High Shelf Gaming Podcast

HSG15: Dungeons & Dragons: An Intro

Rich and I talk about the game we've loved for the longest and certainly put the most time into.

This kicks off a series of episodes we're going to do about D&D.

 

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HSG14: Legend of the Five Rings Part 2: #depends

Robert and Ben join Rich and me again to discuss Legend of Five Rings, the new card game. This episode focuses on the game itself, some basic strategy considerations and how layered the experience can be.

We get into the role that tournament winners play on impacting the game for every player in the future, uniquely this game changes after major tournaments in a way that no other game has attempted with player decisions impacting the story, and even the game rules for individual clans.

 

Fantasy Flight game page: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/legend-of-the-five-rings-the-card-game/

L5R Discord: https://discord.gg/jnVXhv

Card Database: https://fiveringsdb.com/#/

Play online for free: https://jigoku.online/

For more stories from Rokugan check out http://www.kazenoshiro.com/

Robert and Ben come to us from an excellent L5R podcast 'The Table is Yours' https://the-table-is-yours.pinecast.co/

HSG13: Legend of the Five Rings LCG Part 1: Game Lore

Robert and Ben join Rich and me to tell us all about this very tactical card game.  We're breaking this conversation up into two episodes.  This one focuses on the world of Rokugan, the game setting for Legend of the Five Rings, the new Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight.

Resources: 

L5R Discord: https://discord.gg/jnVXhv

Card Database: https://fiveringsdb.com/#/

Play online for free: https://jigoku.online/

For more stories from Rokugan check out http://www.kazenoshiro.com/

Robert and Ben come to us from an excellent L5R podcast The Table is Yours https://the-table-is-yours.pinecast.co/

 

 

HSG12: Board Game Geek Convention Fall 2018 Wrap Up

This week Ryan joins Rich and me to talk about the Board Game Geek convention in Dallas they put on four times a year. Twice in Dallas and twice on cruise ships! An excellent convention style to load up on tons of unique games with more 3,000 titles to chose from.

https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGGCON

HSG11: Women in Gaming

Rich and I talk with several of our friends about their experience as women in the gaming scene. They share a lot of great experiences, both positive and negative, about the games and events they're apart of.

This episode is more serious than our normal affair, but we wanted to talk about this subject. We need to thank all of the people who asked to be apart of this episode, the timing didn't work out for everyone but the guests we had on were fantastic.

Guests

• Kelly
• Cassidy
• Jessi
• Heather
• Elyse

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Heather also has a blog at https://kratrina.com/ and is available on twitter @kratrina

 

HSG10: GenCon Survival Series - Part 1: Housing

This episode Rich and I discuss how to game the gaming con! GenCon Housing is different than it was in years past, this survival guide will give you every tool and trick we know to improve your odds of getting a hotel room, and some ideas on when you'd prefer some hotels over others based on the games you want to play.

 

 

GenCon prep notes:

• buy a badge sooner than later
• have a credit card with an expiration date AFTER the show
• be ready for housing portal JAN 26th!
• travel to and from the convention
• parking at hotels even downtown and it can add up
• travel from airport - shuttle and bus
• Uber and Lyft

Helpful Links:

Downtown map - http://www.downtownindy.org/explore-downtown/maps/

GenCon SubReddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/gencon/

 

GenCon Housing page - https://www.gencon.com/housing (login required)

 - http://www.gencon.com/attend/housing_travel (no login required)

 

 

Cheap ride to and from the Airport!   https://www.indygo.net/route/8-washington/

HSG9: Shadowrun: Crossfire

This Week Daniel joins Rich and David in talking about this cooperative deckbuilding game.  A sleeper challenge that really ups the pain late into the game with tons of replay ability

 

 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135382/shadowrun-crossfire

 

 

Reprint!? 

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1716719/will-there-be-reprint

http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/category/crossfire/

 

HSG8: Pandemic! by Z-Man games

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

 

 

 

HSG7: 2017 games we played and visions of 2018

A bit different today, this episode Rich and I revisit some games we talked about earlier in the year.  We know it's a little... dumb? to do a looking back episode after only 6 episodes but hey, Game of Thrones Season 8 is what? 6 episodes? We're just following the greats!

 

Seriously though we're pumped to talk about our future here at HSG.  We spend most of this episode talking about things to come and how much fun we're going to have in 2018!

HSG6: Eons - By Krista Witt

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.