It’s the last week to enter our contest.  Email us at tabletopgametalk@gmail.com by Dec 18th, 6:00pm central time to enter.  Share, like, or leave us a iTunes review to increase the number of entries.  What do you win?  A box of games worth over $180!

This week we talk about board games on phones and tablets.  Are they better or worse?  Overpriced?  Good for learning the game or strategies?  Listen to what we think and email us if you agree or disagree.

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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!

This week we start out with a rather long off-topic section due a lot of feedback and many games Chris has bought or kickstarted.  We then talk about one of the new games we have Hero Realm – a fun, light, deck building game.

We eventually get to talking about point salad games where we define what we feel makes a game point salad, talk about some of or favorites, and give some general strategy tips when approaching a new point salad game.  Enjoy!

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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.

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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.

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This week we spend nearly the entire episode talking about Pyramid Arcade.  A new set of games by Looney Labs.  There are 22 games in this box, we cover a little over half of them.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.]

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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).

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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.

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