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This week Lesley and Hunter Join Jakub to talk about the games they played at Gen Con! We talk about the games they liked, bought, played, or would rather have skipped so stay tuned for a quick look at the hotest new Gen Con games!

Special thank you to Agata Poniatowski for the Artwork and Strangelette for the music.  If you enjoyed the podcast, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Google+. If you just can’t get enough Dragon’s Demize, check out our Youtube channel as well for some goofy videos. Finally, Washingcon tickets are on sale now! It’s going to be an amazing time, so head on over to the website and grab yours today.

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Lesley and Hunter were at Gen Con this year! They came on to talk about all the cool things they they got to do at the convention. Lots of laughs, games, and fun was had. Join us for a fun recap of their experiences at Gen Con, and next week we will have Part 2, talking about the Games of Gen Con!

Special thank you to Agata Poniatowski for the Artwork and Strangelette for the music.  If you enjoyed the podcast, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Google+. If you just can’t get enough Dragon’s Demize, check out our Youtube channel as well for some goofy videos. Finally, Washingcon tickets are on sale now! It’s going to be an amazing time, so head on over to the website and grab yours today.

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This week Jakub and Greg talk about two games about building things! They preview LOTS and review Teotihuacan. LOTS is a fun, quick, dexterity game about building up a tower and trying to score the most points without knocking the tower over. There are some great mechanics that keep it interesting even if it is a light game. Teotihuacan is a game about building the temple in the ancient meso-american city. There are some really unique worker movement and advancement mechanics but tune in to hear our full review!

Special thank you to Agata Poniatowski for the Artwork and Strangelette for the music.  If you enjoyed the podcast, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Google+. If you just can’t get enough Dragon’s Demize, check out our Youtube channel as well for some goofy videos. Finally, Washingcon tickets are on sale now! It’s going to be an amazing time, so head on over to the website and grab yours today.

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This week Jakub sits down with Nicholas Yu, the designer of Adventure Tactics to talk about the game, how it works, how it was designed, as well as Nick’s time in the industry and of course favorite donut. It was a fun discussion that included everything from Game Theory to Co-op quaterbacking so be sure to join us!

Special thank you to Agata Poniatowski for the Artwork and Strangelette for the music.  If you enjoyed the podcast, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Google+. If you just can’t get enough Dragon’s Demize, check out our Youtube channel as well for some goofy videos. Finally, Washingcon tickets are on sale now! It’s going to be an amazing time, so head on over to the website and grab yours today.

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Do you have a board game mechanic that you just loathe? Does a game with that mechanic have to clear enormous hurdles for you to even consider playing it? If you answered “Yes” to these questions, have we got an episode for you! On this week’s Dragon’s Demize, Lesley, Jakub, Hunter, and Greg commiserate over their least favorite game mechanics. It’s a chance to air grievances and just generally have some fun. If you have a least favorite mechanic, join the conversation by letting us know on Facebook or Twitter!

We also do a quick run down of what we’ve been playing lately.

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice. Finally, our own how to play series, Board Game Bistro, and other videos are available on Youtube.

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Dragon’s Demize’s coverage of Origins 2019 continues! While we of course had an amazing time trying out new games and seeing old friends, we also had a blast talking to some truly incredible people from within the gaming industry. This year was especially wonderful because it marked Hunter’s first ever interview, with the one and only Emmerson Matsuchi. If you haven’t already checked out our Jenga interviews on Youtube, you can listen here for some of our favorite moments!

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice.

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We just got back from Origins recently and have a lot to talk about. Firstly, we cover all of the games we were introduced to this Origins, new and old. Some of these games are still prototypes, others just released, and some were already a few years old but one of us tried them for the first time at Origins 2019.

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice. Finally, our own how to play series, Board Game Bistro, and other videos are available on Youtube.

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Hello listeners, and welcome to the fourth installment of our Board Game Glossary! Today we’re talking about other games, games which don’t fit into the neat buckets we’ve created in the other Board Game Glossary episodes. There are many of these games so we focus on what makes some defined categories different and why we separated them. If you haven’t already listened to the other episodes in this series, you can check them out as well!

For What We’ve Been Playing, we discuss International Tabletop Day and the games we played there.

We were at Origins last weekend and have a bunch of cool interviews and other content so check that out at YouTube.com/dragonsdemize!

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice. Finally, our own how to play series, Board Game Bistro, and other videos are available on Youtube.

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It’s been a minute since we’ve reviewed a Red Raven game, but the drought is over! Ancient World is the latest worker-placement, resource-managey goodness, and it plays 2-4. Players compete to collect banners which will earn them points at the end of the game. Banners can be found on Empire Cards which can be built, or on Titans which can be defeated by your armies. There’s an intereseting parallel gameplay, as the armies are mostly separate from your citizens. You can hear more about it, as well as our official ratings, in the episode so give it a listen!

As usual, we talk about What We’ve Been Playing, including some more Betrayal legacy for Lesley and Hunter, and a nifty little game called Planet for Jakub.

As we mentioned last week, we’ll be heading to Origins June 12-16! If you’re going to be there, hit us up. We’d love to hang out, and we’ll probably have t-shirts! And for something a little closer to home, don’t forget to buy your tickets to WashingCon, happening September 7-8. Tickets are still discounted, so get ’em now!

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice. Finally, our own how to play series, Board Game Bistro, and other videos are available on Youtube.

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Hello listeners, and welcome to the third installment of our Board Game Glossary! Today we’re talking about social games, games which are all about heavy player interaction and usually best with large numbers. This is also the first time we break things out into subcategories. In this case, we’ve got Hidden Identity, Restricted Communication, and Party games. Give the episode a listen to see what we think are the essential elements of each of these types of social games. And if you haven’t already listened to the other episodes in this series, you can check them out as well!

For What We’ve Been Playing, we discuss the newest games from Red Raven: Ancient World, along with the familiar games Pyramid’s Deadline, Codenames, and Quiddler.

This is also the time when we announce we’re officially going to Origins! If you’re going to be there, hit us up. We’d love to hang out, and we’ll probably have t-shirts!

Thank you as always to O Abnormal and Agata Poniatowski for the artwork and Strangelette for the music. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to support Dragon’s Demize, please consider joining us on Patreon. You can also subscribe to us on Twitch, where we stream every Wednesday and Friday. We’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord, so you can join us on your platform of choice. Finally, our own how to play series, Board Game Bistro, and other videos are available on Youtube.

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