We'll make you a deal - you download and listen to this episode, and we'll tell you about some of our favorite (and least favorite) negotiation games. As an added bonus, we've gotten our sound quality back to something that should be close to our pre-COVID levels, and we'll throw that in for free. (Thanks to Craig Shipman at the Third Floor Wars podcast for the suggestion that got us there - if you're at all interested in miniature skirmish gaming, that is a show you will definitely want to check out!)

We also answer some age-old questions:

• Who is Dan Baden's b*tch, and how did he earn that title?

• Advanced Faction Abilities: Yes

A few other items of interest from this month:

• Several good sites for playing Diplomacy online, so you don't tick off your real-world friends.

As always, we appreciate your listening and would love to hear your comments on any or all of these items, and especially a review on iTunes if you have the time and inclination!

• Website: https://www.ascentofboardgames.com

Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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Thank you for listening!