#52: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Theme
Board Game Barrage24 Tammi 2019

#52: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Theme

Sometimes you're not looking to win or lose, you're looking for an experience. A lot of games promise to deliver thematic gameplay, but what does that mean for the mechanics? Does it have to be one without the other? Before we set the mood, we talk about Nusfjord, Paper Tales, and Nemesis.

03:25 - Nusfjord
09:43 - Paper Tales
15:25 - Nemesis
25:34 - Thematic Games We Like
26:08 - Mansions of Madness: Second Edition
29:58 - Nothing Personal
31:16 - Gloomhaven
31:35 - Android: Netrunner
32:05 - Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
33:19 - Captain Sonar
36:45 - The Resistance
37:48 - The Grizzled
39:19 - Dune

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#225: Itchy, Tasty

#225: Itchy, Tasty

With the middle of the year rapidly approaching, we've acquired our fair share of games that we're really itching to play. We talk about what's recently made its way into our collections that we just ...

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#224: Golden Geek Awards 2021

#224: Golden Geek Awards 2021

The Golden Geek results are in for 2021, and to avoid burying the lede ... we won! We're over the moon, naturally, but we couldn't have done it without you. We celebrate by giving our takes on the res...

5 Touko 20221h 14min

#223: Ye Olden Games with Mark Bigney from So Very Wrong About Games

#223: Ye Olden Games with Mark Bigney from So Very Wrong About Games

It's easy to get caught up in the cult of the new, but there are so many amazing games that came out before we were even in the hobby. Mark Bigney of So Very Wrong About Games joins us to look at the ...

28 Huhti 20221h 18min

#222: Are You the Gatekeeper?

#222: Are You the Gatekeeper?

There are many ways that we can accidentally contribute to gatekeeping in the hobby - pushing those who want to embrace it away. Whether it's to those outside, or even, bizarrely, to those already in,...

21 Huhti 202249min

#221: P-P-P-Party Questions

#221: P-P-P-Party Questions

It doesn't quite work the same, but what do you expect when Neilan's not present? Speaking of presents, it's Mark's birthday so the rest of the crew celebrate with a parade of (don't call them hot) qu...

14 Huhti 202247min

#220: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 501-600

#220: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 501-600

It's been a little while, but we're back with the next hundred games on BoadGameGeek, and we're drafting a five game collection from them. Who ended up with the best picks? Vote and you could win a $5...

7 Huhti 20221h

#219: A Perfect Ten

#219: A Perfect Ten

Does the perfect game exist? Probably not, but is that even the point? This week we discuss the elusive 10/10 rating, whether it makes sense to apply it, and what that means for rating games in genera...

31 Maalis 202245min

#218: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2022

#218: Our Listeners' Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2022

Wow, hundreds of you sent in your favourite games, and it was absolute chaos. But we got all the data together, cleaned up the typos, and crunched the numbers via a super secret algorithm, and here we...

24 Maalis 20221h 1min

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