Board All The Time

This week's episode is one that Mark and Scott had an absolute blast recording and are still pumped that it happened. We have the inimitable James Hudson from Druid City Games on with this today and we got to talk a wide array of things with him. In addition to discussing gaming from an industry perspective, he also gave us a number of heads up on things from Wonderland's War, Tidal Blades, and even the future of Bloodstone! Check it out and let us know your thoughts! Meanwhile, check out next week's off-week episode featuring all the extra conversation including the future of Sorcerer City!

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro / Hi James!

00:02:27 - What's Been on the Table

00:07:45 - Topic of the Week: Why Do "Bigger" Publishers Use Crowdfunding?

00:27:14 - Should Games Get Second Chances? 

00:36:41 - Table / Shelf / Trade

00:56:12 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party!

01:02:28 - What's Next for Druid City?

01:06:06 - Plugs / Outro

Thank you again to James for joining us today! Here are the links to what we talked about with him:

Madcala Kickstarter Page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/druidcitygames/madcala

Druid City's Main Website: https://www.druidcitygames.com

Druid City's Discord: https://discord.gg/CQutpamzff

Druid City's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@realdruidcitygames

**As a quick note: we've gotten the question of what score ranges would each segment of Table/Shelf/Trade normally relate to? At least for Mark, a Shelf is 8+, Table is 5-7, though a 5 isn't that exciting of a table, and a Trade is 4-.

**When Scott said Telescope in his review of The Search for Planet X, he meant Observatory.

**When talking about Stamp Swap, Mark didn't have any foreknowledge of the game's existence. He was simply expecting an I Cut, You Choose game from the company for a very long time.

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

Mark and Scott take on two games of the Flatout Trilogy, Calico and Cascadia, and break down the way the games work, why they like the one they do, and what they don't enjoy in the other. At the end of the episode, they also give a recommendation to explore similar games.

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:00:55 - Calico vs. Cascadia

00:16:56 - Recommendations / Outro

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. 

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro / How Our Reviews Work

00:03:31 - Review: Intent to Kill

00:23:17 - Review: Neon

00:39:51 - Outro

Thank you so much to Hobby World for providing us the copies of these games to review. This was not a paid review, however, the games were provided to us for free to review. If you would like us to review something, please reach out to us:

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

Another themed episode, this week we discuss solo modes and all the associated fun around that. We had a lot to say on it - really an enormous amount as it turned out - so one of the segments is being cut out and will be released as off-week content next Tuesday so we can keep to our general episode length. Hope you enjoy the conversation and if you have anything to add, always feel free to hit us up! We'd love to keep getting suggestions for topic of the week and such. Thanks to Derian for giving us this week's!

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:02:04 - What's Been on the Table

00:19:07 - Topic of the Week: Solo Mode!

00:35:19 - Why Did I Wait to Play That: Veiled Fate

00:48:13 - Table / Shelf / Trade

01:07:03 - Rotating Segment Notice

01:07:43 - Plugs / Outro

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

The cursed episode finally releases! We had to take three swings at recording this one between tornadoes, corrupted audio, and just finding the time to get it all put together. This is one of our favourite episodes we've done so far though. Not only do we have a wide ranging and thoughtful discussion on expansions, but we managed to talk about more games than any other episode so far. Thank you all so much for the patience as this episode had to keep getting reconstructed, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:01:31 - What's Been on the Table

00:07:25 - Topic of the Week: Expansions!

00:22:53 - Why Did I Play That: Paper Dungons

00:30:18 - Table / Shelf / Trade

00:47:39 - Visions of the Future

00:55:50 - Outro

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

Surprise! It's an extra little piece of bonus content for your Friday. Roleplaying provides insanely fun stories, some of which become that legendary status among groups. This is a way for us to tell those stories and prompt you to let us know what yours are! These won't be regular but they will always be a surprise!

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

While we're adjusting to the editing process of multi-track recording, here's a random assortment of extra stuff that we've recorded and not released yet. We hope you enjoy the bloopers as much as we did, because parts of it we still totally lose it over. There is one blooper where Mark swears - other than that the episode is clean but we figured we'd hedge our bets and call it explicit just in case.

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:01:38 - Top Ten Games to Start a Collection Honorable Mentions 

00:05:40 - Scott's Review of Rubber Paper Scissors

00:07:27 - Bloopers!

You can email us at [email protected].

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. 

This was some of the most fun we've had in an episode so far. We cover a wide range of games that we love (and one that Scott mostly can't stand) and focus on the idea of what's the best player count for any particular game. We got slightly rambly but in the process manage to sort of sneak in a bonus set of Table Shelf Trade reviews at the top! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro / What's Been on the Table

00:09:16 - Topic of the Week: Optimal Player Counts 

00:19:14 - Why Did I Play That: Amun-Re

00:27:12 - Table/Shelf/Trade

00:44:26 - The Archives

00:51:17 - Outro

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. 

On our off weeks, we still try and get you all the content your heart desires. So this time around, Mark talks about the 5 Games To Transition a Game Night with. Games that are used to start or end an evening or, more likely, to throw on the table while someone has to go be a responsible adult for a few minutes. He's talking all filler games and at some point Scott may provide his list as well.

**There is also a review for Rubber Paper Scissors in the last segment, this game was provided to us as a review copy by the publisher of the game. 

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:17 - The Five Games to Transition a Game Night With

00:01:58 - Cubirds

00:06:04 - Chupacabra: Survive the Night

00:08:47 - We Didn't Playtest This At All

00:11:12 - Lacuna

00:15:01 - Rubber, Paper, Scissors

00:18:26 - Outro

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.