This week's guest is the head of Matagot, Arnaud Charpentier. We talk about the influence of his great grandmother in his gaming, doing an RPG radio show and his optimism for the gaming industry... but which games did he choose?
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Spirits of the Wild: Awakening and Numberwang. Then, in honor of Crystal's upcoming wedding, we talk about board games that are about love, and we play some questions of The Couples Game!
BGBBOB is back, and it's been long enough that you might need a reminder. Ten game designers enter the ring, and through the arduous process of one vs one battles, we arrive at our (and not just our, but the) definitive ranked list of ... these particular designers. It's science. Before we fight it out, we talk about Iliad, The Old King's Crown, and Franchise.
03:29 - Iliad 13:56 - The Old King's Crown 34:01 - Franchise 42:04 - BGBBOB: Game designers
This is just an introduction to 5G4D's Game of the Century polls and shows. Join in by going to http://5g4d.com/ and clicking the pinned post. This is definitive!
Greetings and salutations, noble travelers! Gather ye close and lend thine ears. Lord Bender doth regale us with tales of his grand Spelljammer campaign and the valorous exploits of his gallant Giff sailor. Thereafter, we entertain inquiries from our loyal listeners pondering such matters as what Dungeon Masters desire most from their adventurers, whether our hearts favor the grand houses of mass-market tomes or the humble artistry of indie works, and how much tomfoolery may be endured before patience wears thin. Enjoy the merriment of the hour!
Nick is in the chair this week as he has spouts haikus, ponders tag-lines and has the gang reinvent some games.
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.
In Becky's last episode of her run she and the gang do a deeper dive on games and mechanisms which have changed the hobby forever.
FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: Adrian & Tambo
In this episode you'll learn: - all about the latest T game Tianxia from Board & Dice from Adrian with his recent experiences - whether Nemesis: Retaliation is the best version of the game after Tambo has been un-aliving aliens whilst staying frosty in Awaken Realms latest iteration of the game - that Becky has finally got her copy of Power Vacuum to the table by Keen Bean Studio - about an exploration of games and mechanisms which have fundamentally changed the hobby space
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW N/A
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
2:09 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
2:20 - Adrian - Tianxia
11:36 - Tambo - Nemesis: Retaliation
22:46 - Becky - Power Vacuum
29:49 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Games that Changed the Hobby
39:31 - Games that brought in mechanics which were never seen
46:52 - The importance of engine & tableau building in games
49:58 - The surge of worker placement games
52:54 - How have story driven & narrative games evolved?
1:00:20 - The impact of Zombicide on the industry within crowdfunding
1:04:56 - Stepping into the modern age with accessibility and asthetics
1:16:45 - Raising the bar in party games to influence wider games
Some people were saying that this episode was not showing for them in their feeds so we've reuploaded it for those that didn't get a chance to hear it the first time round.
In our effort to answer all of your Omnibus Questions, sadly we cannot enlist the assistance of notable Canadian Keanu Reeves. In an interview with Stephen Colbert--as a joke after Keanu said something profound--he was asked, "What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves?" After a pause, and the audience's laughter, Keanu said, "I know that that the ones who love us will miss us."
I SAY DAYUM, KEANU
Games Played Last Week:
01:07 -Dogs of War Second Edition (Paolo Mori, Play to Z, 2026)
11:30 -Ostia (Totsuca Chuo, uchibacoya, 2022)
21:14 -SCOUT (Kei Kajino, Oink Games, 2019)
23:12 -Valheim: The Board Game (Ole Steiness, MOOD Publishing, 2025)
30:18 -Lunar Skyline (Charlie McCarron, Dead Alive Games, 2025)
38:57 -Thebai (Dávid Turczi, Bioard&Dice, 2025)
45:58 -Wilmot's Warehouse (Ricky Haggett, Richard Hogg, and David King, CMYK, 2024)
49:04 -Fairy Tale (Satoshi Nakamura, What's Your Game?, 2008)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
53:37 Render unto us your questions! Ask us anything for Omnibus Questions
54:10 Tigris & Euphrates to be reprinted by 25th Century games, art by Ian O'Toole
55:57 Mage Knight: Apocalypse Dragon expansion; cards will not match, changed font
In this episode we give some new backers some nicknames, bestow some titles to the Knights of Doomsday, speak to Patrick Kapera of Crafty Games about their reprint of Ostia and answer your questions. Get on it!
On this subsequent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are returning to a couple of the games they were excited about in the Essen Special, as well as covering one that was missed from the billing!
Excuse the occasional odd buzzing on this one - we tried to scrub it as much as possible but there's only so much you can do to heal a dodgy microphone before you start making Matt sound like a blender.
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Just for reference, the population of Klaipėda, the third largest city in Lithuania is approximately 161 000 people. The number of attendees in this year's Spiel Essen was 220 000 people, meaning they managed to cram the entirey of Klaipėda and much more into just eight convention halls and every one of those people were buying board games.
I appreciate that that is maybe not everybody's jam, and aspects of it are not our jam either. But getting our mitts into a jar of Bonne Maman filled with gooey new board game releases - put a bib on me and fire up the toaster!
In this special joint episode of No Pun Included and Talk Cardboard we cover 16 new releases from Spiel Essen 2025, which you can either listen to here or partake in the video version https://youtu.be/NHVLn-ZxVWs
On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025!
This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put out on the main channel - so if you’d like to enjoy a physical tier list alongside these wobbly words? Then that’s where it is, and will be, forever and ever.
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