It’s complicated, the game, the game is complicated. But what makes it complicated and why are some people drawn to complicated games while others avoid them like the plague?  It’s certainly a sliding scale and not an easy subject to cover. One might even say, it’s complicated. Ok, ok, that’s the last time I’ll type complicated (ok, that was one more time). But we do end up saying it a lot as well…

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This week we take a look at managing your collection from all sides. What games should you add? What games should you get rid of? How and where should you store them? When you only have a few games, these can be easy questions to answer. But…we all…end up with…too many games…!!! (Ok, maybe not everyone, but still.)

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Cheating. Seems simple enough, don’t do it. But we manage to make it complicated enough to take up a whole hour. And if we do say so ourselves, it was an interesting hour. For those that follow along on the bgg thread (that’s http://TabletopGameTalk.com/bgg) you won’t find an input thread for this one. Chris comes up with some excuses as to why, but really, he just forgot until it was too late.

A short interesting article on cheating (that we mention early on): https://mindtheethos.com/2016/08/14/the-psychology-of-cheating-why-do-people-cheat-in-multiplayer-games/

Sean Peck’s video on GenCon: https://youtu.be/i0gmLyB0378

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We love your feedback, and in this episode we focus on it. We start with some general feedback but we eventually get into you opinions on generic themes, playing older games you’ve missed, and alpha players in co-ops. And oh wow do you have opinions on alpha players. No worries though, no alpha players were, physically, hurt in the making of this episode. Emotionally though, well…

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This week Sydnie steps in for Josh as three alpha players talk about alpha players in co-op games.  Maybe a bit one sided, but we do end up talking about three different view points from that side.  We’re looking for some good feedback on this episode, so take some time and let us know what your experiences are playing co-ops with alpha players and how you deal with it.

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This week we take a look at the idea that you should (or shouldn’t) play older games you may have missed because they are icons of the genre. Or maybe because everyone says they are “great” (even though they may not play it anymore themselves). Or maybe because you want more gamer cred. Or maybe you shouldn’t bother with the classics and just play good games… ?

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This week we talk about the pros and cons of generic settings.  Turns out much of the conversation is around generic fantasy, but we do manage to get some other setting in there as well.

And Chris mentions this game designer documentary: http://thegamedesignersmovie.com

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This is our first designated feedback episode, and we had a lot of fun with it.  We have a lot of feedback on Euro games, great stories about gaming at work, and even a few addition to why we buy games.

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In this episode we’re live at GenCon 2018 so we are opening this topic up to the audience to talk about the different reasons we buy games. Is it art? A designer you like? Theme? Components? Price? We’re going to talk about all of it.

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In this episode we talk about gaming at work from games to play to ways to organize it.  Well, if we’re honest, mostly Chris talks about gaming at work because Josh is afraid to join the work gaming group and Kitty works at home.  But it’s still fun, promise!

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This is episode 1 of the new On Topic format, but it’s also episode 101 of Tabletop Game Talk.  Things have moved around a bit, feedback has been removed from the weekly episodes (but will get it’s own designated episodes every few weeks) and the news/announcements have been moved to the end.  This gives us a lot more time to talk about the topic, so we hope you enjoy.

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