue Memories - We investigate the strange hauntological world of artist Tammy Nicholls and her Warhammer 40, 000 action figures 
• Time To Die - Samantha Nelson chats with Tomas Härenstam, co-founder of Free League, about their new Blade Runner RPG 
• The (not quite) Hole Story - Stu Horvath provides us with 5 extracts from his essential new book on the past 50 years of RPGs, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground  
• The Naked & The Dread - John Power catches up with game designer Chris McDowall to discuss his new wargame, The Doomed
• The Cassandra Complex - Rob Wieland risks life and limb in Alpha Complex as he looks at both the history and the new, perhaps even perfect, edition of Paranoia

Hit Points!

From the skies above the English Channel to nefarious pocket dimensions, we scour the multiverse to bring you the the best new RPGs, board games, wargames and more....