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Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the final Odds and Ends episode of Season 1! You read that right. We're going to be giving a lot more detail a the beginning of the episode, but basically we're going to be taking a small break. The first few minutes of the episode cover this, but if you want to have a quick bite to read, here you go: Through the month of August you'll still be getting new episodes (24 and 25), new reviews, everything you're used to. This is all content that we recorded prior to Gen Con and will be coming out on normal scheduling. We are, however, going mostly dark in September. This is to let us get more played, get some new content in the can without having to worry about anything, and making sure we're ready to go on all of our new ideas. You'll still get a couple of things (we have a Kickstarter we'll be supporting as well as the final episode of The Games That Made Us) to make sure you don't lose the feed, but the sheer amount of stuff we've been releasing like we have will slow to a trickle.  On Tuesday October 7th, we'll be returning with "Season Two"! We've got some really cool plans set in place. First, Jason is now just a full time host with us. There may be the occasional episode without one of the three of us due to life getting in the way, but we expect fully to be a trio moving forward. He's been great on the show and he's helped us out enormously over the past few months with a variety of things. It just feels right to have him on. Next, we're going to be releasing a new subseries we're calling the "Expansion Packs". These are mostly going to be the off-week, non-review content where we'll be covering singular topics. The Mechanic's Shop may end up in here, New Player Journeys, as well as a super cool segment we're calling "Extra Roles." Extra Roles is going to be us having board gaming industry figures, from publishers, designers, and artists, to social media managers or playtest leads, or similar from our favourite companies coming on. This is a way for us to continue to be friends with the board gaming industry and just get more love for them out there. We've already had some really cool people say that they'd like to be on the show and we've been scheduling like mad. Our first episode of the season, Episode 26, will not only feature Jason but a designer/publisher that I'm VERY excited to have on. Some really cool stuff coming down that pipeline. You can also expect the first appearances of "Dusting Off" and some more segments in the Roleplaying Legends series to keep things spicy.  Be sure to keep tuned into us until that point, but remember! Tuesday October 7th is the date for the new season! --- CONTENT WARNING: This episode is marked explicit because of the swearing in the blooper reel. If nothing else, you can see how tough it can be for us to maintain perfect professionalism while recording. It's honestly a lot less that it was in prior O&Es but because we try and maintain a clean rating overall, it's still worth putting the label on.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:00:38 - Channel Update 00:04:35 - Post-Jamey Tariff Intro 00:05:11 - Post-Jamey Tariff Comments 00:07:04 - Scott the Tanner Intro 00:07:27 - The Story of Scott the Tanner  00:08:44 - Win, Lose, or Banana Intro 00:09:07 - The Story of Win, Lose or Banana 00:10:14 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions Intro 00:10:34 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions  00:15:36 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions Intro 00:16:04 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions  00:28:10 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions Intro 00:28:52 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions  00:42:34 - Outro 00:43:13 - Blooper Reel --- Notes! 1) It's always a surprise to me when assembling all of this stuff, of how much it I don't think even works in these episodes. There are a surprising amount of bits that just don't even make the cut here. Hopefully you enjoy this episode, it was fun to go through all the scraps and see what was left to dust off and trim up for you all to hear.  2) In the segment about the Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions, I said that I had already stated my number 12. If you don't remember what it was, then you'll just have to go listen to that episode again! 3) Tuesday! October 7th! Season Two! WOO WOO WOO! --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Time to Panic. In Time to Panic, you're trying to repair a shattered timeline in this fully cooperative game for 1-4 players, taking approximately 30-45 minutes per session. Your goal is to fully align a series of cards numbered 1-36 into as correct of an order as possible. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:01 - How the Game Plays 00:08:36 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:10:20 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:14:03 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:18:03 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:23:40 - Recommendations 00:25:16 - Final Thoughts  00:26:39 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Graft, the new small box drafting and push your luck game from IV Studios set in the world of another of their games, the soon to be released Tend. While you can very much see the threads connecting the two games together if you've played them - essentially the card rows you'll be building in Graft are the manifest that you assemble by stamping in Tend - you certainly do not need to play one to know the other. Graft is the much, much lighter and shorter game for 3-5 players and will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:54 - How the Game Plays 00:07:22 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:09:29 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:43 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:15:08 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:18:13 - Recommendations 00:19:18 - Final Thoughts  00:21:57 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Pillars of Fate. Pillars of Fate is the new 2 player only game in the Veiled Fate series of games from IV. This game is a lane battler that will have players placing cards within 3 lanes over the course of 3 rounds called ages. This game will be using all of the characters as introducted between Veiled Fate and it's Tribunal expansion and maintain the Scorpion/Feather structure that you may be used to from those games. While you do not have to have played the other two games in the series, having the familiarity of them and how they operate will make onboarding with this game much easier. A game of Pillars of Fate will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - How the Game Plays 00:08:07 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:09:35 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:44 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability 00:14:21 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:18:22 - Recommendations 00:20:31 - Final Thoughts  00:21:57 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our review for Vantage. This is not a sponsored review, but Jason and I were provided our copies of the game as compensation for working the booth at GenCon. We refer to this within the episode itself, but to be clear we were given the game to learn and play so that we could accurately teach it at GenCon. Stonemaier did not ask for this review and we did get permission to do this ahead of time just in case. Regardless! We like the game quite a bit. If you're concerned about any spoilers here, we drop our scores within the first few minutes before explaining anything at all about the game so that way you don't have to worry about that. We actually managed to not spoil any of the content through our discussions but we also get that certain audiences don't want to know anything beyond the basic dice/card interactions before opening the box and we wanted to respect that. Vantage is a huge open world sandbox game comprised of over 1700 cards for 1-6 players and was designed by Jamey Stegmaier over the course of eight years. Come crash land on the planet with us to learn what we thought about the game and then once you've gotten to do so let us know your opinions on it at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro / Scores / Non-Spoiler Comments 00:03:08 - How the Game Plays 00:10:25 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:15:01 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:22:58 - Replayability / Player Count / Solo Mode 00:30:12 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:53:01 - Final Thoughts  00:56:29 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Jason definitely jumped in and helped me explain the game a bit because of how late things were when we recorded and I just started forgetting a couple of key things. So thanks for the assist Jason! 2) Around the 40 minute mark you can just hear Mark's 4 year old moviung around in the background for a couple minutes. It's not loud but it is there, so sorry about that. The joys of having a basement studio. 3) Scott was around for this entire recording session. He just let Jason and I go nuts and didn't have much additional to add beyond what we all said. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! GenCon 2025 is ONE WEEK AWAY! That means that it is perfect timing to get out the GenCon preview list. We recorded this list on July 9th when there were 499 games on the list. While another 70 or so were added since then, we're all still extremely happy with our lists and will still be looking for these games in particular. Scott, Jason, and Mark have all gathered to make sure that we're telling you about 30 different games that we are excited to check out and hopefully bring home from the con in one way or another. We hope that you enjoy this episode and you let us know what you're looking forward to on BlueSky or by emailing us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. As a reminder, Mark and Jason will be teaching Vantage at the Stonemaier/MeepleSource booth at location 2909 this year and Scott will be demoing it in the play hall not too far away on Thursday and Friday mornings. Come say hi! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:02:02 - Honorable Mentions 00:08:40 - List Selection Criteria 00:11:24 - Scott's 10 (Guild Lands) 00:12:29 - Jason's 10 (Tinco) 00:13:20 - Mark's 10 (Habemus Papam) 00:14:50 - Scott's 9 (Ace of Spades) 00:16:06 - Jason's 9 (Alibis) 00:16:47 - Mark's 9 (Escape from the Moon) 00:17:45 - Scott's 8 (Gibberers) 00:19:17 - Jason's 8 (Sprocketforge) 00:20:42 - Mark's 8 (Ofrenda) 00:22:10 - Scott's 7 (Mythical Dice) 00:23:19 - Jason's 7 (Zenith) 00:24:40 - Mark's 7 (Spooktacular) 00:26:22 - Scott's 6 (Solar Gardens) 00:27:52 - Jason's 6 (Unstoppable) 00:29:44 - Mark's 6 (Four Doors) 00:31:30 - Scott's 5 (Petiquette) 00:33:43 - Jason's 5 (Grand Central Skyport) 00:36:20 - Mark's 5 (Pillars of Heracles) 00:37:34 - Scott's 4 (Digit Code) 00:39:26 - Jason's 4 (Journey to Tir na Nog, Blessings and Burdens) 00:40:59 - Mark's 4 (12 Rivers) 00:42:53 - Scott's 3 (Temple Code) 00:44:47 - Jason's 3 (Pillars of Fate) 00:46:05 - Mark's 3 (How to Save a World) 00:48:15 - Scott's 2 (Kronologic: Cuzco 1450) 00:50:44 - Jason's 2 (Dark Quarter) 00:52:25 - Mark's 2 (Iliad) 00:54:30 - Scott's 1 (FlipToons) 00:58:00 - Jason's 1 (Vantage) 01:01:20 - Mark's 1 (Timber Town) 01:03:38 - Final Thoughts  01:05:39 - Outro --- Notes! 1) Mark failed to actually say the name of his number nine. The game being discussed is "Escape from the Moon". 2) Scott failed to correctly say the name of his number eight! We were on fire at this point, but in our defense it was almost 2am when we started recording all this! His number eight is actually Gibberers from Hobby Japan. 3) Mark has since played Zenith. IT'S SO, SO GOOD GUYS. 4) We've gotten some preview copies of Pillars of Fate and the other retail IV games that you'll be getting reviews of VERY SHORTLY. Mark likes Pillars A LOT. It's a good thing too, because he's gotta pick up the copy he already bought! --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Welcome back to extra BATT content! This episode is a return to our series of The Games That Made Us. While Mark is finishing up the edit on the GenCon preview, we still wanted to make sure that we gave you content today the way we promised on BlueSky. So here is Scott talking about his love of Star Fleet Battles, a game by Stephen V. Cole from 1979 by Amarillo Design Bureau and Task Force Games. Scott got suprisingly whistful after listening to the edit of this, so while it may not have the heft of the HeroQuest episode, it's clearly still a game that he holds with deep affection. If nothing else, it's just fun to hear about another older game! And we'll give a sly little announcement here in the notes: Mark was recently gifted a number of old games from the 60s and 70s. We'll be doing a new segment soon called "Dusting Off:" where we go back to these decades old games to see how they may (or may not) have influenced the gaming hobby and if they're still worth going back to today. We hope you enjoy this episode and we'll catch you on the next one very shortly.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We are back with another sponsored review, this time provided by Hobby World. Space Bureau is an action selection, pick up and deliver game for 1-4 players. It has a fun vibe about it and will appeal to players that like to build action networks and explore a galaxy. The game will play over 14 turns per player and give you a surprising amount of opportunity to do plenty of actions on each turn. We hope you enjoy this review and you let us know if you've gotten to try it yourself and what you think of it! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:46 - How the Game Plays 00:03:39 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:05:20 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:08:39 - Replayability 00:09:52 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:12:42 - Solo Mode  00:13:19 - Recommendations 00:15:03 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) Just beceause Mark prefers Starry Night Sky to Wormholes, doesn't mean you shouldn't try Wormholes out. It's a really solid game. He just wants it to let you use the wormhole network you've all built for more than five turns at the end. If you like that ramp up and slam to a stop, it might be a great game for you.  2) Also, just for transparency, while we play the game with each other at least once we do each play the games we review with other play groups as well. With this one, we just sat down and recorded it right at the end of a play session and that was just on top of our heads. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We have another sponsored review from Hobby World, this time their family game Tales of Tails. This is a light weight, take that, dungeon crawler featuring dogtaurs. It's a game for 2-4 players and lasts approximately 30-45 minutes.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:40 - How the Game Plays 00:02:30 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:05:22 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:13:31 - Replayability 00:14:22 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:18:48 - Recommendations 00:20:33 - Final Thoughts / Outro --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! We apologize for the extra week on the release of this episode. Things just haven't been slowing down. We're considering taking a small recording break during the month of August to just slow down, finalize a bunch of things (the website finally!), and play all the new games. Oh and there may be a new logo coming too! OOooo. Regardless! This week is a fun one! Due to popular demand, we returned to the Mechanic's Shop to talk Trick Taking. Then Mark got Scott to play one of his favourite dudes on a map games, and then we talked a wide variety of the games in the Table/Shelf/Trade segment. We did choose to leave off the rotating segment this week due to length, but you'll find that in the next Odds and Ends episode, due out the week of GenCon! Come back on our next episode for our GenCon preview! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:46 - What's Been on the Table 00:02:57 - The Mechanics Shop: Trick Taking 00:42:13 - Why Did I Play That: Nexus Ops 00:50:05 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:06:57 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:08:21 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) This one was a beast to edit - AGAIN! Between us going off on huge tangents during the what's been on the table segment (leaving that bare two minutes behind) and having to make the trick taking conversation followable, it just took a minute.  2) One of the fun parts of the Euchre conversation was just talking through all the variations styles of playing a game like it. Scott and I played the same game but in incredibly different ways and that's not even including all the playstyle differences. For being as proscribed of a game as it can be, there's a lot of moving parts and calculations to be made. 3) There is an argument that Mark is being a hypocrite by saying he doesn't like bidding games and then picking Lunar because it needs you to win a certain amount of tricks. The difference between the two, and why I defend this, is that bids are normally placed before a round happens whereas needing to win a range of tricks like in Lunar allows you to adjust your play on the fly and gives some flexibility that you don't have to hit a specific number.  4) Brian Boru has since left Mark's collection. That said, Arcs has come in since as well, so you'll get some content around that soon enough. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We are stoked to take part in the Kickstarter launch for IV Studios' next game, Realm of Reckoning. We spent an enormous amount of time with it because we did enjoy it as much as we did. This is a two to five player area control, drafting, bidding game that takes around ninety to one hundred twenty minutes to play. It is currently on Kickstarter and can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivstudios/realm-of-reckoning. The base edition of the game starts at $89 but does have a variety of extra materials you can pick up as well. You've heard us say it before, but the mad scientists at IV are back at it and have provided an incredibly unique and genuinely fascinating game to play. We had a ton of things to say and tear apart with this one, so this preview episode is about double our regular length because we do feel it needs it. This is by far IV's heaviest game but it still manages to be quite approachable. So check out the episode and then go check out the Kickstarter! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:35 - How the Game Plays 00:08:33 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:14:44 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:25:08 - Replayability / Player Count 00:30:24 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:43:15 - Recommendations  00:45:43 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) We recorded this shortly before the announcement of the rules for the two player version of the game had been finalized and announced. So part of the conversation here is discussing a couple of things related to being a three player minimum game. 2) We also discussed early on in the rules teach that there will always be nine reckonings. According to the two player rules, that will still be the case as you are not allowed to get rid of reckoning cards from the simulated player's stack. There was a 2p gameplay video released, so if you'd like to check it out you can do so at IV's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SVj-_iwGI 3) Check it out on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivstudios/realm-of-reckoning (We did not get to experiment with any of the extra stuff like the playmat or metal monuments so we don't have any information there.)   --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We'd love to give you some Kickstarter coverage as well if you've got a game you're wanting more content for! We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! This time around we've got another review copy that was provided to us by Hobby World of the game The First Tsar: Ivan the Terrible. This was designed by Stan Kordonskiy with art by Michele Esposito. If you like tactical, light-to-midweight Euro games then there is a lot in this box for you to check out. We did come out pretty split on the game, so we hope you enjoy the review and The First Tsar itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on it!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:14 - How the Game Plays 00:08:43 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:10:32 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:14:04 - Replayability / What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:19:11 - Recommendations  00:20:22 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) No notes this time around! --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We've got another review for you this week, Neodreams from Hobby World and designer Ivan Lashin. Spoiler alert: we both really, really like it. This game was given to us by the team at Hobby World, so keep that in mind but I really truly think you can be really pleased with this game.  We hope you enjoy the review and Neodreams itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Neodreams!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:43 - How the Game Plays 00:06:18 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:07:37 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:38 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:16:47 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) I made a comment about how the game replayability could be a concern after the "fifteen or twentieth" play. That number is pretty high, especially for a lot of modern gamers so I probably could have said fifth or tenth but we also have already played it in that play count and I've still enjoyed it so .... take that as you will? --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! We apologize for the extra week on the release of this episode. There has been a lot of personal stuff going on with all three of us over here. That said we're trying out a new editor! So hopefully episode 23 will sound amazing and not have to have been done by Mark! This week's episode though we get to introduce a brand new segment, the Mechanics Shop, where we're going to be doing deep dives into a specific mechanism each time we do it. The goal is to look at that mechanism from a variety of different gameplay angles through the lens of a variety of different games. We are going to be skipping doing a rotating segment when we do these though since the segment will be longer than usual. Like normal, hit us up with any thoughts or comments you may have especially on if you like the new content or not! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:03 - What's Been on the Table 00:09:26 - The Mechanics Shop: Worker Placement 00:43:32 - Why Did I Play That: Kronologic: Paris 1920 00:57:44 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:23:29 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:25:00 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) This one was a beast to edit. Mark had to do a lot more splicing and rearranging than in any episode prior. Pretty sure that he managed to make it all as seamless as he could but thanks for the patience for the extra time while this episode came out! 2) We never really defined what a "worker" is in a worker placement game. For simplicity sake, a worker is a piece of some kind (a token, a miniature, a die, whatever) that you are going to place somewhere on the board and take the action granted by that space. It's not an overwhelming concept, but it isn't always just a meeple or whatever. 3)  And technically there is SOME direct player interaction with the poison and constriction tokens and such, but Mark NEVER uses thoses when they play. Peaceful Ark Nova all day! 4) If you'd like to play games with Mark on BoardGameArena, his handle is: MetroMacWag. He'll happily play Ark Nova or many other things. 5)  6)  7)  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing S'mores Galore which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is a very lightweight, family game where you'll be drafting cards from the center of the table, managing a hand of cards, and fulfilling contracts by scoring S'mores themselves.  We hope you enjoy the review and S'mores Galore itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on S'mores Galore!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:38 - How the Game Plays 00:04:25 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:06:23 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:09:23 - Replayability 00:12:14 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 00:14:47 - Recommendations 00:16:31 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) We don't have any special notes here! --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today Mark is going to dive very heavily into Kingsburg 3rd edition. This is a review of the game as a whole and a comparison of the various editions of the game. The various aspects of all three will be discussed so if you're a long time fan of the game or a new player, you'll be able to find something here. Kingsburg is a dice worker placement, resource management game that has high modularity through it's various expansion modules (mostly built into the box) and plays from two to five players in about forty-five to seventy-five minutes depending on player count.  As a heads up, if you've played the game before, you can skip right into the Artwork / Components / Iconography section because literally none of the rules have changed at all from the prior editions. We hope you enjoy the review and Kingsburg itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Kingsburg!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:16 - How the Game Plays 00:07:49 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:09:00 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:18:55 - Differences in Expansion Content / Replayability 00:23:55 - Solo Mode / What's to Like, What's to Dislike  00:27:21 - Recommendations 00:29:00 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) Apologies for the audio buzz on this episode. When I was recording it, we were trying some things out with new mics and in my standard recording cans I didn't hear it. I'm hoping it doesn't come through for regular listeners, but I was hearing it in my more sensitive editing cans. I've since replaced the speakers that caused that issue though, so that shouldn't recur. 2) If you do know about those scenario cards in 2nd edition, let me know what's going on with them. I'm happy I've got them certainly, but it's just baffling I can't seem to find much information about them.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing Pass which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is lightweight, ladder climbing/card shedding game for 1-4 players and takes approximately 15 minutes to play.  We hope you enjoy the review and Pass itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Pass!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:30 - How the Game Plays 00:03:46 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:06:11 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:08:23 - What's to Like, What's Not to Like 00:11:17 - Recommendations 00:13:33 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) I have no idea why we didn't do our standard breaks and titles with this review, I'm blaming it on recording really late and just really enjoying the game as we did so. We had played a bunch of it and sat down to record and apparently forgot all of our manners.  2) I call the game a ladder climbing game at the start and then just keep referreing to it as a shedding game. Both terms are so often used together that it makes sense why I'd slip up like that but for clarity's sake: a ladder climbing game is one where you have to play consistently ascending (or descending) card values. A shedding game is one where you're trying to run out of cards first. Normally the two are linked as you're trying to get rid of you cards by playing higher sets together, etc. 3) At time of editing, we had not received anything saying that the origin of the game was incorrect. If I do get an update, it will be changed and noted here in these notes. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for coming on back for the next full episode of the show! If you've joined in after our recent interview with Jamey Stegmaier, thanks for coming back around! This week we got to have a dear friend of the show on to discuss the effects of colour vision issues in board gaming and the ways that games try and handle that - successfully and otherwise. We should note that it is a conversation with only one person with those colour vision issues, so his experience is replicable to his singular experience. But hopefully it helps provoke some thought and lets you hear some other opinions you may not have had the ability to yet! This episode we're also talking some games provided to us from Hobby World and Bellows Intent as well as finally getting Scott to play Ethnos and how that treated him. Like normal, hit us up with any thoughts or comments you may have! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - What's Been on the Table 00:06:06 - Topic of the Week: Colour Vision Issues in Board Gaming 00:31:08 - Why Did I Play That: Ethnos 00:40:15 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:54:22 - Rotating Segment: The Archives 00:58:45 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:00:07 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) We should mention that this episode was recorded prior to the tariff stuff all dropping, which is why it wasn't mentioned in this episode. We're certainly not going to keep hammering on that topic as there isn't much we can directly do about it, but if you're wondering how we go from the interview we did to this episode, that would be why. 2) You can also hear just how long it's been since we recorded this since Scott was talking PopiCon at one point. Just general reshuffling of stuff between all the various issues of the past couple months.  3) Scott was right! There was a third bigger expansion to Tiny Towns. Fortune, Villagers, and Architects (which released in 2024!).  4) So it turns out that Scott's Archive game of Get Bit, we talked about in episode 19! Because I guess, let's just rip the curtain right away for this set of episode notes: The episode you heard as E19 was originally intended as E21 and this was to be E19. We figured since we had *just* had MacWagCon the previous weekend, we'd talk about it and release it while it was all fresh in our minds. So we recorded this PRIOR to MacWagCon where we summarily played Get Bit. But because it was better explained here, I decided to leave it in.  5) And we did play Bob Ross: the Art of Chill (actually after we finished recording!). Scott enjoyed it, but I'll let him provide his commentary on it at a later date. 6) Also, my dog coughed an enormous amount through this episode. I decided to not stick you with that very odd, repetitive noise but that last tag made me laugh regardless. 7) And for those of you that have asked, my younger son is thankfully fine. The hospital stay went fine and he's back home and bouncing around like normal at this point. Sorry for the delay on the episode, we appreciate the patience.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We had an incredible opportunity to sit down with Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games to discuss the current tariff situation, how it effects his business and the larger gaming industry as a whole, and some of the solutions he thinks could make the situation easier for everybody. We had a little bit over a half hour of his time and we stuck pretty closely to that. We have edited this conversation for clarity's sake, but other than that the conversation is presented as it was recorded. Scott and Mark were at the BATT studio in Indiana and Jamey joined in remotely from his office in St. Louis.  If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about what was discussed here, please feel free to reach out! --- Notes! 1) Jamey did provide his article that he researched supply chain labour certification. It is located here, https://stonemaiergames.com/how-can-we-fix-this-together-tariffs-manufacturing-and-a-solution/, and you can find all of his sources within that link.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome back to another main episode of the pod. This week, since we're on a five, we've got a guest with us as we do our Top Ten Games that We Enjoy Teaching! It's a bit of an askew topic to go with, but it was selected by our guest (Erik!) and it was a fun list to go through. This did end up taking two passes to fully record as the first version of it was lost in the flood (boo!). At this point though, that should be the last time you see/hear that as an excuse because we're well beyond everything that was effected by it now. So we hope you enjoy the list and be sure to hit us up and tell us what your favourite games to teach are!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro / How We Met 00:01:56 - List Selection Criteria 00:03:28 - Scott's 10 00:05:01 - Erik's 10 00:06:14 - Mark's 10 00:10:18 - Scott's 9 00:11:58 - Erik's 9 00:13:23 - Mark's 9 00:15:26 - Scott's 8 00:18:13 - Erik's 8 00:19:56 - Mark's 8 00:22:10 - Scott's 7 00:24:27 - Erik's 7 00:26:17 - Mark's 7 00:27:58 - Scott's 6 00:29:27 - Erik's 6 00:32:46 - Mark's 6 00:34:54 - Scott's 5 00:37:09 - Erik's 5 00:39:02 - Mark's 5 00:43:47 - Scott's 4 00:49:08 - Erik's 4 00:52:04 - Mark's 4 00:53:10 - Scott's 3 00:55:09 - Erik's 3 00:57:30 - Mark's 3 00:59:51 - Scott's 2 01:01:59 - Erik's 2 01:03:36 - Mark's 2 01:05:38 - Scott's 1 01:06:47 - Erik's 1 01:09:26 - Mark's 1 01:12:18 - Contact Info / Sponsors 01:13:40 - Outro --- Notes! 1) Sorry for the all of a sudden laughing at the intro of Erik's number 10. There was a great bit that just derailed the conversation we were all laughing at right before. You'll likely hear that in the next Odds and Ends episode. 2) Ironically, I had a conversation with my brother this past weekend where he told me he's never played Yahtzee. Whoops. 3) I have to now admit that Amun-Re is my favourite Reiner Knizia game. Whoops again! That said, I do enjoy the teach of High Society more, so I stand by it's inclusion in the list. And we did end up playing it after recording! 4) If it sounds like you may have missed part of the conversation during the Hogwarts Battle segment - that's because you did. The guys got distracted by comparing it to other games in it's series and it became a fairly convoluted conversation where even I had to ask which game we were talking about. So hopefully the segment comes across more naturally than I'm thinking it did because it's really late as I'm editing and I was very confused the second time around too. 5) I left the thing about gaming meta jokes in because we're in the process of recording our Board Gaming 101 episode to help you understand all of our terminology! If you have anything you're questioning or don't know the answer to, hit us up on any of our contact methods and let us know which ones we should define! (Also my exasperation is largely because we're all in this space, it seems wild they'd never heard of a point salad before.) 6) If it feels like there's not a ton of conversation about Werewolf in Erik's number 2, that's because MOST of what was there got cut for future Odds and Ends episodes. We tangented hard by just telling crazy stories. 7) This was recorded about 6 weeks before MacWagCon so it's entertaining to me that Captain Sonar showed up for two episodes in (what became) a row. Also, I meant to say First Mate instead of Navigator.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing Belgian Beers Race Dice which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is roll and write game for 1-4 players and takes approximately 30-45 minutes to play. We hope you enjoy the review! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Belgian Beers Race Dice!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:21 - How the Game Plays 00:07:01 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:08:29 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:14:09 - Solo Mode 00:15:14 - Recommendations / What to Tell Others 00:18:49 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) No real notes here this time around. We said everything we needed to there and would love to see what a second pass at this game would look like.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing Inferno which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is heavy, economic Euro game for 1-4 players and takes approximately 1 hour per player to play.  As a pre-emptive note: we do start the discussion by mentioning the extremely heavy theme and how you're not representing good people (at all). If you would like to skip straight to the game play itself and the rest of the content, go to 2:14. Otherwise, just know that that's there.  We hope you enjoy the review and Inferno itself! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Inferno!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:35 - How the Game Plays 00:08:31 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:11:21 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:17:54 - Scott's What to Tell Others / Replayability 00:22:02 - Solo Mode / Mark's What to Tell Others / Recommendations 00:25:19 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) The only note to put in this review is that just through the course of editing it, it made me want to pull it out and play it again. That's how good this game is. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for your patience while this one came out a bit late. Please see the note below. But we had MacWagCon 2025 happen and we wanted to talk through all the games! We got to play an enormous amount of stuff over three days of gaming and it was a great array to be able to discuss. In addition to all of those we take a very quick jaunt through what can make a teach a difficult time (we'll definitely be revisiting this topic in the future) and unpacking the trauma that Scott ended up enduring in this week's Why Did I Play That?. We hope you enjoyed this episode and we'll catch you next week as we release Episode 20, our Top Ten Games That We Enjoy Teaching! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:56 - What's Been on the Table 00:17:50 - Topic of the Week: Complications with the Teach 00:26:05 - Why Did I Play That: Captain Sonar 00:37:44 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:58:56 - Rotating Segment: The Archives 01:05:40 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:07:04 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Apologies on this episode being a week late. The week that I was intending to sit down and do this editing, we had a severe family emergency. When we got back home from that a few days later, we went through terrible storms and our power was knocked out for three days. Certainly not intentional to have all that happen, but thankfully all is well at this point. 2) Here's the link for Quinns doing his "Mastering the Teach" video. It's great and I still review it occassionally. https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/how-to-teach-board-games-like-a-pro/ 3) We said Hues and Clues at one point, we meant Hues and Cues. Whoops. 4) We aren't sponsored by MeepleSource, but I do love them dearly. If you want to check out their incredible Cat Lady resources, they're here: https://meeplesource.com/proddetail.php?prod=CatLady --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! Today we are going to be reviewing Ovation which was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild. This is an action selection, resource management, set collection game for 1-4 players and takes approximately 30 minutes to play. We hope you enjoy the review and moreso enjoy the game! Feel free to hit us up on any of our regular contact methods to let us know what your opinions are on Ovation!  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:34 - How the Game Plays 00:04:26 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach 00:05:50 - Artwork / Components / Iconography 00:12:14 - Replayability / Solo Mode 00:19:13 - Final Thoughts / Outro ---   Notes! 1) When discussing the ticket system, Mark says a word as "wane" instead of "wan". That's just Midwest accent, but you tomato/tomato yourself on that if he's wrong or not. 2) Not long after that, Mark does mention the solo mode and it's designer without referencing their name. The solo mode was designed by David Digby, not by Kirsten Lunde who did the main game.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We hope you've taken the time to check out our Kickstarter preview content that we've gotten to release recently, we've been really enjoying playing everything to support some folks. Regardless, on this episode we talk game balance and why it matters, play a game that Mark hated in 2021 and unintentionally played again for this episode, and managed to weirdly cross over on too many things in the other segments. We hope you have a great time with the episode and that you'll let us know what you think about everything by hitting us up! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:30 - What's Been on the Table 00:05:10 - Topic of the Week:  00:19:53 - Why Did I Play That: Hardback 00:31:18 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:50:27 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party 00:57:21 - Contact Info / Sponsors  00:58:43 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) The old fashioneds comment was due to a random Wisconsinite stopping my grandfather during our vacation when he ordered one. I don't particularly care for them, but you better believe I learned how to make them like a master to ingratiate myself to him when Natalie and I started dating.  2) During Hardback, Scott says Single Player Solitaire. He naturally meant Multi-Player Solitaire, but that's the type of stuff you get when you record without scripts. 3) Sorry for needing to use a prop in the explanation of the Marrek Murders, but it was far simpler to have Scott understand while looking at it. If you'd like to see more of what I'm talking about, there's a decent photo someone put up on BGG that'll help you get this. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8675978/final-girl-the-marrek-murders 4) I know the point that I was trying to make when I clearly get flustered and frustrated (flustrated?) when talking about Dice Throne's complexity, but I do find it funny while editing it that I couldn't even keep a straight thought because I was so annoyed. 5) I didn't mean to take over Scott's Surprise Party entry, but that mostly came out like that in the edit. We were recording late one night and Scott was flagging pretty hard at that point. So I came in with my opinions to keep the conversation moving and see what we could prompt out of him. 6) Apparently this was prop night for me. This is why Scott keeps saying we need to add video. If that does happen, that's more reason of why I need an editor.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We're back again today with another Kickstarter preview for you! Thanks so much again to Keun Games for supplying us with a copy of the Shadows: Heroes & Monsters as well as the parts to upgrade into second edition. Shadows is a game that presents itself as a PvPvE card game and it fulfills that promise as the targets on the field are plenty and varied. This new edition plays up to four players (a common request from players of the first edition) and brings new rules and quality of life improvements over the prior edition. Shadows goes live on March 18th on Kickstarter, so go ahead and listen to our preview and then go over and save the campaign for it's launch date to be a day one backer!   Please check out the Kickstarter and their website to find their other games: Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keungames/shadows-heroes-and-monsters-2nd-edition?ref=b6qgka Keun Games Website: https://www.keungames.com --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

BATT Family! We finally get to spill all of our thoughts out on the newest obsession here in the studio. Scales of Fate is the newest game from IV Studio and a new two-player only game set in the world of Veiled Fate. If you've been listening to BATT, you know that Veiled Fate is Mark's number one game so the chance to get in on this preview was huge for the team. The game does not disappoint in the slightest. Thanks so much again to IV Studios for supplying us with the prototype copy of the Deluxe Edition of Scales of Fate.    Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivstudios/scales-of-fate BGG Page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/437356/scales-of-fate   IV Studio Website: https://www.iv.studio/ IV Games Website: https://shop.iv.studio/ --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! We're back with our next main episode! We hope you really enjoyed the Live! episode from PopiCon, we had a blast recording that one. Last week didn't have an off-week release unintentionally between returning from vacation, an absolute nightmare of a week at work, and preparing for MacWagCon (the studio honestly has probably never looked better). This week though we get to talk about theme and what brings us to games, finally getting Scott to play one of my all time favourite games, and a return to one of our favourite rotating segments.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:58 - What's Been on the Table 00:05:38 - Topic of the Week: What's In a Theme? 00:29:31 - Why Did It Take So Long To Play That: Aquatica 00:40:58 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:02:05 - Rotating Segment: Visions of the Future 01:16:19 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:17:41 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) I know when talking about Skymines I could have said Moonbasa instead of Space Mombasa and frankly I'm as disappointed in myself as you are.  2) Not sure what or why that weird metronomic popping is there for a few a bit around the 30:20 mark, but it appeared to be buried within the audio itself and I couldn't clear it out. Apologies! I'm still trying to get better at audio engineering! 3) It is ironic that we discussed theme for so long in the episode and then Faraway's gets discarded out of hand so fast when talking about it. The game was taught to me without using that theme and unforunately nothing in the gameplay reinforces it so I just kind of breezed past it. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey BATT Family! We recorded this episode LIVE!!! at PopiCon 2025 on January 31. We're presenting it to you here largely unedited to just give you that live experience (and also have you see all the stuff that normally gets edited out!). We had a blast with this one and we're looking forward to our next time we get to do this.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Hey hey BATT Family! This week's episode is another episode of our This or That (or (in this case) the Other Thing) as we run down the three games of Stonemaier's Span series. We've been deliberating on two of the games for quite some time and now that we have Finspan in hand and have gotten to play it quite a bit, we felt it was finally time to break this down. We hope you enjoy this specific deep dive (pun unintended) into the three games! --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:45 - Game Overviews 00:03:36 - Theme 00:08:41 - Production 00:18:39 - Gameplay 00:26:54 - Teachability 00:29:22 - Replayability 00:29:55 - Expansions 00:35:33 - Solo Modes 00:38:00 - Final Thoughts / Pick 00:44:39 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) Our conversation is making the assumption you know the basic system of Wingspan as we don't go into specific detail of how to play any of the three in particular. We discuss their various differences but not how the games fully function. 2) All copies of the games we discussed were purchased by Mark and are his personal copies. This is not a sponsored set of reviews/comparisons in any way. 3) When choosing which game Mark would pick of the three during the Final Thoughts section, almost a minute of deliberation was cut as he couldn't choose. That's how close two of the games are for him.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

We're back! Episode 16 is a really fun conversation with Mark and Scott getting to talk about a surprising amount of ways to end games, geeking out entirely over a game that hasn't even hit crowdfunding yet, and starting in on series of games and the way they get out of hand sometimes. We hope you have a great time with this one - they were both focused in enough that there's really only one note of correction below. Who knew they could do such a thing? --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:01 - What's Been on the Table 00:08:13 - Topic of the Week: Game End Conditions 00:24:23 - Why Did I Play That: Azul Queen's Garden 00:34:27 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:56:28 - Rotating Segment: Visions of the Future 01:03:05 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:04:28 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) In Mark's Vision of the Future, he said the game was from Nova Aetas Games and that's wrong (that's how ridiculously excited he was about it that he didn't even get that right). It is coming from Ludus Magnus Studios who developed the Nova Aetas world that Black Rose Wars and some of their other products are in.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Welcome to another review from the BATT team. Eila and Something Shiny is a  narrative adventure scenario/campaign game designed by Jeffery CCH and published by NorthStar Games (though it's original printing was from ICE Makes). It was acquired as a Christmas gift and so this is not sponsored by the publisher. It should be noted that the entirety of the Final Thoughts section is going to heavily spoil the game, so please keep that in mind if you want to listen to the first half of the review. We do timestamp and call out when that spoiler territory will be crossed and give ample time to stop listening.  --- This review's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:02:30 - Gameplay 00:04:50 - Learning Curve 00:05:31 - Art and Theme 00:06:03 - Components 00:08:28 - Iconography and Font 00:10:02 - Ease of Teach 00:10:16 - Replayability 00:11:11 - Final Thoughts (00:11:37 for getting past the spoiler buffer) 00:22:16 - Outro --- Links! As stated, here are safe links to go read RubyQuest and NanQuest at. Please keep in mind that these become very adult and dark relatively quickly and I wouldn't recommend reading them around children or at work or on work devices.  Ruby did come out first and I think is a better first read to get acquainted with the style but push comes to shove I actually think NanQuest is the superior of the two.  RubyQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/RubyQuest/ NanQuest: https://mozai.com/quests/NanQuest/ --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

The NETwork faces a familiar foe. Frey gives a PSA, Uther embraces his inner cat, and Stynexx bullies a bully.Find us on the The Actual Playce Discord ServerHit us up with any questions or comments:Insta @crittalkerspodcastFacebook: crittalkerspodcastX: @Crittalkerspodor drop us an emailthecast@crittalkerspodcast.comMusic/Sound Effects Include:Recap voice acting by Jennifer Millard, written by Jake PrewittFrey is played by Britt H.Uther is played by Shane FStynexx is played by Chris A."Camera Flash" by MalarBrush"The Details Intro" by Ryan S."The Details Long" by Ryan S."Rest of The Fallen" by GuilhermeBernardes via Pixabay"Comedy - Detective" by Onoychenkomusic via Pixabay"Chamber Strings" by SigmaMusicArt via Pixabay"Dizzy ellectric bolt spell 1" by FxProSound via PixabayGladiation by Ryan S."Slap" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Climbing gear sound" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Rocks Falling" by freesound_community via Pixabay"heavy cloth rustle" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Time For Weakness" by danydory via Pixabay"Tense Dark Atmosphere" by Universfield via Pixabay"pop" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Tense Dark Atmosphere" by Universfield via Pixabay"Suspense Adventure Loop - Positive Cartoon Music" by Cyberwave-Orchestra via Pixabay"Electric guitar riff jingle" by freesound_community via Pixabay"my Guitar melody and sax" by West_Tunes_Thebeatchef"Hammer or Mace - Melee Weapon Impact" by Cyberwave-Orchestra via Pixabay"Cinematic Rumble" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Luz fluorescente (corto)" by freesound_community via Pixabay"07 Frogs" by Pointman2000 via Pixabay"Lion / Powerful Trap Background Music" by SoulProdMusic via Pixabay"Cartoon jump" by freesound_community via Pixabay "Epic Action" by epic_musictracks via Pixabay"Burn Flesh 01" by u_xjrmmgxfru via Pixabay"Sword Hit" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Video Game Hit Noise 001" by EdR via Pixabay"This Is Suspense (End of the Line)" by AlexGrohl via Pixabay"Chanting_01" by freesound_community via Pixabay"singing bowl strike sound" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Awsome Pink floydish guitar" by Palle1958 via Pixabay"Monk Chant Fantasy" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Horror Hit Logo" by Alex_Kizenkov via Pixabay"Horror Background Atmosphere #10" by Universfield via Pixabay"Creepy Weird Pad" by SweetBeats808s via Pixabay"Sinister" by SoundReality via Pixabay"Rubik Cube Small Noises" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Poof of Smoke" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Crumble #2" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Dragon Breathes Fire 1" by floraphonic via Pixabay"058140_hallelujah" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Debris break" by LordSonny_Two via Pixabay"running" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Your Game (Comedy)" by Monument_Music via Pixabay"Phone Hang Up" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Dark Nostalgic Waves" by Universfield via Pixabay"Opening Metal Door" by Universfield via Pixabay"Slamming on Wooden Desk" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Aggressive clothes rustling" by DioNeves via Pixabay"Draw sword#1" by freesound_community via Pixabay"VHS Startup" by freesound_community via...

So there was a flood. Things were lost and that's never any fun. We ended up losing the original episode 15 and so what should have been Episode 16 has now taken it's place. We recorded as Jason's place to test through all of our equipment and just to make sure we had some extra content recorded since we went through our backlog during the holiday season. Every once in a while you may hear an odd echo or Stark (Jason's dog) running around but I did my best to clean all that out in the expedited editing process to get this episode out. I cut over 90 minutes out of this and it still ended up being our longest episode yet. This week we talk the flood, Scott is finally forced to play Tech Tree: the Game, and Mark is overly concerned that he talked an enormous amount. Thanks to Jason for the space and just being on the pod again. It's great to have his voice to start out the year with us.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - The Flood Notes  00:02:21 - Intro 00:03:51 - What's Been on the Table 00:15:39 - Topic of the Week: Games Replacing Other Games 00:33:27 - Why Did I Play That: Beyond the Sun 00:56:34 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:34:40 - Rotating Segment: The Archives 01:42:40 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:44:02 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) There are a lot more ums and uhs in the audio this time around. Blame that on the excessively abbreviated editing period and wanting to get this out even remotely on time. If/when I need to come back in and remove the preamble about the flood and episode numbering, I'll probably end up cleaning those up too. (And frankly while those filler words don't make for the cleanest audio ever, it's the inhales that drive me up a wall much, much more.) 2) When talking about Weirdwood Manor I realized just how much Scott and I talk with our hands and that is just a terrible thing to translate to an audio medium. 3) We know its Sagitarius A*, we just didn't say the * part. 4) Scott would have been talking about the new 2023 version of Castles of Burgundy from Awaken Realms, not the 2019 reprint from Alea.  5) If anybody has a spare box for Kingsburg (2nd ed preferably, but I don't really care at this point), please reach out! That was one of the games that was lost.    --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

The NETwork continues their search for Marc. Frey remembers why he doesn't like reading, Uther gets winded, and Stynexx questions Uther's influence. Find us on the The Actual Playce Discord ServerHit us up with any questions or comments:Insta @crittalkerspodcastFacebook: crittalkerspodcastX: @Crittalkerspodor drop us an emailthecast@crittalkerspodcast.comMusic/Sound Effects Include:Recap voice acting by Jennifer Millard, written by Jake PrewittFrey is played by Britt H.Uther is played by Shane FStynexx is played by Chris A."Camera Flash" by MalarBrush"The Details Intro" by Ryan S."The Details Long" by Ryan S."Rest of The Fallen" by GuilhermeBernardes via Pixabay"Comedy - Detective" by Onoychenkomusic via Pixabay"Chamber Strings" by SigmaMusicArt via Pixabay"Dizzy ellectric bolt spell 1" by FxProSound via Pixabayvoice acting for Prof. Carpenter Leonard by Britt H.voice acting for Mr. Book and Sterling Kinith by Jake Prewitt "Lion / Powerful Trap Background Music" by SoulProdMusic via Pixabay"lighter strike" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Fire Torch Whoosh 2" by floraphonic via Pixabay"Knife Sharpening" by freesound_community via Pixabay"depressurized and pressurized air tank ST" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Tikus" by SondangSirait419 via Pixabay"Fighter" by LBDLPROD via Pixabay"Swinging staff whoosh (strong) 08" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Swing Whoosh Weapon 3" by floraphonic via Pixabay"Swing Whoosh 4" by floraphonic via Pixabay"Suspense Creepy Ominous Ambience" by RaspberryTickle (Freesound) via Pixabay"Riser (3)" by u_1pruylktlg via Pixabay"Opening and closing creaky door" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Book Foley Turn Pages 7" by floraphonic via Pixabay"Male Croud Talking" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Book grab open and close hard" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Angry crowd" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Sword Stab Pull - Melee Weapon" by Cyberwave-Orchestra via Pixabay"Tension" by SPmusic via Pixabay "searching through bag" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Bottle Swishing" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Open the can" by freesound_community via Pixabay"can_lay down" by freesound_community via Pixabay "gross_transformation_sound_loop" by freesound_community via Pixabay"egg crack sounds mixed" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Ominous Criminal Atmosphere" by Universfield via Pixabay"Triangle instrument" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Sword clash 1" by freesound_community via Pixabay"picking_up_DVDs" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Nature Investigation" by ViraMiller via Pixabay"door-open-close" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Warp! - version 2" by ShidenBeatsMusic via Pixabay"Cassette FFWW cassetera" by freesound_community via Pixabay"Epic Action" by epic_musictracks via PixabayMentioned in this episode:Brick MobileThank you to our sponsor! https://www.brickmobileky.com/

Send us a textWelcome back to Season 2 of On the Floor with Little Fern! Did you miss us? We sure missed you! It feels like it's been forever since our last episode, and we're beyond excited to be back in your ears.This season, we're turning up the volume on everything you love—diving deeper into the stories, insights, and behind-the-scenes moments that make Little Fern so special. Tune in for a sneak peek of what's to come, from heartfelt conversations with our talented team to tips, trends, and a few surprises along the way.We can't wait to share it all with you—so grab your favorite drink, get comfy, and press play. Season 2 starts now!Love,Your Fern FamilyKeep up with us on our socials!Salon Website: https://littlefernsalon.square.siteSalon LinktreeSalon InstagramSalon TikTokAlysia's InstagramNora's InstagramIntro and outro music:Image by SoulProdMusic from PixabayApplications used:BuzzsproutSpotify PodcastsApple Podcast ConnectAudio Director Buzzsprout DealUse our referral code to get $20 added on to your paid Buzzsprout account!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Happy 2025 everybody! Sorry for lying to you with yesterday's Odds & Ends episode saying that we were done until Episode 15 released. Whoops. Guess we just had more content in the can for you. We really are going to be done until Episode 15 releases on January 14th though.  --- Scott and Mark discuss their revised Top Ten of All Time lists in this episode. When we did the recording of our original lists in June, Scott simply hadn't done anything like that before. Mark's list was based off of doing them for five years at that point and it was an interesting conversation. This time around they both took a lot more time to craft the lists and there are a lot of interesting surprises here. There is a section of discussion about what the qualifications for making the list and how each list was compiled before actually getting into the top tens themselves. Per normal, all parts of the discussion are appropriately chaptered out if you want to jump to any portion, but hopefully you'll find what that first discussion as interesting as we did. If you would like to skip ahead into the list, that timestamp is 19:19. --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:03:48 - How the List Was Made 00:19:17 - Scott's Ten 00:20:47 - Mark's Ten 00:22:19 - Scott's Nine 00:24:00 - Mark's Nine 00:27:08 - Scott's Eight 00:29:01 - Mark's Eight 00:31:46 - Scott's Seven 00:34:23 - Mark's Seven 00:37:33 - Scott's Six 00:41:13 - Mark's Six 00:44:38 - Scott's Five 00:47:33 - Mark's Five 00:50:02 - Scott's Four 00:52:34 - Mark's Four 00:55:40 - Scott's Three 00:57:18 - Mark's Three 01:00:09 - Scott's Two 01:03:34 - Mark's Two 01:07:50 - Scott's One 01:11:17 - Mark's One 01:19:47 - Our Final Thoughts / Reactions 01:21:32 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:22:54 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition 2) Mark loves that Scott goes full Midwest around the 20:19 mark in his number ten. 3) Scott makes mention of something that will end up in the next Odds & Ends episode during Mark's nine that references his number eleven. Eleven gets talked about further on in the episode, but Mark did say what his thirteen was and that's part of that conversation. That whole discussion got lifted from this episode for length. 4) Mark totally missed an opportunity to say that we already have Ticket to Ride Legacy: Europe and it's called Brass. What a doof. 5) Scott basically screamed at 1:03:00 and Mark had to soften it down because he almost went deaf when it hit at original volume.  6) There was mention of a photoshoot near the end of the episode. Some of those photos have ended up on our website (or will be soon), some are used in our socials, and some of them are on our media kits. [If you'd like to work with us and would like our media kit, please let us know!) --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

It's the end of the year BATT Family! That means that we're going to be going dark until Episode 15 releases on January 14th to just give us a little bit of breathing room to catch up after the holidays. We always have all this extra content lying around for these Odds & Ends episodes and we hope that you enjoy this one. I also really hope that you enjoy the blooper reel, I certainly had a super fun time putting it together from all the stuff that got left behind.  CONTENT WARNING: This episode is marked explicit because of the swearing in the blooper reel. If nothing else, you can see how tough it can be for us to maintain perfect professionalism while recording.  CONTENT WARNING: The blooper reel ALSO has a lot of weird bodily noises - basically burps and weird mouth noises, but if you've got any kind of audio aversions maybe skip that part? --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:00:41 - Mark's Thanks 00:03:43 - Thematic Games Honorable Mentions Intro 00:04:32 - Thematic Games Honorable Mentions 00:16:28 - Big Box Rant Intro 00:17:08 - Big Box Rant  00:18:35 - 5 Games to Take Home Outcasts Intro 00:19:01 - 5 Games to Take Home Outcasts 00:24:35 - Ladies and Gentlemen TST Intro 00:25:20 - Ladies and Gentlemen TST  00:29:34 - Final Intro for the Outro 00:30:19 - Scott's Thanks 00:32:05 - Blooper Reel --- Notes! 1) Scott's Thanks segment was recorded remotely via his cell, so that's why the audio quality is rougher than normal. We're still working on improving our remote record situation.   2) Speaking of Scott's Thanks segment, how many of his ridiculous little puns did you catch? We know the number. First person to hit us up on BlueSky with the correct number will get ... something ... from us.What is it? WHO KNOWS. 3) Also lots and lots of Scott Mouth Noises (TM) in the blooper reel. Feel my pain of what I must cut so much of. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Merry Christmas Eve for those of you that celebrate and a happy Tuesday to everybody regardless. Scott is back doing some off week content with another installation of The Games That Made Us. HeroQuest was one of the most expensive games that Scott ever owned, constantly begging family members to purchase expansions for the game. And taking time out to create their own expansions for the game., it taught Scott how to be creative within a different medium. Scott still owns their second edition copy of HeroQuest which came out several years after the first and did not receive nearly the love and attention that the original did. This episode is dedicated to Dave Klingerman who sadly passed earlier this year due to complications from cancer. Dave stepped in to be a male role model for Scott after he tragically lost his father. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Send us a textWelcome back to the final episode of 2024 and the closing chapter of Season One of On the Floor with Little Fern! What a journey it's been—sharing stories, laughs, and candid conversations with all of you. From behind-the-scenes salon magic to heartfelt moments with our team and guests, we're so grateful to have had you along for the ride.In this special season finale, we're bringing you a cozy roundup perfect for the holidays. Tune in as we share our Thanksgiving highlights, favorite holiday traditions, and a few reflections as we wrap up the year. Plus, hear some heartfelt words from the trio as we look ahead to the future of the podcast.It's been real, it's been fun, and this is just the beginning. Grab a cup of something warm, settle in, and join us for one last conversation this season.Thank you for being part of the Little Fern family—we can't wait to see where On the Floor takes us next!

Welcome back BATT Family! This week we have a wide ranging conversation about games that we both unintentionally brought to the conversation that had us making a surprising amount of weird noises to. We talk publishers that we love, publishers that don't work us, and games from a publisher we love that didn't work for us. Thanks so much for waiting those extra few hours for this one, it wasn't the most pleasant thing to have to re-edit half of it, but the episode ultimately came out stronger for it.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:01:25 - What's Been on the Table 00:07:29 - Topic of the Week: Retail vs Crowdfunding 00:26:01 - Why Did I Play That: Star Tycoon 00:38:02 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:05:20 - Rotating: Surprise Party 01:11:48 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:13:10 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) When Mark said Atlas: Sovereign Rising he meant Atlas Lost: Rise of the New Soverigns. He's still actively looking for it too if you've got a copy you're willing to part with. 2) In the intervening time since we recorded this, Moonrollers did shift down to a trade for Mark and has left his collection.  3) Scott during the game he brought for his Table makes a comment that goes "We sat there and went" and then Mark responds with that's a bummer. As it turns out that was an entirely visual response that had no other commentary made about it in either of the recorded files. I guess we forgot we were an audio medium for a second. Sorry! 4) Mark went back and forth based on whether to leave the small post-modern commentary bit in near the end of the TST segment. It isn't intended to be a moment to cause contention in any way, but it was ultimately felt to be a way to discuss how we are allowed to respond and react to popular culture in a way we feel is most within our own control. There are very, very good reasons to disagree with that particular author and we can safely say that neither of us support their views and that it was more important to make it clear that we have our own opinions and feelings regarding them instead of censoring ourselves in a way that would have felt disingenuous.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Welcome back to the off-week BATT content! This week's episode is a return to our series of The Games That Made Us. This episode is about The Omega Virus and how it impacted Mark as a child, what influences it had on his love of themes and gaming, and just generally celebrating how far ahead of the rest of the industry it was at the time of it's release. Mark's copy of The Omega Virus is almost a sacred item in his hagiography because of how much it really did influence him as a person and how the effects of playing that game solo for so many years really did shape him to be the person he is now. If you've played it before, then have fun walking down memory lane. If you've not, then get hyped about it and the eventual new release that Restoration Games is working on. Thanks for listening to this episode and we'll catch you next week for Episode 13. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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Man alive, this one we got weird with. Partially it's because we recorded so late, but we have a wide ranging and in depth set of conversations on neglected games, returning to older designs, and some real surprises had within. There are a number of moments that we caught each other by surprise and if you like hearing us disagree, then definitely tune into the Table/Shelf/Trade this time around.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:01:21 - What's Been on the Table 00:06:55 - Topic of the Week: Neglected Games 00:25:16 - Why Did I Play That: El Grande 00:33:54 - Table / Shelf / Trade 01:00:39 - Rotating: HVAC 01:12:09 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:13:33 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) When we use the word "clean" in reference to board games, we're talking about how the rulesets for whatever game don't have unneeded rules or mechanisms or other faff. It's very easy to grasp what they're doing, get right into the play, and not feel like you've missed something because a rule was forgotten or obtuse or similar. 2) Mark made an error! When talking about Azul, he said Starry Night Sky and he MEANT to say Penny Black. Whomp whomp. 3) Apologies for leaving in all of Scott's flabbergasted noises and such during the beginning of HVAC, but you should have seen the way he was physically reacting at the time too. It felt right to leave it all in.  4) Since we got distracted with talking about the surrounding parts of Dungeon Roll, we failed to actually explain the game. It's a fairly straightfoward fantasy themed push your luck game. On your turn you'll roll a handful of D6 to represent your adventuring party and the enemies they're facing. You'll roll more enemies the further you progress into the dungeon and consequently earn more experience and loot as you go. You try and keep going as long as you possible can before either your party dice are exhausted and you lose everything or you choose to retire for the run and head back to the surface. You have three total runs per game, but you can choose to play as many runs as you really wish.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Happy Thanksgiving Week BATT Family! We hope that you'll be able to find a bit of relaxation this weekend (at least until Rivalry Week kicks off on Saturday). In the spirit of trying to bring people to the table and give you an alternate to playing Rummikub for the nine billionth time, we're giving you a variety of recommendations for games to bring home for the holidays that will get anybody to play!   One final note, we didn't present this list as any kind of ranked list, instead we talked about them in order of release date.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:01:43 - Game 1 00:03:07 - Game 2 00:04:36 - Game 3 00:06:33 - Game 4 00:08:29 - Game 5 00:10:06 - Outro --- Five more games to take home for the holidays: 1) Sushi Go! - Gamewright Originally released in 2013 from designer Phil Walker-Harding and plays 2-5. A light drafting game with great art and a clean set of scoring varieties within the cards themselves. Essentially it's a set collection game where you're trying to score as many points as possible across three rounds based on the cards you've drafted. There was a larger version with more modularity, Sushi Go! Party that supports 2-8 players if you want to play with more people. The components for regular Sushi Go! are included should you want to play that way as well. There were some other implementations as well (Sushi Roll, Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum) but I think that SG/SGP are the best ones out there. There is also a brand new 10th Anniversary edition available in very limited quantities, but I have seen it at Barnes and Noble so you might still be able to track that one down. 2) Antidote - Bellwether Games Also released in 2013 from designer Dennis Hoyle, it supports 3-7 players. Antidote plays in the same way that Clue does - you're trying to find the solution before everybody is down to one card in hand. Antidote is a deduction game where on your turn you'll either have everybody pass one card to the left or right, make a direct trade with another player, or have everybody play a card from their hand to the table. There are other modules and variants with the box and the Lab Alliance expansion that honestly we never play with because the base game is strong enough on it's own. Lab Alliance is worth pick up just to expand the player count up to 9 but that's the only reason to own it I think. This game is also one that you can play as co-operatively or selfishly as you want. There technically is scoring but we never use the points and just play to see if we can survive. This has been a favourite for a very long time. 3) Deception: Murder in Hong Kong - Grey Fox Games Released in 2014 from designer Tobey Ho, Deception plays 4-12 players and is a team based deduction game. A murder has been committed by one of the players around the table and only the murderer and the Forensic Expert know who did it. The Forensic player has to communicate what they know silently and only using 6 prompts that are randomly drawn. Each player will have an array of cards in front of them and the murderer needs to lead the other players astray as the Forensic player tries and gets the others to identify the correct items/player. Each non-Forensic player has exactly one guess before the end of the game to guess a pair of cards to identify the murderer. If you like social deduction and want to lean into that theme, then Deception is an excellent choice. There are a variety of small promo packs that you honestly don't need (a lot more gaming related nonsense). The Undercover Allies expansion is good but honestly unneeded. 4) Just One - Repos Productions Just one was released in 2018 and was a reimplementation of a 2017 game that  Ludovic Roudy designed. Just one added Bruno Sautter to that design team and supports 3-7 players though honestly you can play more than 7 without much issue. Just One is a game that feels like such an obvious game that somehow took til the last ten years to be released. One player (the judge essentially) will blindly pick a numbered word off a card they can't see. The rest of the players will then try and come up with a single word that will allow the Judge to guess the word they picked. The trick is that if any player reveals they wrote the same clue then both (or all in some cases) have to erase their clue and the Judge has to guess with what's left over. There's a scoring system in this one too that we frankly never use beyond trying to get more words correct than not. This one also works incredibly well for remote play. The biggest baffling thing with Just One is that there isn't any kind of expansion deck available for it in English. A couple of very small promo packs exist, but that's about it. Still, it's arguably my all time favourite party game. 5) The Crew: Mission Deep Sea - Kosmos Released in 2022 from Thomas Sing, Mission Deep Sea is the reimplementation of the 2020 game Search for Planet IX. The Crew plays 2-5 players and I really do pick the specific version of Mission Deep Sea. It's more interesting the way the tricks are determined, uses far less fiddly mechanisms by dropping the tokens, and has just as little theme as the original. The Crew is a co-operative trick taking game and that alone will stun most trick taking players in families. Because the mission book is as simple to use as it is, it's easy to define the path of how to play each night. Or you can simply peel off a few random mission cards and just play it that way. Easy to understand, easy to teach, and a great way to introduce new people to trick taking just as much as it's easy to get lost in for experience trick takers.  --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Send us a textHey Fern Fan Club! Get ready for a special treat this week as we sit down with the multi-talented Mary Donkel, creator and host of Good Enough Podcast and rising social media influencer in Chicago. Mary's on a bold new journey to make waves in the influencer world, and we're here for every inspiring twist and turn! But for Nora and Alysia, this isn't just another interview—it's a reunion with an old friend they've known since their early days working together at a local salon. Tune in for a heartwarming dive into Mary's journey, filled with laughs and life lessons. Love,Your Fern FamilyKeep up with us (and Mary) on our socials!Good Enough PodcastSalon Website: https://littlefernsalon.square.siteSalon LinktreeSalon InstagramSalon TikTokAlysia's InstagramNora's InstagramIntro and outro music:Image by SoulProdMusic from PixabayApplications used:BuzzsproutSpotify PodcastsApple Podcast ConnectAudio Director Buzzsprout DealUse our referral code to get $20 added on to your paid Buzzsprout account!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

This week's episode feels like we were just focused on talking about production quality and storage (considering that Freedom Five delivered yesterday, that can only be kismet for how rough that game's storage is). But we had a lot of fun talking about games that we've come to love, how a great game can transcend a bad teach, and how not every game in a genre is going to work for you.  ---   This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:00:47 - What's Been on the Table 00:08:34 - Topic of the Week: Do You Own Too Many Games? 00:14:13 - Why Did I Play That: Last Light 00:24:38 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:49:08 - Rotating: Visions of the Future 00:57:47 - Contact Info / Sponsors  00:58:55 - Outro ---   Notes! 1) From 31:32 - 32:56, the furnace in the studio kicked in and we didn't realize that it was going to be that noisy in the background. The joy of home studios I suppose, but I've done my best to reduce it. The game I'm discussing at the time I did end up calling a Table if you don't want to listen to that segment. 2) I realize that we talked about Millenium Blades in Episode 10 as well, but that episode was recorded something like 3 months before Episode 10 was (see that episode's notes as for why). If you want to skip that, the time stamp for it is 50:27 - 52:42. 3) We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for gaming, so definitely check us out on there! https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Ahh, it's nice to be back to a regular episode again. We have an esoteric topic of the week, talk about all the games that we played recently, take a nostalgic dive back into some games that you may not have thought of in some time, and just gush over an area control game that Scott actually really likes.  --- This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:02:51 - What's Been on the Table 00:08:01 - Topic of the Week: What Is Your Obligation as the Host? 00:21:43 - Why Did I Play That: Wonderland's War 00:33:58 - Table / Shelf / Trade 00:48:13 - Rotating: The Archives 01:00:01 - Contact Info / Sponsors  01:01:07 - Outro ---   Notes!   1) Due to guest availability, we actually recorded this one before we did Episode 9 with James Hudson. We didn't know that we'd have this much Druid City so close together, but seriously Wonderland's War is exceptionally good.  2) Masque of the Red Death's track through Mark's Top 100 is pretty wild:  2019: #010 | 2020: #011 | 2021: #034 | 2022: #087 | 2023: #087 It will most likely stay in the high 80s range until it (if ever) falls out at this point. 3) The third Doctor Lucky game was The Island of Doctor Lucky in 2018. 4) It's been mentioned a bunch of times, but the most recent Top 100 Mark did can be found at:  https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328088/top-100-games-2023-edition?itemid=10344720 You can expect the new one to be up at the start of January 2025 after we release our Top Ten for 2025. 5) Do you like all the weird little things after the outro sting now? Because we find them hysterical. --- You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time.  If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6 We'd like to thank our sponsors as well: Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com  We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Send us a textWelcome back, Fern Fan Club!Ever get the feeling that the universe is practically begging you to stay cozy indoors? This week, Nora, Alysia, and Macy dive deep into all the signs telling us to steer clear of the outside world. We're also spilling the tea on the latest happenings in Flossmoor, including catching a break-in on camera.Get ready for an episode packed with good laughs, intriguing stories, and all the Fern family fun you know and love!With love,Your Little Fern FamilyKeep up with us on our socials!Salon Website: https://littlefernsalon.square.siteSalon Linktree: linktr.ee/littlefernsalonSalon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlefernoncentral/Salon TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@little.fern.salonAlysia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alylamberthair/?hl=enNora's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nora_littlefernsalon?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==Intro and outro music:Image by SoulProdMusic from PixabayApplications used:BuzzsproutSpotify PodcastsApple Podcast ConnectAudio DirectorBuzzsprout DealUse our referral code to get $20 added on to your paid Buzzsprout account!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Some news! We are going to livestream our 100th episode recording session at 1pm Eastern / 12 noon central standard time on our YouTube channel on Sunday October 27th.We will be answering questions! There's a form on our website's home page where you can submit yours. Tell us what you want to hear about!We're really looking forward to it. See you soon.https://www.leftofphilosophy.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@whatsleftofphilosophyMusic: Smoke by SoulProdMusic