Rahdo Talks Through

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:25] Recent Top 10 Revisits►►►

Fantasy, BGG disagreements and OOPs alternatives

•••[00:25:03] Gaming Q&A►►►

What do BGG rankings reflect? Attic storage? Would I work for BGG? How should BGG entries be written? How do we deal with sudden game endings? How do we sit at the table? How do we orient the board? Old school game aesthetics? Boardgame industry trends? 2017 top10 of the year update? Budget games? Losing boardgame passion? Most diverse designer? Games we love in spite of being terrible at them? What should get Legacy'd? Epic boardgaming moments? Hidden gems? Concordia expansions? Do I roleplay as Jen during videos? How do I choose what gets rundown vs run through? Trickerion ranking? Does Jen offer pro-tips? Rating games we get rid of? Game sommilier? This year's Essen crop a letdown? What games do we keep? "1 in / 1 out"? Claustrophobia KS campaign observation? Big turn games? Best player boards? Best scifi? Hate drafting? Do publishers help find rules goofs? Do I re-record runthroughs? Essen crop a letdown, part II? Is my recording studio done?

•••[01:59:55] Personal Q&A►►►

Chickens in the states? British accent? Jen's nickname for me? What were we happy and unhappy to return to in the states? What do we miss most about Malta? Top 3 vaction destinations? What do Jen and I have in common and how are we different? How does this improve our relationship? Any jigsaw puzzle love? Where do we still need to go in Europe? Projector advice? Best thing about the states, part VII? What character would we choose to be in any show? Best things to do in PNW? Updated thoughts about political landscape int he states? What have we done for health insurance?  Climate change? Do we give each other boardgames for Xmas? What are we doing for Xmas this year? Jen's wisdom of the month?

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Better late than never! :) SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:25] Recent Top 10 Revisits►►► Fantasy, BGG disagreements and OOPs alternatives •••[00:25:03] Gaming Q&A►►► What do BGG rankings reflect? Attic storage? Would I work for BGG? How should BGG entries be written? How do we deal with sudden game endings? How do we sit at the table? How do we orient the board? Old school game aesthetics? Boardgame industry trends? 2017 top10 of the year update? Budget games? Losing boardgame passion? Most diverse designer? Games we love in spite of being terrible at them? What should get Legacy'd? Epic boardgaming moments? Hidden gems? Concordia expansions? Do I roleplay as Jen during videos? How do I choose what gets rundown vs run through? Trickerion ranking? Does Jen offer pro-tips? Rating games we get rid of? Game sommilier? This year's Essen crop a letdown? What games do we keep? "1 in / 1 out"? Claustrophobia KS campaign observation? Big turn games? Best player boards? Best scifi? Hate drafting? Do publishers help find rules goofs? Do I re-record runthroughs? Essen crop a letdown, part II? Is my recording studio done? •••[01:59:55] Personal Q&A►►► Chickens in the states? British accent? Jen's nickname for me? What were we happy and unhappy to return to in the states? What do we miss most about Malta? Top 3 vaction destinations? What do Jen and I have in common and how are we different? How does this improve our relationship? Any jigsaw puzzle love? Where do we still need to go in Europe? Projector advice? Best thing about the states, part VII? What character would we choose to be in any show? Best things to do in PNW? Updated thoughts about political landscape int he states? What have we done for health insurance?  Climate change? Do we give each other boardgames for Xmas? What are we doing for Xmas this year? Jen's wisdom of the month? •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT042_201811/RTT042.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

Essen Spiel 2018 is this week! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:02:02] Top 10 Most Anticipated Games►►► Teotihuacan, Underwater Cities, Carpe Diem, Coimbra, Between 2 Castles of  Mad King Ludwig, Gugong, Key Flow, Blackout: Hong Kong, Forum Trajanum, Pandemic Fall of Rome •••[00:18:10] 85 More Games!!!►►► Jungli-La, Wok Star, Big Dig, Moorea, Cosmic Factor, Okavango, Great City of Rome, Sengal-senggol Gang Damai, Honga, Ruthless, Legendary Encounters X-Files, Dicium, Catalyst, Now Boarding, Claim Kingdoms, Hardback, Deckscape, Skylands, Pandemic 10th Anniversary Edition, Fugitive, Chronicles of Frost, Fog of Love, Spring Meadow, Tribes, Paper Tales, Sunflower Valley, Factory Funner, Tales of Glory, Roll for Adventure, Scorpius Freighter, Fine Sand, Roll to the Top, Carson City Card Game, Tramways Engineers Workbook, Rolling Ranch, Forgotten City, Stone Age Jubilee Edition, Hokkaido, Gingerbread House, Crisis at Steamfall, The Boldest, Walking in Burano, Smartphone Inc, Cerbria Card Game, Steamrollers, Thief's Fortune, Spy Club, Passing Through Petra, Shadows: Amsterdam, Futuropia, Discovery: Era of Voyage, Manitoba, Scarabya, Kanban 2nd Edition, Reef, Arraial, Valparaiso, Planet, A4 Quest, Fertility, Realm of Sand, Orbis, Captains of the Gulf, Firenze, Fuji, Robin Hood and the Merry Men, Magnastorm, Escape Tales, CO2: Second Chance, Railroad Ink, Solenia, Blue Lagoon, Prehistory, Brass Birmingham & Lancashire, Holding On, Treasure Island, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Dice Settlers, The River, Reykholt, Newton, Chronicles of Crime, Everdell, Detective: Modern Crime, Architects of the West Kingdom •••[01:33:10] Expansions for 35 games►►► Santa Maria, Field of Green, Kitchen Rush, Tramways, Welcome To, Space Race, Paper Tales, Chronicles of Crime, Factory Funner, Roll to the Top, Altiplano, Great Western Trail, The Networks, This War of Mine, First Class, Fog of Love, Legend of Andor, Dixit, Agricola, Caverna, Isle of Skye, Dice Town, Reef, Chronicles of Frost, Lost Expedition, Tybor the Builder, Concordia, Merlin, Skylands, Keyflower, El Dorado, K2, Clank, 7 Wonders, Forum Trajanum •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/rtt041_201810/rtt041.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:02:02] Top 10 Most Anticipated Games►►►

Teotihuacan, Underwater Cities, Carpe Diem, Coimbra, Between 2 Castles of  Mad King Ludwig, Gugong, Key Flow, Blackout: Hong Kong, Forum Trajanum, Pandemic Fall of Rome

•••[00:18:10] 85 More Games!!!►►►

Jungli-La, Wok Star, Big Dig, Moorea, Cosmic Factor, Okavango, Great City of Rome, Sengal-senggol Gang Damai, Honga, Ruthless, Legendary Encounters X-Files, Dicium, Catalyst, Now Boarding, Claim Kingdoms, Hardback, Deckscape, Skylands, Pandemic 10th Anniversary Edition, Fugitive, Chronicles of Frost, Fog of Love, Spring Meadow, Tribes, Paper Tales, Sunflower Valley, Factory Funner, Tales of Glory, Roll for Adventure, Scorpius Freighter, Fine Sand, Roll to the Top, Carson City Card Game, Tramways Engineers Workbook, Rolling Ranch, Forgotten City, Stone Age Jubilee Edition, Hokkaido, Gingerbread House, Crisis at Steamfall, The Boldest, Walking in Burano, Smartphone Inc, Cerbria Card Game, Steamrollers, Thief's Fortune, Spy Club, Passing Through Petra, Shadows: Amsterdam, Futuropia, Discovery: Era of Voyage, Manitoba, Scarabya, Kanban 2nd Edition, Reef, Arraial, Valparaiso, Planet, A4 Quest, Fertility, Realm of Sand, Orbis, Captains of the Gulf, Firenze, Fuji, Robin Hood and the Merry Men, Magnastorm, Escape Tales, CO2: Second Chance, Railroad Ink, Solenia, Blue Lagoon, Prehistory, Brass Birmingham & Lancashire, Holding On, Treasure Island, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Dice Settlers, The River, Reykholt, Newton, Chronicles of Crime, Everdell, Detective: Modern Crime, Architects of the West Kingdom

•••[01:33:10] Expansions for 35 games►►►

Santa Maria, Field of Green, Kitchen Rush, Tramways, Welcome To, Space Race, Paper Tales, Chronicles of Crime, Factory Funner, Roll to the Top, Altiplano, Great Western Trail, The Networks, This War of Mine, First Class, Fog of Love, Legend of Andor, Dixit, Agricola, Caverna, Isle of Skye, Dice Town, Reef, Chronicles of Frost, Lost Expedition, Tybor the Builder, Concordia, Merlin, Skylands, Keyflower, El Dorado, K2, Clank, 7 Wonders, Forum Trajanum

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SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:58] Games of Interest►►►

Altiplano: The Traveler, Carcassonne: Safari, Castle Rampage, Chronicles of Crime: Welcome to Redview, City of Rome, Clank!: Gold & Silk, Claustrophobia 1643, Comanauts, Concordia Venus, Deckscape: Mystery of Eldorado, Defenders of the Realm 2nd Ed, Discover: Lands Unknown, Dominion: Renaissance, Fine Sand, Fuji, Futuropia, Ghosts of the Moor, Gingerbread House, Honga, K2: Lhotse, Lovelace & Babbage, Machi Koro Legacy, Magnastorm, Passing Through Petra, Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, Project Elite 2nd Edition, Spell Smashers, The Ancient World 2nd Edition, The One Hundred Torii, The River, Trollfjord, Tybor the Builder: Im Auftrag des Konigs, New Unlock! adventures, Valparaiso, Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage, Hokkaido, Claim Kingdoms, Dicium, Outlaws in a Strange Land, Pandemic: Fall of Rome, Rolnicy, Stone Age 10th Anniversary, Merlin: Arthur Expansion

•••[00:48:10] Game Q&A►►►

Finger pointing? Agricola vs Caverna? Slickerdrips? BGG expansion classifications? Spirit Island? Heavy co-ops? Games that *need* to be made? Competition for Gloomhaven? Jen's perfect game? Typical day on BGG? BGG lease fave feature? Dealing with sore loser children? Any Gloomhaven recently? Ideal Gloomhaven custom components? PAX West? Sasquatch? Why TV over boardgames? How are Rundowns being received? Is The Mind a game? Rahdo solo? Thoughts on the rise of boardgame popularity? More details about our Pandemic Legacy 2 experience? How's it going post move? Break during gaming? Too small components? Ideal boardgame designer interview? Top 10 worker placement updates? Why does SR:CF beat Gloomhaven on my rankings? Pics of our painted Gloomhaven minis? How close have I come to quitting RRT? Game chatter? Gateway to CoB? Thriftstore finds?

•••[01:56:35] Personal Q&A►►►

Why didn't we have kids? Star Trek vs Star Wars? Malta sights to see? Therapy? Our dog history? Travel insurance? Best DC movie? Seen Infinity War? Our fave car ever? Anything new going on? Seen Solo? Universal Studios Wizarding World tour? Best fictional place to visit? Jen's words of wisdom?

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Back in the saddle again! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:58] Games of Interest►►► Altiplano: The Traveler, Carcassonne: Safari, Castle Rampage, Chronicles of Crime: Welcome to Redview, City of Rome, Clank!: Gold & Silk, Claustrophobia 1643, Comanauts, Concordia Venus, Deckscape: Mystery of Eldorado, Defenders of the Realm 2nd Ed, Discover: Lands Unknown, Dominion: Renaissance, Fine Sand, Fuji, Futuropia, Ghosts of the Moor, Gingerbread House, Honga, K2: Lhotse, Lovelace & Babbage, Machi Koro Legacy, Magnastorm, Passing Through Petra, Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, Project Elite 2nd Edition, Spell Smashers, The Ancient World 2nd Edition, The One Hundred Torii, The River, Trollfjord, Tybor the Builder: Im Auftrag des Konigs, New Unlock! adventures, Valparaiso, Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage, Hokkaido, Claim Kingdoms, Dicium, Outlaws in a Strange Land, Pandemic: Fall of Rome, Rolnicy, Stone Age 10th Anniversary, Merlin: Arthur Expansion •••[00:48:10] Game Q&A►►► Finger pointing? Agricola vs Caverna? Slickerdrips? BGG expansion classifications? Spirit Island? Heavy co-ops? Games that *need* to be made? Competition for Gloomhaven? Jen's perfect game? Typical day on BGG? BGG lease fave feature? Dealing with sore loser children? Any Gloomhaven recently? Ideal Gloomhaven custom components? PAX West? Sasquatch? Why TV over boardgames? How are Rundowns being received? Is The Mind a game? Rahdo solo? Thoughts on the rise of boardgame popularity? More details about our Pandemic Legacy 2 experience? How's it going post move? Break during gaming? Too small components? Ideal boardgame designer interview? Top 10 worker placement updates? Why does SR:CF beat Gloomhaven on my rankings? Pics of our painted Gloomhaven minis? How close have I come to quitting RRT? Game chatter? Gateway to CoB? Thriftstore finds? •••[01:56:35] Personal Q&A►►► Why didn't we have kids? Star Trek vs Star Wars? Malta sights to see? Therapy? Our dog history? Travel insurance? Best DC movie? Seen Infinity War? Our fave car ever? Anything new going on? Seen Solo? Universal Studios Wizarding World tour? Best fictional place to visit? Jen's words of wisdom? •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/rtt040/rtt040.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

A Gencon Quickie! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:30] Top 10 To Get►►► Chimera Station, Tiny Epic Defenders 2nd Edition, Welcome To, Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Carson City: The Card Game, Detective, Coimbra, Merlin, Forbidden Sky •••[00:14:25] 60 More Games to Check Out►►► Legendary Encounters: X-Files, Woodlands, Dragon Master, Amun Re: The Card Game, Jungli-La, Import/Export, Fantastiqa Rival Realms, Mesozooic, Catalyst, Professor Treasure's Secret Sky Castle, Wok Star 3rd Edition, Railways of the World, Race to the New Found Land, Kaosmos, Multiuniversum, Fortune City, Kick-Ass: The Board Game, Deckscape: Heist in Venice, Talisman: Legendary Tales, Shadows: Amsterdam, Mercado, Lucky's Misadventures, Superhot: The Card Game, Maiden's Quest, Now Boarding, Gearworks, Hardback, Railroad Rivals, The Big Score, Luxor, Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops, Sailing Toward Osiris, Rising 5, Scarbya, Railroad Ink, The Game, Kitchen Rush, Lost Cities: Rivals, Carthago, Speakeasy Blues, Minerva, Steamrollers, Tiny Epic Zombies, Spring Meadow, Paper Tales, Blue Lagoon, Carson City: Big Box, Newton, EXIT: (new titles), Altiplano, Gizmos, Rise of Queensdale, Everdell, The Mind, Reef, Century:  Eastern Wonders, Brass, Reckoners, Root, Palm Island •••[01:11:27] Expansions to Get►►► Big Score: Crack the Safe, Sailing Toward Osiris: Governors & Envoys, Mottainai: Wutai Moutnain, Mystic Vale: Twilight Garden, Paper Tales: Beyond the Gates, Near & Far: Amber Mines, The Captain is Dead: Lockdown, Clank! The Mummy's Curse, Roll Player: Monsters & Minions, Kingdominio: Age of Giants, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse!, Scythe: Rise of Fenris •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/rtt039/rtt039.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:30] Top 10 To Get►►►

Chimera Station, Tiny Epic Defenders 2nd Edition, Welcome To, Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Carson City: The Card Game, Detective, Coimbra, Merlin, Forbidden Sky

•••[00:14:25] 60 More Games to Check Out►►►

Legendary Encounters: X-Files, Woodlands, Dragon Master, Amun Re: The Card Game, Jungli-La, Import/Export, Fantastiqa Rival Realms, Mesozooic, Catalyst, Professor Treasure's Secret Sky Castle, Wok Star 3rd Edition, Railways of the World, Race to the New Found Land, Kaosmos, Multiuniversum, Fortune City, Kick-Ass: The Board Game, Deckscape: Heist in Venice, Talisman: Legendary Tales, Shadows: Amsterdam, Mercado, Lucky's Misadventures, Superhot: The Card Game, Maiden's Quest, Now Boarding, Gearworks, Hardback, Railroad Rivals, The Big Score, Luxor, Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops, Sailing Toward Osiris, Rising 5, Scarbya, Railroad Ink, The Game, Kitchen Rush, Lost Cities: Rivals, Carthago, Speakeasy Blues, Minerva, Steamrollers, Tiny Epic Zombies, Spring Meadow, Paper Tales, Blue Lagoon, Carson City: Big Box, Newton, EXIT: (new titles), Altiplano, Gizmos, Rise of Queensdale, Everdell, The Mind, Reef, Century:  Eastern Wonders, Brass, Reckoners, Root, Palm Island

•••[01:11:27] Expansions to Get►►►

Big Score: Crack the Safe, Sailing Toward Osiris: Governors & Envoys, Mottainai: Wutai Moutnain, Mystic Vale: Twilight Garden, Paper Tales: Beyond the Gates, Near & Far: Amber Mines, The Captain is Dead: Lockdown, Clank! The Mummy's Curse, Roll Player: Monsters & Minions, Kingdominio: Age of Giants, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse!, Scythe: Rise of Fenris

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So much to talk about... SHOW NOTES: •••[00:00:54] Games of Interest►►► A Thief's Fortune, 5-Minute Marvel, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse! Roll Player Adventures, Solenia, Shadowrun Crossfire: Prime Runner's Edition, Dragonfire: Heroes of the Wild, High Rise, Troyes 2, Roll Player: Fiends & Familiars, Tale of Ord, Legend of Andor: Verschollenen Legenden, EXIT the Game, 3rd series, Mesozooic, New Frontiers, Roll for Adventure, Snowdonia Delxue, Sleeping God •••[00:25:12] Top10 Revisits►►► Boardgame Boards, Part II & Roll and Writes •••[00:59:52] Game Q&A►►► UKGE recap? First player choosing? How to learn new games? How to teach Burgundy? Theme of Chess? Go? Checkers? Too much theme in modern gaming? How to consume lots of rules? Project Elite's future? Learning Dungeon Petz? Pandemic pre-Legacy? Music while gaming? Yspahan? D&D history? Season's theme? In the zone while at conventions? Most thematic Feld? Rosenberg? Kiesling? Knizia? How to theme dry euros? Dragonfire ranking? Dragonfire vs Gloomhaven? How much time does RRT take? No boardgames or no TV? More optimisitc in the podcast than the final thoughts? Seperate the art from the artist? Roverboat? Jen's glass art as chess set? Runthroughs from Malta still? Isle of Skye Journeyman? •••[01:56:01] Personal Q&A►►► Gloucester cheese roll? Saul vs Breaking bad? The push? Camper vanning? Awesome possum? Snacking while gaming? Fave clothing? Map of RRT viewers? Quiet time? Jen, why London? How handy are we? Local food recommendations? Jen's words of wisdom? •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT038/RTT038.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:00:54] Games of Interest►►►

A Thief's Fortune, 5-Minute Marvel, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse! Roll Player Adventures, Solenia, Shadowrun Crossfire: Prime Runner's Edition, Dragonfire: Heroes of the Wild, High Rise, Troyes 2, Roll Player: Fiends & Familiars, Tale of Ord, Legend of Andor: Verschollenen Legenden, EXIT the Game, 3rd series, Mesozooic, New Frontiers, Roll for Adventure, Snowdonia Delxue, Sleeping God

•••[00:25:12] Top10 Revisits►►►

Boardgame Boards, Part II & Roll and Writes

•••[00:59:52] Game Q&A►►►

UKGE recap? First player choosing? How to learn new games? How to teach Burgundy? Theme of Chess? Go? Checkers? Too much theme in modern gaming? How to consume lots of rules? Project Elite's future? Learning Dungeon Petz? Pandemic pre-Legacy? Music while gaming? Yspahan? D&D history? Season's theme? In the zone while at conventions? Most thematic Feld? Rosenberg? Kiesling? Knizia? How to theme dry euros? Dragonfire ranking? Dragonfire vs Gloomhaven? How much time does RRT take? No boardgames or no TV? More optimisitc in the podcast than the final thoughts? Seperate the art from the artist? Roverboat? Jen's glass art as chess set? Runthroughs from Malta still? Isle of Skye Journeyman?

•••[01:56:01] Personal Q&A►►►

Gloucester cheese roll? Saul vs Breaking bad? The push? Camper vanning? Awesome possum? Snacking while gaming? Fave clothing? Map of RRT viewers? Quiet time? Jen, why London? How handy are we? Local food recommendations? Jen's words of wisdom?

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to [email protected]