Rahdo Talks Through

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?

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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 •••[01:25:50] 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 •••[01:49:28] 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? •••[02:17:45] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►► Holiday plans? New Years resolutions? Maltese radio & TV? RRT malta? Games for celebs? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/rtt020/rtt020.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

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?

Malta castle? Free time? Olive oil? Mongol history? Culture shock?

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

•••Send your questions to [email protected]

Count downs... SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:56] Top 10 Revisits►►► Disagreements, Regrets, and Pre-2009 •••[00:47:06] BGG Top 50 eval •••[01:30:10] Boardgame Q&A►►► Artistic impact? Crunchy co-ops? Dice supercut? •••[01:46:28] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►► Malta castle? Free time? Olive oil? Mongol history? Culture shock? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/rtt019/rtt019.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

(HUGE thanks to Nick Lamb for helping clean up Jen's audio on this one!)

Miwi Copycat video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJU3iakFNj8

Aye Dark Overlord event at Gencon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWEm54yxcU

Essen Preview Geeklist tool:

http://tabletoptogether.com/essen-spiel/index.php

•••[00:01:33] New Games of Interest►►►

Jump Drive, Temporum: Alternate Realities, A Dog's Life, Skyways, The Stygian Society, Zombies, Run! The Boardgame, Shadowrift: Skittering Darkness, Dominion Update Pack, Anduine: First City in the West, Tribes

•••[00:16:49] Top 10 Revisits►►►

Tile Laying Games, Pirate Games, Games I Wish I Could Play More

•••[00:33:45] Boardgame Q&A►►►

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

•••Send your questions to [email protected]

A return to normalcy! SHOW NOTES: (HUGE thanks to Nick Lamb for helping clean up Jen's audio on this one!) Miwi Copycat video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJU3iakFNj8 Aye Dark Overlord event at Gencon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWEm54yxcU Essen Preview Geeklist tool: http://tabletoptogether.com/essen-spiel/index.php •••[00:01:33] New Games of Interest►►► Jump Drive, Temporum: Alternate Realities, A Dog's Life, Skyways, The Stygian Society, Zombies, Run! The Boardgame, Shadowrift: Skittering Darkness, Dominion Update Pack, Anduine: First City in the West, Tribes •••[00:16:49] Top 10 Revisits►►► Tile Laying Games, Pirate Games, Games I Wish I Could Play More •••[00:33:45] Boardgame Q&A►►► What alteration to a game from my feedback and I most proud of? What traits can we identify in each other that pegs us as boardgame lovers? Rahdo Runs Through Scythe? Any Rahdo impersonators? Any RRT helpers besides Paulo (and Thomas Giles)? A runthrough of Rahdo Runs Through? Anything in Essen we recommend checking out? Cash at Essen Spiel? How to digest the Essen Spiel preview geeklist? Emotional Runthroughs? Changing direction of the industry? Controversial theme? Post game rituals? Game component fever? Agricola Revised or Classic? Monopoly runthrough? Why is Terraforming Mars too mean? RTT filesize? Funky interlude music? Top 50 BGG runthrough? Mechs vs Minions feedback? Rahdo domain name? Life post Rahdo Runs Through?  •••[01:33:07] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►►My brother's misadventures? Days Gone from Eidetic? Time for a Syphon Filter comeback? Which game I've worked on would I revisit? Tricks to early retirement? Theater background? Have boardgame companies tried to hire me? Competitive videogame scene? Adjusting to life in the UK? Most memorable 30 minutes of our lives? •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT018/RTT018.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193588/spiel-2016-preview

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/212177/essen-spiel-2016-specials-freebies-promos-and-othe

http://www.jenefer.net

Power Grid: The Card Game, Motion Pictures: movies out of cardboard, Die Baumeister des Colosseum, Chariot Race, forestaurant, Kepler 3042, Terraforming Mars, Martians A Story of Civilization, Honshu, Kingsburg 2nd Edition, Dream Home, Habitats, Morpheus, Fabled Fruit, The Daedalus Sentence, Codenames: Pictures, Treasure Lair, Risky Adventure, Taluva Deluxe, Meduris, London Dread, Legendary Inventors, Robinson Crusoe, Capital, Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Rhein: River Trade, Nautilion, A Feast for Odin, (Cottage Garden), Lorenzo il Magnifico, Ulm, Touria, Doodle China, Pandemic Iberia, First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express, Solarius Mission

The Colonists, The Golden Sails, 4 Gods, Gluck Auf: Das grosse Kartenspiel, Order of the Guilded Compass, Railroad Revolution, Great Western Trail, La Granja: The Dice Game no siesta, Key to the City - London, The Oracle of Delphi

Abenteuerland: Konig und Prinzessin, Aeon's End: The Depths, Alchemists: King's Golem, Ancient Terrible Things: The Lost Chapter, Clinic: Medical Dossier 3, Istanbul: Brief & Siegel, Mysterium: Hidden Signs, Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic, Networks: On the Air, Oh My Goods: Longsdale in Aufruhr, Orleans: Handel & Intrige, Pandemic: the Cure - Experimental Meds, Peloponnes Card Game: Patronus, Port Royal Unterwegs!, Russian Railroads: American Railroads, Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord, Small City: Big Tiles, Taschkent Erweiterung

Aeon's End, Alchemidus, Anachrony, At the Gates of Loyang, Ave Roma, Clank!, Colony, Commissioner Victor, Crisis, Dale of Merchants 2, Days of Ire, Dungeon of Fortune, Fantahzee: Hordes & Heroes, Fields of Green, Guilds of London, Heir to the Pharaoh, In the Name of Odin, Jorvik, Kingdomino, Kodama: The Tree Spirits, Mask of Anubis, Morocco, Mystic Vale, Mythe, Oceanos, Perdition's Mouth, Perfumer, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot Angry Ocean, Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, Round House, Schotten Totten, Squirrel Rush, The Networks, Tramways, (Vinhos Deluxe Ediiton), Virus, Yokohama 

Guilds, Sword & Sorcery, Dungeon Heroes Manager, Iunu, Mines of Olnak, Perfect Crime, Save the President, Save the World, Museum, Nemesis, Kung Fu Panda the Board Game, Tiny Epic Galaxies Beyond The Black, Tiny Epic Quest, Glory: A Game of Knights, Rising 5, Edge of Humanity, Gloomhaven

Anachrony 10 card promo pack, Ave Roma packs, Brettspiel Adventskalender 2016, Codenames Pictures promo tiles, Colony promo pack, Dale of Merchants Systemaic Eurasian Beavers, Deutscher Spielepreise 2016 Goodie Box, Dominion Sauna, Fields of Green: Crop Circle, Goons of New York, Guilds of London Essen Guilds promo, Inhabit the Earth tile rack, Keyflower: Keymelequin, Kodama playable goodies, Lorenzo il Magnifico Leader cards, Mysterium Meeple, Quadropolis Ludo Fact, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot metal coins and Port Scuffle, Rrobinson Crusoe Poachers scenario, Round House promo cards and tiles, Russian Railroads American Railroads, Singe Card Game, Snowdonia Season promo cards, Terraforming Mars launch kit promo, Vinhos Deluxe Edition packs 

•••Send your questions to [email protected]

SPIEL 2016 PREVIEW!!! SHOW NOTES: Eric Martin's Spiel Preview Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193588/spiel-2016-preview Louise McCully's Spiel Promo Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/212177/essen-spiel-2016-specials-freebies-promos-and-othe Enter Jen's Spiel 2016 giveaway at: http://www.jenefer.net •••[00:04:21] Most Anticipated Games #45-11►►► Power Grid: The Card Game, Motion Pictures: movies out of cardboard, Die Baumeister des Colosseum, Chariot Race, forestaurant, Kepler 3042, Terraforming Mars, Martians A Story of Civilization, Honshu, Kingsburg 2nd Edition, Dream Home, Habitats, Morpheus, Fabled Fruit, The Daedalus Sentence, Codenames: Pictures, Treasure Lair, Risky Adventure, Taluva Deluxe, Meduris, London Dread, Legendary Inventors, Robinson Crusoe, Capital, Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Rhein: River Trade, Nautilion, A Feast for Odin, (Cottage Garden), Lorenzo il Magnifico, Ulm, Touria, Doodle China, Pandemic Iberia, First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express, Solarius Mission •••[01:14:18] Jen's Essen Plans and Top 10 Most Anticipated Gamess►►► The Colonists, The Golden Sails, 4 Gods, Gluck Auf: Das grosse Kartenspiel, Order of the Guilded Compass, Railroad Revolution, Great Western Trail, La Granja: The Dice Game no siesta, Key to the City - London, The Oracle of Delphi •••[01:32:00] Most Anticipated Expansions►►► Abenteuerland: Konig und Prinzessin, Aeon's End: The Depths, Alchemists: King's Golem, Ancient Terrible Things: The Lost Chapter, Clinic: Medical Dossier 3, Istanbul: Brief & Siegel, Mysterium: Hidden Signs, Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic, Networks: On the Air, Oh My Goods: Longsdale in Aufruhr, Orleans: Handel & Intrige, Pandemic: the Cure - Experimental Meds, Peloponnes Card Game: Patronus, Port Royal Unterwegs!, Russian Railroads: American Railroads, Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord, Small City: Big Tiles, Taschkent Erweiterung •••[01:53:24] Spiel debuts already covered by Rahdo Runs Through►►► Aeon's End, Alchemidus, Anachrony, At the Gates of Loyang, Ave Roma, Clank!, Colony, Commissioner Victor, Crisis, Dale of Merchants 2, Days of Ire, Dungeon of Fortune, Fantahzee: Hordes & Heroes, Fields of Green, Guilds of London, Heir to the Pharaoh, In the Name of Odin, Jorvik, Kingdomino, Kodama: The Tree Spirits, Mask of Anubis, Morocco, Mystic Vale, Mythe, Oceanos, Perdition's Mouth, Perfumer, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot Angry Ocean, Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, Round House, Schotten Totten, Squirrel Rush, The Networks, Tramways, (Vinhos Deluxe Ediiton), Virus, Yokohama  •••[02:31:05] Demo-only Spiel Games►►► Guilds, Sword & Sorcery, Dungeon Heroes Manager, Iunu, Mines of Olnak, Perfect Crime, Save the President, Save the World, Museum, Nemesis, Kung Fu Panda the Board Game, Tiny Epic Galaxies Beyond The Black, Tiny Epic Quest, Glory: A Game of Knights, Rising 5, Edge of Humanity, Gloomhaven •••[02:50:47] Most Anticipated Promos►►►Anachrony 10 card promo pack, Ave Roma packs, Brettspiel Adventskalender 2016, Codenames Pictures promo tiles, Colony promo pack, Dale of Merchants Systemaic Eurasian Beavers, Deutscher Spielepreise 2016 Goodie Box, Dominion Sauna, Fields of Green: Crop Circle, Goons of New York, Guilds of London Essen Guilds promo, Inhabit the Earth tile rack, Keyflower: Keymelequin, Kodama playable goodies, Lorenzo il Magnifico Leader cards, Mysterium Meeple, Quadropolis Ludo Fact, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot metal coins and Port Scuffle, Rrobinson Crusoe Poachers scenario, Round House promo cards and tiles, Russian Railroads American Railroads, Singe Card Game, Snowdonia Season promo cards, Terraforming Mars launch kit promo, Vinhos Deluxe Edition packs  •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT017ii/RTT017ii.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

SPIEL 2016 PREVIEW!!! SHOW NOTES: Eric Martin's Spiel Preview Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193588/spiel-2016-preview Louise McCully's Spiel Promo Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/212177/essen-spiel-2016-specials-freebies-promos-and-othe Enter Jen's Spiel 2016 giveaway at: http://www.jenefer.net •••[00:04:21] Most Anticipated Games #45-11►►► Power Grid: The Card Game, Motion Pictures: movies out of cardboard, Die Baumeister des Colosseum, Chariot Race, forestaurant, Kepler 3042, Terraforming Mars, Martians A Story of Civilization, Honshu, Kingsburg 2nd Edition, Dream Home, Habitats, Morpheus, Fabled Fruit, The Daedalus Sentence, Codenames: Pictures, Treasure Lair, Risky Adventure, Taluva Deluxe, Meduris, London Dread, Legendary Inventors, Robinson Crusoe, Capital, Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Rhein: River Trade, Nautilion, A Feast for Odin, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Ulm, Touria, Doodle China, Pandemic Iberia, First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express, Solarius Mission •••[01:13:37] Jen's Essen Plans and Top 10 Most Anticipated Gamess►►► The Colonists, The Golden Sails, 4 Gods, Gluck Auf: Das grosse Kartenspiel, Order of the Guilded Compass, Railroad Revolution, Great Western Trail, La Granja: The Dice Game no siesta, Key to the City - London, The Oracle of Delphi •••[01:27:34] Most Anticipated Expansions►►► Abenteuerland: Konig und Prinzessin, Aeon's End: The Depths, Alchemists: King's Golem, Ancient Terrible Things: The Lost Chapter, Clinic: Medical Dossier 3, Istanbul: Brief & Siegel, Mysterium: Hidden Signs, Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic, Networks: On the Air, Oh My Goods: Longsdale in Aufruhr, Orleans: Handel & Intrige, Pandemic: the Cure - Experimental Meds, Peloponnes Card Game: Patronus, Port Royal Unterwegs!, Russian Railroads: American Railroads, Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord, Small City: Big Tiles, Taschkent Erweiterung •••[01:52:34] Spiel debuts already covered by Rahdo Runs Through►►► Aeon's End, Alchemidus, Anachrony, At the Gates of Loyang, Ave Roma, Clank!, Colony, Commissioner Victor, Crisis, Dale of Merchants 2, Days of Ire, Dungeon of Fortune, Fantahzee: Hordes & Heroes, Fields of Green, Guilds of London, Heir to the Pharaoh, In the Name of Odin, Jorvik, Kingdomino, Kodama: The Tree Spirits, Mask of Anubis, Morocco, Mystic Vale, Mythe, Oceanos, Perdition's Mouth, Perfumer, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot Angry Ocean, Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, Round House, Schotten Totten, Squirrel Rush, The Networks, Tramways, Vinhos Deluxe Ediiton, Virus, Yokohama  •••[02:30:16] Demo-only Spiel Games►►► Guilds, Sword & Sorcery, Dungeon Heroes Manager, Iunu, Mines of Olnak, Perfect Crime, Save the President, Save the World, Museum, Nemesis, Kung Fu Panda the Board Game, Tiny Epic Galaxies Beyond The Black, Tiny Epic Quest, Glory: A Game of Knights, Rising 5, Edge of Humanity, Gloomhaven •••[02:50:01] Most Anticipated Promos►►►Anachrony 10 card promo pack, Ave Roma packs, Brettspiel Adventskalender 2016, Codenames Pictures promo tiles, Colony promo pack, Dale of Merchants Systemaic Eurasian Beavers, Deutscher Spielepreise 2016 Goodie Box, Dominion Sauna, Fields of Green: Crop Circle, Goons of New York, Guilds of London Essen Guilds promo, Inhabit the Earth tile rack, Keyflower: Keymelequin, Kodama playable goodies, Lorenzo il Magnifico Leader cards, Mysterium Meeple, Quadropolis Ludo Fact, Rattle Battle Grab the Loot metal coins and Port Scuffle, Rrobinson Crusoe Poachers scenario, Round House promo cards and tiles, Russian Railroads American Railroads, Singe Card Game, Snowdonia Season promo cards, Terraforming Mars launch kit promo, Vinhos Deluxe Edition packs  •••Direct MP3 link: https://archive.org/download/RTT017/RTT017.mp3 •••Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RahdoTalksThrough •••Send your questions to [email protected]

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?

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

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