ChasingTheDragonPodcast

We're back! After a long hiatus, Andres and Ryan return to your ears. While Ryan sat at home sad, Andres ventured forth to Essen Spiel this year and now Ryan (and you) get to hear all about it from Andres. But this is about much more than Spiel. Oh yes! Andres is a bit down about board games but very up about RPGs. And Ryan has made it his mission to help Andres fall back in love with board games this year. Keep tuning in every month to hear what happens!

This is the relaunch of the Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast! Recorded straight from Essen Spiel 2016. Ryan and Andres are joined by Johan Bultsax Broman, and we talk about all of the awesome games we dove into at Essen this year.

In this summoning we interview Anders and Olle Tyrland, two brothers who have designed the game Battle at Kemble's Cascade, published by Z-Man Games. We talk about their design process and how they converted a video game genre to the tabletop. Ryan reminisces about his philosophy past and talks about Barthes' Death of the Author. How much of board game design is open to influence and change by players? Does design end when a game is published?

We have special guest Ulf Hässelbäck returning to the podcast to talk about storytelling in board games.

Andres and Ryan talk about replayability in board games. Stick around to the end to hear us have a rousing argument about whether chess is actually a game or not.

Our one year anniversary summoning! We review the past year of our gaming and podcasting, look to the future and talk about how we've changed as gamers and what we've learned about ourselves. Among other things.

How does meta-game talking affect board and role playing games? We discuss the topic in two parts. In the first, we talk about meta-gaming from game to game within a gaming group. In the second, we discuss the three levels of game talking: in game, on the table and off the table.

Interview with Martin Wallace at the Treefrog Games booth at Essen Spiel 2014.

With more Essen Spiel 2014 coverage, Ryan interviews Uwe Eickert from Academy Games. Uwe was giving demos of the upcoming Academy Games release Fief: France 1429, as well as demos of 1775: Rebellion and other games of theirs.

Andres and Ryan welcome Johan from Malmö on their journey through Essen Spiel, the world's biggest board gaming convention. Andres and Ryan went for the first time, listen to the exciting impressions of fresh eyes and unbroken hearts. This is the second part of Summoning 14, which was a preview and laid out our expectations. Listen here to find out if the reality meets the expectations!

Andres and Ryan are going to Essen Spiel! They're both very excited and talk about what games they are going to be on the hunt for at the world's biggest board game fair. While at Essen, Chasing the Dragon will continue this summoning and talk about their reactions to the games they preview here. And they'll also present what Essen is like to through the eyes of first-timers.

Summoning 13: We interview board game designer Christer Hägglund and talk about of course designing board games. He talks about the importance of making a game replayable and how to strike a balance between theme and mechanics/rules, among other things.

Andres and Ryan talk about the costs of having gaming as a hobby. They also talk about strategies for dealing with the costs and how they choose what to buy. Chasing the Dragon gaming podcast summoning number 12. Tell us on our Facebook page what you think about gaming costs.

Cantrip #3: interview about Nordic LARPing (Live Action Role Playing).

Chasing the Dragon's 11th Summoning. We discuss What to do when you get the rules wrong (by mistake or on purpose).

This cantrip we talk about news and new games that came out of the Origins Board Gaming Convention (which we didn't go to).

In this summoning we discuss tabletop gaming becoming open to a more general public. We talk about The Big Bang Theory, Tabletop and how to spread the love of gaming. Then we end by talking about what new developments we would like to see from the board gaming industry.

In summoning 9 of Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast we go through game by game Risk Legacy for an entire campaign. Be forewarned! This game is a unique experience and if you are planing on ever playing Risk Legacy, we give all the fun surprises away in this podcast. So, you make the choice. Half of what we do is describe our campaign as we play it and half is reflections on the game itself and gaming in general. Listen if you want to go on a journey that takes you through a unique game and follow the four of us (Andres, Ryan, Daniel and Anna-Karin) as we elate in victory and suffer crushing defeats. Check out our Facebook page, where we have posted photos and videos from our campaign. Check them out to see what we're talking about! https://www.facebook.com/ChasingTheDragonPodcast

For our first cantrip we interview the creators of the Swedish roleplaying game Mutant År Noll, roleplaying in Sweden and hybrid roleplaying/board game design. Tomas and Kosta were sitting down to do a game demonstration and were signing books at the Science Fiction Bokhandeln in Stockholm. Mutant År Noll is a roleplaying game in Swedish but we do the interview in English and we focus more on why they made design decisions rather than as this being a review. Mutant År Noll: http://frialigan.se/spel/mutant/ Tomas and Kosta's podcast Signaler från Zonen (in Swedish): http://frialigan.se/tag/signaler-fran-zonen/ Science Fiction Bokhandeln: http://www.sfbok.se/index.asp

Chasing the Dragon explores religion and ideology in the board and tabletop gaming world.

The topic today is board and roleplaying games used in education. We interview Sebastian Engholm, a recess leader at an elementary school in Stockholm.

This week on Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast: Positive approaches make for more fun gaming experiences. We look at six of our favorite games and talk about how what we expect out of each game can affect how much we enjoy playing it. And what are some strategies we have for accentuating the positive and having more fun. The games we explore are: Fortune and Glory, Axis and Allies, Dungeon Command, Game of Thrones Card Game, Letters from Whitechapel and Galaxy Trucker.

Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast Summoning 5: 26 March 2014 In this summoning Andres and Ryan discuss the importance of learning a game and teaching a game to new players. Hosted by Andres and Ryan

Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast Summoning 4 In this summoning Andres and Ryan explore the epic board game Mage Knight. About Chasing the Dragon: Beyond the shores of the eternal rises a podcast by two formidable sorcerers, speaking truths of the ancient craft of... Gaming. Chasing the Dragon is a podcast about board, card, and all manner of tabletop gaming and the spell-casters who delve into the hobby. Hosted by Andres and Ryan

This week we interview Indy and Ulf and talk about how gaming has changed over the course of the past 40 years. About us: Beyond the shores of the eternal rises a podcast by two formidable sorcerers, speaking truths of the ancient craft of.... Gaming. A twice monthly podcast about board, card, and all manor of tabletop gaming and the spell-casters who delve into the hobby. Hosted by Andres and Ryan

In Chasing the Dragon's second summoning we discuss the topic of new gamers and how they enter the tabletop gaming world. Here in Stockholm, we interview two friendly new gamers: Amanda and Alex.

Venture deep into crypts long forgotten and considered to by myth and hear the incantations of scourers from realms beyond. A podcast for board gaming outside the realm of the status quo. Enjoy our premier episode and subscribe for more.