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- 119 The Devon Board Game Weekender, Fox and Hound Hotel
Welcome to the latest episode of our Eggesford Adventures! In this podcast, Joel and the team will take you on a journey through the thrilling adventure of their recent trip to Devon Board Game Weekender hosted by The Fox and Hounds Country Hotel. Joining Joel on this exciting adventure are Claire, Nick, and Lewis.
In Episode 119, the team kicks things off with some exciting Convention News, highlighting the North Devon Games Weekender held at The Fox and Hounds. They delve into details about the accommodations, delicious food, pet-friendly policies, and ample gaming space provided by the hotel. Special mention goes to Meeples Corner Shop and the Games Library, and the hotel ower Matt and Tom the general manager, for their hard work and contributions to the event’s success.
Throughout the episode, Joel and his companions recount their experiences each day of the event. From Friday’s gaming lineup featuring Disney Lorcana, Wyrmspan, and Coffee Rush to Saturday’s intense sessions of Heat + Heavy Rain and Age of Wonders: Planetfall, the team shares their favorite games and memorable moments.
Despite the challenges posed by the weather, Sunday sees the group enjoying classics like Brass: Lancashire and Clank! Catacombs, capping off the weekend with excitement and camaraderie.
- Disney Lorcana
- Wyrmspan
- Wandering Towers
- Coffee Rush
- In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Heat + Heavy Rain
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall
- Cosmoctopus
- Among Cultists
- Brass: Lancashire
- Framework
- Planet Unknown
- Flamecraft
- Peak Oil: Profiteer
- Rococo
- Imperial Miners
- Anachrony
- Triqueta
- 5 Towers
- Space Base
- Clank! Catacombs
Join Eggesford Adventures as they continue to explore the vibrant world of board gaming and share their passion with fellow enthusiasts. Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or new to the scene, there’s something for everyone in this podcast dedicated to all things tabletop gaming.
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
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2 hr 4 min - 118 Devon Dice Podcast the best Board Games of 2019
Welcome, dear listeners, to Episode 118 of the Devon Dice Podcast, Join Joel, Sam, Nick, and Claire as they embark on a journey back in time to revisit the gaming gems of 2019.
In this special episode, we reminisce about the top games that captured our hearts five years ago. From thrilling adventures to strategic conquests, 2019 was truly a golden year for tabletop gaming.
- Glen More II: Chronicles,
- Dinogenics,
- Blockbuster,
- It’s a Wonderful World,
- Clank Legacy,
- SCOUT,
- Taverns of Tiefenthal
- Horrified,
- Quodd Heroes
- Tapestry,
- Wingspan,
- Marvel Champions: The Card Game,
- Letter Jam,
Join us as we reflect on the standout titles of 2019, reliving the moments that made us laugh, strategize, and cheer. From hidden gems to household favorites, this episode is a celebration of the enduring magic of tabletop gaming.
So grab your dice, shuffle your cards, and tune in to the Devon Dice Podcast as we journey back to the unforgettable year of 2019 in gaming.
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
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52 min - 117 DDP News, Crowdfunding Boardgames and Torbay Weekender
Welcome to episode 117 of our board gaming podcast! I’m Joel, your host for tonight’s journey through the latest news, crowdfunding highlights, and games we’ve been diving into. Joining me are Sam, Claire, and possibly Nick later on—ah, and there he is, right on cue! Let’s dive into the excitement together.
Ep 117
Conventions News
- Then there is the North Devon Gaming Weekend at the horse and hound. It is sold out again, but if you are going and having the Saturday evening dinner then Devon Dice will be providing and hosting the evening dinner quiz. Cancellations always happening
- The Torquay Full Board Gaming Weekender has been and gone and the dates for next year have already been announced. 31st Jan – 2 Feb
Overview of the Torbay weekend Joel and Claire went to.
Quick” News
- New Vital Lacerda Game announced Speakeasy teaming up with artist Ian O’Toole
- Gamefound becoming the go-to crowdfunding for board games
- B&B UKGE
Crowdfunding
- A Song of Ice and Fire: Tactics
- Last Light second edition
- Isla – roll & write a game from the local design team
Played Games
- Joel’s Torbay weekend games
- Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
- Odd Shop
- Nick
- Rome in a Day
- Taverns of Tiefenthal + Open Doors expansion
- Sam
- Art Society
- MLEM: Space Agency
- Claire:
- Ark Nova (+ blinged components)
- Framework
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
On X / Twitter: @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2
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1 hr 7 min - 116 Devon Dice Podcast’s Top 10 Board Games from 2014
Joel, Nick, Sam, and Lewis are here for one job only, to deliever their favorite Board games from the year 2014.
In pictilar order here is the list and links for the games.
- Sheriff of Nottingham,
- Istanbul,
- Black Fleet,
- SpyFall,
- Splendor,
- Colt Express,
- KLASK,
- Evolution,
- Patchwork,
- Orléans,
- Dead Of Winter,
- Waggle Dance,
- Lords of Xidit,
- Deep Sea Adventure,
- Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deckbuilding Game,
- Star Realms,
- Eggs & Empires,
- Abyss,
- Five Tribes,
- Artifacts, Inc,
- Port Royal,
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig,
- Imperial Settlers,
- Nations: The Dice Game,
- Heroes Wanted,
- Trains: Rising Sun,
- Spike
Ways you can engage or contact the show
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2 hr 1 min - 116 Devon Dice Podcast's Top 10 Board Games from 2014Joel, Nick, Sam, and Lewis are here for one job only, to deliever their favorite Board games from the year 2014. In pictilar order here is the list and links for the games. Sheriff of Nottingham, Istanbul, Black Fleet, SpyFall, Splendor, Colt Express, KLASK, Evolution, Patchwork, Orléans, Dead Of Winter, Waggle Dance, Lords of Xidit, Deep Sea Adventure, Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deckbuilding Game, Star Realms, Eggs & Empires, Abyss, Five Tribes, Artifacts, Inc, Port Royal, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Imperial Settlers, Nations: The Dice Game, Heroes Wanted, Trains: Rising Sun, Spike Ways you can engage or contact the show Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild On X / Twitter: @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2 On Bluesky: njshaw2.bsky.social,2 hr 1 min
- 115 Devon Dice Podcast
Joel, Sam, and Lewis bring you the latest in Board gaming News, crowdfunders, played games, and more…
“Quick” News
- Facebook bans ads for the reprint of Votes for Women (KS here), due to it featuring “sensitive social issues” which “could influence how people vote and may impact the outcome of an election or pending legislation”.
- Nucleum: Australia expansion announced. Joel, it’s clearly time to re-buy the base game.
- Altered, a new trading card game from Asmodee/Equinox, Kickstarter coming soon. Can be playtested at home thanks to the available print-and-play
Crowdfunding – Live Now
- The Dice Tower’s 2024 Season Kickstarter.
- Silver: Big Box – includes all 6 Silver games.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail – looks… erm… it has a cow-meeple-catapult!
- Among Cultists A Murder Mystery Thriller Board Game new expansion.
- Metrorunner
- Kabuto Sumo Sakura Slam
- Played Games
- Joel
- The Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Art Society
- Sam
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall
- Lewis:
- HeroQuest the new version
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
On X / Twitter: @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2
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54 min - 114 the DDP team’s best games of 2023
Happy New Year to our Listeners, Joel, Nick, Sam, and Claire the podcast booth with the best games they played in 2023, these can be they played for the first time in 2023. Quick News
- WyrmSpan announced, from Stonemaier Games.
- Tapestry: Revised Civ Pack, from Stonemaier Games.
- Pokemon Splendor, a Pokemon reskinning of Splendor.
This is the list of all games talked bout in the team’s top 10s games of 2023, all mixed up. but the links are there for you find the games on BGG.
- Sky Team,
- Comic Hunters,
- Celestia,
- World Wonders,
- Skull King,
- The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition,
- Art Society,
- Clank! Legacy,
- Age of Steam,
- Ark Nova,
- Forest Shuffle,
- EOS Island of Angels,
- Phantom Ink,
- Heat: Pedal to the Metal,
- Brass: Birmingham,
- The Fox Experiment,
- Namiji,
- Marvel Zombies,
- Gentes,
- Return to Dark Tower,
- GWT New Zealand,
- Mansions of Madness: 2nd Edition,
- Clank! Catacombs,
- Cabanga!,
- Sea Salt & Paper,
- Thunder Road: Vendetta,
- Planet Unknown,
- Zuuli,
- The Wolves,
- Beast,
- Peak Oil: Profiteer,
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
On X / Twitter: @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2
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On the web: www.devondice.co.uk
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1 hr 55 min - 113 DDP The Christmas Stocking Special.
In the special Christmas episode, Joel, Sam, and Nick dive into the holiday spirit, blending the latest gaming news with festive cheer. Join the trio as they not only dish out the hottest updates from the gaming world but also reveal their wish list for games they’re craving this Christmas and more. also, get ready for a comprehensive review of their geek culture journey throughout the past year, spanning books, movies, and video games.
Quick News
- Zev Shlasinger (the original founder of Z-Man Games Play to Z Games,
- An expansion for Forest Shuffle has appeared on online game sites as being available to preorder
- Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel announced.
- Divinus Delivery Timeline Update
- A load of new Garphill Games forthcoming releases announced:
- The Anarchy (1-4-player game with a 3D castle-building mechanic)
- Skara Brae (resource-heavy game set in Neolithic Northern Scotland)
- Inventors of the South Tigris (set in mediaeval Baghdad: Invent, Build, Test, and Publish devices)
- BREAKING NEWS: University Challenge’s Xmas episode has a round about winners of the Spiel des Jahres!
Crowdfunding Live Now
Videogame: Trash Goblin – “powerwash sim for the RPG crowd”!
Coming Soon
Storm Raiders – coming Jan 2024 from Shem Phillips / Arkus Games
Played Games
- Joel
- Maracaibo on BGA
- Heat Championship on BGA
- Nick
- Maracaibo on BGA
- Sam
- Undergrove on BGA
Nick’s Board Gaming Tale of Horror
Joel
Nick
Sam
Small stocking game
Art Society (it’s the smallest game I can think of)
Pretty much anything from Travel Games, but for instance: Union Station
BBTM box organiser (only funny if done after Grail game)
Large under tree game
Beast KS ED
Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Collector’s Edition
Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition (Sundrop)
Grail game
Blood Bowl Team Manager
Die Speicherstadt expansion: Kaispeicher
Looney Tunes Mayhem: 8 character extras pack
Game you wish they would make
Big box for Fireball Island and sell the Spider expansion with it. And better components.
Clank3: Lower Decks take on The Borg
Downfall of Pompeii
Expansion you wish they would make
Via Appia
Reprint Steam Park expansion
An expansion for Artifacts, Inc. A super smaller-box Ryan Laukat game which would be great to add new gameplay/variability to
Another expansion for classic Clank! please.
TV show of the year
Picard S3
The Last of Us
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2
Silo
Movie of the year
Jurassic Park 4D
Barbie
or Oppenheimer
(pick either )
The Creator
Book / Audible
Wool and Shift
The Expanse #1 (Leviathan Wakes)
Venomous Lumpsucker (Arthur C Clarke Award 2023)
Video Game or App
Marvel Snap still
Simulators have been a surprise hit for me
Powerwash simulator VR
Baldur’s Gate 3
https://youtu.be/hS2emKDlGmE?si=gAc98NMmX5UsFEWr
Or Golf Blitz (Super Stickman Golf multiplayer)
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on all the socials: @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
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1 hr 55 min - 112 DDP, How could CLANK! be better!?!
Welcome to Episode 112 of the podcast, where Joel and Nick dive into a whirlwind of board gaming news, marathons, and upcoming events! From The Witcher of the Old World to crowdfunding and reimagining games, stay tuned for an action-packed session. Let’s roll the dice and explore the gaming world together!
24-hour board game mini-marathon, only about 17 tickets, 27th January 2024, 11 am – 11 pm, in Ilminster
Board Game Weekender – Fri 2nd – Sun 4th / Mon 5th Feb in Torquay
North Devon Board game weekend, Friday 23rd – 25th Feb: Currently 5 rooms + the “treehouse” still available. Day tickets are on sale through Meeples Corner (via that link): Friday £5, Saturday £8, all weekend £10
Joel Rants
The Witcher: Old World
(Nucleum moved on too)
Quick News
- New in Alpha on BGA: Forever Home, Undergrove and Terraforming Mars
- HEAT expansion teaser details
- CGE’s Letter Jam gets an online implementation like Codenames
- D’Ceased crowdfunder wrapped at $2.5M.
Crowdfunding Live Now
- Moonrollers (ends in 24 hrs) – a dice-version of IV Games’ hit game Moonrakers, plus new mini-expansion for Moonrakers
- #DrawnTogetherGame (46 days to go) – another classic Bez game, this one being “colour in, ruining your opponent’s picture and improving your own”.
- Star Realms: Deluxe Colonial Collection (4 days to go) – yet more Star Realms!
- Nemesis: Retaliation (3 days left)
Coming Soon
- Cascadia: Rolling Hills & Rolling Rivers
- Horror on the Orient Express
Played Games
- Joel
- Eos: Island of Angels
- Nick
- Stone Age
- Sierra West
- SpyNet
- Ticket to Ride: New York
- Kingdomino + The Court mini-expansion
The Holt inquisitor
Q2 One host names a game, and the other has to re-skin the theme of the game, detailing how the new theme would work. (Best to edit out the thinking process)
Sam suggests: retheme CLANK
Thank you for listening
Ways you can engage or contact the show
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Find us on Twitter @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
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1 hr 24 min - 111 DDP Joel and Nick at Gridcon 4, A weekend of Board Gaming Fun!
Joel and Nick of the Devon Dice team went to Gridcon 4 Hosted by Paul Grogan of Gaming Rules Media. and had a fab time playing lots of games and meeting friends. find out what they did, here, on the podcast. Enjoy!
QuickNews
- Asmodee Jobs losses
Crowdfunding
- Live Now
- Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition – how much?!
- Wildlife Dice
- DCeased – A Zombicide Game compared to Marvel Zombies – A Zombicide Game
Coming Soon
- New World Wonders expansion: World Wonders Mundo
- Mistborn deck builder
Played Games
Joel
- Friday
- The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
- The White Castle
- Bark Avenue
- Cabanga!
- The Glade
- Just One (while shoving food down)
- WW2 Quartermaster General
- Blood on the Clocktower
- Saturday
- Planta Nubo
- EOS: Island of Angels
- Kabuto Sumo
- Art Society
- Perseverance Episode 3
- Sunday
- Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game
- Djinn
- Ticket to Ride Legacy (home)
Nick
- Friday:
- The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
- Age of Steam: Vesuvius Playtest
- Bark Avenue
- Cabanga!
- Bridge City Poker
- Snowdonia: Deluxe Master Set – Isle of Wight (from prototype Grand Tour expansion)
- Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles – Episode 1
- Saturday:
- Age of Steam: Italy
- EOS: Island of Angels
- Age of Steam: Vesuvius Playtest
- Tiletum
- Apiary
- Sunday:
- Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game
- Djinn
Ways you can engage or contact the show
Here is the link to our discord channel Devon Dice https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
Find us on Twitter @DevonDiceUK, Facebook page, BGG Guild
Find us on @DepressedMonk3y @The_BreweryTour @meeplescorner @njshaw2
Our web page www.devondice.co.uk
Youtube – DevonDiceUK please like subscribe to our channel https://youtube.com/@DevonDice
2 hr 11 min
About Devon Dice Presents
From the publisher's feed
This is like all the other board gaming podcasts, where the hosts Joel, Tom and Lewis talk about their favourite board games they have played, news from the industry and do reviews of games.