Boards & Swords | Board Games / Card Games / Roleplaying Games

I promise we’ll get back to interviews next time (Nova Open LIVE show btw!!), but for now we’ve finally got more news out of Gen Con to talk about, along with what was “hot” during the show.

This is awkward…normally I’m the one with stories from Gen Con, now I’m scouring online looking for them myself. We’ve got some news stories and social media to fill in the gaps though!

Ready to throw down in some UNO at the casino? How about learning sign language in a TTRPG? A bit D&D heavy with the news this week, but Eric Yurko is here from What’s Eric Playing (https://whatsericplaying.com/) to balance us out and talk about what’s going to be on display at Gen Con this year.

No guest this week, just a lot of news to talk about. Like what games does CMON have left? And why is Asmodee hiring their crowdfunding “expert”? Even I can read the tea leaves on why thats a bad idea. Also, would you pay $165 for a Magic the Gathering event? I don’t think I would.

CMON has a “Setting Sun” with several of its games, Gundam minis are (surprise) really well put together, and a board game about dating D&D monsters? Also, Mark Henry from the site Goblin’s Hut ( https://www.goblinshut.com/) is here to talk about the product “Dirty Down” and how it can make painting your miniatures easier.

Come on and SLAM, and welcome to the Jam that is POGs! Meanwhile, I’ve got new rulebooks to buy, some books maybe I shouldn’t buy, and Will Schoonover is here from Steve Jackson Games to talk about what’s new in the Munchkin world. I better keep an eye on Philip…

Apparently the internet is wrong and people wont quit playing Magic from Universes Beyond? Just switch over to Altered, where you can have print on demand cards in your TCG. That just seems weird to me. Also, we’ve got Shane from the Foundry VTT team here with us to talk about what makes their software different from the multitudes of options available!

Someone at Hasbro should stop letting their CEO talk. Also, there’s a lot of crappy news out so I decided to talk about some new games announced recently. Speaking of news, we’ve also got Rowan Zeoli on from Rascal News to talk about what its like as an independent news blog in this dumpster fire of a time.

Remember how I said the adepticon news would be in a separate episode, and then it never came out? That's because a storm knocked out my internet, and the week got so busy we never got around to trying again. There's still some good stuff in the 20 mins that did record.

Chris Perkins isn’t at Wizards of the Coast anymore? I might not have to put decals on my minis anymore? I’m just a glass cage of emotions right now. In the meantime, we’ve got Justus and Eric from the card game Doomlings on to talk about their cute little catastrophe game.

Gamestop has decided crypto is the right investment, Stonemaier is investing in Disc Golf, and Battletech is going…Gothic? We’ve also got on Tom Lommel from Evil Hat Productions (https://evilhat.com/) to talk about all the “Evil” things they have coming up this year.

Would you pay $87K for a pokemon shaped cheeto? What about buy a board game based on The Sims or Helldivers 2? Speaking of electronic gaming, we’ve also got Jean Simonet from Pixels on the show to talk about their electronic dice!

Remember Decipher? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also, that D&D Mr. Potato Head is creepy and Breeze Grigas is here from Zephyr Workshop to talk about his games like A.E.G.I.S.!

Thank you for being a friend…of the emperor? FFG makes their games more manageable for stores, and Kickstarter makes things more manageable for your wallet. Plus, Calvin Wong Tze Loon is on the show to talk about what it was like designing the Mass Effect Board Game along with Eric Lang!

Wingspan’s second sequel smells kind of fishy…ubereats now serving Pokemon cards, and you can’t make enough noise for the next Warhammer army… Plus, Bostria from Corvus Belli joins us to talk about the wargame Infinity!

Not exactly an abundance of news stories this early in the year, but that’s okay, because there’s one Minis game that will probably stomp all over the rest… Plus! We’ve got Silvia and Fabio from Loot Studios here to talk about their upcoming game Malediction!

Wrath and Gloooooria……in exterminius deo? We get into the Christmas spirit talking with Chris Colston about the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG “Wrath and Glory”. Also, we go through the top 10 news stories of 2024 and remember what a crazy year it’s been!

Unlike my electric car, I like my Pax’es “Unplugged”. Both of us went this year, so what did we see & do? Also, Wyrmwood is still a crappy company, somehow Funko took down itch.io, and Vallejo workers are on strike? All this and more!

Hopefully it wont be “Lore”-ded over me, but we’re talking about a new website to keep track of your tabletop roleplaying games: Lore Link (https://lorelink.com). Mark Della-Croce, one of the founders is on the show to show off this resource and how you can utilize it in your games. Plus, apparently no more Hasbro movies, and some UPS drivers made off with some MTG cards. All that and much more!

I feel like I should write something snap-py here, because we’ve got Scott Pease from Snap Ship Tactics here. Want to play an X-Wing style game with ships you build yourself? Then you’re going to want to listen up! Plus, Funko is worried about some trends, there’s some fancy baggage to carry around your board games here, and did anyone need poolside versions of board games?