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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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Tonight Chris Dan and Ben are joined by our newest AllStar Danielle Standring, for a ton of fun discussions and shenanigans! Some KS some News, What we have been watching, a nice overview and talk about Brian Boru, Scout, On tour and Gutenberg.

And we finish up with an amazing draft the Games based on Cities draft!

Crowdfunding Wrap up

Gamefound

Burncycle Reprint and Expansion

Utopia  

Kickstarter

Pathfinder Revolution!

Moon

Taverns and Dragons

The Grand Carnival Reprint and Expansion

Moonrakers

NEWS!!

SDJ Winner!

Congrats to  Cascadia from Randy Flynn and Flatout Games

KDJ Winner!

Congrats to Living Forest from Aske Christiansen and Ludonaute,   

Coming soon an amazing new game Shattered Heaven, Steam, Roguelite DBG

(B/c I cannot get enough of those!

Q4 2022 (Add to steam wish list!)– could not get the demo to work BUT  Some real cool Stuff with Talent Trees, and starting deck customization, and crafting.

VERY nice Art Something I would love everyone’s opinions on! I started something newish on twitter– Pictorial overviews of games, (Did Gutenberg and Ark Nova )  not sure if anyone saw them, thoughts? Decent format? Should I continue?

Do some older games or keep going on new releases?

Ghost Galaxy has acquired the rights to Keyforge, and has plans to release future products in the line (No dates as of yet for more) GG is a brand owned by Strange Stars, with Strange Stars being a venture capital company that has Christian T. Petersen as its principal investor and managing partner, Petersen having been the founder of Fantasy Flight Games (They are going to start with fixing the algorithm which was apparently broken by ransomware peeps)

Capstone games announced a new  Capstone+ Membership: 20 per year subscription service.  Here to reward our active members and Capstone fans, benefits include:

Website Discount: 20% off everything in our website, including items already on sale! Priority Shipping: Capstone+ member orders will ship first and take priority over all other shipments. Members-Only Newsletter: An inside look at Capstone Games with early product announcements, restocks, and private members-only sales.  

What we have been watching!

Some Stranger things chat (non-spoiler), some brief Thor chat, Ted Lasso (of course!) and Only Murders in the Building

And as mentioned on the Show the convoluted history of Micky D’s Characters! What we’ve been playing!

Scout

OnTour -And the APP 

Coolest Picture ever (for OnTour)

Framework

Azul:Queen’s Garden

Subastral

Rocky Road ala mode

Brian Boru

Marvel United: FF

Motor City

Gutenberg (Awesome both 2p and solo)

Solforge Fusion (More on that w/future shows as well)  

The Games based on Cities Draft!!

	Dan	Chris	Ben	Danielle
Round 1	Las Vegas	Carcassonne	Coimbra	Santorini
Round 2	Caylus	New Bedford	King of Tokyo	Quacks of Quedlinburg
Round 3	Jaipur	Yspahan	St. Petersberg	Nusfjord
Round 4	Lords Of Waterdeep	San Juan	Carson City	Shadows over Camelot

  Fun time as always and thanks for listening!

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Tonight Dan Chris and David, cover a bunch of fun stuff, from KS to Some News, to origins games and a little what we have been playing

. We also hit on Maverick, Dr. Strange 2 (Skip 1:06 to 1:20 to avoid few spoilers to DRS2) Stranger things and Ms Marvel.

WSBG Gaming Partner Program for FLGS

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The store then gets a free $10 WSBG coupon code they can give away to all their customers.  If somebody uses that store’s coupon code and wins the WSBG Championship Bracelet the store gets $5,000 on top of the WSBG Prizes given out to the winner.

It’s part of their “When They Win – You Win” Program.

  Kickstarters  

Gateways and Griffons (Lauren’s bosses at the escape room, and she’s in the video and on the campaign)

First in Flight— Rossett and O’Malley

Compounded:Peer Reviewed and Lab Notes

Skyrise

Septima

Bot Factory  

NEWS!

One more Gate:A Wakfu Legend (Coming soon-steam) Just like those other Rogue like card games I love  

Magic Mountain (Zauberberg) wins KinderSpiel (plinko meets fireball island?as a coop)

Plan B Releasing Village Big Box Edition (All sorts of talk about the new board)

War of the Ring the Card Game coming in November (seems like a lot of the games with “battleground” feel, Warhammer Conquest, Smash up, Snap 

What we’ve been watching

Top Gun:Maverick (not to be confused with Maverick)

But I do love both of those

Dr Strange 2 (Skip 1:06 to 1:20 to avoid few spoilers to DRS2)

Stranger Things

Kenobi (Very brief chat no spoilers)

Ms Marvel 

Origins ‘22

  Games I saw as hotness from looking at twitter and talking to people

Green Team Wins

Santa’s Workshop (New ed from Elf Creek Games)

Empire’s End  (Episode 234 of GAS with John)

Burncycle (Still listed as Pre-order on their site)

Decorum Floodgate games

Marrakesh Queen Games

  What we have been playing 

Nidavellier  

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To Grab a shirt and represent GAS at a con or local game day! A GREAT episode tonight, with some great talk about the SDJ noms, some crowdfunding, some TV and Movie talk and after minor Tech issues Brad Smoley is able to come in from the bullpen to finish up with some Kenobi talk, what we’ve been playing Origins talk and oh yeah we finish it all up with an AMAZING Robot Draft!  

Kickstarters/Gamefound

Unmatched Storage Solution and Accessories on Gamefound

Arcs 

Hacktivity — Coop Card game

Of Mines and Men — Print and play Roll N Write

Return to Dark Tower RPG – powered by Polymorph  

Blaseball:The Card Game

 

The Castles of Burgundy-Special Edition  

NEWS!

SDJ Noms are out

Thoughts on Twilight Inscription? 2 hour, $65 roll-and-write

Terra Nova and also Rift Force Exapsnion

Also MARVEL SNAP!   

What we been watching!

Love Death and Robots is back!

Stranger Things

Kenobi

Tons of Trailers (Willow, Andor, Gray Man, Devotion, Black Phone)

Two mins with Shorsey

Justin: Batman: Hush TPB

Brad: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Outer Range 

David: Top Gun: Maverick

Origins Preview

Empire’s End (John D Clair), Clinic Deluxe, Omicron Protocol, Wonder book, Arkropolis, Venn,  (Hon Mention Vivid Memories I have it but not sure how wide it was but it’s GREAT) ,

Lords of baseball (If you are there, demo it I loved my play if it– Deep Baseball GM sim)

Justin: Green Team Wins, Empire’s End

Restoration Games– Key to the Kingdom, Berried Treasure, Unmatched: Marvel and Jurassic Park: Sattler vs. T-Rex. Playtesting the upcoming Return to Dark Tower expansion “Covenant”.

David: Rift Force Beyond, and We’re Sinking.

What we have been playing

Dan

Cascadia

Nidavellier

Marvel United

Gorinto  

Justin

Tainted Grail

Marvel Champions  

David

Ginkgopolis 

Glow  

Brad Played a bunch of fun stuff at Unpub!

Pop of Color –  Doomsday Device – Floyd Pretz

Robot Draft!  

Robots All personal picks must be from Different Franchises (we EACH can pick a Star Wars robot but not multiple per person)

Cybernetically enhanced beings are not robots (Example Luke is not a robot nor is Fenec Shand, but Bishop and Data are) Robots must also be able to ambulate

, A ship’s computer is not a robot, (Hal is not a “robot, nor is whatever the computer’s name was in the movie Moon)  

	Dan	Brad	David	Justin
Round 1	R2-D2	Optimus Prime	Iron Giant	Vision
Round 2	Robot (Lost in Space)	Terminator (T-800)	Wall-E	Data
Round 3	Baymax	Bender	Ultron	C3-PO
Round 4	Vincent (Black Hole)	Johnny-5	Astroboy	Mecha-Godzilla

 

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Board Games at the Beach ‘22!

We will be giving away a 3 day pass to this year’s event as always! They are hosting a Catan Qualifier, an Azul tournament to win a $250 pass to the World Series of Board Gaming, and much more awesomeness this year.  

Kickstarters

GI JOE Mission Critical— Same system as Power Rangers Heroes of the Grid

Fliptown

Spirit Duels

Age of Steam Deluxe

Tiny Epic Vikings

Micro Cosmos

Trailblazer: The John Muir Trail

Kingdom Builder Empire Edition

Keresis:Quest for the Elements

Battlecrest

Thunderstone Quest Expansion KS should be out next week

Artemis Project expansion – Satellites & Commanders is on Kickstarter May 17 (don’t know much about it, but Artemis Project is a great game

News/whatever   

Jaws of the Lion DLC out 5-17-22

Trio of GaleForce 9 games coming out this summer

Firefly:Misbehavin’ A Unique Deck Building Experience from Designer Jack Reda should be out in August (Gen Con)

Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock—  August (Gen Con?) $60

 TenFold Dungeon is the fully immersive, out of the box 3D terrain for your RPGs

TenFold Dungeon Box type “Terrain” Dungeons August $60

That Old Wallpaper from the design team from Medium (One of the best party games of all time) Will be out in August and $25  

What we have been playing

 Dan

Vivid Memories

Cape May

Motor City

Transformers DBG 

Some Lost Ruins of Arnak solo (w/Expac)  and then with Expansion using the solo campaign online.

Core Worlds Empires came in trying to get it to the table (And Galactic Orders)  

Chris

Long Shot: The Dice Game

Full Throttle

Varuna  

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A great time is had by all tonight as we talk about what great games John D Clair has upcoming, What TV and Movies we have seen lately and some what we have been playing. Dangents galore as always.

THEN we get to one of our best Drafts ever, the TV Theme Song Draft!

Thanks for listening!

Check out our Sponsor’s Local Con Board Games at the Beach ‘22!

We will be giving away a 3 day pass to this year’s event as always! Stay tuned for how to enter! They are hosting a Catan Qualifier, an Azul tournament to win a $250 pass to the World Series of Board Gaming, and much more awesomeness this year.

 Kickstarters

The Dark Quarter

Aldarra

Fortress of Terror  — Solo Roll and Write 8$ basically for PDF and the system

Stellar Expedition   Looks same plays different 4x could use some help

Sleeping Gods Distant Skies (Gamefound) –Stand alone sequel!  

News/whatever 

What’s new on the John D Clair Design tour?

Ready Set Bet

Empire’s End

Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion on Digital 5-17-22!  

Blue Orange sent me some new releases coming up and as always dates subject to change  Downtown Farmers Mayish $15.99

Next Station London: May 15 – $15.99

Museum Suspects: June 15 – 19.99

What we’ve been watching

Thor Love and Thunder Trailer  

Dan

Severance 

Started Good Omens with my daughter (She’s seen it prob 5 times)

Lost in space (almost done)

We’re All Dead (about ½ way through I think)  

David

Our Flag Means Death

Everything Everywhere All At Once   

John 

The Last Kingdom

The Witcher  

Chris 

Severance

The Ultimatum

Gotham

New The Batman easter egg found since it’s now on HBO Max  

What we have been playing

Dan

Founders of Teotihuacan  bit in depth overview and my BGG Review HERE 

Davkd

YAK

Cthulhu: Death May Die

First Empires

Tenpenny Parks

John

Trailblazer

Moonshell

Flesh and Blood  

Chris

7 Wonders: Architects

Welcome To…

The Game    

TV THEME SONG DRAFT!!

	David 6	Dan 3	John  7	Chris  1
Round 1	Friends	Cheers	GoT	Gilligan’s Island
Round 2	Jeffersons	Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Star Trek TNG	Sesame Street
Round 3	Brady Bunch	Golden Girls	Mission Impossible	Dukes of Hazzard
Round 4	The Addams Family	WKRP	Olympic Games	Doctor Who

 

 

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Tonight Dan Chris Adam and Riddle get into a whole host of Games for 2022, but also some what we have been watching, some buddy cop movie talk and even a Kickstarter or 5.

It’s a blast with some catchy ear worms and tons of Dangents.

Kickstarters

Motor City-– by Motor City GameWorks

Sentinels of the Multiverse Rook City Renegades

Munchkin Batman

Illiterati

League of Dungeoneers

Western Legends Big Box

Earth Under Siege:Flashpoint

Hamlet  

NEWS!!

Endangered: Monarch Butterflies preorders are open.

* Preorders will run through 31 March.  

What we’ve been watching

Watched the Way Way Back again

Cry Macho

Dan–Some Weird ass Super hero series on Netflix Guardians of Justice

Chris– Wrapped up Peacemaker.    

What we have been playing  

Descent Legends of the Dark  (new one last year)– solo, it’s great

Return to Dark Tower (amazing)  

Boon Lake (Fister, great!)

Cooper Island (ode., good)    

Most Anticipated Games of 2022!  

Slay the Spire the Board Game — very little details

 Gutenberg

Also The Batman Detective Games Batman:Everybody Lies

Jurassic world: The Legacy of Isla Nublar

Divinus –Lucky Duck Games (similar to destinies with scanning of tiles and an app)

Annunaki:Dawn of the Gods

BurnCycle (and Too Many bones Unbreakable) And….

The Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the second era  –Think technically only KS this year.

Dice Realms

Founders of Teotihuacan  (Have a copy will be talking about it soon)

GI Joe DBG (I know 2021 but I just got it this week–just in time for pre-orders for the expansion Shadows of the Serpent )

Crimes and Capers: High school hijinks 

 Stellaris 

Vivid Memories

Ark Nova 

Golem – Brasini, Gigli, Luciani

Weather Machine – Lacerda & Otoole. (Hill)

Verdant from Flatout Games (Hill)  

Wonderland’s War (Hill) – Ian Moss, Skybound

CoLab (Hill) – Jon Gilmour & Jon Mietling

Stroganov (Hill) – Steding, Game Brewer

ThunderRoad: Vendetta (Chris)  

 

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Tonight as we love to do each year Dan, Chris and David count down the Geek Allstars Top 11 of 2021 and crown a Game of the year from 2021.

We also get into a great KS called Earth, talk a bit about Star Trek Movies and Boba Fett b/c what would a GAS show be without Dan-gents!

Sit back and enjoy the show and see what is the Geek Allstar Game of the year for 2021!    

News:

Jaws of the Lion headed to Gloomhaven Digital!

Kickstarters

Earth

TV/Movie Talk!

Star Trek (The Pine Cast) getting a new movie !

Which prompts us to do a spontaneous top 3 Bum 1 Of the Star Trek Movie universe.  

Game of the Year 2021!

(I will post the games in a few weeks so you will have to listen to find out what won!)

Schmoes Choice for GOTY

(Taken from the guild and emails)

1 Cascadia

2 Nidavellir

3 Sleeping Gods

4 Cubitos

5 Subastral

6 Praga Caput Regni

7 Ankh:Gods of Egypt

8 That Time You Killed Me

9 Destinies

10 Jekyl vs Hyde

11 Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition        

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