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Tonight Chris and Dan talk about the top 11 Games of the year from 2022!

We might also dip into a few Dan-Gents including the big slate announcement from James Gunn and the DCU as well as a few other things we have been watching.

BUT what will be the GAS Game of the year for 2022?

You’ll have to listen to find out!

Quick chat about DC announcements

James Gunn Announced the future of DC Going to make sure we know what is DCU and what is elseworlds (The Batman, Joker — elseworlds)

Shazam,Aquaman 2 and Flash coming out then reboot.

Blue Beetle also coming out as expected 

1st Chapter (Phase) Gods and Monsters

Creature Commandos 

Waller (not sure I Care but HBO show Peacemaker spinoff pretty much , sure I’ll watch) Superman Legacy 2025

Lanterns TV, Very must an on earth terrestrial buddy cop with John Stewart and Hal Jordan Mentioned it as a true detective like show.

“The Authority” – WildStorm (imprint) characters will join the DCU as members of The Authority take matters into their own hands to do what they believe is right.

Brave and the Bold (bats and Damian Wayne (other bat family too likely) From Grant Morrison’s run.

Paradise Lost (Themyscira Game of Thrones– Downfall of men in Themyscira?)

Booster Gold (Then give us Blue and Gold!!!) 

SuperGirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Swamp Thing (Horror)

What we’ve been watching

Dan 

Shrinking (Jason Segal and Harrison Ford)

Last of Us (1st 2 so far)

In The Dark Only 1st season (I had never heard of this and apparently s4)  

Chris

The Last of Us

Ghosts

Glass Onion

RRR

Storm Chasers  

Preview of Top 11 of 2022

(I’ll post a few more every few days– Just go and listen to the great show to hear the rest!)

11 Kites

10 Twilight Inscription 

9 Guild of Merchant Explorers

8 Boonlake

7 Scout

6 Gutenberg

5 Long Shot the Dice Game

4 Green Team Wins

3 Return to Dark Tower

2 Three Sisters

1 Ark Nova (Capstone)

Schmoe’s Choice for GOTY

As voted on by our amazing Listeners!

1 Three Sisters

2 Green Team Wins

3 Scout

4 Long Shot TDG

5 Ark Nova

6 Marvel Dice Throne

7 Gutenberg

8 Dead Reckoning

9 Wonderlands War

10 Ready Set Bet

11 Guild of Merchant Explorers    

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by Breeze from Zephyr Workshop to talk about their upcoming kickstarter for AEGIS Season 2 (KS Jan 17th), and all sorts of other goodness.

As usual we talk what we have been watching, what we have been playing and as a bonus we tackle a topic of Commissioning and Painting mini’s, and a bit of what we are looking forward to in 2023.  

Kickstarters

AEGIS Season 2— Coming Jan 17th

Mini Topic

Painting Mini’s and Commissioning painting of mini’s.

What’s a good cost?

What we’ve been watching

Dan  Wednesday (finished in 2 days)

Glass Onion  

Chris

Black Adam

Violent Night

A Christmas Story Christmas  

Breeze

Puss in Boots

Chainsawman Gundam

Mercury Witch  

What we have been playing 

 

Dan

A WHOLE LOT of Snap and Marvel Midnight Suns

Flamecraft

Green Team Wins

Clank! Catacombs  

Chris 

Marvel Remix (based on Fantasy Realms)

Comic Hunters

Heat: Pedal to the Metal

Lost Ruins of Arnak  

Breeze

The Hunger

Vagrantsong

Triangle Strategy

Chained Echoes

AEGIS2   

TOP 5 Things We are Looking forward to in 2023 

Dan 

Getting Frosthaven to the Table

Going back to a con or more Friend Cons

Marvel Age Of Heroes (by rodney thompson Lords of Waterdeep)

Revive

Manhattan Project:War Machine

Empire’s End  

Chris

Finally playing Ark Nova

Midnight Suns

Launching Milkman in March

Hopefully launching Agents of Arkham expansion this summer

Origins

Unpub  

Breeze

 Kickstarter for AEGIS 2

Any news about the new Zelda

Octopath Traveler 2

Fire emblem engage  

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David and Robb drop by for their Annual Oct visit for some Snap, some KS some Snap talk , Some TV/Movie talk, some snap talk, some Games we’ve been playing And a great old Halloween Game Draft!

Kickstarter

Delta

Oathsworn: Into The Deepwood (2nd Edition)

Lords of Baseball

Hidden Leaders: Forgotten Legends Expansion

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown

Portents   

Game Found

Trick Shot (2nd Ed)

Biergarten

Destinies Witchwood

Tabriz

Marvel Snap talk!

What we’ve been watching

  Dan

She-Hulk 

Andor

Star Wars Tales of the Jedi 

Squid Game!  

Chris

QUANTUMANIA TRAILER! And Guardians holiday special trailer! 

She-Hulk

More YouTube

Batwheels (Ethan Hawke)  

What we have been playing 

Dan

Marvel Snap  

Chris

  Marvel Snap  

David

Darkest Dungeon 

The Wolves

Revive (game of the year contender)

Immortals: Fenyx Rising (PS5)

Robb Across the Obelisk (steam)

Halloween Game Draft!

	Dan	Robb	David	Chris
Round 1	Horrified	Arkham Horror	Nemesis	Mansions of Madness 2nd Ed
Round 2	Fury of Dracula	Werewolf	Cthulhu Death may die	The Bloody Inn
Round 3	Fearsome Floors	Zombicide	Betrayal at house on the Hill	Mysterium
Round 4	Abomination: Heir of Frankenstein	KIngdom Death Monster	Dead of Winter	Unmatched Cobble and Fog

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Tonight we have a FUN night of visiting with Riddle and Scott Morris from Lucky Duck Games. We hit some industry talk, some Crowd funding and then we play a full game of DRAFT IT with 4 yes 4!! Drafts!  

Lucky Duck Games will have two big titles at this years Essen 

Flamecraft and Tidal Blades Banner Festival will both be available and both will be $40.  Flamecraft WILL have some deluxe copies there for $99.

Lucky Duck will also have deluxe upgrades available for $20 each, including a set of Dragon Miniatures, a set of Metal Coins, and a set of Wooden Component Bits to replace the cardboard resources in the base game.  (all of these are included in the Deluxe set as well, with the only difference being that the deluxe set has GameTrayz inserts.)    

KS

Stormlight Premium Minis

Kingdom builder anniversary ed

Sagrada Artisans

Terraforming Mars The Dice Game

Rise and Fall

USC:Reach

Spark Riders 3000  

DRAFT IT!!

4 Drafts with changing order and changing who decides the topic each draft!  

Draft 1 Matt Pick  

Topic Things With a Shell  

	Matt	Dan	Scott	Chris
Round 1	Turtle	M&Ms	Armadillo	Hermit Crabs
Round 2	Eggs	Clam	Almonds	Bullet
Round 3	Sea urchins	Peanuts	Coconuts	Athletes
Round 4	Koopa Troopa	Lobster	Avocado	Superdome

  Draft 2– Toys From Our Childhood  

	Dan	Scott	Chris	Matt
Round 1	Star Wars	Super Powers Figures	GI Joe	He-Man
Round 2	Legos	Voltron	Transformers	M.A.S.K
Round 3	Simon	Micro-Machines	Stretch Armstrong	Nerf Guns
Round 4	Rubik’s Cube	Koosh Balls	Laser Tag	MUSCLE MEN

    Draft 3   Scott Topic—  Rap Artists  

	Scott	Chris	Matt	Dan
Round 1	Dr. Dre	Snoop	Kanye	Ice-T
Round 2	Biggie	Beastie Boys	Jay-Z	Ice Cube
Round 3	TuPac	Wu Tang Clan	NWA	Public Enemy
Round 4	Mos Def	Eminem	Killer Mike	LL Cool J

    Topic 4 Chris Picks— Cocktails  

	Chris	Matt	Dan	Scott
Round 1	Martini	Old Fashioned	White Russian	Mojito
Round 2	Bloody Mary	Rum and Coke	Screw Driver	Harvey Wallbanger
Round 3	Mai Tai	Margarita	Long Island Iced Tea	Blue Lagoon
Round 4	Dark and Stormy	Shirley Temple	Moscow Mule	Mint Julep

  Who do you think won these drafts?

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Today Dan and Chris cover a good amount of Crowdfunding, News and a whole lot of what we been watching and finish up with some Impressions of Legends of Void Arcana Rising Red Rising Framework Storm Chasers and Marvel Dice throne.

Crowdfunding

Gamfound

Keyforge Winds of Change

Space Explorers Age Of Ambition And Prehistories Evolutions Expansions

KS

Sagrada:Artisans

Merchants Cove: Master Craft

Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall

Forsaken

Elric : Rise of the Young Kingdoms  

Disney CCG

Ravensberger Teased that they are doing a CCG called Disney Lorcana. 

Lucky Duck Games will have two big titles at this years Essen  Flamecraft and Tidal Blades Banner Festival will both be available and both will be $40. 

Flamecraft is rumored to have some deluxe copies there but I am not sure of their price.

Brotherwise Games announced they will partner up with Brandon Sanderson for a Kickstarter for The Stormlight Archive miniatures. 

Portal Games Is releasing an updated 2nd edition of Basilica, here in US Oct 20, 22.

Capstone Games Will release Rise, Nov 8, 2022. ($55)

Red Raven’s new Asymmetrical game Knight Fall Late Sept ‘22 ($45)

Cryptozoic Entertainment will release Rotten Tomatoes: The Card Game Q4 2022. ($25)  

What we’ve been watching

Dan Day Shift (Vampire movie with Jamie Foxx)

Watched Severance again with Janice

Started Cobra Kai S4 (Yes I am behind) 

She Hulk

Finished The Morning Show from Apple TV too

Game of thrones prequel thing

Lord of the Rings Prequel thing

Orville S3

Trailers from D23 

Willow — CHILLS!

Andor

Disenchanted

The Little Mermaid

Hocus Pocus 2

Mando S3

Tales of the Jedi — Animated  (Yoda or Yaddle?)

Secret Invasion

Marvel World of Heroes — From Niantic (Pokemon GO!) Honestly not much information but “coming soon” very good at talking and showing nothing or really saying much of anything. But they are good at hyping it up for sure.

Midnight Suns — Video game looks awesome– Kinda card based action game

Marvel Snap official release Oct 18

Werewolf by Night to release on D+ on Oct. 7 (looks classic and features a Man-Thing sighting!)

Chris

She-Hulk

Love Boat

Magnum PI

Kitchen Gadget reviews from Epicurious on YouTube (Dan Formosa)

The Gray Man (Netflix movie with Ryan Gosling,, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas)

What we have been playing 

Dan

Artemis First Contact (Roll and Write) 

Legends of Void

Framework

Marvel dice Throne (Loki, Thor, Sc Witch, Miles Morales set)

Chris

Red Rising

Arcana Rising

Storm Chasers  

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Tonight Dan welcomes in BJ from Board Game Gumbo for our annual Top 11 to Try and Top 11 to Buy at Gen Con 2022.  

But First some news!

From the North Star Games Press Release

The board game publisher North Star Games is excited to announce a strategic new branding, direction, and focus. After almost 20 years, NorthStar is adapting its business to focus on one core market – hobby gamers. They created a new look and name to reflect this change.

The publisher will now release games under the name NorthStar Game Studio reflecting the team’s focus on finely crafted game design. Collaborating with the talented team at Quillsilver Studio, they created a new brand logo to encapsulate this.  

Top 11 to Try

As always this list is things you CANNOT Buy at Gen Con just demo

I am going to try and DQ ones we kinda mentioned already from Origins but I will mention them here quickly again— Septima, Empire’s End Jurassic World Legacy of Isla nublar Also ran b/c I backed it and it’s coming but if you want to see it go try it

Dan’s List

Honorable mention— Birdwatcher Renegade, Bird Card Game.. It’s no Piepmatz but…

11 The Yawning Portal:A  D&D strategy board game Avalon Hill (I know nothing)

10 Virtu

9 Circadians:Chaos Order

8 Mistwind — Adamescue and Andrews (not much yet said about it but would love to try it)

7 First in Flight

6 The 20 Remade Feld’s by Queen.

5 Starship Captains

4 DragonQuest: Fantasy Dice Game (Dungeon crawl roll and write)

3 Last Light

2 Time of Empires (Civ game with Sand timers)

1 Dungeon and Dragons:Onslaught PVPVE (Hoping you can play it just as PVE/Coop and enjoy it just as much, or just PVE with multiple parties Kinda like Dungeon Alliance)

Huge Fan of the Harpers from the books

BJ

11  Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods (Cranio Creations  + Simone Luciani)

10 3000 Scoundrels (Corey Knieczka’s new game) Unexpected Games

9   Sea Salt & Paper (Bruno Cathala / Théo Rivière, has a Sushi Go meets Silver feel)

8  Autobahn (Fabio Lopiano)

7  Endless Winter: Paleoamericans (Stan Kordonskiy’s best so far)

6  Mission Control: Critical Orbit (new publisher Th3rd World Studios, cool theme)

5  Raising Robots (Navoo Games)

4  Maui (sucker for all the four letter abstracts)

3  First in Flight (love the theme)

2  Fit to Print (Peter McPherson – Tiny Towns designer, Ian O’Toole art)

1  Clank! Catacombs  

Honorable Mentions:

• • Lofoten (Pearl Games / Sébastien Dujardin), 

• Fall of the Mountain King (Adam Daulton), 

• The Palaces of Carrara (new old Kiesling & Kramer)

• Castle Panic: Crowns & Quests

• Helsinki (Daniel Pederson, Copenhagen / Deep Blue)

  Top 11 to Buy

There are a ton of things we have mentioned on previous shows and Origins previews OR have already come out so I wanted to mention a few of them here before the list

Solforge Fusion

That Old Wallpaper

Ready Set Bet

Founders of Teotihuacan

Ark Nova (JUST BUY IT!!)

Decorum

Akropolis

Aldabas (I think first time on sale)

Endangered:Monarch Butterflies

Forgotten Depths

Legends of Sleepy Hollow (I don’t think they will have the new rule book or other fixes)

Frame Work

Long Shot the Dice Game

My Father’s Work

Final Girl

The Grand Tournament (And all S4 of Graphic Novel Adventures)

  Dan

Honorable mention as well:

Board and Dice Loot Box #1 (Some extras for Origins First builders and others)

Roll Camera!:The B-Movie Expansion  

11 Dune Imperium:Rise of IX (They just announced Expansion as well (DI:Immortality) ($40)

10 Disney Sorcerer’s Arena:Epic Alliances $50 (Expac 30) (Should have 1 or both of the expansions too)

9 Terracotta Army ($70)

8 Knight Fall — Red Raven Teamvs Team, Co-op, Campaign modes ($45)

7 Old London Bridge ($65)

6 Oathsworn:Into the Deepwood ($135)

5 Space Station Phoenix ($80)

4 Skymines Pfister $70

3 Twilight Inscription ($60)

2 Brazil:Imperial 4x Portal ($70)

1 FireFly: Misbehavin’ $65

Toital:750!  

BJ

11  Dice Theme Park

10  Adventure Games: The Gloom City File (loves this series)

9  Decktective: You Can’t Cheat Death (love this series even more)

8  Holly Jolly

7  Switch & Signal (David Thompson does trains!)

6  Village Rails (Dunstan & Gilbert do trains!) 

5  Green Team Wins (cool little party game from 25th?)

4  Rear Window (Shadows Over Hitchcock?? I”m in)

3  Turing Machine (just because of the look and innovativeness)

2 The Diamond Swap (gotta have an Oink Game – could’ve been Town 66, too)

1  The Guild of Merchant Explorers 

Honorable Mentions:  Long Shot (Dave in the Gumbo has a copy), Gutenberg (I already have a copy), Tenpenny Parks (I already reviewed it and own it), Power Plants (Adam Daulton’s cool looking power card game) Studies In Sorcery: Divination (My favorite game from Weird Giraffe, don’t own the expansion yet)  

And even MORE Honorable mentions!

Gartenbau

Guild of Merchant Explorers

Planet Unknown (Polyomino Placement)

Eternal Palace

Dungeons Dice and Danger (Alea, Richard Garfield)

Kites (More Sand timers!)

Star Scrappers:Orbital

Paint the Roses (And deluxe 85$)

Venn Party game

A Battle Through History

Fire and Stone

Star Wars Villainous

Downtown Farmers Market $16 

Robotech Reconstruction

Northgard Uncharted Lands ($90)

  Fun time as always and thanks for listening!

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