FANTASY AND SOME FLIGHTS

We have a fantastic episode prepared for you, with double the Flights, a special guest for the icebreaker, and incredibly in-depth analysis!

The Ender's Game books occupy a spot within both of our top 2 books, so we are thoroughly excited to cover this Book Breakdown!

We finally explore the anticipated Jagged Earth, Spirit Island expansion, breaking down the spirits for play styles, powers, and weaknesses.

Our most prepared-for episode to date, we employ the skills developed in previous book episodes to analyze the Lord of the Rings trilogy!

We are continuing our series in Mechanics Exploration with Worker Placement! We cover all the classics and hopefully some new names.

Story Arcs! A well researched and developed topic, our conversation crosses established models, treasured classics, and exciting new works!

This episode covers Dalton's favorite genres: Area Control and Dudes on a Map games. Enjoy the politics and turmoil of combat-heavy games!

We are joined this episode by Charles Mruz, director of the recently released documentary, Gamemaster.

This episode's engine building theme poses some of the toughest discussions, questions, and choices of the podcast so far.

The counterpart to the hero story: Villainy. We discuss what brings a villain to life, what gives them depth and intrigue to captivate us.

Bourbon, a cornerstone of our podcast. We cover where to start, how to taste, origins of whiskey, and taste 8 whiskeys from 5 countries.

Cooperative games, our our favorite genre of game! We take listener-submitted questions, talk through coops and give recommendations.

The Hero Story is prevalent in fantasy and sci-fi, resonating deep in our hearts with stories of courage, endurance, peril, and triumph.

Deckbuilding, the first in our series of Mechanics Exploration! We tackle explaining, analyzing, and recommending our favorite Deckbuilders.

This week's topic - Narration Styles. How is a story told? How do we, as readers, interface with the story and grow to love the characters?

We are finally getting to do a Gloomhaven episode and we are so excited! This game would top both of our lists if we allowed ourselves to co

Today we are discussing one of our favorite topics - the Magic of Fantasy! Specifically, the systems employed to inject whimsy and wonder...

We are on episode 3 and looking to cover a lot of ground! That ground being the entire spectrum of board games. Is that too much to...

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So here it is, episode 1 of the podcast we are very excited to start. We wanted this initial episode to be a more lighthearted episode...