On this hot meat sandwich of a Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are running through a selection of the games they played at PAX Unplugged!
First up are some excitable impressions of the latest from Leder Games: Arcs! That’s followed up with a double bill of Grandpa Beck games - the raucously silly Cover Your Assets and Skull King - which in turn is followed by ANOTHER double bill of mushroom-themed boxes with Mycelia and Mycelium: A Mushling Game. Finally, we get to the real good stuff, where Tom and Matt wax lyrical about Strike; a ridiculously simple dice-chucking game that we simply couldn’t get enough of.
This is the first in a double, potentially TRIPLE feature of PAX Unplugged games! Next time, we’re tackling the big crunchy boxes that melted our brains…
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Ra and Rafter Five. Then, we talk about which five board games we would buy back first if our entire game collection suddenly disappeared!
0:00-Intro
0:44-Announcements
3:08-Recent Games - Ra
7:52-Rafter Five
13:19-5 Rebuy Games
28:28-Outro
29:32-Bloopers
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code "BGBLITZ2023" to get 10% off your ENTIRE ORDER, including upgrades not available anywhere else!
Hark, noble Cabalists, and be greeted with mirth! On this day's tale, the Lords do convene to regale thee with the saga's crescendo in Jesse's dragonlance campaign. A query from a gentle listener, pondering the art of casual game mastering, finds its home in the discourse. Yet, lo and behold, the most savory discourse unfolds as they delve into the rich marrow of inspiration—whence cometh our ideas, and doth it pass muster to filch from other realms of media?
This week Dan leads the followers as the Whose Turners open the sacred texts of BoardGameGeek which is a fantastic & free resource for our hobby. The team discuss how they use BGG and their general feelings in and debate various aspects around it, with some slight tangents of course.
FIRST PLAYER: Dan OTHER PLAYERS: Davey, Adrian & Kerley
OVERVIEW In this episode you'll learn: - who wins in a fight between Adrian and his washing line - who has the biggest nose...yep we wondered why this was a thing as well - about Kerley's recent experience with Perseverance Episode 3 - all about BoardGameGeek and it's uses within our hobby
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 2:24 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 2:39 - Kerley - Perseverance Episode 3 7:20 - Adrian - Having a break from games 11:04 - Davey - Trolls & Princesses 14:49 - Dan - Anachrony Fractures of Time 18:11 - TURN 3 - Main Event: The Book of BGG 18:52 - What do we primarily use BGG for? 29:05 - Have we used BGG to help us purchase or not purchase a game? 40:38 - What other specific needs have you used BGG for? 44:21 - Our thoughts on the BGG Hotness 48:44 - A chat about the BGG Top 100 56:45 - TURN 4 - Would you rather? 57:19 - Would you rather own all the top 100 BGG and never play anything else or never play the top 100 ever and get new releases for free? 1:03:56 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up 1:04:07 - Kerley - Paladins of the West Kingdom 1:06:13 - Davey - New office build and Marco Polo 2 1:07:30 - Dan - Feast For Odin & Bamboo 1:10:14 - Adrian - Diablo the Board Game 1:14:16 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
This time, Eric and Julie recap their adventures at PAX Unplugged, and Tom has some questions from the mailbag about Theme, House Rules, and that player in your group who always seems to win. Then, we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
A review of So Very Wrong About Games, not actually by Werner Herzog:
"To listen to SVWAG is to court madness. One host is beholden to the delusion that if he utters sufficient words in a short period of time he may stave off his inevitable death, whereas the other grapples with the false consciousness of refusing to acknowledge life's meaninglessness. Collectively their banter serves as a cruel rebuke to evolution, a bitter mockery of humanity's purported superiority over a nature they despise and denigrate. It is reason's death rattle in the face of pure chaos. Thank you for recommending Rhino Hero Super Battle, I enjoyed it with my family very much. Four stars."
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