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TGT Giveaway: 2016 Holiday Giveaway (over $180 value)

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Tabletop Game Talk is having a holiday giveaway and we’re making our first giveaway a big one.  To enter, all you need to do is email us at tabletopgametalk@gmail.com.  You’ll get additional entries by liking us on facebook or twitter.  You’ll get three additional entries by sharing or retweeting us.  And if you can figure out how to leave an iTunes review (search for us on iTunes, click on the review tab), you’ll get five entries!

And here are the details of what you could win:

SeaFall – Retail $79.95

SeaFall is a the third in the “Legacy” line of games designed by Rob Daviau.  This follows Risk Legacy and Pandemic Legacy in his series.  SeaFall reveals a world of high sea adventure over 15-20 games.  Most everything you do will have an effect of some sort on the next game.  Will you gain enough glory to rule the seas?

Avalon – Retail  $19.95

Based on the game Resistance, Avalon adds some additional rulls and rules variants.  plays 5-10 players and is a social deduction game.  Can you figure out who the bad guys (red team) are before they are able to fail 3 of the 5 missions?  But even if you’re able to, if they can figure out who Merlin is (who knows all the bad guys), they win anyway!  Yikes!  Lot’s of fun.

The Duke – Retail $39.95

The Duke is a game by Catalyst Game.  It’s a two player game where each player will draw tiles from a bag.  Each tile has a different movement and attack pattern on it.  The twist…When you activate one of these tiles, it flips to reveal a different pattern.  Can you capture your opponent’s duke before they capture yours?

Pendemic (signed by all the hosts of the show) – Retail $39.95

Pandemic is the quintessential co-op game.  This copy is the copy we played our first game of Pandemic with.  The goal, cure 4 diseases before any one of them grows out of control.  Amazing game that promotes team work and corporation.

Unique Monster! – Retail $(priceless)

 

TGT 015: Holiday Gift Ideas

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We have a holiday contest!  Email us to enter (tabletopgametalk@gmail.com).  Any subject, comment, feedback, or just to say hi.  Once you email us, you’ll also get an extra entry for every like on facebook or twitter and 3 for every share or retweet (past or present).  And 5 extra entries for an iTunes review.  The prize?  New copies of Seafall, The Duke, and Avalon.  And a copy of Pandemic signed by all of us.  And if that’s not enough, you’ll also get a hand made creature made by Kitty.  You have until Dec 18th, 6:00pm central time to enter.  Good Luck!

In this episode we first talk about Terraforming Mars and then we talk about some games that would make good gifts for the holidays.  We cover games to give people that don’t play games and those for casual gamers you’re looking to convert to more advanced games.

Enjoy and let us know your thoughts.

TGT 014: Game Groups & Player Types

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We have a holiday contest!  Email us to enter.  Any subject, comment, feedback, or just to say hi.  Once you email us, you’ll also get an extra entry for every like on facebook or twitter and 3 for every share (past or present).  And 5 entries for an iTunes review.  The prize?  At least two unopened games and a hand knitted creature made by Kitty (and maybe more stuff).  You have until Dec 18th to enter.

Now to the podcast, this week we talk about game groups and player types.  We have invited Spencer back as a special guest to help us get full coverage on this topic.  It turns into a bit of a therapy session – but we have a lot of fun with it.

TGT 012: Conventions

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This week we start by talking about a game called Roll Player then a bit about Pandemic Legacy.  And Chris fanboys out about all the other podcasters he met this weekend.  Then we go on topic talking about conventions of all types (but mostly gaming).  Listen to find out why everyone should go to at least one convention at some point.

TGT 011: Hidden Traitor Games

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This week we first talk about our “game of today” Oceanos.  A fun little game with a lot of fish and personality.  We then go into our main topic and spend a fair amount of time talking about Battlestar Gallatica, Dead of Winter, and a few other hidden traitor games we like.

TGT 010: Halloween Games

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It’s a Halloween episode!  First we talk about our first game of Pandemic Legacy (spoiler, we really like it).  Then we take a brief look at horror games and ask the question, have we ever really been scared by a game?  About half way through, we go off board games and straight into creepy, scary stories.

Happy Halloween!

TGT 009: CoOp Games

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This week we dive into CoOp games.  Our primary focus is on Pandemic, but we talk about many different types of CoOps as well as the good and the bad of them.  Let us know if you agree or disagree with our thoughts.

[There was an editing error in the original file, if you downloaded in the first day, please delete that file and download again.  You’ll know there is a problem if you can’t hear Chris very well.]

TGT 008: Social Games

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This week we talk about social games.  But first we talk about the game we played today Tiny Epic Galexy.  What do we consider a social game?  What about social deduction?  We go deeper into a few games such as Are You A Werewolf, Resistance/Avalon, Deception, Cosmic Encounters, we even talk a bit about spades.  Oh, and a surprise guest host (you’ll have to listen to find out).

TGT 007: Role Playing Games

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First we talk a little about “The Duke” and “Risk Legacy” as the game’s we’ve recently played.  We then talk about how we all got into role playing games, what we like about them, and how they are different from board games.

 

TGT 006: Game Classifications

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This week we talk about game classifications, that is, what’s a euro game, american game, mass market vs designer, etc.  We also talk about game types and mechanics as well as luck vs skill games.

This week’s podcast picture is a picture of my “game nook.”  It was taken when it was clean and about 20 games ago – it’s a _bit_ messier now.

Finally we have introduced two segments to our Off Topic section, “Games I’ve bought or kickstarted since last episode” where I talk about just that and “Game of Today” where we talk about the game we just got done playing before the podcast started.

Finally, Kitty mentioned “The Landlord’s Game” from the 99% Invisible podcast, here’s the link, give it a listen, it’s good!