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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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Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
You ever wake up in the morning as an Arch Mage and decide, today is the day I get into real estate? And then you realize you need a lot more help and you need to hire people? It happens more times than it should. So to live that dream, just one more time Kiwi, Paxton, and bP are playing Lizard Wizard from Forbidden Games, designed by Glenn Drover and published in 2021.
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
I'm here to talk about a serious problem, TRIBES of wild Kiwi roaming the country side! This week, Paxton is back with bP and Kiwi to play Kiwi Chow Down from Detestable Games. It was designed by Pepe Macba and published in 2023.
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Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
When bP was asked about an episode title, she was clearly focused on penguins: Purple Penguins, Penguin Pals, Purple Penguin Pals ... yeah, we don't know either. Then Paxton just said there's nothing funnier than watching penguins walk at 5x speed. Basically they weren't help at all.
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Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
"It doesn't take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephant on the battlefield." This week, Eric and Kiwi bring Commands & Colors: Ancients to the table and recreate the first battle of the Bagradas River between Rome and Carthage. The game was published by GMT Games in 2006 and designed by Richard Borg.
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Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
It's another double game episodes with bP and Kiwi. This time around we're playing Timeline by Frederic Henry and published in 2012 by Asmodee. We follow that up with Trailblazers published in 2023 by Bitewing Games and designed by Ryan Courtney.
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Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
This week, Eric, Kiwi, and Alexei got the opportunity to learn Exit Vector from Vector Tridens LLC set to go to Kickstarter in mid-2023. The designers Jerick Black, Marc Daigler, and Matt Davis joined us to teach us the game and then run us through a scenario. The game can be played stand alone or added as a module to an ongoing RPG campaign. Find out how it goes!
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Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
When I was. A young man. My father. Took me into the city. To see Kiwi and bP play two games this week. An episode harkening back to the double game episodes that we used to publish many moons ago. They are playing Pixel Tactics Deluxe by D. Brad Talon Jr and published in 2015 by Level 99 Games and Parade which was designed by Naoki Homma and published by ZMan Games in 2007.
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Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Because it's DULL, you twit, it'll hurt more! This is it! We made it! This is our 200th episode! Only 88 shows in US Prime Time television have made it to 200+. We're in prestigious company. Only 436 more to pass Gunsmoke and be number 2 on the list. This week we delve into hot topics, like who played the best Robin Hood as we get into our deep dive of The Sherriff of Nottingham designed by Sergio Halaban and Andre Zatz, originally published in 2014 and now published by Asmodee.
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Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
We're building subway lines this week in Terminus by Earl Aspiras and Thomas Volpe. It was published in 2023 by Inside Up Games.
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Tuesday May 23, 2023
Tuesday May 23, 2023
Engines pumping and thumping in time! The green light flashes the flags go up, churning and burning .... we're taking to the track in our vintage 1960s Formula 1 cars to see which one of us can SEND IT! We're playing Heat: Pedal to the Metal, designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pederson. It was published by Days of Wonder.
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