Friends- Please enjoy our first episode diving into the connection between gaming and positive mental health. Kelly took the lead in interviewing Dr. Amelia Herbst, who specializes in using different types of games to help support people in their own mental health journeys. This is an important concept here at 20SG, as we hope that the show a) demonstrates how powerful games can be to people and b) is a positive force unto itself for anyone listening. I'll do an injustice to Amelia's work if I keep going, so it's better for you to check out the link below (which will take you to Amelia's website) and listen to the show! Thank you to Kelly for conducting the interview!

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Friends- this is a doozy of an episode! Names you should be familiar with- Kelly, Titch, Adam, Brian, and yours truly got together to debrief all the fun we had at Historicon 2024! Some of the topics include the experience we had running our games, the awesome people we met at the con, and absolute fun of our "family and friends" Kings of War game, the weird coincidences Adam experienced in running Sitka, Brian and company visiting the Seventh Dimensional Portal, and yours truly doing his very best to avoid talking about his own game! Listening back, this episode was very, very funny, and I sincerely hope you enjoy it. Huge thank you to the HMGS team for putting on a fantastic convention! Have fun with this one!

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Friends- today on the pod we've got the next big thing in wargaming- Freddy Silburn-Slater from the UK. Freddy is a lovely guy and a blast to chat with. We met at Salute (right near the Osprey Publishing booth) and hit it off fairly quickly. He is the author of "A War Transformed: WW1 on the Doggerland Front", which is a super creative, fun game established in a totally unique alternative/weird setting. Freddy has a keen mind for crafting the kind of narrative that folks will want to come back to again and again. Furthermore, rumor has it that Freddy has been working with another substantial company developing it's first wargame, but I cannot confirm or deny anything at the moment! Please enjoy the episode- I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Freddy and I hope you have fun listening!

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Friends- Dr. Franklin Rausch of Lander University has been a friend to 20SG even before 20SG was a thing! He is a wonderful educator who seems to be pushing the boundaries of how and why a game based approach can be so valuable to our youngest students to our oldest. Alongside Kelly, we get into it and chat all things education, wargaming, and how those two mediums intertwine. Frank and Kelly also have a ton in common regarding public/living history, so they got it going in the episode. Please enjoy the show!

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Good morning friends! I'm on about 4 hours sleep, sitting at my Northwest Frontier table here on the second floor of the Lancaster Convention Center. Yesterday, Titch and I waxed philosophical about all things Historicon, topics including the dealer area, flea market, wargaming rules, and many other topics. If you don't like profanity- be advised! In my exuberant enthusiasm, I certainly got into the zone during recording! Titch is always the easiest guy to talk with, and we had a total blast recording the episode. Please enjoy!

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Friends- I'm posting this episode from my lodging space in Lancaster PA- home of Historicon 2024! Kelly, Titch and I got in yesterday and it's been a whirlwind thus far! Now- the first episode I'll be dropping today, for your consumption, is my conversation with John and Greg from Pico Armor. They are one of the best- if not THE best- in the field when it comes to the smallest scale miniatures- 3mm! I have tons of their stuff, and when I saw that the Greg was spearheading a new project which took the classic game PanzerBlitz and turned it into a minis game, I knew I had to have them on! If you're here at the con, find these guys and say hello! Please enjoy the conversation!

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Fans of the show- in the words of the immortal Bruce Buffer, we......are......live! From the sold out Lancaster Convention Center.....it's time!!!!!! 5 rounds at the most premier historical wargaming convention in North America! This first episode was recorded around 5pm on Thursday from the new 20SG HQ on the second floor of LCC. It's a great spot. Hugely thankful for having HMGS host us, and we're gonna do our best to give you an accurate record of everything going on here at the con. This episode is all about first impressions- if it sounds overly enthusiastic and somewhat manic- that's because it is! We're stoked to be here! Enjoy!

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Friends- the tables are turned once again in which a friend of the show takes over the helm! In this episode, part 3 of continuing Friendcast about wargaming projects in 2024, Titch crafted a series of great questions for Jared and Cory about being a game master (GM). We did our best to give quality, thorough answers about what to do and not to do when putting together a game for friends, family, or strangers at a convention. I warn you- this is one of the most meticulous episodes we've recorded. It is super, super specific, a huge credit to Titch who put a lot of time and thought into drawing out the best answers from us. So, if it sounds like those questions were thought out- they were!!!!! Thanks Big Dog!

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For our 70th (yes 70th!!!!) episode, we start to get hyped for Historicon 2024 which begins Wednesday, July 17th. The 20SG table will be running beginning Thursday afternoon, and over the course of the con, Kelly, Gavin, Adam and myself will run a total of 7 games. If you're interested in playing, chatting, or you just want to meet the team, swing by to say hello! To get hyped for the con, we devoted an entire episode to talking about the games we're running, what the inspirations were, and what we're most excited about regarding the convention. We're stoked to be a part of the con, and as always, we'll record at least 1 episode while we're there. If you have interested in the AWI, Dark Ages, fur trading in Alaska, or the Northwest Frontier, this episode is for you. Please enjoy!

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Friends- for my second posting following the July 4th holiday here in the states, I present to you one of my favorite historical wargames- Bloody Big Battles. It is a phenomenal game for many, many reasons, and to showcase the rules, I brought on the man himself, Chris Pringle! Chris has a long history in the wargaming world, and BBB is one of his finest rulesets. Along with fan and scenario designer Vincent Tsao, we chatted all things BBB, including the origins of the game, some basics about how to play, and where the game is headed in the future. It was an awesome discussion- please enjoy!

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