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
Sunday Dec 23, 2018
Sunday Dec 23, 2018
David and Rich talk all about Dice. Symmetry, Balance, Process, and Results! We get in the weeds on how to test your dice, how to get more randomness. Why you may not want to pick up casino dice, other precision options, and why there's this rash of games requiring custom dice.
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
This week Alec, the admin for the wonderful Facebook group: Fans of Gen Con, joins us to share his passion for the convention, gaming, and the story of the group's path to becoming the best place to find information about Gen Con on the internet.
With the group's size ballooning to 15,000+ users, Alec and his team of moderators enable all things Gen Con to be discussed in a safe way. It's interesting hearing how they tackle everything from repetitive questions to super controversial topics cropping up before, and even during, the convention.
A great episode for certain.
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Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Just in time for the holidays, Ryan returns to talk with us about his and Rich's experiences at BoardGameGeek Con. They played 13+ games, new and old, and review each one. It's a fun episode packed with information.
Games Reviewed:
TransAmerica by Rio Grande Games
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Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
This week Mike returns with a new Dungeons and Dragons game and a familiar problem: The party is a bunch of oddball classes. Though challenging for some DMs we talk about the some of the issues that can creep in mid and late game, and the extra care a DM should take early levels while people get their feet wet. We also talk about some dream teams we've wanted to run games for and the inspiration behind them.
Fun times are always had when Mike's on, please enjoy!
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Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
This Week, Thanksgiving week, we are thankful for volunteers like Amy who's joining us from the Gen Con volunteers community to share with us what brought her to Gen Con, volunteering, and what it's like to help 60,000 people have a great weekend.
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Tuesday Nov 06, 2018
Tuesday Nov 06, 2018
This week Rich and I discuss our first year and plans for year 2. There are giveaways (multiple in this episode), so be on the lookout for those.
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
This week the phenomenally talented B. Dave Walters (Victor Temple on LA By Night) joins us to talk gaming, streaming, comics and philosophy. We cover some serious ground in this episode. Everything from his upcoming comic book, games that he's running and playing in on Twitch and other streaming venues along with an absolute wealth of background, history, and thoughts. B. Dave could teach a master class on what it takes to achieve your goals.
He's available in many places all at once: @BDaveWalters, Patreon, New D&D Comic, His regular crew at @UncommonTrust, and several shows on Geek and Sundry: Ask Your Black Geek Friend, We're Alive: Frontier, and of course LA By Night! He's also appeared on Stream of Many Eyes and will certainly be in tons more shows in the future.
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Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
This week Rich schools me in what it takes to raise kids into being gamers. He's two for two on this and I figured he'd be a great resource! Rich has some interesting ideas... And it looks like my hopes of turning my new child into a Go (Baduk) master are perhaps too ambitious...
Tons of fun making this episode! please enjoy
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Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Heather's triumphant return! we talk about a great game she introduced to our Friday night Twitch streams: Dead of Winter. Rich and I love this game, it's crazy fun and pretty tough when you get away from the starter scenario.
It has so many game tags too - worker placement, action economy management, crisis management, pvp, pve, cooperative, betrayal, zombies! but the real star is the fantastic flavor text that draws you into the game and the horrific decisions you make as players.
Still doing our give away, listen for details on how to enter!
Heather is on twitter and other social media as @Kratrina
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
This week Rich and I talk about an early favorite of our Friday Night streams, Scythe by Stonemaier Games! When we first started our friday night streams we played this game a ton and finally made time to talk about it. Part instruction, part review this episode goes all over the basic board game and talks about the 3 expansions as well.
The thing about this game is that it combines a lot of the things we love from other games, with a dramatic setting that evokes real feelings of strife. The minis are great and I could see using them at the RPG table (ok maybe not the mechs but the heroes definitely).
We snuck in a little give away at the end too, so be on the lookout!
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