Good evening, worms, and welcome to the annual Halloween celebration! Tonight, the pitiful gang dares to summon Wolfman Steve and me, The Gatekeeper! They shall present the games they’ve played, including Mansions of Madness, Storyfold Wildwoods, The Stifling Dark, Nyctophobia and deliver a feature review of that wretched classic, Betrayal at House on the Hill! Then, the mortal known as Tony T will drag forth the Tabletop Gaming News, followed by a rousing discussion about role-playing and storytelling in board games. Now… sit still, keep silent and let the horror begin! Mansions of Madness: 00:05:53, Storyfold Wildwoods: 00:13:10, The Stifling Dark: 00:27:20, Nyctophobia: 00:39:17, Betrayal at House on the Hill Review: 00:52:46, News with Tony T: 01:26:53, Role-playing and Storytelling: 02:38:07. Check out our sponsors Restoration Games at https://restorationgames.com/ and Game Toppers at https://www.gametoppersllc.com/.
Dave hosts this week in a Lucha Libre themed show... for some reason.
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 this newsflash the doyenne of British game design, Tony Boydell talks about the upcoming campaign for Snowdonia-Grand Tour published by Naylor Games.
Becky's back with a bang as an age old topic rears it's head after her turmoil of will we, won't we on the latest Ark Nova 3Dition crowdfunding campaign.
FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Kerley & Adrian
In this episode you'll learn: - that JP finally managed to preview Terraria thanks to Paperfort Games and gives his first impressions - that Kerley likes it oldschool in Chinatown by ZMan Games - Adrian finally managed to get his first of the City Collection series of Hamburg by Queen Games - that Becky has found a dudes on a map game she enjoys in Wroth by Chip Theory Games - about the positives and negatives of expansion / upgrade content for board games and our thoughts on this.
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
2:08 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
2:26 - JP - Terraria
11:53 - Kerley - Chinatown
17:10 - Adrian - Hamburg
27:37 - Becky - Wroth
33:32 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Add-Ons and Let-Downs
35:42 - Is it morally right for games to be released knowing expansions are already planned?
40:56 - What games have been ruined by expansions?
52:25 - Expansion that make the base game better
57:08 - Which games do we think would be incomplete without it's expansion?
1:01:43 - What's the most extravagant blinging we've done for our games?
1:07:02 - If you had to ban expansions for content or upgrades which would it be?
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