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A Nice Full episode of fun! As Dan and Chris are joined by TC Petty III to talk about his influences for My Father’s Work as well as what we have been playing. We also Review Red Raven Games’ Sleeping Gods and a teaser Preview and thoughts on an early view of Richard Garfield’s RogueBook.

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Kickstarters 

Squaring Circleville 

Robot Quest Arena DBG

CastleScape— A Deck Building Board Game 

Fall of the Mountain King

Adventure Tactics :Adventures in Alchemy

Catharsis

Blooming Industry  

NEWS!

SDJ Nominees were announced   

So Who is out Gen Con (rightnow)

Asmodee USA, Asmodee NA studios (FFG, Z-Man?)  Ultra PRO, and Paizo, Greater Than Games    And Who is In?

• Alderac Entertainment Group

• Arcane Wonders

• Catalyst Game Labs

• Czech Games Edition

• Dwarven Forge

• Funko Games

• Grand Gamers Guild

• Indie Boards and Cards

• Indie Game Alliance

• Rather Dashing

• Renegade Game Studios

With Father’s Day right around the corner I tried to look up some interesting gift ideas. And I stumbled upon a service called UnboxBoardom. 

They send you a mail at the beginning of the month to pick out a game, or you can “trust the experts” and then they send you one.

You can check them out at (@unboxboardom for FB/Twitter/IG) or www.unboxboardom.com

use Coupon code ALLSTARS  at checkout on our website for free shipping on their first box (If there’s any issues or not working let me know I will reach out to them).

Renegade — Transformers DBG will release in Aug  $45  

CGE has released a free Lost Ruins of Arnak Solo Campaign.  

Some TV/Movies  

Daybreak (Netflix)– Ferris meets Post Apocalypse (4th wall breaking– Matthew Broderick Funny, and a Ferris joke to start off every ep.

Sweet Tooth — Again Post Apocalypse– Virus and Hybrids, Some Heart 

Love Death and Robots S2 (not really as good a S1, but decent)

Finished Stranger Things S3

Loki Ep 1 is out!

Dan  Rogue Book— Richard Garfield Slay the Spire with a map, 4 playable characters. Gems in cards, 3 acts AMAZING GAME                  

 

  Sleeping Gods 1 + players — Plays great solo, plays in a campaign over a certain amount of “event Cards” 

Feels very choose your own adventure story with fights and skills checks.

Crew of 8 plus the Captain Each “round” you do a ship action, an event (from a deck of 18 cards— 6 ok, 6 harder,. 6 difficult) 

Then 2 actions— Port (only if symbol at the area), Merchant (only if symbol), Explore, Move  Explore read from the book and something happens Get “quest” cards which will give you some things to do and places to go. 

Keywords will be referenced by other encounters/Explorations Fate Deck/Ability Cards for checks and combat and abilities.

Book is great, story is great, It’s Just plain FUN.

 Easy to save the campaign and come back. And the sheets are great with a map on back for notes.

Easily a Must buy  

Chris 1960: The Making of The President

Pass the Pot from R&R

Mille Bornes  

TC

Watchd tech tree the game (Beyond the Sun)

Troyes Dice

Dune Imperium

Winner’s Circle   

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Tonight Dan and Chris are Joined by Josh Mills and Nat Levan to talk about their new Game Aldabas from Grand Gamers Guild, Some discussion about Games played including some impressions of the new Fast and Furious:Highway Heist Game by Funko , going back to Gen Con and drafting some of our favorite Console Games of all time!

Kickstarters 

Aldabas —There will be pre-orders in backer kit 

Castle Panic Deluxe Edition — Big Box Not into retail

Game Topers 3.0 — Ending but likely late pledge 

Paperback Adventures 

NEWS

First up Gen Con!

As I reported in a past show this year’s show has been moved back to 9-16 to 9-19. Badge registration will occur on May 23rd and they will be limiting the number of 4 day badges and single day badges.   

What we have been playing!  

Dan —  Wharfside

Naga Raja

Marvel Champions  Dr. Strange and Cap defeat Green Goblin!  

Chris

Fast & Furious: Highway Heist!

Space Explorers

Space Park  

Millsy

Bowser’s Fury

Returnal 

The Pathless

Captain Toad  

 

Console Legacy Draft!  

Video games by platform generation!  

First round is NES/Sega. 

Second round SNES/Genesis. 

Third round N64/PlayStation. 

The fourth round is anything goes, as long as it was on a platform of some kind.  

No one can draft Mario/Zelda/Sonic games.  

Turn order like last draft.

We will randomize live and then shift down the line so everyone has a chance to draft first.   

Round 1 Josh Chris Nat Dan

Round 2 Chris Nat Dan Josh

Round 3 Nat Dan Josh Chris

Round 4 Dan Josh Chris Nat  

	Josh	Chris	Nat	Dan
Round 1  NES/Sega.	Contra	Ninja Gaiden	Mega Man2	Techmo Bowl
Round 2 SNES/Genesis	Donkey Kong Country 2	Super Metroid	Chrono Trigger	NHL 95
Round 3  N64/PlayStation	Star Fox 64	Golden Eye	FF VII	Metal Gear Solid
Round 4 W/C	Ghost of Tsushima	Twisted Metal Black	Metroid Prime	Knights of the Old Republic

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by our old friends, Marty and Tony from Rolling Dice and Taking Names Podcast, to discuss some Kicstarters, some news a few games played some Movies and TV watched and of course we do a 80’s Film Festival Draft. We draft each category of Drama,Comedy,Horror and Action to see who will have the most fun day of watching Films!

Kickstarters 

Rock Runners Inc  Scott Johnson Card game– very fun

Marvel United X-Men

Connecting Flights (cards build flight paths, move meeples to where they want to go coop/competitive play – funded

Cellulose (Genius Games – Cytosis but with plants)

Keyper at Sea — Expansion for Keyper  

Transmissions 

Legends of Void  Euro Fantasy game takes some inspiration from Terraforming Mars

7 Moons: Heroes of Dragon Reach – build up your town to defend it?

My Father’s Work – TC Petty III

One Card Wonder – Nat Levan and APE Games  

What we have been watching  

What We’ve been playing

Dan

Arnak now on BGA— since Asmodee Bought them seems like new games ramping up!

Block Ness (family game but abstract strategy– Blue Orange games)  

Chris

X-Men: Mutant Insurrection

Tentacle Town

Cryo  

Tony/Marty

Cryo

Vampire the Masquerade:Rivals   

The “Film Festival Draft!

4 Genres and everyone will have a chance to go 1st in one round

Round 1 Dan Tony Chris Marty

Round 2 Tony Chris Marty Dan

Round 3 Chris Marty Dan Tony

Round 4 Marty Dan Tony Chris  

	Dan	Tony	Chris	Marty
Round 1 Drama	Breakfast Club	Fatal Attraction	Full Metal Jacket	Footloose
Round 2 Comedy	Caddyshack	Weekend at Bernies	Ghostbusters	Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Round 3 Horror	The Shining	Firestarter	The Thing	Nightmare on Elm St.
Round 4 Action	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Top Gun	Aliens	Die Hard

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Tonight with Chris sick and Robb on the lam Dan and David take the reins for an amazing GAME OF THE YEAR show for 2020.

What will make the Shows top 11 and what will make the Schmoe’s choice top 11 as well??

I am also sure we will find a way to talk about Ted Lasso for a little while as well!

Kickstarters

Ares Expedition– A Terraforming Mars Card Game  

Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of Crowns 

Vault Wars– Relic Roadshow

Block and Key   

Core Worlds- Empires + Nemesis

 

Quick(ish) Games Played

Dan- Long Shot: The Dice Game

Gloomhaven

Just got in Funfair

Also got in (coming soon to Pre-order) The Belgian Beers Race— Grand Gamers Guild

David

Long Shot The Dice Game

Downforce

Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Bamboo Bash/ Tac Tac Jack/Bling Bling Gemstone

Grand Austria Hotel    

Geek Allstars Top 11 (Coming Soon– Go Listen NOW!)  

(over 70 titles received votes)

Top Expansions for 2020

Top “New to us” games of 2020

Top things we missed in 2020  

Top 11 Schmoe’s choice! (63 Different titles received votes!)

1 The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
2 Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated
3 My City
4 Oceans
5 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
6 Marvel Champions: The Card Game
7 Aquatica
8 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
9 Forgotten Waters
10 The Search for Planet X
11 Stellar

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The Fleeples, Ben and Matt are back for some more GAS goodness, and another round of DRAFT IT! on the show.

We talk a bunch about Three Sisters and its launch on March 9th on KS!

Tonight we talk about some KS, playing Asynch games online and a nice discussion about licenses, re-skins and playing games on TTS.

Also discussed the great World’s Fair 1893

KS

Tinners Trail  

Masters of Mutanite

Paper Apps: Dungeon

Core Worlds Empires coming to KS soon (2-2) 

 Radlands from Roxley

ButtonShy Reprint Campaign (including, maybe, Cow, Tiger, Santa Claus)  

Origins ‘21 Moved back to Fall

GAMA  announced that they have moved Origins back till the Fall due to COVID-

It was originally to be on June 16 to June 20 (usually US Fathers Day).  

IT’s now moved  to September 30 to October 3. 

Essen Spiel is full steam ahead with an in-person convention October 14-17.  

And of course 4 amazing new drafts we do on the show.    

Draft 1 Vacation Destinations  

	Chris	Dan	Matt	Ben
Round 1	Paris	Disney	Hawaii	Essen
Round 2	Venice	Vegas	DC	NYC
Round 3	Tokyo	London	Fiji	New Orleans
Round 4	Alaska	Outer Banks	Florida	Lake Michigan

  Draft 2  Date Night  

	Dan	Matt	Ben	Chris
Round 1	Netflix and Chill	Dinner out	Concert	Frankies
Round 2	Piano Bar	Movies	Strolling Downtown	Mini Golf
Round 3	Comedy Show	Jazz Club	Theatre	Game Night
Round 4	Sporting Event	Walk along the beach	Kayaking	Cooking Class

  Draft 3 Ways to eat Potato   

	Matt	Ben	Chris	Dan
Round 1	Baked Potato	Potato Skins	Mashed	Potato Soup
Round 2	Waffle Fries	Cheesy Twice Baked	Poutine	Hash Brown
Round 3	Tater Tot	Shoe String	Potato Chip	Crinkle Cut (Linda’s)
Round 4	Chilli Cheese Fries	Cheesy Potatoes	Pierogi	Knish

    Draft 4   Ice cream Truck Treats (lightning round)  

	Ben	Chris	Dan	Matt
Round 1	Choco Taco	Drum Stick	Crunch Pop	Cookie Sandwich
Round 2	Bomb Pop	Push Up	Italian Ice	Almond Bar

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Dan, Chris, David and Robb talk about EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING there is to talk about.

From Ted Lasso, Cobra Kai, Greyhound, Titans, to Wonder Woman 84 and a nice talk about The Mandalorian S2. And we also get into some GAME discussion about Dune Imperium and The Lost Ruins of Arnak.

It’s a long one but FULL of All Star Goodness!   Quick news about Gloomhaven Digital The Chapter 4 update brings a host of new content, including: 

• Spoiler Alert – 2 iconic mercenaries with unique abilities and playstyles. We would encourage you to refer to these characters by their aliases “Eclipse” and “Phoenix” to avoid spoilers for your readers
• 7 story missions, 4 relic missions and 7 journey missions, including ones that explore the new mercenaries’ origins and motivations
• New biomes to traverse, Sewers and Rural Villages, and a variety of new enemy types, including Black Imp, Deep Terror, Ooze and Lurker
• A brooding new boss lurking at the bottom of the ocean

  Also I have a KEY to give away for Gloomhaven digital, to be entered just reply to tthe post on BGG or Twitter and mention you would like to get a key for gloomhaven and I will draw a winner and send you the key!  

 

Slay the Spire board game announce

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-slay-the-spire-board-game-is-coming/

And in Yucata news Grand Austria Hotel, Underwater Cities, Lorenzo and Rajas Dice added  

We also talk about Dune Imperium 

Lost Ruins of Arnak 

The Shores of Tripoli 

Alma Mater    

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Tonight Dan, Chris and David welcome a new Allstar into the crowd as the Comedy Allstar Grant Lyon joins us for a night of shenanigans.

We talk about his career in comedy, and his love of board games and his new game that’s out called Curmudgeon.

We also have to touch upon the greatness that is the last episode of Mandalorian, some games we have been playing, and of course the BREAKFAST CEREAL DRAFT!

Some Fun Stuff from Grant: And we had a blast doing the Cereal draft!

 

	David	Chris	Grant	Dan
Round 1	Lucky Charms	Frosted Flakes	Froot Loops	CoCoa Pebbles
Round 2	Cinnamon Toast Crunch	Honey Nut Cheerios	Cocoa Puffs	Boo Berry
Round 3	Cap’n Crunch	Life	Golden Grahams	Cookie Crisp
Round 4	Trix	Super Golden Crisp	Frosted Mini Wheats	Reese’s Puffs

 

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined once again by our buddy David.

We talk about a bunch of Kickstarters, some TV and get into a nice SPOILER filled talk about Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 2 of The Mandalorian.

Grats to Chris for Winning the Horror Movie Draft Part II!

And Dan wins the Draft IT! Scoring from the hosts voting  

KICKSTARTERS!

David: Nova Aetas Renaissance (Ludus Magnus)   

Chris:

Rift Knights from Ryan Laukat 

The Mariana Trench (shocking, I’m posting about an underwater thing – I backed this one)

The Transcontinental 

Townsfolk Tussle is still up there (So is Freedom 5 — 3 days)  

Dan

Pursuit of Happiness– Big box and Nostalgia Expansion — Artipia 

Star Scrappers:Orbital — Designer of Terraforming Mars (Fryxelius)     

NEWS/Mandalorian

Talk Green Lantern HBO Max show little more info human Lanterns Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, as well as alien Lanterns Sinestro and Kilowog

(Season 1 Sinestro will be Green, likely S 1 or 2 will be the big fall of Sinestro– I don’t think Mark Strong but boy was he the best Sinestro ever)  

Umbrella Academy Renewed season 3  

Also Mentioned Wayne– NSFW Trailer         Thanks for listening!

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Robb Rouse and David Waybright join us again this year to discuss a ton of great Essen Games coming out, some Kickstarters, a ton of banter and of course another amazing Horror Movie Draft!    

Kickstarters   

Freedom Five: A Sentinels Comics Board Game Oct 20th KS Link

Frost Punk:The Board Game

Crescent City Cargo + Captains of the Gulf Reprint 

For Sale Autorama — With Advisors as well

Veiled Fate — 

Townfolk Tussle  — Another must see video of it here. 

Darkest Dungeon 

High Rise: UltraPlastic Edition   

Kringle Caper —>  Pre Orders are up!

“Essen” Games we are looking forward to  

Bonfire  Feld

Hallertau  Uwe

Praga Caput Regini  Suchy 

Paris — Kramer and Keisling 

Clever hoch Drei  — Thrice as clever!! (Already on APP store played it some today)

Cubitos — John D Clair

Lost Ruins of Arnak — CGE 

Viscounts of the West Kingdom 

Beyond the Sun — Dennis Chang

Castles of Tuscany — Feld 

Tawantinsuyu

Tekhenu  

Games we have been playing  

Among Us

My City 

Arkham Horror: LCG 

Baldur’s Gate 3

Robb

Pandemic Legacy Season 0 (completed)

Carnival of Monsters/Survive with Harper….also Pokemon

MTG ARENA…so addicting. 

Horror Movie Draft Part 2!

  Serpentine 4 rounds draft

Robb Runs the draft– his rules his calls

 As a review here was Horror Part 1 and Chris gets the win 17/9/8/8

   These movies are obviously off limits  

	Chris	David	Robb	Dan
Round 1	Psycho	Alien	Exorcist	Night of the Living Dead (68)
Round 2	The Thing	Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Cabin in the Woods	Friday the 13th
Round 3	The Shining	The Omen	Blair Witch Project	A Nightmare on Elm St
Round 4	An American Werewolf in London	Poltergeist	It Follows	Jaws

 

PART 2!

 

	Robb	David	Dan	Chris
Round 1	Silence of the Lambs	The Fly	Halloween	Evil Dead 2
Round 2	Hellraiser	28 Days Later	Get Out	A Quiet Place
Round 3	IT	Child’s Play	The Strangers	Scream
Round 4	Candyman	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	The Ring	Nightmare on Elm St. 3:The Dream Warriors

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VOTE HERE!    

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