This week Josh, Kitty, and Chris are back together to talk about promos and exclusives in board gaming.  How do they effect the way we buy and play games?  Are you like Chris who needs everything for his favorite games or like Josh who has nearly no interest at all?  Or maybe you’re like Kitty sitting somewhere in the middle.  Maybe Tabletop Game Talk needs some game promos, what games should we try and sneak ourselves into?

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This week Sydnie and Chris recap the games they played at Essen (Spiel) 2018. Detective Club, Spy Club, Dice Settlers, Gugong, Highlander The Dual, Teotihuacan, Astro Drive, Thieves, Vault of Dragons, and Forum Trajanum.

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This week we take a look at comfort zones and playing within in, and outside of those zones. We’ll talk about each of our preferences and get some input from our listeners as well.

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This week we look at replayability in games and how important is it really? What games are more prone to replay and which are not. Are those that aren’t replayable worse games? Probably not. Oh, and we had a ton of input on this one, thank you to everyone and if you want to give us input on our episodes, it’s easy, just go to http://TabletopGameTalk.com/bgg.

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We love your feedback, and we have lots of it this week. Much of it is on Managing Your Collection. But we have a fair bit on Cheating and Complicated games as well. And we even start out with a couple on Alpha Players. Oh, and like all our feedback episodes, two people won $50 gift cards!

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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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