In episode 184 the gang is back for a jam packed episode! Today we review Fantasy Flight's newest app driven board game, Lord of the Rings Journeys in Middle Earth and look back at Big Trouble in Little China one year later. Then Tony T gets down and dirty with the best damn tabletop gaming news segment in all of gaming media while the rest of us quack in the background. Then finally we have an in depth discussion about replayability in board games and what it means to us. Lord of the Rings Journeys in Middle Earth Overview 00:55:51, Lord of the Rings Journeys in Middle Earth Odyssey Review 01:00:27, Big Trouble in Little China Look Back 01:26:25, News with Tony T 01:36:40, Replayability Discussion 02:23:20
Do you sometimes feel like having your blind brother hurl spears at you as a party trick? Do you feel the urge to put your hand in a giant wolf's mouth to make your friends feel bad? Do you wish you could ride a chariot pulled by cats for no discernible reason? Do you long to carry on rambling conversations with a severed head? Do you want days of the week to be named after you? Well, this is your episode!
Games Played Last Week: -Just One 1m26s (Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter, Repos Productions, 2018) -Lords of Hellas 3m12s (Adam Kwapiński, Awaken Realms, 2018) -Combat Commander: Europe 5m26s(Chad Jensen, GMT, 2006) -Barenpark 7m56s (Phil Walker-Harding, Lookout Games, 2017) -Corporate America 8m31s (Teale Fristoe, Nothing Sacred Games, 2013) -Reykholt 10m09s (Uwe Rosenberg, Frosted Games, 2018) -Burning Suns 11m05s (Emil Larson, SunTzu Games, 2013) -51st State: Master Set - Allies 13m32s (Joanna Kijanka & Ignacy Trzewiczek, Portal Games, 2019) -Tammany Hall 16m12s (Doug Eckhart, IDW Games, 2007)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -Chad Jensen diagnosed with cancer and is raising funds 21m24s https://www.gofundme.com/help-chad-with-chemo -Stack with Tuki 22m16s -Ready availability of Queenies? 23m16s -Papillon flies again 24m51s -Modiphius doubles down on Bethesda 25m31s
Tom is in the UK, so Mandi and Suzanne come on board to talk about our top 10 Roll and Write games! We also review Wendake, Tiny, Hadara, and Eye my favorite things. Questions get answered, Geoff goes blue, and more!
While I enjoy Imperial Settlers from Portal, I will admit that 51st State is my favorite of the two. Don’t get me wrong, not saying that one is better than […]
In this week's show I talk to designer of Wingspan, Elizabeth Hargrave. We talk about how crazy Florida is, being in Washington on 9/11 and designing the hit of the year...but which games did she choose. A pack of cards. Castles of Burgundy Wingspan Race for the Galaxy Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig Twitter Facebook Support the show here.
Holding On offers a game experience like no other. It is a drama-driven game that redefines the boundaries of play. We play through the decisions that define Billy's path. And in doing so, we are invited to reflect on our own.
Ambie interviews Josh Starr, the creator of Grand Trunk Games, a new publishing company dedicated to making 18xx games more available, affordable, and approachable.
Interview: 0:24
1861/1867: 13:00
Outro: 26:57
Grand Trunk Games: https://www.grandtrunkgames.com/
Somewhere in Germany every year, a specialist team assembles to decide on the best board games ... that released in Germany that year ... that no one has ever heard of. Look, the Spiel des Jahres is a bit weird, and no one ever agrees about the winners, but we're going to talk about the nominees anyway, okay? Before ze Germans get here, we also talk about Glorantha: The Gods War, and Corinth. We also recap our weekend at Strategicon Gamex 2019. 02:05 - Glorantha: The Gods War 11:28 - Cthulhu Wars 20:06 - Corinth 27:27 - Strategicon Gamex 2019 28:52 - Now Boarding 32:25 - Spiel des Jahres 33:40 - Just One 34:44 - Werewords 36:05 - LAMA 38:46 - Who wins the Spiel des Jahres? 41:47 - Wingspan 42:35 - Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game 43:42 - Carpe Diem 44:39 - Who wins the Kennerspiel?
At last, we close out the podcast with a tempting question from our mailbag (55:54). If we could force board game fans the world over play one thing, what would we choose?
Bob and Ryan Craig, founders of One Day West Games, discuss how to design a tile-laying game.
Their game, Monster Highway, is a fast-playing tile laying game about escaping from a Godzilla style monster, and they have several other tiling games in the works.
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Names are powerful. The Spiel des Jahres means "game of the year" simpliciter, but for years we know that the juries have been casting a narrower and narrower net of what games thay would consider. It has become more of a specialized imprint, which is fine--but it's strange that the name still inspires such cachet. Anything with rules in excess of 3 or so pages seems now to be firmly beyond the pale as far as the SdJ is concerned. Ah, well, times change, and we are prone to fits of curmudgeonly behavior. We do at least give our rundown of the 3 nominated games.
AYURIS: The City of Kings 1m02s (Frank West, The City of Games, 2018)
Games Played Last Week: -Trick Shot 2m35s (Nikita Krylov &Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2019) -LAMA aka Wrath of the Appliances: Rise of the Killer Kameras 4m50s (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2019) -Just One 8m01s (Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter, Repos Productions, 2018) -Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare 10m03s (Richard Borg, PSC Games, 2019) -Fireball Island: The Curse of Vol-Kar 13m51s (Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, & Bruce Lund, Restoration Games, 2018) -Hansa Teutonica 15m38s (Andreas Steding, Z-Man Games, 2010) -SpaceCorp 17m03s (John H. Butterfield, GMT Games, 2018) -Rayguns and Rocketships 19m33s (Scott Rogers, IDW Games, 2017)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -The tangled webs Kickstarter weaves (and then pulls) 26m23s (Correction: During this segment we mistakenly conflated Travis Worthington of Indie Boards and Cards and Travis R. Chance of Kolossal Games. They have both had projects canceled by Kickstarter. We apologize for the error.) -Endeavor: Age of Expansion Expansion 30m30s -Pandemic Targets real-time 31m51s
Mandi and Suzanne discuss Doppelt So Clever, Imperial Settlers The Roll and Write, Ohanami, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Dice Throne, and Kodama 3D. They also revisit two older games in Shelf Staple, and get your input on conventions you want to attend in Victory Points.