A podcast about board games, role playing games and gaming conventions! We bring on game designers, creators, players and game masters to talk about their passion.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Kelly comes back to talk about her favorite game, Pandemic! It gets her epidemiologist heart all a twitter, naturally we have a deep bench of strategies and teasing to spell at Rich who's never won a game apparently.
We cover several expansions along with the main game here are links to the versions of Pandemic we covered:
Base Game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
Expansion 1 - On the brink: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/40849/pandemic-brink
Expansion 2 - State of Emergency: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/168703/pandemic-state-emergency
Iberia stand alone (has rails!): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/198928/pandemic-iberia
Pandemic Legacy (evolving game, limited plays!): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1
Contagion (you are the disease) : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157789/pandemic-contagion
Cthulhu version: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192153/pandemic-reign-cthulhu
Broken Token organizer for base game + Expansions: http://www.thebrokentoken.com/biohazard-containment-unit/
Other sites talking about survival strategies:
https://www.thespruce.com/pandemic-how-to-avoid-outbreaks-410922
https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/what-are-good-general-strategies-for-pandemic
Friday Dec 22, 2017
Friday Dec 22, 2017
A small but fun game where the players are galactic architects, competing to create the largest collection of stars, planets, and blackholes possible before the end of the universe. This competitive game shuffles turn orders and provides many paths to victory making for some creative plays to lock in a win.
Board Game Geek
Game rules hosted by Gamer Nation
Gamer Nation product page - Alternative rules for cooperative play, Secret agenda cards are also available for print and play
It looks like they had intended to produce expansion packs to the game with more cards with each expansion but sadly never came to pass.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017
In this episode Rich and I are joined by my wife, Kelly in talking about this brand new Doctor Who game, that's actually really fun to play even for non-Who fans like myself.
Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks by Gale Force Nine games is a great take on the series, plays well as a semi-cooperative game with rules that really fit in well with the theme. We had a lot of fun with this game and making this episode!
Game's web page: http://doctorwho.gf9games.com/
BGG page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/186995/doctor-who-time-daleks
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Shara joins us to talk about her favorite boardgame Ticket to Ride! We have a lot of fun talking around the game and how Shara's cousins and her conspire against her Uncle and how Rich's family never lets him win. Some links to help people get their Ticket to Ride fix on the go:
Days of Wonder's online games: https://www.daysofwonder.com/online/en/play/
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/108200/Ticket_to_Ride/
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daysofwonder.tt.android&hl=en
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
Thursday Nov 23, 2017
In this episode David is joined by Rob, talking about their love for True Dungeon. A type of in room dungeons and dragons with paid actors, difficult puzzles, and animatronic monsters! Truely a unique experience only available at Gen Con and similar venues.
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Rich and I talk about the first game we really played together Doom 2004 edition. We played at a convention of all places. We discuss the game itself and how we'd tweak it to make it more fun and some new ideas on how to really do something special for players in a big game.
Some more great resources about Doom old and new:
http://geekandsundry.com/doom-the-board-game-is-back-in-style/