Board All The Time

It's an episode on the fives, meaning it's time for a Top Ten episode! That means we eject most of the regular segments and just have a fun time talking about a specific topic with a guest the whole time. This week's episode is the Top Ten Games to Start a Collection With! We had Jason on with us, ironically this was before any of the GenCon episodes, so you get to hear a bit about him as well. This was also the last episode we had recorded before we released and got feedback from people, so if there are any recording oddities that would be why! Come back on Episode 6 for our regular content and until then, we hope you enjoy this episode!

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro / Jason

00:04:03 - Tens

00:09:44 - Nines

00:15:36 - Eights

00:19:46 - Sevens

00:26:10 - Sixes

00:31:02 - Fives

00:37:51 - Fours

00:45:00 - Threes

00:50:41 - Twos

00:56:40 - Ones

01:04:30 - Contact Info / Sponsors / Outro

You can email us at [email protected]

We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 

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. 

While we recover from GenCon and adjust to our new bi-weekly schedule, here is another episode of The Games That Made Us, from Mark this time, about Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia. We'll see you here next week for episode 5 - the Top Ten Games to Start a Collection With!

Hey hey BATT Family! With the advent of GenCon upon us, and getting out those extra preview episodes last week, this week's episode drop is the first from Scott of The Games That Made Us. In addition, there is a small notice at the start of the episode regarding our release schedule.

In Part Two of our 2024 Gen Con preview coverage, we go through an amazing amount of games that we are looking forward to demoing and picking up. We had a lot of fun recording this, but there are a few episode notes to mention as we lost some of our segments to recording corruption:

2) Jason mentioned a game to pick up called Lone Wolves. This is from Wonderful World Board Games at booth 1356 and is priced at $20.

3) Mark mentioned Tír na nÓg from Grand Gamers Guild. They can be found at booth 2838. They are offering a deluxe version for $50.

4) Metrorunner can be found at Thunderworks Games' booth at 1363 for $60.

5) Rock Hard: 1977 is from Devir. They are at booth 2827.

In This Episode:

00:00 Part 2 Notice

Part One of our Gen Con preview coverage, this more rambling and less structured than normal conversation with fellow Theater Geek Jason was recorded on July 3, 2024. In this half of the conversation, we're discussing what we do when we show up in Indy, the food we all like to eat (hiiii-yah!), and the non-gaming events that are fun to attend. In Part two we'll be discussing all the games we want to demo and pick up but you can listen to either part in either order and be just fine. 

This week, we head straight into the discussion and continue on to our longest episode yet. Our regular episodes will always try and be in that 45-60 minute range and we just barely tipped over this time. But we had a great time talking about old favourites, new reinterpretations, games that caught us entirely by surprise, and even accidentally kind of putting the same game on Table, Shelf, or Trade. Hope you enjoy it!

0:00 - Intro

0:19 - What's Been on the Table

9:12 - Topic of the Week: Why Should You Return to a Game?

25:22 - Why Did I Play That?: Isle of Cats Explore and Draw

37:40 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

52:59 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party

1:00:11 - Outro

We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

We're settling in and we're back to talk more board games. This week we each brought more games to talk about than the previous episodes, we torture Scott with an abstract area control game, introduce a new rotating segment, and have a guest baby at the end. We also have deployed a new intro and outro, please give us feedback on what you think!

0:00 - Intro

0:29 - What's Been on the Table

9:01 - Topic of the Week: Games Not Meeting Our Expectations

20:11 - Why Did I Play That?: Iwari

29:07 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

39:40 - Rotating Segment: HVAC

48:33 - Outro

We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the new intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

We're back and we have a wide array of games that we discuss this time around. We talk about friends that we've met in the industry, games we are excited for, and memorialize a lost designer.

This episode's segments:

0:00 - Intro

0:37 - What's Been on the Table

7:38 - Topic of the Week: Do You Have a Rating System?

22:04 - Why Did I Play That?

29:36 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

35:45 - TST Note

36:42 - Visions of the Future

46:08 - Outro

Our first main episode! We're stoked to get it launched and have you listen to it. This episode's segments:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - What's Been on the Table

6:00 - Topic of the Week: Collection Management

11:35 - Why Did I Play That?

20:45 - Table, Shelf, or Trade

40:03 - The Archives

50:03 - Outro

We decided to launch, and release our main episodes, on Tuesdays. So in the spirit of still providing content when we promised it. here's the first of a series that Scott and I will be embarking on. We're going to have discussions about the games that helped form us both as gamers and as people. This one was particularly close to my heart and so I hope you enjoy it! We'll see you with Episode 1 on Tuesday!