Here it is!!

Your 2018 Gen Con top 11 to TRY and top 11 to BUY!!

Dan, Chris and Wolfe go over the games you cannot purchase this year but you can play (Try/Demo) and also the top games you want to purchase this year (BUY).

 

It’s always a great way to learn about the games we want to pick up and also the games you will be hearing about in the near future as the hotness to be!

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Dan

 

To Try List

Dan

 

11. Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps Gf9

     10 Empyreal Spells and Steam — Level 99 Trey Chambers (argent)

      9  Barrage — Cranio Creations  Luciani

       8  Call to Adventure— Brotherwise Dice Rolling building character to face challenges

       7  Scorpius Freighter — AEG  Dunston and Short

       6 Batman Gotham City Chronicles   –Monolith

       5 Wander:The Cult of Barnacle Bay  Panda Cult Games

4. Vault of Dragons— GF9  

       3 The Stygian Society — Ape== Kevin Wilson Cube Tower

       2– Thunderstone Quest

      1– Sorcerer  White Wizard

 

Chris

Demo

1. The Artemis Project Grand Gamers Guild
2. Kings’ Struggle WizKids
3. Cryptid Osprey Games
4. Helios Expanse Greenbrier
5. Haven Red Raven
6. Sovereign Skies Deepwater Games
7. Spymaster Calliope Games
8. High Rise Formal Ferret
9. The Estates Simply Complex
10. Bad Maps Floodgate
11. Scorpius Freighter AEG

Matt

Demo

1. Nightmarium
2. Barrage
3. Discovery: The Era of Voyage
4. High Rise
5. Treasure Island
6. The Phoenix Syndicate
7. On Their Merry Way
8. Cryptid
9. Vadoran Gardens
10. The Mansky Caper
11. ArchRavelry

 

 

Extras to Try

Fortune — Stronghold FF series

Champions of Hara Greenbrier — Fantasy Adventure Game

Franchise  Queen

Rice Dice  — APE — Dubarry

Snow White and 7 Dwarfs : A gemstone mining Game — Usaopoly (Quartz)

Megaland — Red Raven  

Startropolis  Petersen Games

Orbis— Space Cowboys– Tim Armstrong

Rallyman

Top 11 to Buy  

Dan

625$

11 Smiths of Winterforge Rule and Make 60

10 Woodlands Ravensburger 40

9  The Reckoners  — Nauvoo Games 100

8 Minerva — Pandasaurus 50

7 Scarabya— Karuba w/ Scarabs  BLue Orange 30 (Cathala and Maublanc) booth 1813

6 Multiuniversum Grey Fox  15

5 Founders of Gloomhaven  Cephalophair 70

4 Big Score— Van Ryder  50

3  Coimbra — PlanB 70

2 Rise of Queensdale Ravensburger 80

1 Newton  CMON Ltd (cranio Creations) —  60 Luciani (Lorenzo)

 

Chris

1. Nyctophobia Pandasaurus $40
2. Tower of Madness Smirk & Dagger $60
3. Gizmos CMON $35
4. Most Wanted North Star $35
5. Trade on the Tigris TMG $60
6. Newton CMON $60
7. Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game Portal $50
8. Catalyst DV GIOCHI $27
9. Carson City: The Card Game Quined Games $25
10. Spirits of the Wild Mattel $15
11. Carthago Capstone Games $40

 

$447

 

Matt

Buy

1. The Rise of Queensdale $80
2. Kingdom Run $20
3. Home Alone Game $20
4. Gizmos $35
5. Villainous $35
6. Piepmatz $15
7. Newton $60
8. Railroad Ink $20 each
9. Jungle Race $17.50
10. Dinosaur Tea Party $20
11. GoodCritters $25

$367.50 total

 

More to buy!!

History of the World  ZMAN  70

Shifting Realms —Soaring Rhino  75 Craig Van ness

Wakening Lair   Rather Dashing 35

Wendake  Renegade 65

Terra-forming Mars Prelude

Kitchen rush

Paper Tales

Kashgar (That Matt or Ben should buy this so we can play it with them)

A’Writhe (Eldritch Twister from Jay Treat)

Horizons

Legends of Sleepy Hollow demos

 

 

 

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Tonight we are joined (for the first time in a while) by Ryan Laukat from Red Raven games, for an interview and also a 15 min power hour.

Link to Ryan’s Game Illustration Story Geek List

 

We have 4 segments (roughly) 15 mins each.

There’s a topical segment each from Chris and Ryan. Also Dan hosts 2 game show segments with the others!

I hope everyone enjoys this show as it was a blast to talk to Ryan about his designs and one of my favorite games of the year Empire of the Void II.

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Tonight we are Joined by the AWESOME world class designers THE FLEEPLES! Matt and Ben are great buddies of ours and it’s always a blast to have them on the show.

 

We cover a TON TON TON of great games from the con and might even have a bickering session or two.

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Also I want to point out it’s our 7th anniversary as a podcast! With any luck many of you have been around from day one (It’s ok I know not many have been), and with any more luck we are a bit better by now!

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Also if you won the Fantasy Fantasy Baseball contest or came in 2nd please contact me! I will let you know how you can get your prize!

Kickstarters

Greg Cornell –Stikfa-mations how to play videos season 5

 

News

CMON Still being douchy — letter from CMON to Delk

Origins hit a new high in attendance (Press release)

Origins Awards

More info on GF9 DnD board game Vault of Dragons

 

What have we been playing (ORIGINS!)

Dan

Storm Chasers (Halstad)– Unpub

Valor City Vigilantes Smoley Superhero dice game Unpub

Medium— unpub

Home Brewers– unpub

Dare or Dare (Nat Levan)– UInpub 

Curators (DHM)– Unpub

Bee Lives  (Dan and Ben)– Unpub

Big Score (Van Ryder)– Coming at Gen Con!—  Bought some Graphic novel Adventures too

Endeavor  Grand Gamers Guild Reef

Karuba Card Game

Space Base (Awesome– John D Clair) 

Emperor’s Choice— Hayoshi Game TMG with Dan and Ben

Ganz Shon Clever

Coimbra (Dan Chris Ben)  2nd place.. Crazy dumb VP strategy

Piepmatz (Fleeples!!) 

 

Chris

Prototypes: Thieves Den, Maastricht, Homebrewers, The Curators, Supertall (on KS now) Medium!

Endeavor: Age of Sail

Majesty for the Realm

Riverboat

Decrypto

Ganz Schön Clever

Coimbra

 

 

Matt (Riddle)

Wolfe – Squaring Circleville–Unpub

Heaven and Ale

Space Base

Caveman Drawing

The climbers

The Mind

 

Ben

Floor 13– Wolfe–Unpub 

Fashionistas –Mills and Halstad– Unpub

Liars Dice

 

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This month! Fantasy Fantasy Baseball contest

Give us your starting 9 kinda 6 degrees of GAS

Extra points for why they are at what position

 

Then also Who are we playing Starting 9 in Game Designers

 

Well pick our favorite to win a copy of Fantasy Fantasy Baseball! And prob even a runner up to grab a prize from the prize closet.

 

Kickstarters

Just two

Describe by Rob Reinhardt

Tudor

 

 

News

TI4 Show of State of Games now up!

Dice Forge now on BGA

Terra Mystica now on everything (Yucata most recent)

Saw SOLO

Also watched Lost in Space (whole 1st season)

 

What have we been playing

Dan

Clank Mummy’s curse– more info coming soon once I play it more.

Istanbul dice

Thanos Rising

 

Chris

Twilight Imperium 4!

Ganz Schön Clever (KdJ nominee)

Galaxy Trucker

 

Matt

Sentient

Council of 4

 

ORIGINS PREVIEW

Dan

 

Demo

Beta Colony (word is not for sale)

Coimbra— Lorenzo Egizia combo– must buy when it’s out

Dice Settlers—

Teotihuacan— T’Zolkein without the wheel

Lords of Baseball — Baseball GM sim?

Heroes of Dominara (MTG Board game— who the hell knows) By WizKids

Horizons, Daily Magic

Too Many Bones Expansion

City of Gears — Daryl Andrews Chris Leder –grey fox

Ascension:Delirium

Best Treehouse ever Expansion

Filler

Fleet: The Dice Game! — YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS

Legends of Sleepy Hollow

 

 

Buy

Graphic Novel Adventures (Van Ryder)

Carthago:Merchants and Guilds Euro –Capstone

Century Eastern Wonders — Duh

Epoch Early inventors— Can’t tell interesting Civ or Train Wreck

Heroes of Land Air And Steam — And Expansion Interested to see how this turned out.

Lucidity 6 Sided Nightmares

Master of the Galaxy — Ares Bag building and 4x!

Round House! — For Sale HERE!

Sailing toward Osiris— Daily Magic Games

Wakening Lair— Rather Dashing more fun One deck dungeon

 

Chris

 

Demo

The Big Score – Van Ryder Games

Bosk – Floodgate Games

Coimbra – Eggertspiele

Escape Plan – Eagle Gryphon

Reef – Next Move

Gretchinz!

 

Buy

Century: Eastern Wonders

Pioneers Queenie expansions

Rising 5

Prowler’s Passage – 

Altiplano – 

Master of the Galaxy – Ares

Raids – iEllo

 

Matt

Demo

1. Coimbra
2. Escape Plan
3. Ice Cool 2
4. Crabs!
5. Sovereign Skies
6. Bee Lives: We Will Only Know Summer
7. Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr
8. Lords of Baseball
9. Franchise
10. Meeple Party
11. Reef

 

Buy

1. Welcome To…
2. Junk Orbit
3. Dino Dunk
4. Master of the Galaxy
5. The Networks: Telly Time
6. The Legend of the Cherry Tree that Blossoms Every Ten Years
7. Warsaw: City of Ruins
8. Lucidity: Six-Sided Nightmares
9. Orc-lympics
10. Broadhorns: Early Trade on the Mississippi
11. Spy Tricks

 

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This month! Fantasy Fantasy Baseball contest

Give us your starting 9 kinda 6 degrees of GAS

Extra points for why they are at what position

 

Then also Who are we playing Starting 9 in Game Designers

 

Well pick our favorite to win a copy of Fantasy Fantasy Baseball! And prob even a runner up to grab a prize from the prize closet.

 

 

KS—

Sprawlopolis— Button shy Games Tagmire -co-op and solo city building, think mini urban Honshu

Dungeonrunner (solo dungeon crawl card)  Dave remind us of legality of making your box look like an already existing thing like old school Red box DnD

Empyreal:Spells and Steam— Level 99 from creator of Argent

 

News

Slay the Spire– Amazingly fun Steam Game

Acram Digital caught faking Reviews kicked off steam ( creators of 8min empire– and steam rails to riches)

(Still waiting semi patiently for Terraforming Mars on Steam)

Origins Preview is now Live on BGG (Next show likely our Origins preview)

Among the Stars App Released ($5)

Z-Man Acquires Love Letter from AEG

 

SDJ chat

 

SDJ

 

• Azul, by Michael Kiesling from Next Move Games
• Luxor, by Rüdiger Dorn from Queen Games
• The Mind, by Wolfgang Warsch from NSV

 

KDJ

 

Nominations for the Kennerspiel des Jahres

• Ganz schön clever, by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele
• Heaven & Ale, by Michael Kiesling and Andreas Schmidt from eggertspiele
• Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg, by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele

BGG Announcement (From Eric Martin)

 

PS on SDJ– Head honcho says Rule books suck?

Also hard part for SDJ is we have no idea what games are actually eligible each year b/c it’s from german releases

 

Talk About Origins Fiasco with them Rescinding an invitation to Larry Correia, author guest of honor?

• Also FWIW, registration and hotels have been a hot mess, as the admin team apparently struggles with growth again.
• Accused by third parties of being racist, sexist, etc.
• His reaction piece was highly critical of Origins leadership but more indicative of how being outspoken and political online can create enemies and issues that persist over time in our highly politicized world.

 

What we have been playing

Dan

Lorenzo il Magnifico with expansion

Adds–

Special tokens

New Leaders (speaking of Rule books snafu)

New Tower (5th tower all colors, top rewards for going last 2 spaces are special tokens)

Adaptation Tile — Makes it more expensive for one tower each turn 5-6-7-8

Family Tiles (Player powers!!)

Also starting goods bidding randomized with the families)

 

Dave

Star Trek Ascendancy: Borg Ascension expansion

Rhino Hero Super Battle

Tons of Hearthstone – recent single player mode innovations

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel :)

No Thanks 

 

Chris

Legends of Sleepy Hollow – With the Fleeples at Camp Ben! Playing through the whole game

Brew Crafters

Piepmatz

Thurn and Taxis – my first time!

Glen More – my first time!

Lots of No Thanks

Arboretum – my first time!

Seikatsu

Oregon

Voyages of Marco Polo with TC

The Bloody Inn with Carnies expansion with TC

Barker’s Row

Wonderland (for ITTD)

Gloomhaven

 

CHARTERSTONE CHAT / Spirited Discussion with Dan and Chris

 

Law/Fitzy Stuff

Yarrington/ Zev Update

 

LAW Topics

• Don’t forget to promote upcoming IP law seminars for game designers at Origins and GenCon!!!
• Boarders Tabletop Game Studio scam related to Kickstarter (questions about whether this Asian fulfillment company and middle man is more troubling than KS campaigns gone bad based on creators)
  • Legal Geek segment on point: http://legalgeekfitz.blogspot.com/2018/04/legal-geek-no-132-kickstarter-scam-for.html
  • News Article: https://www.boardgameprices.com/articles/boarders-tabletop-game-studio-defrauds-thousands-in-kickstarter-scandal
  • Compare to Palladium Robotech campaign issues, and the eventual suicide of the designer and dropping of the license ($1.4M backer funds gone with very little fulfillment), and other campaign failures/frauds.
• Sabacc Card Game App in court vs. Disney/Lucasfilm
  • http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/sabacc-lucasfilm-dennys-1202783297/
  • http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/sabacc-trademark-lawsuit-star-wars-disney-lucasfilm-ren-ventures-1202647603/
• Comic-Con (the SDCC one) stands alone thanks to ™ wins in court
  • Legal Geek segment: http://legalgeekfitz.blogspot.com/2017/12/legal-geek-no-121-comic-con-stands-alone.html
• Mage Company double-dipping with another Kickstarter campaign to fund shipping for the first sleeves campaign https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/8jllm8/fraudulent_kickstarter_creator_asks_backers_to/
• Space Goat Productions running a Wefunder campaign for people to invest in the company with a $5mil valuation https://wefunder.com/spacegoat
  • Reddit chimes in, of course https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/8g4a1c/space_goat_productions_is_asking_2016_backers_to/

 

OTHER topics

• Lost in Space reboot
• Westworld 
• Star Trek Discovery (because we have to bring some Trek just for Fitzy)
• Asmodee for sale?

 

 

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SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS !!

Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by new All-stars Smoley and Handler to talk about all our thoughts on the new Avengers Movie Infinity War.

It’s a nice spoiler filled discussion on all of what we loved and hated about the movie and what we think is on for the next installment of Avengers coming next year!

 

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Check out Board Games at the Beach April 27-29

On Tonight’s show Dan Chris and Wolfe have a few nice long discussions and a bunch of games played and finally some Q and A from the net!

Our Discussions include CMON Kickstarter snafus, some current KS’s that are out, Alleged Stealing of a design by a publisher, and is Toys R Us saved?

We also do some quick reviews on Paper Tales and  Shards of Infinity,

Games Talked about

KS Talked about

Scott Johnson Art Playing Cards

Spirits of the Rice Paddy Dice

Fireball Island

Unbroken

Graphic Novel Adventures

Kitchen Rush Piece of Cake (Expansion)

Filler— Green Couch Games

Fleet Dice 

 

NEWS!

Company stealing an idea from a Designer they “signed” and never published?

Nostromo (not in BGG)

 

Yucata–Macao released as well as Mystic Vale

New unassociated (sorta) Mansions of Madness App?

Plato (iTunes): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plato-games-chat-friends/id1054747306?mt=8 …
Plato (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plato.android&hl=en …

Megaland from Red Raven Target Exclusive in Fall  (not even a BGG entry?)

New Fury of Dracula with new minis!! (not much else?)

Toys R Us Saved? Sorta?

What we have been playing

Paper Tales

Feudum

SHARDS OF INFINITY

Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game

Noria— Don’t forget to check out our FpSp

Lorenzo il Magnifico (can’t wait for the expansion)

Pioneers

Cardboard Edison Awards

 

And finally we get to some great Q’s from the listeners.

Delk– is 1 play a year of a good $50-$60 game worth the initial investment?

2: is it a negative on a game that after 6 plays I feel like I have gotten everything out of it that I’m going to get? Case in point for me Game of Thrones: the board game

 

Don’t worry Franz we will get to your Q’s soon too!

We will have to get into a nice Charterstone chat next episode!

Coming up next 2 shows (I hope)

Next show– The Geek Law Star Returns! And Dan and Chris Discuss/Argue about Charterstone.

Show after that— Wolfe Returns to help us talk about Dummy/Ghost Players in games

 

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Dan and Chris are joined by Edge of Darkness designer John D Clair for a great chat about designing games and kickstarters.

Thanks to John for joining us!

John’s BGG Page 

Edge of Darkness Kickstarter HERE

 

We are also joined after the interview by our buddy Jerry Reece for a discussion about our first impressions of Edge of Darkness and our overall thoughts on the Kickstarter.

 

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Tonight we’ve got a fun little show for you!

Dan and Chris discuss the new Empires of the Void II by Red Raven games, Coal Baron and the new Venus next Expansion for Terraforming Mars.

Some other games mentioned:

Pillars of Eternity

Pioneers

The Grimm Forrest

Welcome to Centerville

 

We also settle in for a nice long Q and A, talk about everything and anything this week, including Music, tacos and our favorite board game mechanic.

And last but not least we give you our thoughts on Black Panther at the very end of the show!

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