Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan discusses his September gameplay experience. Join us, won’t you?

• Top of the Stack, September 2024
  • NEW GAME – El Grande✓
  • SHELF CLEARER – Five Points: Gangs of New York
  • NEW GAME 2 – Antiquity Quest✓
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Switch & Signal✓
• Shelf of Opportunity
• Top of the Stack, October 2024
  • NEW GAME – Bora Bora
  • SHELF CLEARER – Circadians: First Light
  • NEW GAME 2 – Linko!
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Android: Infiltration

What games did you play in September? Head over to boardgamegeek guild #3269 and share there!

Brendan talks about different types of games that make his brain melt. Join us, won’t you?

• Many Meanings
  • Coimbra
  • Cascadia
  • Praga Caput Regni
• Many Choices
  • Pax Pamir 2nd Edition
  • Pax Renaissance
  • Nanty Narking
• Hard Decisions
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Mottainai
  • Glory to Rome
• Big Systems
  • On Mars
  • Inventions: Evolution of Ideas
• Not Quite Enough
  • Underwater Cities
  • Trickerion: Legends of Illusion
  • Praga Caput Regni

What games do you like that burn your brain? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek guild #3269.

Previous episodes on a similar topic:

• 002: Not Quite Enough
• 365: Not Quite Enough, Revisited
• 462: Planning (Great Designers)
• 569: Juggling Complexity

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

• AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans (2024)
• The A.R.T. Project (2023)
• Ziggurat (2024)
• Power Grid (2004) (revisited)

What do you think of these games? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks a bit about games whose instructions, form factor, or theme deceive players as they sit down at the table. Join us, won’t you?

• Deceptively Short: Munchkin, Carpe Diem, Altiplano
• Deceptively Long: Mottainai, Cerebria, Pax Pamir 2nd edition, Pax Renaissance 2nd edition
• Deceptively Hard: 7 Wonders
• Deceptively Easy: Wingspan
• Box Size: Innovation, Mottainai
• Theme: Founders of Gloomhaven, Lords of Waterdeep
• Art: Root

What games do you think are deceptive? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

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

• Gartenbau
• Haven
  Orléans: Invasion (Expansion)
• Burn the Fort

What do you think of these games? Share your thoughts over in the Pick Up & Deliver guild, #3269.

Brendan shares his game play stats from September of 2024. Join us, won’t you?

• Top of the Stack, August 2024
  • NEW GAME – Aquatica✓
  • SHELF CLEARER – Dastardly Dirigibles✓
  • NEW GAME 2 – Leaf✓
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Switch & Signal
• Shelf of Opportunity
• Expand Yourshelf
• Top of the Stack, September 2024
  • NEW GAME – El Grande
  • SHELF CLEARER – Five Points: Gangs of New York
  • NEW GAME 2 – Antiquity Quest
  • TRYING AGAIN CHOICE – Switch & Signal

What did you play in August 2024? Share your stats and plays over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan responds to a listener question about when board game experiments work or are admirable. Join us, won’t you?

• Gabriel Edge asks this question in our Boardgame Geek Forum:
• What are some experiments in board games that you really liked? What are some experiments in board games that you appreciated/admired (even if you didn’t like the game)? And the bigger question, when does a board game push the boundaries of the artistry in the medium (and should designers look to push those boundaries further)?
• Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (2011)
• The King’s Dilemma (2019)
• Sidereal Confluence (2017)
• A Study in Emerald (2013)

Experiments I admire in games I don’t love

• Chronicles of Crime (2018)
• Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015)
• KeyForge: Call of the Archons (2018)
  • Discover: Lands Unknown (2018)
• Terror in Meeple City (2013)

Additional thoughts on Experiments

• Nyctophobia (2018)
• Dixit (2008)
  • Mysterium (2015)
• A Feast for Odin (2016)

What do you like about games that experiment? Which ones do you admire but didn’t succeed? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently, and his re-impression of one he dusted off. Join us, won’t you?

• Metro (1997)
  • Tsuro (2005)
  • Indigo (2012)
• Samurai (1998)
• Samurai Spirit (2014)
• Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles – Episodes 1 & 2 (2022)

What do you think of these games? Did Brendan get it right or wrong? Share your thoughts over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his favorite moments from Gencon 2024. Join us, won’t you?

• Gencon Haul
  • Revive: Call of the Abyss (2023)
  • Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1 (2022)
  • A Touch of Evil: The Coast – ‘Haunted Shores’ Game Supplement (2020)
  • A Touch of Evil: Something Wicked – Dark Revelations Game Supplement (2020)
  • Last Night on Earth ‘Advanced Abilities’ Supplement (2010)
  • Burn the Fort (2023)
  • Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2013)
  • Leaf (2023)
  • Leaf: Season of the Bear Expansion (2023)
• Games I played at the con
  • The A.R.T. Project (2023)
  • Aqua (2024)
  • Ziggurat (2024)

What games did you play at Gencon? Which of these games would you like to try and play? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan reflects on the books he read in April, May, and June of 2024. Join us, won’t you?

• The Toll by Cherie Priest
  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
  • Watson & Holmes (2015)
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  • The Bloody Inn: The Carnies (2017)
    The Magnificent (2019)
• Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
• The Annihilation Score and The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
  • Bureau of Investigation: Investigations in Arkham & Elsewhere (2022)
• Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
• Star-Crossed by by Jerry Frissen, Roberto Zaghi (Artist), Ive Svorcina (Colorist)
• Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

What did you read in Q2 of 2024? Hop over to boardgamegeek guild #3269 and share.