The Play Greater Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

We've been away for a while (okay, a long while), but the Play Greater Podcast has officially returned from its extended hiatus! We aren't here to dwell on the past; we're looking at the new state of things and everything exciting on the horizon for Greater Than Games.

In this episode, we talk about our big return, special collaborations, and even manage to make time to spin the wheel!

• The Return of Greater Than Games: We are back in action! We discuss the relaunch of the studio and what the "new normal" looks like for us moving forward.

• The Expanding TCCU: The Trevor Casterline Cinematic Universe has expanded once again, with a live-art drawing show, starring Christopher Badell, Adam Rebottaro, and Nolan Nasser! Check out Draw The Line!

• The new GTG Team and going to Gen Con: Who is part of GTG now? Check it out! Also, come see us at Gen Con in booth #2856!

• New Games from GTG: Digital Detox, a game designed by Christopher Badell, and Crime Scene Tamperer that we made in conjunction with the Brothers Chaps!

• Who are the Brothers Chaps? We dive into our excitement about working with Mike and Matt Chapman, the creators of the legendary Homestar Runner. If you don't know about those things, you should check it out!

• New Website & Store: We have a fresh coat of paint! Check out the all-new GTG website to see the latest projects and updates.

  • CRITICAL URL UPDATE: Our website is now www.greaterthan.games. Please do NOT go to the old .com address. Only "Greater Than Dot Games" from here on out!

  • The Webstore: Looking for games? You can find everything in our new digital storefront here .

• Submit Your Letters: We want to hear from you! We've set up a brand-new submission form for your questions, design quandaries, and general curiosities. Submit your letters here!

• SPOILER WARNING: The Stormlight Archive: We spend some time geeking out over Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series. If you aren't caught up, skip the following segment:

  • Spoilers start at: about 52 minutes in

  • Spoilers end at: around 1 hour and 5 minutes in

• The JoCo Cruise: We chat about our time on the high seas with the JoCo Cruise — a nerd-centric floating festival of music, comedy, and gaming!

• Outro: We also have a new Outro! Good luck, Paul!

A massive shout-out to Trevor for all the help in getting this show back on the air and into your ear holes! We couldn't have done it without the technical wizardry.

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Make sure to check out the rest of the new content on our site, and stay tuned for more episodes (now both bi-weekly AND bi-monthly, somehow!) as we exchange stories, tell tales, and — as always — Play Greater.

What are some of YOUR most loved cards?

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:04:33

Pleasant Greetings, Playgreatarians! Welcome to the latest episode of the Play Greater Podcast!!!

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul make sure their group chat is entirely and intentionally filled with the exact number of reporters they were hoping for…

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:
They mentioned a pre-order for Compile Wave 2! Unfortunately, between the time of recording and now, we sold out of most of the Wave 2 pre-order. HOWEVER, there is still a pre-order going for the Wave 2 playmat as well as any of Compile Wave 1 that you might be missing! Check that out here!

Board In Brief is a weekly youtube show about board games that will be hosted by M'Bender on this FRG Youtube Channel. It is due to begin releasing episodes soon! (Hopefully by the end of the month!) 

Looking for a link to the Digital Dawn of the Shardborn Adventure? That's here!

Musical Recommendations:

• Pirates of Penzance
• Come From Away
• Gutenburg! The Musical
• Six the Musical
• Hamilton
• Guys and Dolls
• Music Man
• Thoroughly Modern Millie

Do you need to give a PSA about fostering cats? Do you require more musical theatre recommendations?? Or are you still curious about the disparate aspects of M'Bender's job??? Send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…
Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

It's the first day of Gen Con!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:35:03

Well aren't you just a splendid, spiffy ol' sport for dropping on by… Welcome to another episode of the Play Greater Podcast! It may be bad radio, but it's a podcast, I guess…

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul intro-slash-banter so hard and so long that they almost get recast by Producer and Axis-upon-which-all-podcasts-rotate, Trevor Casterline. This boisterous banter includes but is not limited to topics such as: granola gaffes, macho mallards, and Martin Sheen.

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:

Read the literary epic that is Christopher's French Burned Peanut article here!

Recommendations (for future Mark):

• 1) Seeing dope, old things (some are kept in buildings while others are the buildings themselves)

• The British Museum (the S-Tier move is to go here over two days)

• The Natural History Museum

• Westminster Cathedral

• Hampton Court Palace

• William the Marshall's Tomb (only if you're a hardcore fan of the 12th century)

• 2) Being in dope, old buildings and drinking beer (i.e. pubs)

• Ye Olde Mitre (weekday only and is in a sketchy, dark alley… don't worry about it)

• Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (has food and catacombs… in no particular order)

• The Grapes, Limehouse (owned by Sir Ian McKellen)

Local St. Louis Eatery:

• Chuck's Hot Chicken

• Lona's Lil Eats

GTG Gen Con Sign-ups and FYI:

• Sign-up here for the Compile Release Party on Friday night!

• Sign-up here for the LIVE recording of the Play Greater Podcast on Saturday morning!

• Sign-up here for the LIVE recording of the Letters Page Podcast on Saturday mid-morning!

• Sign-up here for the Party Game Night on Saturday night!

• Player Slots for the Spirit Island Mega Events on Friday and Saturday are sold out, but if you want to watch the event and be a part of the mega fun, we encourage you to come! No sign-up or tickets necessary! Check out the information for those events here!

Would you describe yourself as Auntie-Panelling or Uncle-Panelling, perhaps? Do you leave a little dirt under your pillow for the dirt man? Are you a nineties kid who just understands? Send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

Also!

Stay awhile; play Compile!

Gen Con Looms!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:26:32

A jubilant July to all of you demure Denizens of Podcast Land! Welcome to another episode of the Play Greater Podcast. Have we got an episode for you!

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul share yucks about knucks and tats, discuss their positive and definitely non-toxic traits, and workshop acronyms for international gaming conventions.

Check below for Gen-Con-related info mentioned in this episode:

Hey Look! The live show of this very podcast is on the GenCon Schedule here!

Oooooooo… I bet another podcast in the GTG Podcast Cinematic Universe can be found here!

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Sign up for the Spirit Island Mega Events here! (Seriously, please sign up while there are still spots open!)

Check below for non-Gen-Con-related links and/or info mentioned in this episode:

Want to know more about thrust stages? Check that out here! (and/or ask Matt Bender about it at Gen Con!)

Curious about the moonshine tv show referenced in this episode? Check that out here!

At timestamp 00:28:52, the hosts subtly and without direct reference debuted the legendary "Jordan Voice."

Do you feel like a hotdog isn't a taco? Are you curious about the subtle "Jordan Voice" reference? Is there concern about your contractual obligation to "not be shy"? Send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink! We'll see what we can do to help you out… maybe even in a satisfactory manner. Who could say?

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

This month's episode is sponsored by PLA and other printing filaments.

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:09:12

Hey there cool cats and cucumbers! It's just so spiffy to welcome to another episode of the Play Greater Podcast. We're full of chaotic goofs and zany spoofs all for the sole purpose of your listening pleasure, so we hope you treasure this little measure of one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul.

Listen as your hosts engage in a Meisner-esque repetition exercise with the name of this podcast, discuss the finer points of pre-Y2K tissue taglines, and teach the important distinction between letters-from-listeners letters and wheel-of-topics topics.

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:

Find the 1st Tiktok link in question here!

Find the 2nd Tiktok link in question here!

Have scintillating cicada questions? Here's the link!

Toronto's soccer club is named: The Reds.

Bradley Cooper has only ever been nominated for an Oscar Award.

The actor that two of your hosts Paul was talking about who was on Brooklyn Nine-nine is Joe Lo Truglio.

Now that you know the distinction between letters-from-listeners letters and wheel-of-topics topics, send us a letter with either by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

Big news! HUGE news, even!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:03:33

Well, well, well… fancy running into you down here, dear reader-of-the-Play-Greater-shownotes. Oh, that's right; I'm talking to little ol' you! Hi. =) Thanks for checking out this month's episodes and this month's shownotes. We missed you, and we're chuffed to bits that you're here. Hope you have a spiffy time while you're with us!

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul embark on a journey to discover what news they could possibly have to share that's both big and HUGE. Will Christopher and/or Paul discover the proverbial news? Will it be both big and also HUGE? Will it be definitively proven once and for all that they have more opinions about ducks than Matt Kroll has about Dune? Tune on in to find out in this week's episode of the Play Greater Podcast!

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:

According to the interwebs, Gen Con Indy Event (Ticket) Registration:

• Opens May 19th

• All openings will begin at Noon Eastern.

Looking for a link to quickly read all of The Lord of the Rings mid-episode as directed? We got you!

Looking for a link to quickly listen to all of the Lord of the Rings Podcast that friend-of-the-show J.R.R. recently started? We also got you!

Do you have Star Trek or Lord of the Rings questions for Paul? Do you have up-rocks or down-rocks questions for Christopher? Do you have a hankering to sow chaos into an already chaotic podcast? Send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

Stay awhile; play Compile!

We're kinda useful but dorky!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:28:38

Holy howdy dear Play-Greaterians and other denizens of Podcast Land, we here at the Play Greater Podcast are back with another episode! We sure missed you last week, and we cannot wait to get into this latest episode with you! (Cause, as you surely know, anytime any one of you listens to an episode of the podcast, we are actually there listening with you too… Them's the rules!)

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul go slightly overboard with slightly overwrought bits artisanally crafted to be nonsensical without their visual components. In other words, we're back, and we're right on track for another typical episode! Hope you enjoy!

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:

Curious about the Chesapeake Bay impact crater and would prefer an actual map instead of a theatre-of-the-mind thing? Check that out here! (it is likely that this is the EXACT article read by two of your hosts Paul!)

Can confirm, your hosts and their made-for-any-medium-but-radio bits are doofus-canoes. (It's a technical podcasting industry term.)

Want to know more about the gestures that Paul and Christopher might be making? Check out more about those potential gestures here!

Want to read an interesting article about sea shanties? (how could you NOT?!) Check that out here! Want to get more pedantic? Do so here!

Want to read about Danny Kaye? We recommend learning more here!

Local St. Louis Eateries:

• Salve Asteria

• Meyou Tai Eatery

• Cafe Natasha (in case it wasn't noted before, though it is sadly now closed)

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

Stay awhile; play Compile!

Aaaaaaaaaand we're back!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:17:02

Hello, hello and welcome back delightful and (hopefully) delighted Play-Greaterians! We've got one punchy episode of the Play Greater Podcast ready just for you. Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul banter their hearts away and make up for an entire month's worth of lost banter! Woot woot!

Check below for links and/or info mentioned in episode:

If you're around for PAX East, remember not to be shy and also to come say, "hi" to Paul Bender at or around the Greater Than Games booth. If you do, just like he said in the episode, he'll definitely have presents in his pockets given to him by Christopher for the purpose of gifting to you! Come see us in booth #11097!

Legends of Sleepy Hollow errata pack lives here!

St. Louis Eatery Recommendations:

• Stacked

• FIRE Chicken

Do you pine to present the podcasters your piping-hot perspective? Do you quiver with questions for three of your kind-of-useful-but-dorky hosts? Do you know off the top of your head the episode(s) in which they talk about Legends of Sleepy Hollow? If so, send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!" (specifically to Paul Bender at PAX East!)

Merry… different episode!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 0:08:34

Howdy hey, denizens of podcast land! We here at the Play Greater Podcast are coming at you with a bit of a truncated episode this month. (I know… we are sad about it too. Hopefully, it'll only be a one-off, so that we're back with regular-length programming next month!)

Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul wax on and wax off about a handful of topics, included but not limited to: health, new employees, Defender's of the Realm playtesting, tiks and/or toks, spirits and their requisite islands, and a compiled list of other topics!

We hope you enjoy this month's different episode, and we literally cannot wait to chat more again next month!

Got big-butt feelings about something?! Oof… you can send us a letter about it by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"

Merriest of New Years!

Show Notes:

Run Time: 1:26:47

Welcome to a new year and to a new episode of the Play Greater Podcast! Listen as one of your hosts Christopher and two of your hosts Paul pun their way through another episode, dabbing and air quoting into the microphone for added zest.

Fun Fact: Canonically, Spirit Island spirits have no butts.

Curious about Christopher's Bender Brother Jabberwocky? Below is a key:

• P'Bender = Paul Bender, eldest canonical Bender and two entire hosts of the Play Greater Podcast

• A'Bender = Andrew Bender, second-eldest canonical Bender and wielder of Star Wars CCGs

• J'Bender = John Bender, third-eldest canonical Bender and elusively rumored to be "around"

• M'Bender = Matt Bender, youngest canonical Bender and professional audio doofus of this podcast

Do you want to ask one of your hosts Christopher to turn off his ears and turn on his mouth? Do you have a villain name for two of your hosts Paul? Do you have an opinion about ducks? Send us an individualized letter about each of these by following this artisanal hyperlink!

And, remember…

Don't be shy; come say "hi!"