Today, it’s just me, and I’ve got a word of encouragement for you. Pursuing a creative lifestyle can be incredibly difficult, so I wanted to do an episode to help you stay motivated and inspired.
In episode 54, The gang starts out by talking about their recent roleplaying game battery recharging hiatus and their meeting to discuss what we're going to play next included - Fallout, Shadowrun, Pulp Cthulhu and Star Wars. Then the Lords take a question from Cabalist Brett regarding creating and running dastardly villains and how to do it without feeling like a dirtbag. Then finally the group talks about all kinds of gaming group styles, look at their own gaming style and discuss the impact style has on enjoyment.
Welcome to a brand new season of TGiB, has anything changed? No. So this week Paula takes the chair as the gang trivia, improv and guess wildly their way through a nonsense show.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
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In this episode, Tom, Suzanne, and Eric discuss Shake Up, Rise of the Metro, Almadi, Happy City, EXIT: The Gate Between Worlds, and Picture Perfect. We answer questions from the mailbag, and then the words start flying as we list our Top Ten Games that make it easy to Trash Talk.
MARCUS BIGNEY Here comes Fantasy Flight's body, mourned by Michael Walker: who, though he had no hand in its death, shall receive the benefit of its dying, a place in the hobby; as which of you shall not?
WALKER Friends, gamers, hobbyists, lend me your ears; I come to bury Fantasy Flight, not to praise it. The evil that publishers do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Fantasy Flight. The noble Bigney Hath told you FFG was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath FFG answer'd it. Here, under leave of Bigney and the rest-- For Bigney is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-- Come I to speak in FFG's funeral. It was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Bigney says it was ambitious; And Bigney is an honourable man. It hath published many games home to Rome Whose playing did the gaming public thrill: Did this in FFG seem ambitious? When that the games were broken, FFG hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Bigney says it was ambitious; And Bigney is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Bigney spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love it once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for it? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin box there with expansions, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Games Played Last Week: 04:08 -Yokohama (Hisashi Hayashi, Tasty Minstrel Games, 2016) 07:54 -Vampire Queen (Wolfgang Kramer, Schmidt Spiele, 2016) 11:40 -Regicide (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, & Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2020) 12:13 -Pickomino Deluxe (Reiner Knizia, Zoch Verlag, 2018) 14:25 -Equinox (Reiner Knizia, Plan B Games, 2021) 18:33 -Rhino Hero (Scott Frisco & Steven Strumpf, HABA, 2011) 18:33 -Rhino Hero: Super Battle (Scott Frisco & Steven Strumpf, HABA, 2017) 21:50 -The Search for Planet X (Matthew O'Malley & Ben Rosset, Renegade Game Studios, 2020) 23:15 -Descent: Legends in the Dark (Kara Centell-Dunk & Nathan I. Hajek, Fantasy Flight, 2021) 31:00 -Beyond the Sun (Dennis K. Chan, Rio Grande Games, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 32:42 Fundraiser for Food Banks Canada with Badgers from Mars and Regicide! Saturday, Oct 2nd, 3 PM EST on Twitch 33:21 Mini Yura Yura Penguin 33:52 Shout out to SVWAG Guild on Boargamegeek: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3236 34:41 Sushi Boat on KS soon 35:05 G.I. Joe RPG 35:57 CMON getting into NFTs 38:16 Parasocial Saturdays: Streaming Equinox on Saturday, Sep. 11 at 10:30 AM EST on Twitch
Time Segment 00:35 Intro 05:59 Taste Test – New Coke Zero 11:41 Kim Joy’s Magic Bakery 18:58 Puckerbutt Hot Sauce 28:06 Arby’s Dice and it’s a Hat 31:13 Miniature Market […]
In this considerably 153rd episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Ava, Tom and Quinns are talking all about stories. First Ava and Tom dive deep into the watery archipelago of Sleeping Gods, and then Tom and Quinns trade water-cooler gossip about their ridiculous times with Hostage Negotiator: Career. There’s bells and swamps and influencers and ghosts. It’s truly the podcast that has everything!
Following from our Reiner Knizia Special video, here's more Knizia games, this time, all out of print and all (hopefully) coming back soon.
07:51 - Tigris & Euphrates + Yellow & Yangtzee
32:57 - Ra
43:24 - Winner's Circle
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We love Uwe Rosenberg around these parts, whether it's because of our infatuation with polyominoes, the need to keep workers fed, or the strange mechanisms of animal breeding. Join us down the (cottage) garden path of his designography, and make sure to plant some vegetables along the way. Before we get agricultural, we talk about Bosk, Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story, and Glen More II: Chronicles.
00:58 - Bosk 07:57 - Spies & Lies: A Stratego Story 12:37 - Love Letter 15:21 - Glen More II: Chronicles 24:52 - BGG 201-300 Fantasy Draft Winner 27:49 - Strategicon 29:01 - Uwe Rosenberg 29:56 - Bohnanza 33:58 - Agricola 37:19 - Le Havre 39:34 - At the Gates of Loyang 40:58 - A Feast for Odin 41:20 - Patchwork 46:45 - Caverna: The Cave Farmers 47:34 - Nova Luna 49:36 - Hallertau 53:59 - Mamma Mia! 54:28 - Nusfjord
Luke Badger, Paul Abrahams, and Andy Richdale, from Badgers from Mars, talk about how to design a game based on nothing more than a standard deck of cards.
We talk about their game Regicide (currently number one on BGG’s Hotness list), pros and cons of such tight constraints, marketing, and more.
Oh Yeah! Tony and Chris are back in action in episode 238 of The Secret Cabal! Today we start off by hearing a little about Tony's journey across the country and then dive into the games we've been playing over the past 2 weeks including The Shores of Tripoli, Vanuatu, Dark Domains, Meadow, Karuba, Steve's mobile escape rooms experience, and Coyote. Then Don and Jamie dive into an in-depth review of Descent Legends of the Dark from Fantasy Flight Games. Tony T takes back the reigns of the news segment and gives us a tour of all the stuff going on around the industry. Then finally the gang discusses whether size matters in board gaming - box size, card size, table presence, etc. Descent Legends of the Dark Overview 01:04:57, Descent Legends of the Dark Review 01:09:34, News with Tony T S 01:47:47, Does Size Matter 02:38:35