This week we talk about game demos and what we can learn from them.  But first…

Off Topic

Chris is back into the Kickstarter swing with Triplock, Gruff: Rage of Trolls, Bio-Logic, Rise of Tribes, and The Component Collector.

We then get some feedback from Sydnie, Christy, and Sam to talk about.

On Topic

We start off thinking about game demos and if they are useful for learning games at home.  This quickly turns into a discussion about games that kind of do this already by having “first game” versions of the rules.  We end talking about some of the games we demoed at Origins last week.

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Our first live show!  Origins 2017.   We go on topic in record time and talk about a ton of games we played, including…

• Century: Spice Road
• Barenpark
• Werewords
• Ren Fair
• Pengoloo
• Shahrazad
• The Lost Expedition
• Masters of Orion
• Wichhunt
• and more…

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This week we talk about bringing gaming ideas into our normal lives, and just a bit of educational games as well.

Off Topic

Come watch us live at Origins this week.  Friday June 16th, at 6:00pm in Room A215.

Some Kickstarters to check out:

• Lords of Hellas https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/lords-of-hellas
• Deception: Undercover Allies https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152730994/deception-undercover-allies-0
• Bio-Logic  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaiagamestudios/bio-logic-microscopic-domination-inside-the-human

And a couple quick questions this week from Sam (on what is “mass market” and “variants introduced by expansions”) and Steven (on how to start going to Cons).

On Topic

We start out talking about Gamification in fitness (AppleWatch and FitBits).  And then there’s a bit about apps that try to gamify tasks lists.  We then go into gamifying games with the goal of education which leads Chris to add a show on educational games to the future lineup.

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This is episode 42, but does not contain any answers to the universe.  What it does contain is talk about house rules and changing up your game to suit your play style.

Off Topic

We have an origins day and time!  Friday June 16th at 6:00pm in room A215.  We’ll be recording our first ever live episode.  Join us if you’re in Columbus (at Origins).

On Topic

We talk about Monopoly, more than we should, but it was fun none-the-less.  We then talk Gloomhaven, Too Many Bones, and Werewolf (among others) variant rules.

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This week we talk about bringing new people into the hobby.  From the types of games to use to the kinds of places to do it.  Josh wasn’t able to be part of this show so we brought in Spencer and Sydnie to take his place.

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This week we look at the rules.  Well rulebooks anyway.  What we like, dislike, and the various ways different publishers/designers approach writing rulebooks.

Off Topic

This is week two of our Mechs vs. Minions giveaway!

We’re still working on finding out our Origins time, holding out hope that all works out.  GenCon is official and Friday Aug 18th at 6:00pm.

Kickstarters!

Take the Gold: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardlords/take-the-gold?ref=user_menu

Sine Tempore: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lmstudio/sine-tempore?ref=user_menu

We then get to some feedback from Thom, Steven, Micheal, Steve, and Christy.

Finally a quick question on mobile game recommendations.

On Topic

We start off talking about a game that doesn’t have a rulebook at all. We then look at the two rulebook format as well as the traditional one book format.

We talk about what we (and you) like and don’t like in your rulebooks.  We even get into a bit of real world rulebook review and writing activities.

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This week we talk about traveling with games.

Off Topic

We announce a new giveaway: Mechs vs. Minions!

Then we talk briefly about the Bang lawsuit, there’s more about that here: http://www.strebecklaw.com/court-rules-favor-cloned-tabletop-game-no-protection-us-copyright-law/

Next a big about Villages of Valeria vs. Lords of Waterdeep and then on to Kickstarters!

Path of Light and Shadow: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012515236/path-of-light-and-shadow

Diceborn Heros: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945679346/diceborn-heroes-a-co-op-dice-adventure-game

Hardwood Dice Towers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rwgdesign/hardwood-dice-towers-dice-storage-and-rollers-dand

Here is the link to his twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/munchkinmetropolis

We then get into some feedback and finally a quick question on starting a game collection.

On Topic

We got a ton of feedback on our boardgamegeek forum: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1777689/input-ep-39-traveling-games

We talk games that are good for travel, those that start in small boxes (anything Tiny Epic and most social deduction games).  We also talk about game footprint considerations and repacking bigger games.  Oh and we even touch on airport security.

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This week Spencer joins us (Josh is out of town) to talk about trick taking games.

Off Topic

First we get some feedback about past episodes including a comment about what “random” is in games that turns into an interesting debate.  We then get a quick question on game knock offs and how we feel about them.

On Topic

Spades, Hearts, Euchre, Moons, and Nyet!  All trick taking games.  We look at what makes them unique, fun or not fun (depending on your point of view) and what’s different in the newer generation of trick taking games.

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This episode we talk upgrades, enhancements, storage and more.  We talk about tricking your games out.  And thanks to Christy we cover all kinds of options.

Off Topic

First we get some feedback and answer the question, what is our favorite game mechanic?

On Topic

Chris gets lazy and just uses all of Christy’s work (because it was awesome) as the show outline.  You can check out all her research, and others, at http://TabletopGameTalk.com/bgg – just take a look a the Ep 37 thread.

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This week we talk about the differences in Campaign and Legacy games, both as they relate to each other and as they relate to other games.

Off Topic

First we start off with announcements as always (Josh is back too).  This is the last week of our current giveaway – so listen and enter! Chris is back to Kickstarting things again and we get challenged on whether you can get away with coming out as a spy in resistance.  Finally Chris finds a way to sneak in some talk of Too Many Bones.

On Topic

Well we try and figure out whats the differences between a campaign game and a legacy game.  I’m not sure we ever agree, but we do try.  We also talk about some of our favorites, Pandemic Legacy, Risk Legacy, Gloomhaven, Arcadia Quest and we confess that we’ve never played Decent, but should.

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In this episode we’re talking the new vs. the old, games that is.  What drives us to wanting to play new games instead of the older ones we already know how to play…

Off Topic

Thanks to Sam we have a series of questions to answer in our off topic segment.  And don’t forget about our current giveaway, Santorini!  Visit us at http://tabletopgametalk.com/register to enter.

On Topic

New vs. old.  Games we like vs. games we don’t know if we like.  Getting better at a game vs. trying out new games.  All this leads us into the Cult of the New vs the Cult of the Old.  Oh, and Sydnie joins us this week!

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