Lots of talk of economics in this week's news. One might expect a diminishing return on such talk, but as rational consumers of news we often find a deficit of such a valuable commodity. Ceteris paribus, we're willing to offer you the free lunch of our altruism, even though that may lead to a tragedy of the commons. We value your investment of time when you listen to us--our intellectual capital is all we have, after all. I don't think I'm very bullish on this bit any more.
Games Played Last Week: -KeyForge: Call of the Archons 4m00s (Richard Garfield, Fantasy Flight, 2018) -Epic: The Card Game 6m26s (Robert Dougherty & Darwin Kastle, White Wizard, 2015) -Teotihuacan: City of Gods 8m12s (Daniele Tascini & Dávid Turczi, NSKN Games, 2018) -Argent: The Consortium 9m01s (Trey Chambers, Level 99 Games, 2015) -BattleLore: Second Edition 11m51s (Richard Borg & Robert A. Kouba, Fantasy Flight, 2013) -North Wind 13m23s (Klaus Teuber, Z-Man, 2014) -Everdell 15m18s (James A. Wilson, Starling Games, 2018)
News (and why it doesn't matter) -Super Dungeon Explore's money fades into Legend 17m10s -Cool Mini or Not's earnings get more mini, isn't cool 19m08s -Omega Protocol proves once again that LoS ain't easy 23m18s -Inflation hits the stellar market with A Billion Suns 24m52
Feature Game: Gùgōng 26m30s (Andreas Steding, Game Brewer, 2018)
In this show, we talk about Lords of Hellas, Underwater Cities, Subatomic, Fireball Island, Just One, and Terraforming Mars: Colonies. Geoff talks about knitting, and we answer questions about making our collections child-proof and Future Eric. Finally, we end the show talking about our top ten games that were replaced by other games, yet we kept them for some reason. Also, we explain the reasons.
BGG Con has come and gone and Marty was there and he relives his adventures, including raiding a mini-bar and squatting in an area that was not meant for them. […]
Doug and I have "known" each other via the internet for over twenty years. He, Joe Huber, and I were the three that started emailing each other to form the Desert Island Gamers (DIGers) mailing list that was a main source of boardgaming information before sites like BGG were around. Heck, we go back far enough that we knew each other from IRC chat sessions. Although the distance between California (me) and Australia (Doug) has prevented us from meeting in-person, we've kept up an irregular correspondence for all of those years. Doug was on my wargames podcast a couple years ago, and at that time I knew I had to get him on Boardgames To Go, too. He maintains his wargaming days are mostly behind him, and he's almost exclusively a eurogamer now. When he dove into his own private, Knizia boardgaming marathon challenge, I knew straight away that this was the topic we'd discuss. Being gamers from way back, I knew he'd be exploring lots of classic Knizia titles from the 1990s. He didn't stop there, though. He played every kind of Knizia game he could, from those early titles that impressed so many of us, through some recent years when Knizia was less visible, all the way up to the present day's "Reinerssance." Though this challenge was big enough to begin with, Doug kept adding to it as the year went on. Then he managed to actually complete this gargantuan challenge by the end of September. Amazing! I invited him on the podcast to talk about that entire experience, both the Knizia games he enjoyed, and the very nature of personal boardgaming challenges. With the new year coming soon, I bet some other gamers will be inspired to try their own challenges. More power to you. Be sure to also check out Doug's excellent blog here on BGG, full of great photos and tidbits about the games he plays. It's called Reducing Doug's To Play List, which gives some sense of its general purpose. He posted monthly recaps of his progress through his "Great Knizia Challenge."
Shelley and I get our party hats on as we organize a cool party in Portugal Tetris-style, then work with our glaziers to make the most beautiful stained glass windows!
Arraial by Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro and Paulo Soledade from Mebo Games
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Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra by Michael Kiesling from Next Move/Plan B Games
In this special episode, Ambie and Crystal recorded together for the first time ever! We talk about our time at BGG.CON.
BGG.CON Recap: 0:28
Outro: 38:53
We're getting introspective this week, weighing up the mistakes we've made in our collections, and reflecting on our earlier selves. Would you reset your board game collection? What games might you not buy if you had to do it all over again? Before we turn back time, we also talk about Between Two Castles Of Mad King Ludwig, Claustrophobia, and KeyForge: Call of the Archons.
01:39 - Between Two Castles Of Mad King Ludwig 06:17 - Claustrophobia 10:43 - KeyForge: Call of the Archons 21:12 - Resetting your Collection 21:50 - Innovation 22:22 - Patchwork 23:50 - Skull 25:53 - Forbidden Stars 28:10 - Through The Ages: A New Story of Civilization 28:55 - Cosmic Encounter 32:05 - Fury of Dracula 33:57 - Rising Sun 34:22 - Blood Rage 35:52 - Cthulhu Wars 54:28 - Giveaway! (Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra)
Chris is back from his trip the UK and talks about his games he played with our English Cabalists. Then we feature the newest Mind Clash game, Cerebria The Inside World. Then we take a look back at Yokohama from TMG one year later. After Tony T gives us the greatest news segment in all of board gaming, the gang hosts another short topic extravaganza in which we talk about our shelf of shame and getting better at board games. TIME STAMPS - Games Played: 7:08, Games of Yesteryear: 37:29, Cerebria Overview: 53:40, Cerebria Review: 58:30, Lookback of Yokohama: 1:30:37, The News with Tony T: 1:39:00, Short Topic Extravaganza: 2:18:50
There's this substance that the British people deploy called "salad cream." Chemists, for decades, have tried to break down its constituent parts; but the substance's sheer viscosity--not to mention its disturbing colour and odour--have defied all analysis. I mention this because despite our Canadian prerogative of spelling colour and odour as we do, the cultural rites of salad cream are alien to us. We're proud members of the Commonwealth, but we have our limits. Also, you could put some salad cream on your point salad, bruh.
Games Played Last Week: -FUSE 3m19s (Kane Klenko, Renegade Game Studios, 2015) -KeyForge: Call of the Archons 5m22s (Richard Garfield, Fantasy Flight, 2018) -Twilight Imperium 4th Edition 10m55s (Dane Beltrami, Corey Konieczka & Christian T. Petersen, Fantasy Flight, 2017) -Innovation Deluxe 11m26s (Carl Chudyk, Asmadi, 2017) -Hero Realms 14m36s (Robert Dougherty & Darwin Kastle, White Wizard, 2016) -One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows 16m49s (Chris Cieslik, Asmadi, 2017) -Gugong 18m33s (Andreas Steding, Game Brewer, 2018) -Root 21m12s (Cole Wehrle, Leder Games, 2018)
News (and why it doesn't matter) -V-Commandos morphing into Assassin's Creed 23m21s -Warhammer Quest gets Grimdark 26m03s -New Frontiers for Race for the Galaxy 29m50s
In this show, we talk about Blackout: Hong Kong, Going around the City, Narcos the Board Game, Escape Tales: the Awakening, Duelosaur Island, and Layers. We also examine the Isle of Skye App, and end the show answering several of your questions!
This week Ben talks to one of the new titans in board game design and the designer of Forge War and Gloomhaven, Isaac Childres. They discuss becoming liberal, the Higg's Boson and what it's like to be the best...but which games did he choose?
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