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We made it to episode 50! This episode is mostly all about your questions and feedback. Thank you for helping us get to 50 episodes and here’s to the next 50!
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This week we talk about board game parties and the pros and cons, ups and downs, ins and outs, and other opposites on the subject. But first…
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More on the 50/52 debate and our upcoming 50th episode. Last week to enter our giveaway, send a question for a few bonus entries to TabletopGameTalk@gmail.com. Our GenCon show is 50% sold out and we’ll be giving a ton of stuff away there, so get your tickets now.
Chris then talks about two new Kickstarters he’s backing, Rolling Empires and Renegade.
Finally we get some feedback from Terrence on game burnout.
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Finally we get on topic and start with an email from Jason. There’s a lot of input on this topic that we use to drive our discussion and we even come up with some advise by the end.
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This week we talk about burnout, game burnout that is. But first…
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We start out talking about our current giveaway and our upcoming episode 50. Send us your questions for extra entries. Enter at TabletopGameTalk@gmail.com with subject “July Giveaway”.
Chris then talks about Kickstarters, Action Cats, Founders of Gloomhaven, and Crusaders.
We get some feedback from Kitty and Steven then we go on topic.
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Lots of input from the listeners, thanks Sam, Christy, Caleb, Michael, Steven, Terrance, and Todd.
We talk a about burnout and it’s opposite that we finally call addiction. Turns out there are a ton of games we are burned out on, but there are also a bunch we can’t see burning out on. Hmmm…
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This week we talk word games with Gloria. And Letter games which Chris doesn’t care for at all. But first…
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Lots of talk about Dice Tower Con and our giveaway. We’re giving away Plague Inc and Arena For The Gods. Email us to enter with the subject “July Giveaway”
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Eventually we get on topic and talk about Scrabble and other spelling games. We also talk about some word games and how they differ.
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This week we take the 4th of July into consideration and talk about yard and picnic games. But first…
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Chris is off to DiceTowerCon with Sydnie this week. If you’re in Orlando, give him a tweet @GameMasterChris.
We’re starting our newest giveaway, but the prize is TBD based on what Chris finds in Orlando. In the mean time you can email your entry to TabletopGameTalk@gmail.com with the subject “July Giveaway” to enter.
No new Kickstarters for Chris, but we do have feedback form Aaron and Steve on previous episodes.
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We spend a fare amount of time talk about traditional yard games and a lot of time reminiscing about these games. Eventually we do get around to a few tabletop games that would transition fairly well to the outdoors though.
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This week we talk about game demos and what we can learn from them. But first…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Come watch us live at Origins this week. Friday June 16th, at 6:00pm in Room A215.
Some Kickstarters to check out:
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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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