Vox Republica: Podcast of The Cardboard Republic

Length: 20:17

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’re back at posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

We start off this week talking briefly about our January Indie Spotlight game, Empires of Zidal, and what makes it so interesting.

Then, Erin provides a number of very handy common sense tricks and tips for when you're hosting game nights, ensuring that you and your guests will enjoy themselves even more!

And finally, we talk about some of this week's gaming-related news, including a couple big happenings in the world of Magic: the Gathering, and a pair of Kickstarters that have been making some waves.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 26:29

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’re back at posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

Ryan LaFlamme is back this week, and we’re discussing tips and tricks to get you through the convention season. Cons are fun, but they aren’t without their own set of challenges.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 1:48:05

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

Also, we're doing a donation drive from now until January 9th to help fund the site. Every donation of $3 or more will be entered into a contest to win a copy of our December game Eons! You can read our post about keeping the lights on here.

Now, normally we posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode is about 20 - 30 minutes long...except for this week.

Ryan and Dave join me this week to discuss everything noteworthy from the last year in gaming. This includes wonderful new games, of course, but also conventions, dice, designers, and more.

Given the amount of material, this show is longer than most. Don’t worry - we’ll be back to our half hour format next week.

Here’s a summary of the Ryan’s and Dave’s topics:

10 - Increasing Number of Gamers in Pop Culture

9 - Increasing Diversity in Gaming

8 - Thanks for Supporting Us!

7 - What We’ve Learned From Convention Time

6 - Magic: the Gathering’s 20th Anniversary

5 - Popular Game Mechanics

4 - Crowdfunding Failures

3 - Notable Major Gaming Successes - Mostly Kickstarters

2 - Top 10 Non-Crowdfunded Games

1 - Top 10 Crowdfunded Games

Dave:

10 - Miniatures Games

9 - Diceless Systems

8 - More Science Fiction RPGs

7 - Boston FIG

6 - Systemless Settings

5 - Fate Core

4 - Onyx Path

3 - D&D Next Open Playtest

2 - Pathfinder is Industry Leader

1 - Rise of Crowdfunding for RPGs

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 36:33

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

This week, Ryan takes over as a guest host, and he's brought company! He and regional tournament organizer Angela DiTillo sit down for a chat about The Legend of the Five Rings CCG, which this year celebrated its 18th anniversary. Having debuted in 1995, it's almost as old as Magic, though you may not have heard nearly as much about it. So let us all learn about the game known as L5R!

You can find out more about L5R and the upcoming new edition here. 

Also be sure to check out Dead Gentlemen and The Gamers series of films, as well as the L5R-inspired homage game Romance of the Nine Empires that started off as a Gamers 3 Kickstarter stretch goal, and is now a legitimate game made by AEG - the same makers of L5R.

Also, we're doing a donation drive from now until January 9th to help fund the site. Every donation of $3 or more will be entered into a contest to win a copy of our December game Eons! You can read our post about keeping the lights on here.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 27:19

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

This week, Ryan returns to continue last week's in-depth look at gaming categories. This time we talk at the other side of the gaming spectrum with Ameritrash games. (If you're wondering on the differences between Euro and Ameritrash, check out Episode 10 of the podcast.)

Also, we're doing a donation drive from now until January 9th to help fund the site. Every donation of $3 or more will be entered into a contest to win a copy of our December game Eons! You can read our post about keeping the lights on here.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 30:27

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

This week, Ryan stops by to go into detail on what makes pure Euro games so great, as well as where they can fall short. If you're wondering on the differences between Euro and Ameritrash, check out Episode 10 of the podcast.

Also, we're doing a donation drive from now until January 9th to help fund the site. Every donation of $3 or more will be entered into a contest to win a copy of our December game Eons! You can read our post about keeping the lights on here.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 25:25

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

Dave is back in an encore this week to talk more tabletop. This time he's a bit more general as he goes over some basic GM tricks of the trade.

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 31:34

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

This week, Dave has an ode (of sorts) about Traveller, a classic sci-fi RPG that has begun to have some renewed interest in recent years. 

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.

Length: 30:10

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Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast!

We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 - 30 minutes long.

This week, I talk to Dave about creating the best Christmas village ever.

Some of the names we refer to include Reaper Minis and Privateer Press Paints. 

We’d love to hear from you! Please leave feedback in our forums, or via email at [email protected]. You can also reach me on Twitter or BoardGameGeek.

Audio Credits: Intro music track is "8-Bit Brawl" by DJ Cutman featuring S&CO., used with permission.