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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In summoning 9 of Chasing the Dragon Gaming Podcast we go through game by game Risk Legacy for an entire campaign. Be forewarned! This game is a unique experience and if you are planing on ever playing Risk Legacy, we give all the fun surprises away in this podcast. So, you make the choice.

Half of what we do is describe our campaign as we play it and half is reflections on the game itself and gaming in general.

Listen if you want to go on a journey that takes you through a unique game and follow the four of us (Andres, Ryan, Daniel and Anna-Karin) as we elate in victory and suffer crushing defeats.

Check out our Facebook page, where we have posted photos and videos from our campaign. Check them out to see what we're talking about!

https://www.facebook.com/ChasingTheDragonPodcast

For our first cantrip we interview the creators of the Swedish roleplaying game Mutant År Noll, roleplaying in Sweden and hybrid roleplaying/board game design. Tomas and Kosta were sitting down to do a game demonstration and were signing books at the Science Fiction Bokhandeln in Stockholm. Mutant År Noll is a roleplaying game in Swedish but we do the interview in English and we focus more on why they made design decisions rather than as this being a review.

Mutant År Noll:

http://frialigan.se/spel/mutant/

Tomas and Kosta's podcast Signaler från Zonen (in Swedish):

http://frialigan.se/tag/signaler-fran-zonen/

Science Fiction Bokhandeln:

http://www.sfbok.se/index.asp

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