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First Turn Tabletop Thoughts: Where three friends play board games for the first time and discuss our immediate reactions. It’s like book club … but for board games!
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Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 2021
24 min
Oh dang .. not dogs ... gods, let sleeping gods lie. Oh well ... Eric got Sleeping Gods in the mail and Kait joined him as they travel back in time to their 1920s steamship! Can Eric teach a game? Will they win? Do you win!? Let's find out together in this week's episode ...
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Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021
37 min
... It's the devil inside I don't trust. We did a robbery. If any law enforcement are reading this, it was not a real robbery. It was a fake robbery. Technically we didn't even do the robbery, it's part of the story. Somebody talked though, and now the Fuzz is on to us and we have to get out of town in Escape Plan by Vital Lacerda and published by Eagle-Gryphon Games!
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Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
35 min
66% of the group has a thing for Sherlock Holmes games. Sometimes we can even know things about one game because we learned it in another! We travel back to 1800s London as we play Nanty Narking! It's our first game designed by Martin Wallace, this one is published by PHALANX!
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Feb 9, 2021
Feb 9, 2021
25 min
Our gaming trio is trying out another vegetable based card game as we bring Point Salad to the virtual table. Published by AEG and designed by a different trio: Shawn Stankewich, Molly Johnson, and Robert Melvin.
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Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021
34 min
Our trio is back together as they try to build a nice little garden with a view, a pagodas, and koi, and dragons, and villages, and bridges, ... oh you get the point. We're playing Tang Garden, designed by Francesco Testini and Pierluca Zizzi and published by Thundergryph Games!
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021
39 min
"Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage!" That's right, we're playing Sabotage by Tim Fowers this week (published by Fowers Games). We also have our second Guest Host as Kait joins our intrepid trio! Do the Villains win and bring their doomsday device upon their unsuspecting victims, or are the Spies able to thwart them?
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Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021
34 min
And not the dog. The planet. Or the not planet, or the dwarf planet. Science ... get it together and make a decision! Kiwi tries to use other trick taking games to teach The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine to people (ie bP and Eric) who have never played trick taking games. It doesn't work. Designed by Thomas Sing and published by KOSMOS!
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Jan 5, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
32 min
Inconceivable! Eric had fun editing this one while Kiwi and bP went off on tangents as they play The Princess Bride Adventure Board Game. Based on their favorite movie of all time. It was designed by Ryan Miller and published by Ravensburger! Have fun storming the castle!
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Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020
36 min
Finally 2020 has come to an end. That means we are playing our redemption episode. We take a game we weren't keen on and give it another try to see if it was the game or the experience that put us off. We played Clank! In! Space! way back in episode 13. SPOILER: We didn't like it. Since Clank! is slightly different we decided to try it instead to see if it was the system or the just the science fiction version of it that we didn't like. This one is designed by Paul Dennen, with art by Rayph Beisner, Derek Herring, Levi Parker, and Nate Storm. It was published by Renegade Game Studios.
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Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020
54 min
Just over a year (or 54 episodes) ago we did our First Annual First Turn Tabletop Thoughts Podcast Year in Review 2019 Episode. This year, it's the Second Annual First Turn Tabletop Thoughts Podcast Year in Review 2020 Episode! How did our trio do? Do we still suck at games? Did anyone improve? Kiwi events his own stat to track and our trio talk about our favorite games and disappointments as we look back on the last year of games we played on the podcast (and some off the podcast)!
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