Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the first ever episode of Dicing with Design!

This podcast hopes to cover all aspects of games design, from creating a brand new game from scratch to designing a campaign to run as a GM.

We’ll be talking about creating characters, creating storylines, creating rules and creating entire games systems. We’ll be discussing existing games, how they’re designed and how they can be changed with a bit of creative house ruling. We’ll also be talking a bit more generally about games we’re playing right now, and what we like.

So, we hope you like it – join us for spot of Dicing with Design!

Time and Games Design: Dicing With Design – Episode 1

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Smallworld – check out that cardboard

It’s Episode 2 and we’re talking Smallworld, board game design, online gaming and, for some reason cardboard…

What’s We’re Talking

This is a live episode, recorded after Grant and I met up for a few drinks and a lot of games. Mostly, we played Smallworld, with a couple of games of Dwarves of King’s Hold and a spot of Game of Thrones. But, like all good cardboard fetishists, we were stuck on Smallworld and the sheer quality of the game. Listen to the Podcast to see what we thought.

Let Us Know What You Think

As always, we’d love some feedback, and ideas for future episodes.

Let us know your thoughts on the podcast series so far. What are we doing right? What could we do better? We’d love to make this something that you love listening to, and the only way to do that is to get in touch.

Contact us through any of the following:

Twitter: @gamecolin – @grantsensei – @JoeJPrince

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Hey folks – this week we have a continuation of last week’s interview with T. Julian Bell. Last time you found out about the RAEX system, and this time we hear from Julian’s experience in getting games published and sold.

If you’re an aspiring games designer, or even if you’ve been in the industry a little while, you should find something interesting here. Julian gives us his thoughts on Kickstarter too and his plans to use the platform for their current project.
Later in the Podcast we also have a recording Grant and Colin made after a Warhammer Fantasy battle a few weeks back. They give a short battle report and what they think went right and wrong during the game. Hear how Grant thinks he misused his multiple demon princes! Colin, Grant and Joe are all practicing for the Battle Brothers tournament in Warhammer world in September, so if any of you might be there, let us know. It’d be great to meet up and have a beer.

In other news, Colin chats briefly about XCom: Enemy Unknown – his attempt to get nostalgic and remember the old Amiga days – and he gives a quick update on recent games of Eternal Contenders.

We’ve been trying to play a few different games online recently, using Google Hangouts and the Roll 20 system, but haven’t found anything perfect so far. We’d love your feedback on what you use to play remote games. What have you found that works well?

We’d love to know – please drop a comment below.

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0:02:00 Updates, Including:

Kromore 2145 Kickstarter,

XCOM: Enemy Unknown,

Space Hulk computer game,

Warhammer Fantasy Battles,

Vassal Engine,

Chainsaw Warrior,

Dreadball,

A Game of Thrones LCG,

Space 1889,

0:15:45 Battle Brothers and Warhammer Tournaments – Our preparations for the upcoming tournament at Warhammer World and tournament design in general, including:

Warhammer Fantasy Battles,

Warhammer 40K,

Heelan Hammer,

0:49:20 Warhammer 9th edition and Wargame Design, including:

Warseer News and Rumours,

Warhammer Fantasy Battles,

Warpack

1:34:50 Outros

Dicing with Design Podcast

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This time round we discuss our experiences at the recent September 2013 Warhammer Battle Brothers at Warhammer World. We’d like to thank all of our opponents and the tournament organisers for giving us such an enjoyable weekend.

0:00:00 Introduction

0:02:30 The day before – practice match and first impressions of Warhammer World

0:14:05 Tournament Day 1 and the Pub Quiz

0:38:45 Tournament Day 2 and results

1:08:30 Outro

Discussion topics:

Battle Brothers

Warhammer World

Warhammer Fantasy Battles

Warpack

Dungeon Duellists

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0:00:00 Introduction and updates, including:

Lords of War

Warpack

Warhammer

Warhammer World

Forbidden Planet

Ticket to Ride

Shadows Over Camelot

Battlestar Galactica

Cortex Plus

Dragonlance

DreadBall

Blood Bowl

Project Pandora

Carcasonne

Sedition Wars

When Worlds Collide

Labyrinths and Lycanthropes

Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal

00:22:55 Lords of War Review

With the new instalment of Lords of War being currently kickstarting, we review the the Elves and Lizardmen set.

0:38:50 Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale

Joe reveals his plans to take his pro-wrestling based card game to Kickstarter for its 2nd edition.

0:49:32 Outro and contact details

Including a shout out to Gunz and his Advanced Heroquest blog, Enhanced Advanced Heroquest

All music is by Kevin McLeod of incompetech.com

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This episode was recorded after some alpha testing of Warpack. Warpack is Prince of Darkness Games’ forthcoming card-based fantasy wargame. We discuss the design philosophy behind the game, various ways in which the game could be expanded, campaign gaming and more!

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In this episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Martin Vaux, co-designer of Lords of War card game. We discuss the game, the Kickstarter for the new expansion, Templars vs Undead, and all things gaming. Unfortunately, the sound quality won’t be as high as you’ve come to expect from your hosts, but Martin sounded great and he’s the one you’ll be interested in anyway!

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:45 Updates – RAEX games, kickstarter, Once upon a time, B movie, Battlestar Galactica, Lords of War, Blackbox Games, Sedition Wars, DreadBall, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale, Drive Thru RPG, XCOM

00:15:00 Joe tells us about developments on the Warpack fantasy battles system – Warpack, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, The Wheel of Time,

00:27:15 World Building: Playing games in popular culture settings, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,

00:38:10 World Building: Specific gaming settings – Legend of the 5 Rings, Eclipse Phase, Eternal Contenders, When Worlds Collide

00:59:40 Contact Details and Outros.

In this episode Joe gives us an update on the developments to his forthcoming fantasy battle game, Warpack. Then we get into a discussion about world design – playing in literary and cinematic worlds, custom gaming worlds and building games worlds from scratch.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:35 Martin Vaux joins us to talk Lords of War – a Kickstarter update

00:19:55 Martin tells us how he went about creating a world for the game.

00:51:15 The GM of our When Worlds Collide Campaign joins us to discuss how he created a world for us to game in.

01:31:05 Outro and contact details

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