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  • The RPG Room: Confirmation Bias and the death of geekdom

    In this episode, Jim Pinto proposes that Geekdom as we know is about to die a
    painful and very unavoidable death thanks to the blight that is cognitive
    and confirmation bias in our lives.
    In a nutshell, we are seeing more and more crappy shows and movies that
    people consider to be super great when, if you look at them under a critical and
    objective light, they are not all that great, like the Big Bang Theory, which is
    crap. Very crap. And yet some people love it and god forbid anyone speaks ill of
    that show.
    So there.
    Also I pay tribute to one of my Art heroes who recently and suddenly passed
    away, the rather fantastic Wayne England. He illustrated more than 100 Magic:
    The Gathering cards and, pretty responsible for the look and feel of the
    Warhammer 40K universe from the moment go and illustrated dozens of Dungeons & Dragons books.
    This is a controversial episode, so hope you like it!
    43 min
  • The RPG Review Room: FAITH
    FAITH is a Spanish Science Fiction RPG by company Burning Games.  FAITH,
    unlike other RPGs, comes in a box with tons of cards and tokens. Nice looking
    too!
    In FAITH, the universe has been connected by a network of wormholes that have
    thousands of exits to just a many solar systems and planets and five races are
    playable, each one with their traits and differences.
    A lot of thought has gone into this game, including a different character
    sheet and a mechanics system that uses a hand of cards instead of dice.
    In this podcast episode I take a look at the game and review the components,
    system and more.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    20 min
  • The RPG Review Room: FAITH

    FAITH is a Spanish Science Fiction RPG by company Burning Games.  FAITH,
    unlike other RPGs, comes in a box with tons of cards and tokens. Nice looking
    too!
    In FAITH, the universe has been connected by a network of wormholes that have
    thousands of exits to just a many solar systems and planets and five races are
    playable, each one with their traits and differences.
    A lot of thought has gone into this game, including a different character
    sheet and a mechanics system that uses a hand of cards instead of dice.
    In this podcast episode I take a look at the game and review the components,
    system and more.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    20 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Nightmare Forest: Dead Run
    Nightmare Forest: Dead Run is a racing game for one to five players in which
    the aim is to leave a zombie infested forest without getting killed, which is to
    say eaten by zombie bunnies and racoons.
    The premise of the game is pretty simple and the rules are just as simple
    too. You have a row of upside down cards for each player and the cards can be
    zombie animals, allies or gear. If they are a zombie, you have to fight it. If
    they are gear, you can use it. If they are allies they will help you.
    Then you can fight the zombies with the pool of dice you have available for
    each of the four stages of the race. If you win the fight, you can use the
    remaining dice to search for gear, which could be handy.
    Player interaction comes when you throw some gear at your friends in order to
    make noise and attract zombies their way, who will hopefully get rid of the
    competition.
    I only got a pre-production copy, so can’t really comment on the finished
    game itself, but if things continue as they are, this will be a very nice
    looking game indeed!
    Here’s my full review in the podcast.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    15 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Nightmare Forest: Dead Run

    Nightmare Forest: Dead Run is a racing game for one to five players in which
    the aim is to leave a zombie infested forest without getting killed, which is to
    say eaten by zombie bunnies and racoons.
    The premise of the game is pretty simple and the rules are just as simple
    too. You have a row of upside down cards for each player and the cards can be
    zombie animals, allies or gear. If they are a zombie, you have to fight it. If
    they are gear, you can use it. If they are allies they will help you.
    Then you can fight the zombies with the pool of dice you have available for
    each of the four stages of the race. If you win the fight, you can use the
    remaining dice to search for gear, which could be handy.
    Player interaction comes when you throw some gear at your friends in order to
    make noise and attract zombies their way, who will hopefully get rid of the
    competition.
    I only got a pre-production copy, so can’t really comment on the finished
    game itself, but if things continue as they are, this will be a very nice
    looking game indeed!
    Here’s my full review in the podcast.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    15 min
  • The RPG Interview Room: Crisis of the World Eater with Louis Porter Jr.
    I have known Louis Porter Jr. for a fair bit now and for that bit and much
    longer he’s been producing a lot of good products.
    Neoexodus has received some very good reviews from Endzeitgeist, probably the most prolific and demanding
    reviewer out there, and Louis keeps coming up with new ideas all the time.
    This time, he wants to create Crisis of the World Eater, a multi company
    project with a long and enormous story arc and a lot of adventures in many
    worlds.
    Still in development and with a Kickstarter campaign looming in a few weeks,
    I wanted to talk to Louis himself to find out more about the project, the
    adventure and the experience of bringing together some top-class companies to
    contribute to this project.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    42 min
  • The RPG Interview Room: Crisis of the World Eater with Louis Porter Jr.

    I have known Louis Porter Jr. for a fair bit now and for that bit and much
    longer he’s been producing a lot of good products.
    Neoexodus has received some very good reviews from Endzeitgeist, probably the most prolific and demanding
    reviewer out there, and Louis keeps coming up with new ideas all the time.
    This time, he wants to create Crisis of the World Eater, a multi company
    project with a long and enormous story arc and a lot of adventures in many
    worlds.
    Still in development and with a Kickstarter campaign looming in a few weeks,
    I wanted to talk to Louis himself to find out more about the project, the
    adventure and the experience of bringing together some top-class companies to
    contribute to this project.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    42 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Prime Time by Golden Egg Games
    Prime Time is a Recources Management game for 2 to 4 players in which each
    player takes the role of a Television magnate who must build their channel and
    for that must buy actors, producers, writers, show ideas…
    The game was Kickstarted a while ago and, as it is Elad Goldsteen´s
    tradition, delivered pretty much on time and on budget.
    With whimsical graphics and good quality components, Prime Time gets us
    quickly into the ins and outs of TV management with a deep and complex game that
    surprises us in its complexity and depth hidden behind the quirky and light
    looks.
    In his podcast I give you my reflections on the game and whether I think it
    was fun to play or not.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    14 min
  • The Boardgame Review Room: Prime Time by Golden Egg Games
    Prime Time is a Recources Management game for 2 to 4 players in which each
    player takes the role of a Television magnate who must build their channel and
    for that must buy actors, producers, writers, show ideas…
    The game was Kickstarted a while ago and, as it is Elad Goldsteen´s
    tradition, delivered pretty much on time and on budget.
    With whimsical graphics and good quality components, Prime Time gets us
    quickly into the ins and outs of TV management with a deep and complex game that
    surprises us in its complexity and depth hidden behind the quirky and light
    looks.
    In his podcast I give you my reflections on the game and whether I think it
    was fun to play or not.
    Hope you enjoy the show!
    14 min
  • The RPG Interview Room: Sarah Newton and Mindjammer Kickstarter (2)
    A couple of weeks ago I brought you an interview with Sarah in which we
    talked about the game and the Kickstarter campaign.
    However we left behind some important aspects of the game, like the
    illustration and the physical products, as well as the schedule for the
    production line and the Traveller version of Mindjammer that has already been
    backed.
    So here we are again, having another chat with the rather talented Sarah
    Newton and her no-less-excellent Kickstarter campaign for the line of Mindjammer
    products.
    31 min

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