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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's nice to look at our Ebay feedback sometimes to get a little positivity boost. This is the most lovely one I've seen for a while after selling a Vintage Heroquest game 😍 #ebay #positivefeedback #nostalgia #heroquest #gamesworkshop

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you love what we do, then please cast a vote for us in the Manchester Board Game Festival Awards! forms.gle/Jrm43WvSqcBY... We love trading at MBGF, bringing a great selection of pre-owned board games and RPGs so that there's always something unexpected for shoppers to discover.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Yesterday we hosted another open event. As an online tabletop games retailer, hosting these in-person events is one of our personal highlights in the business, as we get to actually meet our customers! This time we had a huge £10 Game Sale with lots of amazing bargains and happy faces all day!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My first ever Goblin Green bases! 😍 This is one of our "rescues" - taking a customer's abandoned project into a fully painted piece of Warhammer history. You can find this copt of Talisman 3rd Edition on our Ebay store today! #miniaturepainting #oldhammer #goblingreen

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We had a couple of contenders for 'coolest find' today, but we've decided the coolest is this thrash metal gem! Flexi-Disc by Sabbat, still in place in White Dwarf issue 95! The recording we found on Youtube was the soundtrack to our afternoon! #Warhammer #WhiteDwarf #thrashmetal #treasurehunting

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We sell pre-owned games for a living and we take pride in making sure that pre-owned games arrive with customers in good condition. When buying games for our personal collection, we often buy pre-owned too, and taking good care of games for shipping is sadly not the norm! Pergola arrived today 😭😭😭

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We've just started a new "Tabletop Rescue" project and it's going to be a long road. We're aiming to sort this joblot of Marvel Champions back into saleable format, as well as trying to rescue the playmats that have seen better days. Wish us luck!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My wife, Amy, is the one who taught me to paint and is responsible for most of the painting projects we undetake at Tabletop Rescue. I'm encouraging her to enter into more painting competitions - would you be kind enough to encourage her too, by liking and reposting her amazing non-binary horse! 💖

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We're looking for help identifying the White Dwarf issue that may contain this Tallarn Desert Raiders Army. We have almost every back issue of WD in stock, so if the rumour is true then we'll be able to pair the army and the White Dwarf magazine it's from which would be SUPER COOL!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

No-one: "Is it easy to run a business from home with a toddler running around?" Me: "Well, no, not always, but his plastic dinosaurs really enjoy pretending that Ultra Pro deck boxes are a train!" #mumsinbusiness #UltraPro #dinosaur #smallbusiness #toddlerlife

A gold Ultra pro deck box split in half, containing one green plastic dinosaur and one orange plastic dinosaur.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"The breakfast of (Sigmar's) Champions!" As a teenager, one of my best friends painted Warhammer and I really did not understand the appeal. Fast forward 20 years and today I made a detour to Warhammer World for breakfast! I wish I'd discovered tabletop games sooner, but at least I did eventually!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's always nice to be able to do something special for our customers. We don't have physical store, but we were able to organise a special visit to our stockroom today for a surpise birthday treat! #boardgames #happybirthday #customerservice

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I always dreamed of being able to walk to another gamers house and, thanks to this business, I now know; Al - from my local game group Geoff - who is opening a Warhammer club in town Ebay guy - who lives at the end of my street Side Note: Don't message us on ebay for discounts - email us instead!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We've completed another "Rescue" project this morning. We bought these three Battletech boxes 3 months ago, but the minis have only just been located by the original owner and now they're reunited. Now we'll find them a new home where they'll hopefull hit the table soon! #battletech #miniatures

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Most people associate our business with buying and selling pre-owned board games, but we're often most excited when we receive TTRPGs and Warhammer. Today we hit the jackpot with Warhammer TTRPGs - two different eras of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay amongst lots of other great books! #ttrpgs #WHFRP

A car filled with over 100 tabletop RPG books and 50 board games.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Expeditions (the sequel to Scythe from @stonemaiergames.com) is our latest addition to our personal collection. It's unusual for us to love a new game enough to sleeve the cards, buy the expansion, add upgraded coins and paint the minis all in 1 week!

Painted mech miniatures for Expeditions board game.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This big stack of historical war games is a single customer order from one of our regulars. We recently starting talking more about our wishlist service and it's awesome to be fulfilling orders for some sought after grail games for our customers. #wargames #boardgames @hollandspiele.bsky.social

Two stacks of historical war games from publishers such as Compass Games, Hollandspiele and White Dog Games.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The long Easter weekend was a busy one for sales on both our Ebay and Facebook page. We're very grateful to everyone who ordered from us - our postman was a little shocked today! Ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/str/tabletoprescue Facebook: www.facebook.com/tabletoprescue

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Last night we got the chance to play Finspan from @stonemaiergames.com It's a much lighter gamer than we were expecting, but it was about right for us after a hectic week here. Wyrmspan still tops the charts for -span games, but we'd be happy to play again. What do others think?

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Bringing up our gaming son (hopefully)! ✔️Dice was one of his first words ✔️Likes to play "Dinosaur Dice" - each toy dinosaur receives a matching colour dice ✔️"Want board games" is the subject of at least 20% of tantrums ✔️Creative use of Warhammer

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Tomorrow will be our first time visiting Salute at Excel London run by @slondonwarlords.bsky.social We're excited to see if we might have a stand there in 2026! @amyjade.bsky.social has a shopping list, I'm turning on networking mode, and we're excited to see who we will see there!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

TTR = Tabletop Rescue TTR = Ticket to Ride TTR TTR = Ticket to Ride Tabletop Rescue We've rescued some very, very cool items today for Ticket to Ride collectors! #tickettoride #tabletoprescue #preownedgames #boardgames

Rare pink, transparent purple, transparent black and trasparent white trains for Ticket to Ride board game.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Phew! We're finally getting back on track after a superb weekend at @aireconuk.bsky.social I couldn't have done it without the help of my awesome wife! We loved meeting every single person at our stall and were amazed by how many people know about Tabletop Rescue!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I know it seems small, but getting our first branded clothing today is a weirdly proud moment for me. I've been running this business full-time for almost a year and we're going to celebrate with a (hopefully) huge weekend at Airecon! @aireconuk.bsky.social Will we see you there?

Two branded 'Tabletop Resuce' t-shirts - one navy blue and one heather purple.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today we've prepared a "board game cafe starter pack" to sell a local contact who is opening up a board game cafe soon in Dorking, Surrey. What do you think of our picks? What's missing? #boardgamecafe #gatewaygames #boardgames #tabletoprescue #dorking

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's beautiful day to head out, buy 3 board game collections and pick up a bonus cat! (Please Note: Cat was returned to its rightful owner.) (Please Also Note: Cat was very fluffy and pretty🐈‍⬛) #catsloveboardgames #boardgames #boardgamecollection #perksofthejob

A car, filled with board games and a fluffy black cat.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We've got over 60 orders shipping out today, but I think this is my favourite. A selection of four different items from our Ebay store that really capture an image of an ongoing AD&D campaign. Look at those giant dice! #dice #dungeonsanddragons #AD&D #tabletoprescue #ebay #ttrpgs

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I had a great morning yesterday with @hachettebguk.bsky.social at their Game Day in Manchester. Two highlights of the day were Solstis and The Architects of Amytis, both 2-player games releaseing in the UK in the next few months. #boardgames #networking #tabletoprescue #newgames #2playergames

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We've waited too long to do this, but finally we can say "Would you like a bag with that?" when you buy from us at events! #itsthelittlething #smallbusiness #boardgames #tabletoprescue #boardgameconventions

Brown paper bag with Tabletop Rescue sticker and a few board games.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Took my new birthday presents to today's event. Always helpful to point out your board game addiction when you're standing beside a stall full of 100 board games for sale! Some solo games in my @quivertime.com carry case for any downtime too. #boardgames #boardgameaddict #smallbusiness

"Board game addict" water bottle and "Quiver" board game carry case.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

February and March are super busy with events for us. We'll be at; 16th February - Scorched Game Day, Worthing 23rd February - Mid Sussex Meeples, Burgess Hill 8th March - Crawley Comic Con 14th-16th March - Airecon, Harrogate 29th-30th March - Paradice, Worthing Hope to see you there!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We source our stock in a few ways, but most of it comes from buying collections that we pick-up in person - we rack up a lot of mileage! This month we've started accepting postal submissions and after today's arrival, I'm starting to question if this is wise! #boardgames #areyouserious

A package freshly delivered and completly inadequately wrapped.

A box full of board games that arrived without any extra padding, waterproofing etc.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today we've made our first order of products from @foambrain.bsky.social which lets us support one of our regular board game cafe customers. Their awesome range of pride dice and pride pins will be available at our future events. #pride #TTRRPGs #dice #geekpride

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I work from home. Today that means that I have a bed covered in board game stock which I'm pricing for #MCRGeekFayre on Saturday! We try to bring our best and most popular games to shows and it's always nice to see it come together. #smallbusiness #boardgames #tabletoprescue #manchester

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We've started preparing for our stall at #MCRgeekfayre on 1st February. We'll be bringing a great selection of board game and RPG books. Events are always a great was to connect with others who are super passionate about tabletop gaming! #dungeonsandflagons #tabletopgames #boardgames #ttrpgs

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Me too! A half-painted copy of Arcadia Quest is one of my current 'rescue' projects.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Day 3 in the life of Tabletop Rescue... After a hectic morning we got to visit one of our regular customers this afternoon. I bought a stack of games and enjoyed games of Nova Luna and River Valley Glassworks. It's a rare treat to have time to play games on a visit! #boardgames #timetoplay

River Valley glassworks board game. Lots of colourful glass beads and cute critters.

A car loaded high with many, many board games.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In today's 'Day in the Life at Tabletop Rescue' we've been out to buy a board game and war game collection. We currently travel 2-3 times a week and love to meet all of the interesting gamers who choose to sell their collections with us. How cool are these Talisman games?!!! #talisman #warhammer

A board game collection in the back of a Ford Fiesta!

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I want to start using Bluesky more, so here's a little more about what we do at Tabletop Rescue. Our business is mainly online sales of pre-owned games and most days look like this - a huge mix of vintage and modern board games and RPGs on their way to new homes.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I need to find a Magic the Gathering crowd who might appreciate my very first alter. I'm no artist, but I'm feeling brave and pretty proud of my first attempt! #MagicTheGathering #MTGalter #Mario #LivingBones #AnimateDead #FanArt #MTG

Magic the Gathering Card "Animate Dead" - the artist has painted a Living Bones character from Mario as alternative artwork.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of the most impressive Christmas trinkets I have ever seen, and a memento of my first year in business that I will 100% treasure. Look at these AMAZING custom printed festive Magic: The Gathering Cards!! #MTG #MagicTheGathering #CustomMTG #Christmas #ChristmasGifts #ThankYou

12 custom-printed Christmas Magic The Gathering Cards

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's time to introduce myself to Bluesky... Hi, I'm Fiona, owner at Tabletop Rescue. We're a UK-based pre-owned games business specialising in board games, miniatures and TTRPGs. Most of all, I love meeting people with a shared passion for gaming! #hello #intro #boardgames #TTRPGs #smallbusiness

Fiona, owner at Tabletop Rescue, at her stand at Dragonmeet.

A person peeping between two shelves of board games behind a table full of tabletop roleplaying books.

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Fiona @ Tabletop Rescue @tabletoprescue.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My wife is so talented! - She taught me everything I know about painting miniatures. Whilst I'm a long way off being this good, it does mean that my business can rescue any bad or half finished painting projects we receive.

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Ross 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com · 12/11/2024

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