We're back with another fantasy draft, as we keep on moving down the BoardGameGeek top games list. If you're not familiar, we're each picking a standalone collection of five games before our picks get stolen out from under us. Want to win a $50 gift card? You've got to vote on whose collection is best! Before we get the knives out, we talk about Raiders of Scythia, and Ankh: Gods of Egypt.

02:01 - Raiders of Scythia 02:18 - Raiders of the North Sea 08:56 - Ankh: Gods of Egypt 29:09 - Drafting BGG's #201-300 32:58 - 1830: Railways & Robber Barons 34:52 - Flamme Rouge 36:51 - Beyond the Sun 37:59 - Cthulhu Wars 39:14 - Modern Art 39:27 - Glory to Rome 41:35 - Dune 42:49 - Imperial 2030 43:36 - The Resistance 44:35 - Arboretum 45:47 - Hive 46:47 - Glen More II: Chronicles 48:20 - Dwellings of Eldervale 49:35 - Dixit 51:23 - Burgle Bros

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Jeff Fraser, designer of Cartouche, talks about various skill barriers in games and what you should be aware of when designing games with elements like spatial reasoning, dexterity, memory, math, and negotiation.

We talk about playtesting these elements, designing based on your target audience, and more.

And be sure to check out Jeff’s game, Cartouche, on Kickstarter HERE.​

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Wicked and Wise is a new Kickstarter project from Weird Giraffe Games, a partner-based trick taking game with asymmetric roles and a high degree of cooperation. Jason is joined by designer Fertessa Allyse and artist Estefania Rodriguez to talk all about it. In the second half of the show, we talk about making it in the industry, being seen, overcoming the dreaded Impostor Syndrome, and navigating conventions in our "new normal." Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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Ben and Steve play this classic live for your pleasure!!!   Listen to the full show at : https://www.patreon.com/5g4d 

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Hey Now Cabalists! It’s time for another wild, crazy, bananas, brilliant, bombastic, and meshugenah episode of The Secret Cabal Today it's only Don, Steve and Jamie as the others are off doing whatever they do and the gang dives into the games they've been playing including Ankh, Robinhood and his Merry Men, Descent: Legends of the Dark, Vast Mysterious Manor, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars with upgrades and Kill Team Octarius. Then Don and Jamie hook the Cabalists up with a feature review of SpaceCorp 2025-2300AD plus the Spacecorp Ventures expansion from GMT Games. Steve S takes over the news chair while Tony T is driving across country and does a bang-up job! Then finally Don and Jamie talk about their shelves of shame. SpaceCorp 2025-2300AD Overview 01:08:54, SpaceCorp 2025-2300AD Review 01:15:31, News with Steve S 01:48:32, The Shelf of Shame 02:43:00

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We delve deep into knowledge and doubt this week on SVWAG. How do we know what we know? How can we know what we don't know? Why did Mark think Vienna Connection was a train game? Who or what is Wormy Plums, and is it a euphemism for some kind of sex act? Why is there no Masterpiece Theatre? Thankfully, we can at least answer that last question--it is because The F8 of the Furious took such a toll on the hosts' psyches that they needed a break to recuperate.

Games Played Last Week:
01:16 -Regicide (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, & Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2020)
04:44 -Brew (Stevo Torres, Pandasaurus Games, 2021)
08:40 -Space Base (John D. Clair, AEG, 2018)
12:17 -Fortress (Fridemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2017)
14:56 -Destinies (Michał Gołębiowski & Filip Miłuński, Lucky Duck Games, 2021)
17:57 -Imperium: Legends (Nigel Buckle & Dávid Turczi, Osprey Games, 2021)
22:01 -Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King (Andreas Pelikan & Alexander Pfister, Lookout Games, 2015)
24:20 -Fairy Tale (Satoshi Nakamura, Z-Man Games, 2004)
26:09 -Let's Make a Bus Route: The Dice Game (Saashi, Saashi & Saashi, 2021)
27:31 -Quest (Don Eskridge, Indie Boards & Cards, 2021)
33:12 -Formula D (Laurent Lavaur & Eric Randall, Asmodee, 2008)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
35:00 SVWAG is listener-supported
35:59 Flamecraft: adorable
36:30 Black Rose Wars: Rebirth expandalone
37:20 Harry Potter Talisman
37:40 Marrakesh by Stefan Feld
38:05 Finalists for the Zenobia Awards: historical games by under-represented authors
https://zenobiaaward.org/finalists/
39:18 50th anniversary edition of Québec 1759 in 2022 from Columbia Games
40:27 Parasocial Saturdays: streaming Canvas and Rush M.D. on August 21st.

40:41 Feature Game: Vienna Connection (Jakub Poczęty, Przemysław Rymer, Ignacy Trzewiczek, & Jakub Łapot, Portal Games, 2021)

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In this episode, Suzanne and Mandi discuss Godspeed, Mozzaroller, The Loop, Galtoni, Flipover Frog, and Riverside. The pie of the show is Garden Games game pie!

Support for The Dice Tower comes from TheOp.games and GameNerdz.com.

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Tony McRee

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Episode 130: The Gardens, Oriflamme Ablaze, Air, Land & Sea

Sizzling Games: (01:57) The Gardens, Oriflamme Ablaze, Air, Land & Sea

Topic of the Pod: (25:21) Top 5 games that surprised us, in a good way.

Bracket Battle 2.0: (1:03:08) Aeon’s End v Vindication

Swear an Oath: (1:13:38)

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Ben continues his actual play of The Thousand Year Old Vampire and ends up on some foggy island.

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Tricky Tides is a charming and challenging trick-up-and-deliver game. Play cards to tricks like any classic card game. The card you play determines how your ship sails across a network of islands. Fill orders and watch for monsters to amass your fortune.

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Steve & Bairnt discuss their favorite AI in board games and some of the best implementations and why. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg YouTube(streamed) - https://www.youtube.com/c/OneStopCoopShopStreamed Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/onestopcoopshop Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/onestopcoopshop Discord - https://discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - https://www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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Shelley and I enjoy some fruity goodness this week, looking at

Juicy Fruits by Christian Stöhr from Deep Print Games and Capstone Games' new family line

and then check out

Finca by Wolfgang Sentker and Ralf zur Linde by Rio Grande Games

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Welcome from Chad, Jon, Chris

Special Guest: Andrew Navaro!

Thank you to: Marcus W, Daniel M, Audrin & Lain T, and Sam R

Interview with Andrew Navaro:

• Insight into the early days of the game
• Andrew's new company and it's goals
• Earthborne Rangers https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/earthbornegames/earthborne-rangers

Announcements, News and Twitter

SLEX Swag reveal happened! Stickers, Playmat, Coin, 400 sleeves!!

Andrew B. won the Tesseract Dividers

Random Review Redo? Song of Healing (Autumn's choice, of course)

ChapCon and LCG-Weekend recaps

ALEP: Chad's video of The Battle for the Beacon is on the CotR youtube channel.

You can watch Jon read another magazine on our YouTube Channel.

Farewells

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In this rapidly 151st episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Ava and Quinns are climbing mountains and swinging from trees to tell you about some board games about climbing mountains and swinging from trees.

Quinns introduces us to Trek 12, a game of mapping out mountains, roping numbers together and some clever envelopes. Then Ava wants to be a bit over-familiar with Fast Sloths, a game of hitch-hiking sloth racing.

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Episode 129: Arkham Horror 3rd Edition, Hallertau, Pipeline

 

Sizzling Games: (01:57) Arkham Horror 3rd edition, Hallertau, Pipeline

Topic of the Pod: (55:18) The impact of losing in games

Bracket Battle 2.0: Update on Maracaibo v Smartphone Inc. (1:18:44)

Swear an Oath: (1:28:45)

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Murder at the Motel, MicroMacro: Crime City, and Gartic Phone. We then list our top five favorite games that we're bad at but still like.

Announcements: 0:44
Recent Games: 2:04
Top 5 Games We're Bad At: 9:55
Outro: 32:47
Bloopers: 34:00

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Gartic Phone: https://garticphone.com/

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We all have types of games that, for whatever reason, we steer clear of. Often all that we've been missing is a more suitable introduction to the genre, or a game that's just enough of an outlier. This week, we try to tempt you toward genres that you might have written off, with the games that may just sway you. Before we change your minds, we talk about Pocket Galapagos, Cascadia, and Bites.

01:36 - Pocket Galapagos 08:57 - Cascadia 12:53 - Bites 18:34 - Games that'll turn you around 20:19 - Battle for Rokugan 23:54 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine 26:54 - Smartphone Inc. 30:53 - Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends 33:23 - Santorini 35:13 - Snakesss 38:49 - Eternal: Chronicles of the Throne

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Rachel Bruner, designer of Harsh Shadows, talks about how to create print-n-play games and the many reasons why you might want to.

Rachel is super active in the PnP community, and we discuss her thoughts on best practices, tools of the trade, getting a PnP game published, and more.

And here are all the links and whatnot that were discussed on the show:

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This is part two of Jason's interview with Andrew Navaro and Andrew Fisher of Earthborne Games. In this episode, we get into some Good Trouble, only this time Andrew Navaro aims to help people think twice about how we produce our games. For the sake of the environment and for the sake of inspiring local employment and entrepreneurship, we would benefit greatly from local production and distribution. Andrew gets into the weeds of the current state of sustainable production, vision for the future, and much more. Shelf Stories YouTube (with video of this recording) - www.youtube.com/shelfstories __________________________________ YouTube - www.youtube.com/onestopcoopshop www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCIkULbgzMEW612cSdUX7Q Discord - discord.gg/p4jX8AF Facebook - www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to One Stop Co-op Shop - www.patreon.com/onestop Email - onestopcoopshop@gmail.com

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