Earthborne Rangers, Forest Shuffle, Planta Nubo, Sonny Liew and 1819: Singapore
Every year in board games there’s a new fad. Legacy, polyominoes, roll and writes and trick takers. This year’s fad seems to be less genre based and more societally concious. Here at NPI every week we...
30 Okt 20231h 50min
The Best of Spiel Essen 2023
What’s the biggest event of the year? That’s right, it’s the DFS Winter Mega Sale! But right after that comes Essen Spiel, or as it is now known: Spiel Essen. Every year, just under two hundred thousa...
16 Okt 20231h 23min
Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall, Fit to Print, Vindication
Tell me something, which other board game podcast episode can claim to contain the entire gamut of board games in one episode? Antropomorphic animals? Check. Weirdly themed euro? Check. Fantasy campai...
25 Sep 20231h 38min
Kieron Gillen, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Schadenfreude, Freelancers
Are games even real? According to Kieron Gillen, they certainly bleed into reality and reality bleeds into them. According to Great Western Trail, New Zealand isn’t even real. So who’s to say? On thi...
11 Sep 20231h 39min
Earth, Lacuna, Voidfall
From Earth to Space to the abstract void in between, this episode has a little bit of everything, including a game that made Efka feel like he had to give a rating. That’s right, a bona fide numerical...
25 Aug 20231h 36min
Sustainable Games with Andrew Navaro, Dorfromantik, Ancient Realm, Aeon’s End: Legacy of Gravehold
What if we don’t make games that last forever is the question Andrew Navaro, head of Earthborne Games is asking us. His answer is Earthborne Rangers, a game that will perish, but not before it lands o...
11 Aug 20231h 51min
Zoe Bee, Race to the Raft, Ra, Obsession
It’s time to get schooled! Always wanted to say that and finally I have a good reason because today’s guest on the show is none other than Zoe Bee who’ll teach us about board games as educational tool...
28 Juli 20231h 41min
Trailblazers, Isle of Trains: All Aboard, Beast
Everybody always says, “Talk Cardboard is paving the way in board game podcasting!” and this episode it’s certainly true. We have biking, hiking, kayaking, train-ing, and hunting (along routes), which...
14 Juli 20231h 30min
