About this podcast
a twice-monthly podcast for board game freaks and hip hop junkies
Episodes
The newest 20 of 100 episodes
- Rune Rite Review + Chicago ‘68 First Look | Episode 125 · 17 min · Episode 125SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence was my first heavy modern solo Euro — bulky enough and thankfully fun enough that I likely don't need another. Also, tracing a…
- SETI Solo Review: I Resented Stopping Play to Write This | Episode 124 · 18 min · Episode 124SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence was my first heavy modern solo Euro — bulky enough and thankfully fun enough that I likely don't need another. Also, tracing a…
- TTRPG Designer Interview: Seb and Will of Good Luck Press | Episode 123 · 52 min · Episode 123Nate and Walt interview indie TTRPG powerhouses, Seb and Will of Good Luck Press. We talk ghosts, mutants, and other notions from the inexhaustible map of their imaginations…
- Vote for the Next Solo Historical Conflict Game I Learn|Episode 122 · 14 min · Episode 122I purchased more solo-mode historical conflict games than I can possibly learn right now. You can vote and help narrow down the field for what I learn next. Before and after, I…
- Yap Your Way to Solo Journaling Fun + Return to Pavlov’s House | Episode 121 · 37 min · Episode 121The delightful Frances Wiley shows us how to review our way to intimate characters arcs with Yap. Two years after my first taste of the action, I return to Stalingrad and tangle…
- Angels One Six Designer Interview + Nate’s Family Board Game Vignettes | Episode 120 · 20 min · Episode 120We interview Phil Yates about Angels One Six, a reimagining of what a WW2 dogfighting minis game can be. Copywriter Nate Tyler documents four generations of play around his…
- Cartographers Review + Tour a Sweet Vintage Fantasy Flight Shelf | Episode 119 · 34 min · Episode 119A guided tour of an amazing vintage Fantasy Flight Games collection from Noisy Andrew and deeper thoughts on Cartographers, the hit flip-and-write I tried a couple episodes ago…
- Space Hulk: Death Angel (Fritz Signs Up for Boot Camp) | Episode 118 · 41 min · Episode 118Space Hulk: Death Angel is on the table. I have three days to turn my friend into a proper Space Marine from Warhammer 40,000.
- Ghost in the Shell TTRPG + Chicago ‘68 Designer Interviews | Episode 117 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 117This summer the famous Ghost in the Shell cyberpunk franchise becomes a playable TTRPG. Last summer the tumultuous streets of Chicago in 1968 also became playable. I talk to the…
- Cartographers First Play aka Stafford Airbiscuit’s Whine-and-Write | Episode 116 · 35 min · Episode 116Some queen tells a gnome they have to map a bunch of real estate she just acquired. Hear about my first sit with this widely loved pencil-and-paper terrain-maxxxing puzzle. Also…
- Comanchería First Look, Family Fairy Tales, Long-Lost Demon Pals | Episode 115 · 52 min · Episode 114175 years of Comanche history is on the table in a complicated fight against the inevitable; the Fantasy Flight retrospective continues with a look back at Eric Lang’s towering…
- Metal Queens ov Skull Mountain RPG + My Magician Pal Mods Tarot | Episode 114 · 52 min · Episode 114Tearing it up in the Demon Wastes with your fellow Metal Queens, tarot learns some new tricks, nightmares continue in the Dwelling solo journaling RPG, and Keith Murray shows us…
- Final Girl: A Knock at the Door - Post-Binge Report | Episode 113 · 36 min · Episode 113Binge-learning Final Girl: A Knock at the Door, challenging The Moms in Scrabble, recounting more Fantasy Flight glory with Kenny. Plus my favorite Latifah remix by the Ultimatum…
- Fantasy Flight Retrospective: OMG They Killed Kenny’s LCG | Episode 112 · 57 min · Episode 112Kenny Katayama of the Shelf Stable podcast talks his Living Card Game favorites from Fantasy Flight Game's golden age.
- NINJA BORG RPG Actual Play + Stick This Up Your Language Model | Episode 111 · 40 min · Episode 111Escape the AI wasteland with our plucky and inventive ninjas, plus you'll love these tracks from Troubleneck Brothers, Freakin Inglish and Now Born Click.
- Indie Game Giveaway + Tannhäuser, the Lost Skirmish Gem|Episode 110 · 34 min · Episode 110Win some cool indie games I bought and take a look back at Tannhäuser, a high-production attempt at a franchise skirmish game in 2007.
- Episode 109: NINJA BORG RPG! Fantasy Flight Retro Bangers! Die, Boredom! · 55 min · Episode 109Ninja Borg lets you hack your way through your own '80s ninja fantasy; Matt Thrower weighs in on Fantasy Flight Games' Golden Age.
- Episode 108: SETI First Play + Arkham Horror Retrospective · 27 min · Episode 108Getting off my depressed ass to learn SETI put my cold asteroid of a heart back in motion.
- Episode 107: Ryuutama RPG Overview, New Dwelling Session, Space Hulk: Death Angel Memories · 29 min · Episode 107Light, rascally trouble in the countryside of Ryuutama; bad news in the basement of Dwelling; the perpetual slaughter of Space Hulk: Death Angel.
- Episode 106: Josh Buergel Talks His Favorite Trick Takers and His Next Design · 41 min · Episode 106Fox in the Forest designer talks about trick-taking games he likes to play — and teases his new design in the genre.
