00:01:40 Intro
00:06:00 Sport Ball Stuff
00:12:30 El Grande with the family
00:15:00 Lawn Care
00:18:00 Game Toppers LLC
00:20:00 LOTR: Fate of the Fellowship
00:52:00 The Wondrous Museum
00:59:45 Miniature Market
01:00:45 Builders of Baldur’s Gate
01:30:45 Portal Games
01:32:00 Leaders
01:38:00 Outro

A quick search of the word Pandemic as it relates to the board game mentions on this site, you will find a bunch of them. However, back in Episode 5 is when we do this first mention and where our mission on the podcast was to bring awareness to board games beyond those found at big box stores. That was on February 12, 2013.

Time marches on and we find ourselves with a new entry using the Pandemic system with the LOTR: Fate of the Fellowship. Mr. Leacock has done an incredible job with this one. In my opinion, this brings the base goodness of the Pandemic series to the LOTR world and then ramps it up a few notches. To be honest, it might be a little too hard at times. But who cares, play it again and think of the feeling you will have when you destroy the ring.

We also have some slight dissension in the ranks at RDTN where one does like a game as much as someone else and we have a solid discussion on why. This doesn’t mean that the game isn’t good, just that there is a difference of opinion on what some people like versus what others like.

The Wondrous Museum is an engine builder that plays very fast and has solid decision making for which cards to play and how to use the runes that activate the cards. Leaders if a two person duel game that shrinks down the board to where players are using special moves by their champions to allow them to capture the other person leaders. Your champions are never removed from the board, so it is all about positioning while maintaining a solid defense for your leader.

Thanks for listening and be sure to visit the Discord site to tell us about what type of grass is in your area.

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We are staunchly body positive here at SVWAG, but we do prefer our bears fat. "Let me have about me bears that are fat," said Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, or he would have, had he known about the glory that is Fat Bear Week. I guess Caesar wouldn't have been totally down with the democratic aspect of the whole voting thing, but whatever! Exercise your franchise and vote for the moist chonkers bears.

https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

01:38 AYURIS: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester (Changhyun Baek, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, and Antonio Tinto, DiceTree Games, 2023)

Games Played Last Week:

03:29 -Magical Athlete (Richard Garfield & Takashi Ishida, CMYK, 2025)

10:29 -Revive: Call of the Abyss (Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson, and Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, 2023)

13:19 -River Rats (Mathijs Jansen & Robin Stokkel, Four Suits Studio, 2025)

20:16 -Yokai Septet (Muneyuki Yokouchi, Ninja Star Games, 2018)

24:56 -Amun-Re: The Card Game (Reiner Knizia, Super Meeple, 2017)

31:25 -Regicide Legacy (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, and Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2025)

34:58 -Light Speed: Arena (Leonardo Alese, James Ernest, Tom Jolly, and Emanuele Santellani, Tablescope, 2025)

37:51 -Everdell Silverfrost (James A. Wilson & Clarissa A. Wilson, Starling Games, 2025)

42:16 -ORBIT (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2025)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

46:05 Dogs of War on Gamefound

48:51 A Billion Suns 2E open beta with Mike Hutchinson's Planet Smasher Games

50:23 Twilight Imperium 4th ed. digital edition on Steam

51:42 GAMA Game Store Day: November 1st

53:22 Special edition of Terra Mystica by Steamforged Games

54:10 Topic: Why Is This Game So Long?

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