Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan shares his observations about the Fantasy Flight 2004 Spring Catalog. Join us, won’t you?

• Minotaur Lords (2004)
• Blue Moon (2004)
• War of the Ring (2004)
  WarCraft: The Board Game (2003)
  • WarCraft: The Board Game – Expansion Set (2004)
• A Game of Thrones (2003)
  • A Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings Expansion (2004)
• A Game of Thrones Collectible Card Game (2002)
• Call of Cthulhu: Collectible Card Game (2004)
• Runebound (2004)
• Fireborn
• Midnight
• Dawnforge
• The Lord of the Rings (2000)
  • Lord of the Rings: Friends & Foes (2001)
  • Lord of the Rings: Sauron (2002)
• Lord of the Rings Trivia Game (2003)
• Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation (2002)
  The Hobbit: The Defeat of Smaug (2001)

What do you remember of FFG from the 2004 era? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in Guild #3269.

Brendan shares some insights about his game plays in March 2025. Join us, won’t you?

• Top of the Stack list, March 2025
  • NEW GAME – Resafa ✓
  • SHELF CLEARER – Clue: The Office ✓
  • NEW GAME 2 – Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Irregulars ✓
  • Top 50 Choice – Carpe Diem ✓
• Shelf of Opportunity
• Expand yourShelf
• Top of the Stack list, April 2025

What did you play in March of 2025? Head over to boardgamegeek guild #3269 and share your plays!

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Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Kemet (2012)
  • Kemet: Blood and Sand (2021)
• Hunted: Wode Ridge (2023)
  • Hunted: Kobayashi Tower (2021)
  • Hunted: Mining Colony 415 (2021)
• Apothecary: Plague Doctors (2023)
• Elder Sign (2011) (revisited)

What games have you tried lately? Jump into the conversation over on boardgamegeek in guild 3269.

Brendan examines the recent posts on boardgamegeek as though the threads are there as questions for him. Join us, won’t you?

• Gamifying Candy Land – A Thought Exercise
• Pasted-on Themes and Rating Games in Genres You Hate
  • Ark Nova (2021)
  • Praga Caput Regni (2020)
• Hello
• How would you approach designing a game that relies on huge amount of cards.
• Any D&D groups in Hope ???
  • “Always Hope”
• Webapp to visualize your collection
• When You Run Out Of Chairs At The Table
• What’s your favorite game day food?

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Brendan shares his movie views from January 2025 and some games that go with them. Join us, won’t you?

• Nosferatu (2024)
  • Fury of Dracula (Third/Fourth Edition) (2015)
  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
• The Crucible (1996)
  • Witch of Salem (2008)
  • Septima (2023)
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
• Oldboy (2003)
  • Vengeance (2018)
• Twisters (2024)
  • Storm Chasers (2021)
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
  • Burgle Bros. (2015)
• Boy Kills World (2023)
• The Duke (2020)

What games did you watch in January? Share your views over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he played for the first time recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Dracula’s Feast: New Blood (2020)
• Glyphics (2022)
• A Gest of Robin Hood (2024)
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal (2022)

What games have you tried lately? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan returns to the “Great Designers” series to talk about two clever Norweigians: Kristian Amundsen Østby and Eilif Svensson. Join us, won’t you?

• Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2012) (Østby only)
• Mammut (2011) (Østby only)
• Riverside (2021) (Svensson et al, no Østby)
• Revive (2022)
• Trails of Tucana (2019)
  • Rahdo plays Trails of Tucana
• Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama (2017)
  • Avenue (2016)
• Capital Lux (2016)
• The Magnificent (2019)
• Saltfjord (2024)
• Bad Company (2021)

Which games from these designers do you enjoy? Share your thoughts over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269. Join us, won’t you?

Brendan talks about the books he read in the last three months of 2024. Join us, won’t you?

• The Penguin Pool Murder
  • Awkward Guests: The Walton Case (2016)
• Shakedown
  • Sonar (2017)
  • Captain Sonar (2016)
• Agent to the Stars
  • Visitor in Blackwood Grove (2018)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
  • Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients (2014)
• Kingdom Of The Wicked
  • Stuffed Fables (2018)
• Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia
  • Android (2008)

What were you reading in the last part of 2024? Share your reads over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares a little bit about each of several games he dusted off in the last three months of 2024 about which he never had a chance to chat. Join us, won’t you?

• October 2024
  • – Rummy  ( > 10 Years dusty)
• November 2024
  • – Dixit: Journey (2 Years, 25 Days dusty)
  • – Kahuna (2 Years, 9 Months, 26 Days dusty)
  • – Settlers of Catan (1 Year, 9 Months, 18 Days dusty)
  • – Grand Austria Hotel (1 Year, 9 Months, 28 Days dusty)
  • – Concept (7 Years, 10 Months, 27 Days dusty)
  • – Gingerbread House (2 Years, 11 Months, 29 Days)
• December 2024
  • – Isle of Skye (3 Years, 4 Months, 28 Days dusty)
  • – New York Zoo (1 Year, 2 Months, 25 Days dusty)
  • – Dungeon Mayhem (5 Days, 4 Months, 7 Days dusty)
  • – Marvel Dice Throne (1 Year, 4 Months, 13 Days dusty)
  • – Yahtzee ( > 10 Years)
  • – Glory to Rome (1 Year, 5 Months, 12 Days)
  • – 13 Dead End Drive (3 Years, 8 Months, 29 Days)
  • – 221b Baker Street: The Master Detective Game
  • – Santa’s Workshop (360 Days dusty)

What games have you dusted off? Share your cleaned out games over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan does a deep-dive review of the ‘Haven games. Join us, won’t you?

• Pick Up & Deliver 84: Gloomhaven (Message from the Deep)
• ‘Haven games I talk about:
  • Gloomhaven (2017)
  • Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion (2020)
  • Frosthaven (2022)
• Complex cooperative play
  • Spirit Island (2017)
    Aeon’s End (2016)
• Great use of Random-to-resolve
  • Star Wars: Rebellion (2016)
  • Axis & Allies (2004)
• Individualized Growth
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
• “The Reveal”
  • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015)

Have you played Gloomhaven or any of the other ‘Haven games? Share what you think of them over on boardgamegeek in our guild, #3269.

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