Good news, we're on holiday. Better news, we're not leaving you without podcast. It's a smaller episode, yes, but it is Talk Cardboard delivered right to your door, for free! Mmmmm, free podcast, what could be more delicious? Oh, I know, human suffering! If you feel like what you need more in your life is a cardboard simulation of robots slaughtering endless amounts of flesh bags on the moon, Moon Colony Bloodbath has got you sorted.
Not doing timestamps cause we're on holiday. Also, it's just one game. You'll be fine.
Ambie and Crystal got tagged by RollingReggie in his 3rd annual Midyear Board Game Tag, so we take the whole podcast episode to answer his questions about how the first half of 2025 is going so far in our board gaming!
0:00-Intro
0:34-Midyear Board Game Tag
02:02-1. What is your favorite game so far this year?
04:32-2. What is your most played game?
05:44-3. What was your biggest surprise?
08:09-4. What game's production/art has impressed you the most?
10:07-5. What has been your most reliable introductory board game?
16:09-6. What game do you want to get off of your Shelf of Shame in the second half of the year?
18:28-7. Which game from 10+ years ago did you discover this year?
20:28-8. Which anticipated releases are you most excited about for the second half of the year?
25:50-Bonus. What's your personal favorite video (podcast) that you’ve posted to your channel?
27:24-Outro
28:19-Bloopers
Gen Con! Where all the cool games are, before you even know they're cool. Or hot! We've got you covered, if you want to know what all the best stuff coming out of Indianapolis is going to before before anyone else, then look no further than this episode. Five games each that we're excited to hear more about at the show! Before we face the heat, we talk about Line of Fire: Burnt Moon, and Rise.
02:51 - Line of Fire: Burnt Moon 11:57 - Rise 21:46 - Gen Con Preview 23:53 - Party Panda Pirates 26:09 - Tabriz 27:33 - The Last Command 28:53 - Llama Llama 31:25 - Tearable Quest 33:22 - Furnace Duel 35:59 - Koinobori 37:58 - Galileo Galilei 39:59 - Merchants of Andromeda 42:02 - Ruins 45:03 - Slam Throne 47:34 - Lightning Train 48:40 - Guessocracy: Roll & Vote 51:22 - Habemus Papam 52:34 - Into the Machine
Hark, noble Cabalists, and well met! Gather ye ‘round, for thou art most welcome to yet another enchanted convening of the Lords of the Dungeon! This day, our bold and steadfast adventurers doth recount the wondrous tales of their voyage through the strange and many-layer’d realms of Planescape, with the wise and venerable Archmage AC guiding their path. Thereafter, the Lords dost heed the call of the arcane scrolls sent forth by our loyal listeners - speaking on their most cherished villains, the sacred handling of canon lore, the art of imparting wisdom unto fledgling Game Masters, and the campaign settings they wouldst most desire to conjure for their fellowship. So attend, brave souls, for much knowledge and mirth await within!
Mike is a 12 out of 10 this week as he hosts a radio show that doesn't exist.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
It is remarkable to reflect on how much hobbies can demand of us, and certainly board gaming is no different. Setting aside the administrative, economic, and social burdens; we then have to spend so much time teaching, setting up, and tearing down. Alas! 23-step processes for general set up prior to the 12-step individual player board set up. It was not always thus, but here we are.
21:04 -Netrunner: System Gateway (Zoe Cohen, McGregor Crowley, June Valencia Cuervo, Max Chippington Derrick, Gregory Tongue, and Jade Wesley, Null Signal Games, 2021)
34:37 -Planepita (Eisuke Fuijinawa & Kazunori Hori, SzpiLAB, 2022)
40:50 -ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo (Scott Rogers, Ravensburger, 2021)
44:47 -Endeavor: Deep Sea (Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, Burnt Island Games, 2024)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
50:05 Germán P. Millán's Covenant
50:35 Blood Rage: Valhalla expandalone to be on crowdfunding
53:52 Little Soldiers: green army men miniatures game
This week's guest is scholar at the Max Planck Institute, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen. We talk about the occult, the discipline of board game acedemia and its place in the modern world...but which games did he choose?
Tim went to visit the Midwest for a weekend that involved disc golf, baseball, and a lot of food. This was the weekend of 18DSM, a convention dedicated to 18XX games and although we only played one 18xx game, I hope that changes in the future. We talk about our recent plays of Reef Encounter, 18USA, Combat Commander and Imperial Struggle.
Everything except Board Games in the beginning.
Board Game talk starts at 50:08.
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This week we celebrate making it to EPISODE 1000!!!
Thanks to Bezier Games for their support.
Thanks to Bezier, AMIGO, and Pandasaurus for their sponsorship with games for the contest!
You can sponsor the podcast directly by going to www.patreon.com/garrettgames or check out our extensive list of games that no longer fit on OUR shelves, but belong on your table:
We're back from Origins, and we've got stories to tell! AC from Lords of the Dungeon joins us to spin some yarns from our trip to Columbus, Ohio. Then we dive into the games we've been playing, including Friedrich, Euphoria, Coffee Traders, Wroth, Mystery of the Abbey, The Quest for El Dorado, and a featured review of Stupor Mundi by Nestore Mangone. Stevie S takes the helm for the News segment while Tony's away, and the Gang answers a couple of listener questions. Friedrich: 00:30:39, Euphoria: 00:39:56, Coffee Traders: 00:45:03, Wroth: 00:53:18, Mystery of the Abbey: 01:02:59, The Quest for El Dorado: 01:13:31, Stupor Mundi: 01:25:32, News with Stevie S: 01:59:55, Short Topic Extravaganza: 02:47:54. Check out our sponsors Restoration Games at https://restorationgames.com/. Game Toppers at https://www.gametoppersllc.com/. And CGE at https://czechgames.com/.
Opener: Skara Brae, and again I'm talking about vacation-linked boardgames Closer: The Dornücopia we've got planned for EsCon in a couple weeks.
I'm always happy to talk about the Spiel des Jahres. The winners, the nominees, the recommended titles, the jury process, and the award's immense, positive impact on our hobby. That goes for the Kennerspiel and Kinderspiel, too...though I'm woefully ignorant about the children's category.
This time it's just me talking about the games, severall of which I've played, but some I've missed. I don't think my predictions for what will win are particularly interesting or insightful--I just like talking about the games and sharing what I think of them. For the SdJ, this year the nominees are Bomb Busters, Flip 7, and Krakel Orakel. (Plus the recommended titles are Agent Avenue, Castle Combo, Cities, Foxy, Perfect Words, and The Animals of Baker Street.)
In Becky's last episode within her run she takes board gaming to the beach, well on holiday at least as we chat about when the hobby meets travel. We chat through our tips, some of our favourite travel games and anything else in between.
FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Davey and Tambo
In this episode you'll learn: - about JP's first few games of the hit battle royale shooter Apex Legends by Glass Cannon Unplugged - how Tambo argues with his family about what colours the walls should be in Décorum by Floodgate Games - all about the chaos that is Galaxy Trucker from Czech Games Edition and why it's Davey's perfect board game warm up act - that Becky cheats and gets two games in Harmonies by Libellud the the powerhouse that is Flip 7 by The Op Games - all about taking games on your travels, why it's fun, top tips and more.
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW N/A
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:06 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
1:13 - JP - Apex Legends
14:48 - Tambo - Decorum
19:37 - Davey - Galaxy Trucker
26:40 - Becky - Harmonies & Flip 7
35:07 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Hex on the beach
35:59 - The key aspects to taking games on holiday
41:56 - What are our top travel friendly games?
53:54 - The type of holidays will help curate the type of games to bring
55:55 - Top tips for preparing to take games on holiday
1:01:51 - What is out one chosen game & honourary mention to take away?
1:11:47 - TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave
1:14:45 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
Apparently the American custom of the "push present" can trace its roots to the Anglo-Indian tradition of the "baby bauble", although in the latter case jewellery is the more standard gift (instead of, say, boardgames). Can we acknowledge that baby bauble is a much less crude term? Let's try to be classy here, people. There is already enough about childbirth that is fraught.
Games Played Last Week:
2:07 -Galactic Cruise (T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, and Koltin Thompson, Kinson Key Games, 2025)
6:31 -Cerebria: The Inside World (Richard Amann, Viktor Peter, István Pócsi, Frigyes Schőberl, Nick Shaw, & Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2018)
Today, we discuss our recent travel adventures. Eric has returned from a Ninja Escort Mission and ran into gaming opportunites at every turn. And Tom and Julie have the full scoop on the 50th Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH. Then, we finish the show with a gathering of our latest Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:48 - Convention Season - Dice Tower East
01:53 - Playing Only Older Games
04:01 - What We're Doing at Dice Tower East: Parsely, Wits and Wagers
Tony is on vacation, so Vanessa joins more for the classic RDTN intro banter. Plus in the outro, they talk about their favorite movies from the first half of 2025.
On this episode of On Board Games, Erik is joined by Chris and Casey from Solid Roots game company to talk about games (and other things) they've played including:
Root
Beyond the Sun
Skip Bo
Grand Austria Hotel
Ma's Deep Shinola
Momo's Shanghai Rummy
Firefly
Star Wars Outer Rim
Aquanauts
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Blood on the Clocktower
You can get a discount on Zencastr.com using this link.
(29:31) Then, they discuss a recent "Make your own board game" event that they hosted.
For our last episode before we hit FOUR digits of episode releases, we take on TWO BIG GAMES that both use version of Action Points to do your turns!
In Bone Wars, by Wim Goossens from Game Brewer and Cranio Creations, we become palentologists, publish about new dinosaurs, and compete to earn the favor of two famous scientists.
In Ezra and Nehemiah, by Shem Phillips and SJ MacDonald from Renegade Game Studios and Garphil Games, we work to rebuild ancient Judah and its community.
Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games!
Remember you can support the podcast directly by going to www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR check out the extensive list of games that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table HERE:
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