Rahdo Talks Through

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:00] Games of Interest►►►

Homesteaders: New Beginnings, Key Flow, 5 Minute Dungeon: Curses! Foiled Again!, Escape Tales: The Awakening, Lost Cities: Rivals, Spring Meadow

•••[00:09:22] Top10 Board Game Boards Part I Revisit

•••[00:31:11] Game Q&A►►►

New table in the future? Zombie running? Youtube ads? Yahtzee killers? Co-op conversion to solo? RTT music selection process? Feudum? Bad rules ever ruin the game? Giving 0's on BGG? What 3 games sum up modern boardgaming? Modern videogaming? Pandemic or Agricola: which game to design an expansion for? Perfect euro length? More finding theme in dry soulless euros? What gateway would make the best Legacy game? Game of the month segment? How to best learn from the rules? Boardgame burnout from RRT? Do we care who wins?

•••[01:17:35] Personal Q&A►►►

Vlogs? Celebrity chef faves? Ever been to Boston? What about Rahdo meetups? Sushi love? What movie have we watched the most? Why New Zealand? What about Australia? Not much of a reader? How does my on-air personality different from off air? Rahdo vs Jen: best driver?  Best sense of humor? Jen's maiden name? Rahdo vs Jen: how often do we fight? Could Jen handle Handmaid's Tale? How're we feeling about the move so far? Fave movies: western? horror? gangster? comedy? Marvel universe? 3 new TV series to recommend? Carebear names?

And thus begins our 4th year of podcasting! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:00] Games of Interest►►► Homesteaders: New Beginnings, Key Flow, 5 Minute Dungeon: Curses! Foiled Again!, Escape Tales: The Awakening, Lost Cities: Rivals, Spring Meadow •••[00:09:22] Top10 Board Game Boards Part I Revisit •••[00:31:11] Game Q&A►►► New table in the future? Zombie running? Youtube ads? Yahtzee killers? Co-op conversion to solo? RTT music selection process? Feudum? Bad rules ever ruin the game? Giving 0's on BGG? What 3 games sum up modern boardgaming? Modern videogaming? Pandemic or Agricola: which game to design an expansion for? Perfect euro length? More finding theme in dry soulless euros? What gateway would make the best Legacy game? Game of the month segment? How to best learn from the rules? Boardgame burnout from RRT? Do we care who wins? •••[01:17:35] Personal Q&A►►► Vlogs? Celebrity chef faves? Ever been to Boston? What about Rahdo meetups? Sushi love? What movie have we watched the most? Why New Zealand? What about Australia? Not much of a reader? How does my on-air personality different from off air? Rahdo vs Jen: best driver?  Best sense of humor? Jen's maiden name? Rahdo vs Jen: how often do we fight? Could Jen handle Handmaid's Tale? How're we feeling about the move so far? Fave movies: western? horror? gangster? comedy? Marvel universe? 3 new TV series to recommend? Carebear names? •••Help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT037/RTT037.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

Is this the final RTT??? (spoiler alert: it isn't) SHOW NOTES: help Rahdo run @ http://patreon.com/rahdo or http://paypal.rahdo.com https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uganda-village-board-game-convention/ •••[00:01:03] Games of Interest►►► Barage, Underwater Cities, Railroad Revolution: Railroad Evolution, Santa Maria: American Kingdoms, Dragonfire: Moonshae Storms, Dale of Merchants Collection, Villages of Valeria: Landmarks, From Batavia, On Tour •••[00:09:20] Top10 Scifi Revisit •••[00:31:00] Game Q&A►►► Fave boardgame content creators? Rahdo rolling back moves? Historical thematic impact? How to cull? Claustrophobia 2.0? Any grail games? Modern games in the 70's? What if Jen didn't like games? Accomplishments and regrets for RRT? Perfect podcast co-host? Rapid fire game association? Principled games? Advantages of RRT in the USA? Lighter games with my mom? Updates to the must-have list? Gaming convention in Uganda? What games need expansions? More minis, less gameplay? What TV show to be a game? •••[01:17:42] Personal Q&A►►► What shows are we watching these days? How to watch US TV abroad? Enjoying time away from RRT? Any tenant stories? Last Jedi thoughts? Jen's EQ past? Preferred RPG archetypes? Jen's words of wisdom for the month? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT036.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

Count downs... SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:56] Top 10 Revisits►►► Disagreements, Regrets, and Pre-2009 •••[00:47:00] BGG Top 50 eval •••[01:29:33] Boardgame Q&A►►► Artistic impact? Crunchy co-ops? Dice supercut? •••[01:46:20] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►► Malta castle? Free time? Olive oil? Mongol history? Culture shock? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT019.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

2017 is upon us!!! SHOW NOTES: 2017 Games of Interest Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/218452/rahdo-runs-through-2017-games-interest Top 25 Most Anticipated Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj5PHRTQJrI TIME Stories "Rahdo 2p" variant: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/22413568#22413568 •••[00:01:54] 2017 Games of Interest►►► On Mars, Alter Ego, First martians, Edge of Humanity, Fugitive, Zombies Run!, Dragonsgate College, Brasil, Brass, Trashing Dice, Arcology, Chimera Station, Clockwork Islands, Sagrada, Spirit Island, Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, Legacy: Time Surge, Kingsburg 2nd Edition, harvest, The Captain is Dead, Jump Drive, 5 Minute Dungeon, Perfect Storm, Fog of Love, Skyways, Island of Doctor Necreaux: Second Edition, Tiny Epic Quest, COG, Element & Idols, Exodus Fleet, Reborn From Flame, Yamatai, Mines of Olnak, Thunderstone Quest, Railways of Nippon, Catacombs & Castles, 100 Swords Expansions, Shadowrift Skittering Darkness, Haspelknecht: Ruhr Valley, Kingdom Builder Harvest, Temporum Alternate Realities, Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black, Mysterium 2nd Expansion, Automobiles Racing Season, Nations the Dice Game: Unrest, Hero Realms: Ruins of Thandar, Roll Player: Monsters & Minions, TIME Stories Expedition Endurance & Lumen Fidei •••[01:27:15] 2016 Games of Interest Revisit►►► Acute Care, Shadowrift: Eve of the Sickle Moon, Feudum, Dungeon Scroll, Perfect Storm, Brasil, Islebound, 7th Continent, TIME Stories Prophecy of Dragons, Eminent Domain: Exotica, Manhattan Project Energy Empire, Explorers of the North Sea, Dreamwell, The Networks, Fog of Love, Rising 5, Solarius Mission, Roll Player, Guilds of London, Quadropolis, Lisboa, Legend of Andor: Chada & Thorn, Legends of Andor: Journey to the North, Star Trek Frontiers, Gloomhaven •••[01:50:44] Boardgame Q&A►►► Knizia's LotR experiences? BGG top 200? Kingdom Death Monster? TIME Stories variant? My boardgaming history? Conventions? Legacy mechanism? Feld love? Taluva? •••[02:18:22] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►► Holiday plans? New Years resolutions? Maltese radio & TV? RRT malta? Games for celebs? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT020.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

RTT year 2, it's a wrap! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:00:31] Games of Interest►►► Morels Foray, Paperback: Expansion, Peloponnes: Heroes and Colonies, Runebound: Unbreakable Bonds, Reworld, D&D: Dragonfire, Between Two Cities: Capitals •••[00:18:34] Top10 Revists►►► 2016, one more time! •••[00:35:20] Boardgame Q&A►►► No retail copies for me? Top 10 mechanical mechanics? What type of games do we struggle with? Design bugbears? Quadropolis variability? What's so great about Roll for the Galaxy? PnP much? Best source for news? BGG improvements? Boardgame VR? Jen making over games with glass? Boardgame narrative? True sandboxes? Top 100 crossovers? Retheme cash grabs? Geek categorization? How did our tastes grow? Favourite gamey feeling? Are gateways really gateways? •••[01:17:41] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►► Chicken talk! Maltese waters? More chicken talk! Jen on Goodreads? What made Jen and I so open with each other and in public? Skillet cookin'? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT024.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

Q&A-PALOOZA!!!! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:02:26] Game/RTT Questions►►► Rahdo-designed boardgame? More advent calendar/Malta travelogue vids? Kickstarter preferential treatment? Conflict vs game harshness? Voters override me? Revising older games? Top 5 games that need more thumbs? KS stretch goals on the up and up? Oldie game-day? Will we be Essen 2016? •••[00:31:22] Non-Game/RTT Questions►►► What's it like being a videogame designer? Jen's aversion to guns in games? Fave ice cream? "If money was no object...?" Fave weather? Jen's key to business success? Best book/fave author? Ever heading to China? Survivor fan chat? Jen's childhood? Top places visited? Top places yet to be visited? Excited about visiting Portugal? Most impactful recent book? Jen's fave color of glass to work? Who's best at (various things) - me or Jen? Brexit & RRT? Why did I retire from making games? Thoughts on No Man's Sky? Best places to eat in downtown Seattle? Pokemon GO? Are games a worthwhile endeavor? How's the pup search going? Ever fostered dogs? •••[01:56:03] Repeat Questions from Podcast 14►►► Rulebook rules? Total RRT playtime? Eurotrash? Ever change my mind? What themes are over/under represented? Sexy mini's? In-jokes in boardgames? LeiriaCon 2017? Do oldies hold up? The Rahdo Effect? Production values of RRT vs WIP? Best and worst things about doing RRT? Best historical time period? Best example of some game genres? Ranking obsession? Ranking validity? Game obsession post RRT? Games Jen likes more than me? Boardgame journalism ethics? Top 10 topics? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT016.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

GENCON!!!! SHOW NOTES: W Eric Martin's excellent preview geeklist: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/198728/gen-con-2016-preview •••[00:04:30] What to buy?►►► Goons of New York 1901, Lotus, Medici, Grimslingers, America, Welcome Back to the Dungeon, IKI, Karuba, RA, Telsa V Edison: Powering Up, Burano, Guilds of London, Great Dinosaur Rush, Saloon Tycoon, Valley of the Kings: Last Rights, Dreamwell, Arcane Academy, Bill & Ted's Excellent Boardgame, Agility, In the Name of Odin, Mysterium Hidden Signs, The King's Abbey, Sunrise City: Nights, Terraforming Mars, Codenames: Pictures, Simurgh, Oceanos, Fantahzee: Hordes & Heroes, Shakespeare: Backstage, Epic Resort: Villain's Vacation, Millennium Blades: Promo Pack #2, Legends of Andor: Call of the Skralls, Clank!, Beyond Baker Street, Mansions of Madness: Second Edition, Via Nebula, Kraftwagen V6, Pursuit of Happiness, Dominion Empires, London Dread, Islebound, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot: Angry Ocean, Vast: The Crystal Caverns, Covert, The Goonies Adventure Card Game, Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle, Project: Elite & Adrenaline, Order of the Gilded Compass, Castles of Burgundy The Card Game, The Networks, Mystic Vale, Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu •••[01:54:25] What to demo?►►► Mint Works, Loony Quest, Conan, Defense Grid: The Board Game, Born to Serve, One Deck Dungeon, Showtime!, The Ninth World, StarFall, Museum, 1001 Odysseys, Haspelknecht, Dream Home, The Kings Abbey: Lethal Steel, Motion Pictures, Coldwater Crown, Legendary Inventors, Medici: The Card Game, Lunarchitects, Crisis, Fugitive, Shadowrift, Spirit Island, 4 Gods, Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black, Tiny Epic Quest, Sagrada, Alchemists: Golem Expansion, Legends of Andor: Journey to the North, Attack on Titan: Deck Building Game, Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Rising 5: Runes of Asteros, Colony, Black Orchestra, The Walking Dead: No Sanctuary, The Stygian Society, Gloomhaven •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT015.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SOOOO many questions! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:00:25] Games of Interest►►► Hero Realms, Targi Expansion, Angry Ocean, Walking Dead: No Sanctuary, Fabled Fruit, The Bird Told Me To Do It, Mines of Olnak, Legends of Andor: Dark Heroes, Lorenzo the Magnificent •••[00:28:30] Top 10 2p Only Games Revisited •••[00:38:01] Q&A►►► How many games a week? LOAD controversy? Hybrid games? Rethinking dismissed games? What themes would Jen like to see? Scantily clad minis? How to keep collection under control? Most played games? "In the know" games? Overproduced games? LeiriaCon? Do old faves still stand up? The Rahdo effect? Watch it played? What would RRT videosgames look like? What kind of conflict do we avoid? Jen's mic? Standard boardgame review format? Most viewed vids? Best and worst things about RRT? Fave historical period for games? Best games to represent various mechanisms? Why so much ranking? How can I rank with so few plays? Can I leave the cult of the new? Update on Jen's top10? How to get into boardgame graphic design? Why no good boardgames in mainstream stores? What's gaming like in Germany? What were our "next step" games? How to help AP? Gateway to Agricola? Treasure hunting games? Does Jen disagree about games with Rahdo? Are game reviewers too tight with game publishers? Conflict heavy top 10? Table Top audience? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT014.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

2 weeks late, but hopefully worth the wait! Send your questions to [email protected] SHOW NOTES: •••[00:00:38] Games of Interest►►► Pandemic: Iberia, Sagrada, Shakespeare: Backstage, Tavern's Tales, Shadowscape, Pioneer Days, Myth: Dark Frontier, Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black, Perfect Crime, Order of the Guilded Compass, Fields of Green, Descent: Road to Legend, Rocky Road a la Mode, The Pirate Republic, Deus: Egypt, Tiny Epic Quest, Clank! •••[00:30:52] Top 10 Mechanisms Revisited •••[00:40:42] Q&A►►► Hybridized RPGs? Original goals of RRT? Dice Tower Awards? LotR games? Kickstarter impact on FLGS's? Design my own game? Kingdom Builder expansions? Orleans Expansion setup? What makes a great rulebook? What would end RRT? Game age ratings? Pet related game disasters? Games for cats & dogs? Game calibration? Impact of game promos? •••[02:03:21] Q&A Personal Side►►► Living on a boat? Cat lover? Rightie or Leftie? Roller coasters? Top 20 TV Shows? Brexit? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT005_201805/RTT013.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough