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Tonight Dan, Chris Riddle and Waybright are back as always to do our top 11 Board Games of 2023. We also have our Schmoe’s choice (listeners choice)

It’s a fun time with a few Dang-ents as a group as always.

Past GOTY

2023– ??

2022– Ark Nova

2021– Witchstone

2020– The Lost Ruins of Arnak

2019– Fleet:The Dice Game

2018– Coimbra

2017– Gloomhaven

2016– Terraforming Mars

2015– Codenames

2014– Imperial Settlers

2013– Keyflower

2012– Lords of Waterdeep

2011– Eminent Domain  

Goty 2023

Tune in next week for the full reveal but until then go listen to the show!!

11 Star Wars DBG

10 Apiary   

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Tonight Dan Chris and Riddle talk about some new KS, a few things we watched, and then cover a bunch of games we played at Motor City Con in Detroit, including Marrakesh and Wonderlands War.

Kickstarters

Votes for Women reprint

Explorers of Navoria 

Fate: Defenders of Grimheim  Terraforming Mars Designers

Metrorunner Thunderworks GM

What we’ve been watching

Dan-

Reacher (finished S2 almost over)

Percy Jackson Started

Slow Horses

Rebel Moon

Riddle

Slow Horses

Loudermilk

Chris

Rebel Moon

What If…?

Games Played!

Dan

MCG Con

Septima

Wonderlands War 

Marrakesh

Scout

Bacon

Lancaster  

Chris 

Imperial Miners

Freehand

Criss Cross    

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Happy Holidays and Merry Gas-Mas from all 4 of us this evening (Dan, Chris, Riddle and David) as we talk about some news, Hallmark movies, what else we have been watching and playing and some good recent titles to pick up for gaming over the holiday with the family!

NEWS!

Fleet Dice App OUT NOW! 

BGA is releasing 1 game a day in Dec. 

Play to Z announced today Zev Shlasinger head honcho

Stephen Buonocore on the BoD with many other industry vets

1st game to be Ascending Empires Zenith Ed– We look forward to seeing what they do next 

What have we been

WATCHING

Dan-   Every Hallmark movie

Reacher (finished S1 -S2 comes out this week)

Lessons in Chemistry 

Monarch 

Like Father (Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer)

Riddle

Slow Horses  

Chris

Frasier (the new one)

Gen V

Leave the World Behind

Smartless

Kitchen Nightmares (the new one)

David

Blue Eye Samurai

For All Mankind 

Invincible 

Godzilla Minus One

Squid Game The Challenge   

TOPIC– Good Games to Play with the family over the holidays

Dan- Green Team Wins, Micro-Macro, I am going to try and get Janice and Lauren to do a regular game of Sagrada Artisans while Lauren is home (and a crap ton other games I keep buying hoping to get them to play– Villagers and rauha)

 Dan– Searched 22-23 and some good / easy to play for the holidays

Green Team Wins

LongShot the Dice Game

Flamecraft

Sea,Salt, and paper

Kites

My Shelfie

Framework

Nimalia

Imperial Miners  

13th annual Dice Hate Me Holiday Gift Guide

MvM holiday gift guide

What we have been PLAYING!  

Dan Picked up Villagers, Rauha 

Tales from Red Dragon Inn (Very very good light dungeon crawl)

Chris 

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze

Vegas

No Thanks  

David

Apiary

Vale of Eternity – Mandoo

Nana – One of the best games ever made.

Pinball FX – They JUST released a new 3-table pack based on popular board games.  The “Game Night” table pack includes tables for Gloomhaven, Terraforming Mars, and Exploding Kittens.

Riddle

River Valley Glassworks

Thanks as always for Listening, and we cannot thank you enough for 12 1/2 years of listening and support!

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Tonight Dan and Riddle have a nice long chat about many random topics, including holiday gatherings, gaming with friends and a host of meandering topics, just like you would expect from us.

We also do a bit of a game of Designer Favorite and least favorite where we take a bunch of designers and talk about which of their games are our favorites and which are our least favorites

We hope you enjoy this show about nothing on your way to wherever you are going this Thanksgiving season and thanks for listening!  

New Digital Releases

Fleet Dice (app store)

Dune Imperium (Steam)

Favorite and Least Favorite

I  give Riddle a designer and he tells me his fav and least fav of their designs.

Knizia 

UWE

Accitoca

Luciani

Vladimir Suchy 

Feld 

Fleeples/MCG 

Martin Wallace 

Vlaada 

Cathala 

Go to our Guild and tell us your Favorites and Least Favorites of those and enter to win a copy of Sagrada!

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News!

Dune imperium Digital 11-14-23

What we’ve been watching

  Dan-   In a very Kirkmen-esque turn I have been watching these youtube videos “how real is it” on pros in fields reviewing movies (like an expert archer talking about movies)

No Hard Feelings Jennifer Lawrence (Raunchy hilarious comedy)

Old Dads (Again raunchy hilarious comedy– bill burr)  

Chris

RENFIELD!

Loki

Amazing Race

Old Dads

Werewolf by Night – in color (special presentation for Halloween)

Marty

Devil’s Plan

Riddle

Wheel of Time S2

Reacher  

What we have been playing 

  Dan

3 Ring Circus

First Rat set up ready for a solo play!

Chris 

Unmatched Adventures – Tales to Amaze

Riddle

Oceans

Marty Halloween  

DRAFT!!!

Today’s Draft- This draft goes to 11!

So this was recommended to us by Lee McConnell.

These are songs that when they come on or you play them,  they MUST go to 11.

Meaning you just crank them up every time they are on.  

  Once its up you can vote on who won the draft HERE!  

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Tonight Dan and Chris are Joined by Kevin “Burky” Burkhardsmeier and Justin Jacobson, as we talk about The upcoming Game Toppers Kickstarter, Return to Dark Tower Covenant and much much more! We hit on some great Spooky season traditions, some shows and movies we have watched and some games we have played!                                

  KS

GameToppers KS 

Merchants of Magick: Dangerous Business + Draught of Dragons

NEWS

Delivering now and releasing soon to retail– Return to Dark Tower Covenant and Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze

Following up on AI discussion from last show, I saw a publisher is using AI to help with their own drawings and helping them to fine-tune/Finish them. A short discussion.

Some Essen Highlights and  games we saw and were interested in

Planta Nubo  

Euro Sky Team 

Forest Shuffle  

Nucleum— Barrage on steroids

Imperial Miners

Civolution— FELD!

Fall of Fafnir

What are some of our Halloween season traditions?

What we have been watching

What we have been Playing

Dan Oathsworn:Into the deepwood

Frosthaven 

Burky Last Light

Chris  Nothing

Justin

Frosthaven

Resist

D&D w/ Talespire  

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by Matt Riddle and Brad Smoley as we give you plenty of great Crowdfunding project to check out, a Spirited Talk about AI Art In Games, Some things we have been watching, and some games we have been playing including and Upcoming Release from Twoid Games Fall of Lumen.

Some Contest information from Game Toppers!                                

Crowdfunding

KS

Rogue Angels — Mass Effect meets Gloomhaven 

Millenia

Theme Park Mania

Endangered: American Red Wolf Scenario & Endangered Rescue!

Final Girl Series 3

Tantrum House S10

World of Midgard:Two new Viking Adventures

Fromage  

Gamefound

The Isofarian Guard

Creature Caravan— Red Raven Games (Game itself $50)

(Based off artifacts inc Dice placement tableau building)

Saving creatures from zombies

Also World of Arzium RPG  

DISCUSSION of using AI Art in games

What we have been watching

Ahsoka talk (not long no spoilers)

Secret Invasion (Small Spoilers)

Flash Shazam 2

Spiderverse  

What we have been playing

Dan

Got Sent Fall Of Lumen Kickstarter soon! 

Amazingly fun game check out my preview and also my unboxing here Chris 

Tenpenny Parks

Matt

Mountain Goats  

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Tonight Dan David and BJ are joined by new allstar- Dave Beck from Paverson games to talk all things Distilled and Luthier, our thoughts about Gen Con, A ton of Kickstarters, some what we have been watching and we return to a great Draft where we draft Villains!

Gamers For Cures ’23 also upcoming 11-11-23 early Sept I will have sign ups for marathoners and prob next episode I will have much more info on the event as well.

Kickstarters

Ascendency my #1 to try game from Gen Con

Mistwind   

Shadowrun: Takedown

Thunderstone Quest:Uncharted Waters

Perch 

OFPG 

Dungeon Kart

Marakesh : Camels and Nomads 

Joyride  

Gen Con Talk

New Attendance Records, Lorcana craziness

Hot Games!

Everything Ever by Floodgate games

Cosmoctopus by Lucky Duck Games 

Sky Team from Le Scorpion Masque 

Star Wars: Unlimited 

Altered 

What we have been watching!

Ahsoka/Rebels (Just quick overview and thoughts- no spoilers)

Silicon Valley

The Bear

Ted Lasso

Painkiller/DopeSick

DRAFT!

The Villains Draft– Each person Cannot pick more than 1 from any one Universe (ie you cannot have Magneto AND Ultron)  

  Once Voting is up you can go HERE to Vote!

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Tonight Dan and Chris are once again welcomed by our good Cajun buddy BJ Rojas for our annual look at what you should Try (Available only to Demo) and what you should look to buy at GenCon ’23.

All 3 of us have varied tastes so there should be plenty of games for everyone! We talked about a bunch of game for Origins, and many of them will be available at Gen Con so we tried to keep them off our lists.

But We did list them to remind everyone about tons of OTHER great games as well.

Once a few days have passed I will post the lists here but for now just listen and enjoy the show! And please remember

to hit the guild on BGG and let us know what YOUR top games to try and buy are at Gen Con     Thanks for listening

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