This episode is all about Estate: Raise the Realm, which is currently live on kickstarter! 

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Today features a different gruesome twosome as Just Patrick is joined by Navigator Lana for all kinds of tabletop chatter.

The 8-bit breakdown feature is Windmill Valley; an amazing euro game with several strategic paths and some of those big turns where everything chains together!

Before wrapping up the episode, we get a visit from explorer Josh for a lost loot segment!

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A party of four sets out for adventure today!

King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Navigator Lana and Teacher Ryan for an episode full of gaming goodness!

Recent plays include Defrag, Ezra and Nehemiah, Defrag, and Beacon Patrol.

The 8-bit breakdown goes to Voidfall, followed by a time warp, where we look at last year's review game: Rauha.

We had the pleasure of previewing End of the Line with Seppy Yoon!  Hear our thoughts, then check it out on kickstarter!

Finally, King & Patrick look at the most recent 10 review games, and decide which ones are their top 5!

As always, we hope you enjoy the show!

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An episode filled with adventure!  Hear tales of Nemo's War, Cash n' Guns, Summer Camp and more!  Our feature quest is 2021 Board and Dice game Origins: First Builders.  In a special Everdell lookback, we introduced the Pearlbrook expansion!  Josh joins us for some lost loot before finally we answer some of your questions!

The heroes try to avoid rust spells in this adventure as our 8-bit breakdown is Corrosion!  Hear our thoughts on this complex game as well as Zapotec, Rove and more.  We visit the Academy where Andrew provides a segment you cannot refuse.  This quest concludes with some final thoughts on our experiences at PAX!

At last our adventures culminate with a mighty feast!  We are joined by "The Hungry Gamer" William Brown to talk about our PAX experiences.  In this episode we highlight a whopping NINE! games that made a big impression.  From Brian Boru, to Final Girl, to Dinosaur World, The Legacy of Isla Nublar, this episode is PACKED!

Hungry Gamer youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVr5MNf7Nt5oCXywsUh-ttA

Back to work adventurers!  We have orders to fill in the 8-bit breakdown of Factory 42!  Recent adventures include Goetia, Die Hard, and more!  Josh highlights Battle Sheep in today's Lost Loot!  Our discussion is focused on playing your best, what gets in the way of doing so, and is it really all that important?  Finally we conclude our quest with upcoming kickstarter feature, Clash at Rook's Point!

Link to Boards & Brews live chat: https://youtu.be/0x-h7lzYBK4

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EXPLOSIONS!!!  John Kovaleski joins the party to talk about kickstarter megahit Borderlands: Mr. Torgue's Arena of Badassery!  

The first season's journey concludes with an 8-bit breakdown of Cape May!  We retell tales of Shadows over Camelot in our look back.  Archmage Andrew presents War of the Worlds: The New Wave in the Academy Segment.  Recent adventures include Tiny Epic Dinosurs, On Mars, and more!  Stick around until the end when the heroes list their top ten games that were reviewed on Level Up in season one!

Academy segment URL referenced: https://youtu.be/9q7tN7MhQ4I

The party has company for Thanksgiving!  We're joined by Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier games to chat about the upcoming Arts and Architecture expansion for Tapestry!

The adventure continues!  The heroes recent adventures are packed with gaming goodness from tending a garden to plundering on the high seas!  We roll for skill checks in VISION for our 8-bit breakdown of MicroMacro: Crime City!  Josh helps us discover some Lost Loot, and we conclude with an introspective look at our game preferences!  

In this adventure, the company changes a bit, as "lost loot" host Josh joins Patrick for an 8-bit breakdown of Megapulse!  The party grows further as Megapulse designer Nicolas joins the group!  Hear everything you want to know about the kickstarter from the designer himself.  

Find out more about Megapulse at https://www.jeux-orion.com/

The adventure continues in our second biggest episode to date!  The heroes discuss King of Tokyo, Battle Bosses and Twilight Imperium, before running Dun Imperium through the 8-bit breakdown gauntlet!  Archmage Andrew tells a a captivating story of exploration!  Our community topic takes a look at tips for introducing someone into the wonderful hobby of board gaming.  Keep your shield up and arrows ready because we have a pair of adventures on the horizon: Stan Kordonsky's Resurgence, and 18-card dungeon delving adventure: The Hand of Destiny!  Finally, we finish off this epic quest with another TOP 5!  

Welcome adventurers!

Today King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Navigator Lana to do an 8-bit breakdown for Captain Flip: a quick hitting game that was just nominated for spiel!

We chat about a ton of other games, plus look into the other spiel nominees, as well as the Dice Tower award nominees, including some notable snubs.

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Any icy cold adventure awaits the heroes as they struggle to find shelter underground in Cryo!  We talk Alien, Fate of the Nostromo as well as how to go about selling your games online.  Discover some lost loot as Josh joins us to talk about Fire Tower!  Ready your weapons and join the adventure!

The heroes give an 8-bit breakdown to upcoming kickstarter game: Senjutsu, Battle for Japan!  Then our quest takes us accross the Atlantic as we hear tales of the game's creation from designers Paul Allen and James Faulkner!

A massive quest with all sorts of adventures.  Games featured include Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Nemesis, Tellstones and Scythe!  Currently available for late pledge, find out about Dog Park!  Then we discuss the rising costs of luxury board games and how to approach it with your wallet in mind.  

No self respecting wizard shows up at the tavern alone, there must be companions!  The best way to get them? Summon your own of course!  Join us for the 8-bit breakdown of this tactical gem, then stick around and gain some EXP with us because the game's designer, Klemens Luger, joins the party!

Sometimes our adventures take us to familiar grounds and in episode 30, we found ourselves taking on all sorts of quests from yesteryear!  Hear tales of Guillotine and Battle Masters as well as an 8-bit breakdown of the classic, Viticulture!  Our party has grown larger as Josh presents the first installment of the "Lost Loot" segment.  Finally, get the scoop on TWO upcoming kickstarters!

Arrrrgh!  Adventure takes us to sea matey!  Eric & Shannon Gellar join the HMS Wilford and share tales of their kickstarter!  Hear our thoughts in the 8-bit breakdown, then hear the design process straight from the source!  

Our adventure continues as our fingernails delve ever deeper into the disc-flicking dungeons of Catacombs!  Archmage Andrew joins the banter as we discuss Cloudspire and Goonies Never Say Die!  Level up at the Academy as Andrew tells us a story about a playable character from Black Orchestra.  Finally, our adventure on the horizon is a wild, upcoming kickstarter called Quack Quack No Take Backs.

We flip our discussion from a couple of episodes ago and talk about games that we were NOT hyped for, but ended up really enjoying.  Recent adventures include Descent, Legends of the Dark, Grind House, Orleans, and Funfair!  Adventurers know a thing or two about stopping by the inn at the end of a quest, and this time we stop at the Grand Austria Hotel for the 8-bit breakdown!

We dare tread many paths on our level up adventures.  Today we journey with designer Cody Miller (Xia) and learn about his current kickstarter, Arydia, the paths we dare tread!  Hear everything you want to know about the game from the designer himself, and find out if Cody earns himself a level up!

Adventure awaits!  Our heroes tell tales of Wingspan, Taverns of Tiefenthal and more.  Raise your shields as our feature quest hits hard: Carnegie!  We introduce the academy resident: Archmage Andrew, and even conquer two adventures on the horizon: Boba Mahjong & Reiner Knizia's Soda Smugglers.  Our campfire tales involve ways to "respect the game."  Gain some DEX and WIS, and join us as we level up!

Join Scott and Patrick as they recall tales of Origins 2024!

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Draw your arrows and take aim!  Recent adventures include Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition, Northern Pacific and more!  Legends battle and the heroes cast their best spell: the 8-bit breakdown, on Unmatched, Battle of Legends with brand new Deadpool Expansion!  Gather 'round the campfire as adventurers discuss when the "hype" let them down.  Finally, our adventure on the horizon features a narrative game book that is available for late pledge now... SPACE KRAKEN!

The heroes find themselves in the land of Zanziar, traveling to the mountains of the Dwarven Collective, and aiding in the disposal of Orcs in an old village to the East!  That's right! We're diving into currently live kickstarter, Beyond the Rift: A Perdition's Mouth Card Game!  Hear our thoughts on this dungeon delving card driven campaign, then stick around as we are joined by the game's designer, Nikolas Patrakka.

Welcome adventurer!  Join us for our feature quest: Yedo!  Recent adventures include Street Masters, Gloomholdin' and Parks.  Pour a tankard and join the discussion about cinematic experiences in board gaming.  Finally, we share our thoughts on an upcoming quest, a currently live kickstarter: Top Pop!

The campaign continues as the heroes tell tales of the first Level Up meetup!  Recent adventures include Chakra, Solar Storm, and more.  Black Orchestra gets the 8-bit breakdown treatment.  The community discussion is about what to expect at a board game meetup!  Finally, as we will do every ten episodes, we list our top 5 games of the last ten we reviewed.  Join the adventure and level up!

Join King Scott and Patrick as they discuss Lonely Undead, a game with an interesting twist on the zombie genre.  We give it an 8-bit breakdown before being joined by the designer himself, Shelby Matussak of Dead Lemon Games!

The heroes try out their sea legs in this quest in the north!  Recent adventures include Maximum Apocalypse, Axis and Allies 1914 and more!  Raiders of the North Sea is tackled in the 8-bit breakdown, then we discuss some community topics, including our poll on vacation gaming!

Ready your swords 'cause you're going to need them!  The heroes are joined by Andrew Lowan, designer of Deliverance!  Spoiler: this game is epic!

Back to the tavern to speak of recent adventures, the heroes tell tales of Altar Quest, Battletech, Stronghold 2nd edition and Call to Adventure.  Find out how they fared in their epic quest: Red Rising!  A new hero joins the party, Keith Matejka, of Thunderworks games, to talk about all the gaming greatness they have in store for you, from Lockup: Breakout to Cape May!  Join the adventure and LEVEL UP!

Tighten those boots! Recent adventures include Tranquility and Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings, as well as our solo thoughts on both Proving Grounds and Warp's Edge.  Our feature quest takes us to the far reaches of space as we review Beyond the Sun.  To round things out, we have a community poll discussion and the winners of current kickstarter games!

Welcome adventurers!  Today we're joined by Adam, Scotty, and Abbie to take on our feature quest: Brass Birmingham!  Hear our thoughts on the 2020 Golden Geek Awards.  We talk recent adventures as well as some solo games that have been hitting our tables.  Then we got to talk with Chris Loizou about upcoming kickstarter game, Cursed Empire!  Finally, we add ANOTHER game to our giveaway!  Join us! Gain some EXP ...and Level Up!

It's about time we level back!

This episode features games that are at least 5 years old.  Sometimes the best games aren't the newest, but tried and true hits.

Today's 8-bit breakdown goes to Expeditions Around the World, a recent re-release from Super Meeple, of a game originally from 1996!

We chat about what we're looking forward to at Origins, and Explorer Josh tells us about some of the things you can do at the convention aside from board gaming.

We finish it off with a retro trivia game!

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The heroes find themselves in a quest filled with retro adventures including our feature review: Puerto Rico.  We reached out to the community to learn about some common gaming pet peeves.  Finally, our adventure on the horizon is Hidden Leaders!  Hear all about the game, and enter to win our copy!

A new quest is afoot!  Join the heroes as they are joined by Thuergy designers Oliver Josiah and Charlotte Dowling to discuss their funded kickstarter board game: Thuergy, including an 8-bit breakdown of the game!

The heroes discuss recent adventures before taking on a giant killer quest: GKR Heavy Hitters!  Then its time to visit the study as we answer questions from the adventurers!

Episode 11 is a quest like no other!  Our party grows in number as MartinG joins us to discuss all things solo gaming before we adventure to Martin's print-and-play hideaway.  After the 8-bit breakdown we share our top 5 games of those we have reviewed so far.  The episode concludes with an adventure on the horizon that you don't want to miss: Territory, the Card Game.  

Make up camp and start the fire because episode ten is our biggest quest yet!  Games discussed include Alien: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, Brass Lancashire, Tainted Grail, Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion and more!  The adventuring party grows larger as we are joined by Wade Hayes, the designer of Poetic License! 

The heroes share recent adventures and in a Level Up first, our feature review is a game that has not yet launched on Kickstarter!  Then our adventuring party doubles in size as we have a discussion with the game's creators!  

Join our next quest! We discuss several games this episode, including Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Palm Island, Airlines Europe and Nanty Narking!  Our feature review is the popular Century Spice Road.  Then we check in on the community as we break down a poll concerning board game expansions.

Join our adventure for episode 7! Scott and Patrick share their recent adventures including Spirit Island, Red Outpost, Downforce and more! Our quest for episode 7 is a classic: Power Grid.  Finally we talk about sharpening your skills to enjoy both competitive and casual gaming!

In our first side quest episode, Patrick and Scott talk all things solo for Terraforming Mars.  We go over how to approach the solo mode, present our favorite corporations, and even provide what we feel are our ten favorite / best cards for solo play!

Gather 'round adventurers! In episode 5 we discuss recent plays including Sagrada, Space Hulk Death Angel, Camel Up, Wits n Wagers, Sentinels of the Multiverse and more!  Our community poll is centered around the psychology of point salad games.  Finally, today's quest is a game that most gamers may be unfamiliar with: Eschaton!  

Welcome adventurers!

Just Patrick & King Scott chat about the golden geek awards 2023, then recent plays of Battlefields and Lord of the Rings the card game.

Hungry Gamer Will Brown joins us for the 8-bit breakdown of Fractal: Beyond the Void, an epic space 4X!

We've got a double time warp this week as we look back one year later on both War of the Ring the card game, and Marvel Damage Control.

Finally, we compare some of our favorite Space 4X games across multiple categories!

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Join Scott and Patrick as we discuss recent adventures and examine our poll on dexterity games.  Our feature review this episode is Everdell! Finally, we have a look at some box art covers that really made us wonder WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Join us as we review Awkward Guests.  We answer some questions as to what the show is all about, and we take on the "hundred dollar buying challenge!"

Join us as we provide our walkthrough and review of Tapestry!  We also look at community topics in our "around the geek" segment.