As always, Grant simultaneously entertains me and tells me about games I hadn't prior heard of!

Oh my did things go off the rails during the filming of this month's Roundup, and you can experience it all here with over an hour of extra stuff!

just a quick recording to let everyone know that while i accidentally took the podcast offline last night right after I uploaded the latest roundup, it's all fixed now so you can get back to listening! :)

Alright folks, last month I tried out including the extended edition of the monthly round up, where i do some additional stuff and you get more behind the scenes raw rahdo (for lack of a better term). I thought maybe this wouldn't work because one of the things I do in these extended eps is unbox stuff, which isn't great to listen to maybe?

BUT it seems last month that over half of you chose the extended edition. But hey, that was the first try... you didn't know what you were getting into. Let's try again and this time you'll know what to expect, and I'll check the stats to see if you came back for more.

One other thing, I had some technical difficulties at the start of this stream... mic quit again, which is why things start out a bit weird! :)

Hey everybody, here's 33 games ranked from the month of Jan! :)

And now... the premier episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games! 

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/0X6XJZIWniw, https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1100935425, or https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=4118237154878950

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola 

To enter the contest to win a new copy of FORT, send the "secret word" as the subject line of an email to contest@rahdo.com
(Secret word details revealed in the episode) :)

Essen-a-go-go!

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:04:13] Essen Games of Interest►►►
Guilds, Wibbell++, IUNU, The King's Abbey, Thrashing Dice: Assassin Edition, Karuba the Card Game, Quests of Valeria, Edge of Humanity, Pit Crew, Villages of Valeria, Rising 5, Origami, After the Virus, Carthago: Merchants & Guilds, Dragonsgate College, Nations: The Dice Game, Escape Room: Das Spiel - Virtual Reality, Enchanters, Rescue Polar Bears: Data & Temperature, My Story, Bali, Unicornus Knights, Isle of Trains, Vengeance, Exodus Fleet, Flick 'em Up: Dead of Winter, Import/Export, Master' Trials: Wrath of Magmaroth, Space Race: The Card Game, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Card Game, Fantasy Defense, Paperback, Pioneer Days, Paper Tales, CV Pocket, Amun-Re: The Card Game, The Captain is Dead, Deadline, Yokohama, Flatline, Reworld, Instanbul: The Dice Game, Fugitive, Deckscape: Test Time, The Sanctuary: Endangered Species, Feudalia, Flip Ships, The Lost Expedition, Harvest, Petrichor, Fog of Love, Chimera Station, Anachrony, A Column of Fire, Barenpark, The Networks, Sentient, Keyper, Fast Forward Series, Riverboat, Tiny Epic Quest, Raiders of the North Sea, Dinosaur Island, Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time, Otys, Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game, London (2nd edition), Kitchen Rush, Exit: Das Spiel series, The Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Pulsar 2849, Codenames Duet, Majesty: For the Realm, Tybor the Builder, Heaven & Ale, Unlock! Mystery Adventures, Lisboa, Clank! In! Space!, Rajas of the Ganges, Indian Summer, Whistle Stop, Nusfjord, Azul, Noria, Ex Libris, Altiplano, Agra, Queendomino, Gaia Project, Clans of Caledonia

•••[02:12:47] Essen Top 10►►►
Tale of Pirates, This War of Mine, Santa Maria, Hunt for the Ring, Transatlantic, Loot Island, Merlin, Gloomhaven, Charterstone, Pandemic Legacy 2

•••[02:43:08] Essen Expansions of Interest►►►
Import/Export expansions, Dale of Merchants: Systematic Eurasian Beavers, Rhodes: The Colossus, various Valeria expansions, Nimbee: The Bee's Knees, various Catacombs expansions, Fantasy Defense: The Stone King, Tiny Epic Galaxies Beyond the Black, Petrichor: Flowers, Flick em Up! Dead of Winter - Sparky, Peloponnes: Heroes and Colonies, Kingdom Builder: Harvest, Alban Viard expansions, Taluva Extension, Anachrony expansions, Legends of Andor expansions, Agricola: Artifex Deck, Dixit Harmonies, Task Kalar: Etherweave, Azul: Joker Tiles, Pursuit of Happiness: Community, Mystic Vale: Mana Storm, Port Royal: The Adventure Begins, Snowdonia expansions, A Feast for Odin promo, Nations: The Dice Game - Unrest, Lisboa Heavy Cardboard Promo, Orleans promos, Isle of Skye: Journeyman, Concordia: Egypt/Crete, 7 Wonders Anniversary Packs, OMG: Escape to Canyon Brook, Lorenzo il Magnifico: House of Renaissance, Voyages of Marco Polo: Agents of Venice

•••[03:10:52] Essen Demos of Interest►►►
Mistfall: Chronicles of Frost, Overbooked, Dice Settlers, Fantastiqa Rival Realms, Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game, MourneQuest, Monster Lands, Dawn of Peacemakers, Teotihuacan: City of the Gods, Space Race: The Card Game - Interkosmos, Endeavor (Second Edition), Railways of Nippon, UBOOT: The Board Game, SteamRollers, Tiny Epic Defenders: The Dark War, Batman: The Boardgame, Dice Hospital, A Nice cut of Tea, Networks: Executives, Unlock! Demos, TIME Stories: Santo Tomas de Aquino

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo
•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Okay folks, going to quickly talk about 12 games in this episode with a suprising amount of expansions! :)

Timm Metivier (the owner of Meepleville in Las Vegas, as well as showrunner of the Dice Tower West convention) and I sat down for another back and forth discussion, and while the last one did about 30 minutes on Black Lives Matter, this one goes much deeper on another very non-boardgame subject: gun violence. Fair warning, no boardgaming in this one! If you'd prefer this in video form, you can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoyVLGOrwM

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

And now... a episode outlining the new games we played in December, plus Q&A from the live stream after! If you'd rather watch this in video form: https://youtu.be/FW50dReT_GU

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

19 games talked about in today's roundup. Let me apologize right now for being 11 days late, and also for missing 2 games (which will get mentioned in next month's roundup!) To make up for the gaffs, Jen makes a special guest appearance this time! If you'd rather watch than listen, here's the youtube link: https://youtu.be/DPYpBNpZV4c

Today we're talking about 10 must see games coming this year :)

As always, keep the questions coming to questions@rahdo.com !! :)

0:00 Intro

•••Game/show Q&A►►►

0:43 Plunderous & Adventure Ink updates?

6:25 Best automa practices?

14:18 Which of my top10 needs an automa?

20:45 Extended runthroughs?

26:26 How do I pick which games to cover?

37:38 Channel changes in the future?

48:11 Changing pick up and deliver opinion?

55:31 How to rank games?

59:39 Game vs activity?

1:10:24 How to look at games?

1:13:14 Ideal game themes?

•••Personal Q&A►►►

1:23:09 Extraordinary Attorney Woo?

1:24:03 Scariest moments while RVing?

1:32:46 About our upcoming RV trip?

1:35:18 Most treasured childhood memories?

1:41:30 EVs?

1:45:50 John McWhorter?

1:49:45 Losing dogs?

1:57:56 Star Trek: Those Old Scientists?

2:00:47 Left lies vs Right lies?

2:11:46 Jen's words of wisdom

2:12:03 DOGGOs!!!

And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/O1-w1jcRgwg

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

Doing roundups on the road is a bit tougher than normal, but still, the show must go on and here we are with just shy of 30 games to talk about for the month of February! What did you play? :)

Just over 4 hours of questions asked and answered this month! 

0:00 Sponsor segment

3:17 Intro

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Game questions w/o Jen

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4:22 Twitch vs Patreon subscription?

8:26 Language independent suggestions?

15:42 JonGetsGames vs Slickerdrops vs Gaming Rules?

18:42 S.Luciani vs V.Lacerda vs M.Wallace?

19:36 Only heavier or lighter games?

23:03 J.Howard vs Z.Garcia vs J.Perez?

25:57 Only campaign games or R&Ws?

28:34 Viticultre vs Arnak vs Tapestry expansion?

30:26 Metal coins vs poker chips vs cardboard chits?

31:28 Party game vs sports game vs cutthroat euro?

34:45 Only unplayed agmes or already played games from now on?

39:00 Only Boardgamegeek or YouTube?

39:55 Stonemaier's Expeditions coverage on the channel?

41:20 Higher player count mechansism brought into 2p?

43:35 Rahdo work load?

45:00 Alternate to Rahdo life?

47:36 Getting rid of Santa Maria?

56:58 Agricola misunderstood?

1:05:33 Gameplay variants?

1:06:25 Hallertau vs Agricola?

1:08:01 What is an RPG?

1:10:40 Difference between RPG and Boardgame RPG?

1:12:50 Race games?

1:19:18 Alternative to Pandemic co-op formula?

1:26:44 "Chess-ey" Games?

1:27:30 If you can only play on R&W?

1:28:34 Clank Legacy integration of expansions?

1:30:24 Andromeda's Edge?

1:31:12 Improving Monopoly?

1:36:21 Holy Grail Games closure?

1:44:22 Gaming post-Rahdo retirement?

1:46:02 Crucial worker placement elements?

1:47:11 Score tracks?

1:48:26 Meeples vs Miniatures vs Standees?

1:49:14 Game rounds?

1:53:23 Video streaming & editing software?

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Game questions with Jen

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1:55:40 Controlling multiple characters in co-ops?

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Personal questions

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2:06:48 Ryan Reynolds older movies?

2:09:26 The Sandman tv show?

2:10:20 10 star miserable movies?

2:11:30 Super Bowl Sunday?

2:14:40 Fission energy?

2:17:37 How did I bring down the Maltese government?

2:32:04 State of Twitter? 

2:37:55 My Pitfall design?

2:43:00 Thai food on Jen's Thailand trip?

2:51:05 RRR?

2:52:05 British TV (Clarkson's Farm/Fawlty Towers/cooking shows)?

2:54:44 What traits did we get from our Mothers?

2:59:22 Descript?

3:00:21 My early mailman career?

3:10:33 More about Jen's Thailand trip?

3:22:04 How did I retire early?

3:37:35 Spicy food?

3:40:05 Tamago Kake Gohan?

3:41:13 Greta Thunberg?

3:42:14 Visiting Seattle?

3:44:12 Design of Morality system on Fable 2?

3:47:50 Handling heavy snow?

3:50:07 Starting a boardgame channel?

3:54:36 Some handcrafts!

3:58:58 Jen's Words of Wisdom?

4:00:00 Doggos!

4:02:55 Severance (spoilers)?

4:06:28 Outro

Here's a new top15 which is the first time that Ruel, Chris and I are all live together, and we had a great time even if the subject matter was a bit sad!

This episode sponsored by http://atlantis.rahdo.com

•••[3:56] Games Q&A►►► Games the audience didn't get? Rahdo Merch? Unranked games added to http://games.rahdo.com? Caper Europe? The Spiel Foundation? Board game libraries? My leaving boardgame Reddit? Rahdo voter stats? Best BGG features? Low vote games? Fave cthulhu game? Game turnoffs? Preferred RPG classes?

•••[1:10:00] Personal Q&A►►► Chicken egg laying? State of the pandemic? DvH? Immortal marriage? Climate change in travel? Fave pantheon? Useless skills? DNRs, wills, etc.? Jens WoW? DOGGOS!

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Hey everybody, this month's top10 is a revisit of my 10 designers, as well as the top10 from Jeremy Howard of MvM.

To see more of Jeremy's content, check https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.howard.5201254

My original top10 from 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orL9jGApIsY

For Rahdo & Jeremy's list in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwBXwWBi-1g

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

2016 Preview + Mega Q&A!!!

SHOW NOTES:

2016 Games of Interest Geeklist:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/201740/rahdo-runs-through-2016-games-interest

2016 Top 25 Most Anticipated Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACAdkMhNzI

•••[00:03:16] 49 Additional Games of Interest for 2016►►►
Dragon Keepers, The Last Bastion, Quest for the Open Tavern, Sails to Steam, Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord, The Expansive Hospital, Cabriole, ZNA, Valeria: Card Kingdoms, Villages of Valeria, Quests of Valeria, Arkwright, Millennium Blades, The Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction, Kingdom Builder: Marshlands, Covert, Welcome to Centerville, London Dread, Ein Fest für Odin, Cuisine a la Card, Unpublished Prototype, Vinhos Deluxe Edition, The Banner Saga: Warbands, Lunarchitects, Tiny Epic Western, Dingo's Dreams, Back to the Future: An Adventure Through Time, Clockwork Islands, Hitler Must Die, Tramways, Victorian Masterminds, In The Name of Odin, Dragonsgate College, Big Easy Business, Rokoko: Jewelry Box, The Exodus Fleet, Legacy: Time Surge, Saving Time, HOPE, Four Gods, Admiral of the Black, Elder Sign: Omens of Ice, Five Minute Delivery, 100 Swords: The Darkness Dungeon Builder Set, The Island of Doctor Necreaux: Second Edition, Beyond Baker Street, Fire of Eidolon, The North Sea Runesaga, This War of Mine: The Board Game

•••[01:21:09] Q&A►►►

Game industry labor ethics? Boundaries for Legacy mechanisms? Digital boardgames? TV shows & Movies that should be games? How's Shadowrun: Crossfire going? MTG helped us buy a house? What was my job at Nintendo? Surprising games? Equipment? What games should get the Legacy treatment? Gaming with designers? TMI? Mold? Table cloth? Caverna variants? What games do we wish we could play more? Favourite TV shows? Co-op videogames? Hard to get expansions? Game production troubles? The last designer? My crazy ratings? Games for the holidays? Seattle the best? Best Agricola expansion? Game buying in Malta? Other boardgame personalities? What makes a gamer a gamer? House rules? Smartphones at the table? Am I going to design a game? Soul crushing travel? Rahdo Runs Through, the convention? A day in the life? What's too sandboxey? Working on the worst videogame of all time? What happened to Spirits of the Rice Paddy? JJ Trek, really? Did the Force Awaken?

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo
•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Ray is MIA for this episode, but there's still plenty of chitchat in the pre-show with catching up on a bunch of audience requests :)

In addition to the main show, we get to know Travis better and hear about a bunch more mini games in the extended edition of the show, and here's the ad-ree audio version!

And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/dcJAF6nLcTE

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

A return to normalcy!

SHOW NOTES:

(HUGE thanks to Nick Lamb for helping clean up Jen's audio on this one!)

Miwi Copycat video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJU3iakFNj8

Aye Dark Overlord event at Gencon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWEm54yxcU

Essen Preview Geeklist tool:
http://tabletoptogether.com/essen-spiel/index.php

•••[00:01:33] New Games of Interest►►►
Jump Drive, Temporum: Alternate Realities, A Dog's Life, Skyways, The Stygian Society, Zombies, Run! The Boardgame, Shadowrift: Skittering Darkness, Dominion Update Pack, Anduine: First City in the West, Tribes

•••[00:16:49] Top 10 Revisits►►►
Tile Laying Games, Pirate Games, Games I Wish I Could Play More

•••[00:33:45] Boardgame Q&A►►►

What alteration to a game from my feedback and I most proud of? What traits can we identify in each other that pegs us as boardgame lovers? Rahdo Runs Through Scythe? Any Rahdo impersonators? Any RRT helpers besides Paulo (and Thomas Giles)? A runthrough of Rahdo Runs Through? Anything in Essen we recommend checking out? Cash at Essen Spiel? How to digest the Essen Spiel preview geeklist? Emotional Runthroughs? Changing direction of the industry? Controversial theme? Post game rituals? Game component fever? Agricola Revised or Classic? Monopoly runthrough? Why is Terraforming Mars too mean? RTT filesize? Funky interlude music? Top 50 BGG runthrough? Mechs vs Minions feedback? Rahdo domain name? Life post Rahdo Runs Through?

•••[01:33:07] Non-Boardgame Q&A►►►

My brother's misadventures? Days Gone from Eidetic? Time for a Syphon Filter comeback? Which game I've worked on would I revisit? Tricks to early retirement? Theater background? Have boardgame companies tried to hire me? Competitive videogame scene? Adjusting to life in the UK? Most memorable 30 minutes of our lives?

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo
•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

•••[00:00:55] Games Q&A►►►

Using copyrighted art in homemade games? Marvel Champions rating drop? Hallertau worth it for Agricola fan? Loop > Viscounts of West Kingdom co-op? Digital boardgames implementations? Ranking solo only games? BGG’s Gamenight show? Rahdo talk show? Polling podcast style? Content creators using platforms for social advocacy? Publishers response to said social advocacy? Best Martin Wallace games? https://recommend.games? Revisiting games post kickstarter? Card overlapping? Co-op turn structure? What games do we excel at? How often do I keep games after the runthrough? Boardgame value quiz? Can there be a fair BGG ranking system? Contributor to the channel who matches my tastes? Dismissing the importance of cultural representation? Unique devs? Playing Pandemic during a pandemic? Responding to a game we don’t like? What makes for good co-op? Justifying boardgame hobby? Getting reluctant friends to the table? Tawantinsuyu vs Barbarians: Invasion? 

•••[02:22:38] Personal Q&A►►►

Why return to the UK? One world government? Evolving shooter videogame design? 3rd person vs 1st person? Hamas conservative? Defunding the police? One Punch Man? Team up with Stegmaier? Time to move on from colonization theme? Luck in games? What did I do on Fable? Jen’s fave of my videogames? Revisit my old games? Kickstarter vs Patreon? Flight advice? Jen’s and my vision status? Who do we think I look/sound like? Gun control in other countries? Investing during 2020? Ireland a pathway to EU? Jen's WOW? So many pet pics!!!

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Hey everybody, here's a new episode ranking all the games we played in the month of September!

0:00 Neotopia (sponsored by Arcane Wonders) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360359/neotopia

5:27 Intro

6:06 21. Express Route https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388718/express-route

8:58 20. Spellbook https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391834/spellbook

11:50 19. The Perfect Wave https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388683/perfect-wave

16:08 18. Sky Rockets https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398684/skyrockets

19:58 17. Dragonkeepers https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383109/dragonkeepers

26:38 16. Forest Shuffle https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391163/forest-shuffle

32:33 15. Knarr https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379629/knarr

38:32 14. Nucleum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFezSfErQnQ

42:45 13. Leaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKOLCW2zTUA

47:11 12. Art Society https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/395375/art-society

53:42 11. Cargo Empire (sponsored) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1PrkS1eKis

57:04 10. Rolling Realms Expansions https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/354212/rolling-realms-rolling-realms-promo-pack

59:43 9. Philharmonix (sponsored) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJ5G4sJKbg

1:00:41 8. Nocturne (sponsored) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/393175/nocturne

1:04:41 7. Faraway https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385761/faraway

1:09:55 6. Printing Press https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/390606/printing-press

1:13:50 5. House of Cats https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386436/house-cats

1:20:20 4. Humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIKvhR2wo3w

1:25:35 3. Ezra & Nehimaiah (sponsored) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRbkYhKbpU

1:28:44 2. Shipyard 2nd Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJBrjZsMAE

1:30:28 1. The White Castle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6SWQrGSPfU

1:33:46 Special Thanks

More games, more rants! :)

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:10] Games of Interest►►►
Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles, Beyond Humanity: Colonies, Roll for the Galaxy: Rivalry, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, Copenhagen, Tavern of the Deep Valley, Dungeonology: The Expedition, Dunaia: The Prophecy, Aeon's End: New Age, Pret-a-Porter, Harbour: High Tide, Luxor: The Mummy's Curse, Suburbia: Collector's Edition, Silver & Gold, The City: The Expanded City, Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period, Agemonia, Xingu, Century: A New World, Hadara, The Castles of Burgundy (Royal Edition), Era: Medieval Age, Corinth, Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write, Kingsburg: The Dice Game

•••[00:35:50] Gaming Q&A►►►
People's choice top 10? Untouched boardgame genres? Any topics that should be off limit for boardgames? Boardgame industry's cultural insensitivity? Does runthrough style translate to better game teaching IRL? The 'teach'? Andor's roll to resolve? Boardgaming close to mainstream? How to find my list of co-op games? My biggest rules blunder? Rules mega thread issue? Did Martin Wallace really work on Wildlands & Hit Z Road? Gnomopolis? Has Energy Empire held up? Thematic euros? Why Dungeon Petz but not Carnival of Monsters? Better for equal representation at the cost of historical accuracy? Boardgame burn out? Handing RRT over to someone else upon retirement? Reshooting early runthroughs? Ragusa runthrough? Top sandbox games? Easier to houserule 2p into a 3p minimum game, or meanness out of a take take that game? Our houserules? Opinionated Gamer's peak rating article? Best way to move boardgames? Rodney Smith's hype videos? Rewatching old runthroughs? Continuing runthroughs once the camera stops? What games do I wish I'd kept? Best expansion for Elder Sign? Any genres Jen or I dominate? Updating top10 co-ops? Rahdo at Essen Spiel 2019?

•••[02:23:00] Personal Q&A►►►
Most signficant changes to USA in our absence? My high pitched voice? Vasectomy story? How did we end up in Malta? BBC nature documentaries? Christmas tree & decorations? Syphon Filter influenced by Metal Gear Solid? How do we weather tough times in our marriage? Gaming with Mom? Fave childhood TV shows? Did Syphon Filter meet original vision? Any recent videogames we've enjoyed? Prevalence of open world videogames? Any snow since we've been back? Free to air TV? Renting the UK house? Why is Jen coming to UK? Bandersnatch? Jen's words of wisdom?

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo
•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Being on the road, it helps to have friends like Might I Suggest A Game to keep all the shows coming to you, and Alex does such an amazing job of researching for CROWD SORCERY, you're sure to find a game or two that will turn your fancy. And as a bonus, I just discovered Alex and I share the same birthday! What are the chances?!?

Go behind the scenes during from the live broadcast to get some more boardgame content, some pop culture content, and see the FULL story of the practical joke played on us during the show! :)

If you're looking for just the games on the go and none of the extra chitchat, here's the pared down audio version of the latest R&R&R!

Hey everybody, here's a podcast episode for all of the non-roundup stuff that was streamed live the other day while I was recording the November roundup :)

UPDATE: a new version of the episode is now uploaded that has Shea's segment no longer playing at 1.4x speed. Sorry for the confusion!!!

And now... a episode outlining the new games we played in June! If you'd rather watch this in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfHJLpkWLg

3:16 4. Far Away (shea)

6:05 3. Too Many Bones (shea)

9:29 2. Distilled (shea)

14:37 1. Wild Assent (shea)

21:15 Dungeon & Kingdom (ryan)

22:32 4. Port Royal Unterwegs!

24:06 3. Welcome To… scenarios

26:33 2. Marvel Champions: Drax

28:36 1. Between 2 Castles: Secrets & Soirees

31:25 13. Die Tore der Welt: Das Kartenspiel

33:54 12. Aqualin

36:28 11. Mercado de Lisboa

40:18 10. Brew

43:37 9. Doodle Dungeon

47:43 8. Devil May Cry: Bloody Palace

53:54 7. Super-Skill Pinball 4-Cade

57:47 6. Soul Raiders

1:02:19 5. Etherfields

1:09:43 4. Imperium: Classics & Legends

1:13:12 3. Sheepy Time

1:16:27 2. Botanik

1:18:58 1. My Farm Shop

1:23:39 Outro

•••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo

•••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/4npkxic2WEE

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

Will you still need me? 

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:10] Games Q&A►►►

Anything positive from Covid in the boardgame industry? What defines a boardgame expert opinion? Best polyominal games? Length and swingyness of Altiplano Traveler? Using rankingengine.pubmeeple.com? Replaying old games? 7 Wonders dropping 2p rules? Feld City Collection regular or deluxe? Marvel Champions thoughts? RRT stuff in the gaming section? Any inside Amsterdam game info? Next step after Pandemic? TTS thoughts? Disclaimers in rulebooks? Embargoes vs Kickstarter previews? Amsterdam runthrough? top100 with Shea & Ryan? Rokoko too open? Games of 2020 so far? No Uprising coverage? What’s up with crossover top10s? Standalone roundups? What games get rounded up? Why are people anti-post campaign Pandemic? Reigniting passion for heavy games? Other games for contributors to cover? Why does Jen enjoy Shadowrun Crossfire? How to solo Marvel Champions? Preferred solo scoring style? Move viewed video? Previews with vs without final thoughts? Average length of Dominion for us? 3+ games that work well with 2? What’s Your Game’s rankings? 

•••[01:55:50] Games with Jen Q&A►►►

Jen’s fave mechanism, and why? Our fave gaming moment? Where will RRT be in 5 years? Could Jen add her game of the month to the roundups? Gaming post breakup? 

•••[02:23:03] Personal Q&A►►►

What has we learned as a species from the lockdown? Jen’s and my wrestling intro song? What fantastical pet would we want? Decoupling personal value and games? What if I hadn’t done drama in highschool? Swimming? Cats vs dogs in boardgames? Wingspan with dogs? Dark on Netflix? Kamala Harris thoughts? High Score on Netflix? Travel disasters? Jen author suggestions? Reconciling new game drive vs old game comfort? Lead designer monetization dictates? Preferred development scheme? Dictates to return to design? Exec influence on design? Digital boardgame value? Would Jen or I miss the Rahdo persona? Was Rahdo inevitable? Increasing old hen production? Dogs and hens? Overseas tax avoidance? Reference man? Gerald vs Gerard? Animal pic format? How did Jen become so wonderful? Fave cuts? Fatman Beyond BLM episode? What happened with Christopher Nolan? Wisdom of the month? 

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•••[2:26] Games Q&A►►► Shadowrun Crossfire advice? Joining the channel? YouTube thumbs down? Rahdo's executive privilege? Least fave mechanism? Changing tastes? Former top100s I dislike now? Fave thing to do on the channel? Fave boardgame reviewer? Short vs long games? What's missing in civ games? Podcast question deadline? Troyes not cutthroat? What should I have covered? Biggest letdown of 2022? Fave marvel champion villains? Design a marvel champions hero? Randomness in the LOOP? What does Jen hate about co-ops? 1 game 10 expansions, or 10 games, no expansions? Fave boardgame convention memories? Top 3 of 2022 so far? What games do we disagree on?  •••[1:46:36]

Personal Q&A►►► Top 3 fictional villains? Sam Harris? Spider-Man No Way Home? Wood endeavors? She-Hulk CGI? What will make us move back to EU? Pitch meeting? Jen's WoW? Doggos! Political compass test!

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Oops, apologies, i just noticed this has been sitting in my 'drafts' folder since i uploaded it on feb 1! So I'm making it live now, the 16 new games discussed for the month of January! If you'd prefer to watch this in video form, head to https://youtu.be/1Goltm3QOeQ :)

Shea's Coverage 

(1:04) [Shea] Carnegie 

(2:21) [Shea] Under Falling Skies Expansions 

Expansions:

(3:43) 6. Morels: Foray 

(5:19) #5 Wingspan: Oceania 

(8:31) #4 Posthuman Saga: Journey Home 

(10:39) #3 Smartphone Inc: Update 1.1 

(12:21) #2 Marvel Champions: Wasp 

(14:25) #1 Aeon's End: Legacy of Gravehold New Games 

New games:

(16:25) #8 Primal: The Awakening

(17:53) #7 The Coldest Night 

(20:33) #6 Seven Bridges 

(21:49) #5 Meeples & Monsters 

(23:39) #4 Funfair 

(26:23) #3 Hallertau 

(29:25) #2 CloudAge 

(32:44) #1 Project Elite (2020) 

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And now... a episode outlining the new games we played in July! If you'd rather watch this in video form: https://youtu.be/bCksX0m2k_o

0:00 Introduction

5:01 4. Lands of Galzyr

6:56 3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice

8:28 2. ISS Vanguard

11:00 1. Watergate

15:33 5. Rune Stones expansions

17:55 4. IaWW: Corruption & Ascension

19:25 3. Excavation Earth: It Belongs in a Museum

22:21 2. Marvel Champions: Venom

23:38 1. Rococo Deluxe

25:53 - For Sale

28:13 10. Majesty For the Realm

29:49 9. Nidavellir

32:51 8. Clever Cubed

34:54 7. Tussie Mussie

38:05 6. Indus 2500 BCE

40:13 5. Rajas of the Ganges: Dice Charmers

42:20 4. Oros 

44:11 3. Venice

47:38 2. Remember Our Trip

49:30 1. Now or Never 

52:34 Outro

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A bit long winded...

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:00:45] Games of Interest►►►
Cities: Skylines, Aftermath, Kingdomino Duel, Clank! Expeditions: Temple of the Ape Lords, Copenhagen, Roll & Write, Cosmic Run: Express, Enchanters: Odyssey, Escape Tales: Low Memory, Habitats: XL Expansion, Lands of Galzyr, Mint Cooperative, ClipCut Parks, Concordia: Balearica, Entrepreneurs, Harry Potter: Death Eaters Rising, Paris, Rescue Animals, 7th Continent: Classic Edition, Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures

•••[00:28:22] Top10 Revisit►►►
Underrated Games

•••[00:49:12] Gaming Q&A►►►
Examples of great scaling for 2? Desert Island solo games? Game depth definition? What happened to Carpe Diem ranking? CO2 & Kanban swap? Large collection wall? Rahdo con? Bad game teaching experiences? What makes great game tension? Designer responsibility for fan behavior? Boardgame marketing? Burning Cat convention? Concordia underwhelming? Rahdo house rules/variants? Value for money in runthroughs? PnP runthroughs? Fields of Arle 2nd thoughts? Star Wars Outer Rim? Playing Black Angel with Eric Martin? Drive to win? Paid previews for games we don't like? Really necessary to reiterate paid caveats? Dice Forge expansion? What's a math trade? More Black Angel info? Best game convention? Did we get any farther in 7th Continent? Ancient World 2nd edition? Retheme challenge: Colosseum? How to reconcile ranking loops? Why did I start doing paid previews? Why keep such a big collection I don't play? Darwinauts beautiful, really? Aeon's End ideal order?

•••[02:12:52] Personal Q&A►►►
Constructive criticism for GoT? The secret to our relationship? Fave GoT characters and episodes? GoT negative groupthink? Jen's fave Tolkien characters? Tolkien biopic? Where would we live in the Tolkien-verse? Puppy advice? Why are there 880 From Batavia copies in the playlist? How many times have I been fired? Thoughts on Star Trek Picard series? Take games on sabbatical? Thoughts on Survivor: Edge of Extinction? Non-spoiler Star Trek Disco thoughts? Jen's words of wisdom? Quasi-Disco thoughts and what next for a Trek newb?

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17 new games discussed for the month of June. 

If you'd prefer to watch this in video form, head to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAx3NFxQMU :)

Intro (0:00)  

Mini Rogue [Shea] (2:00) 

Monumental [Ryan] (3:19) 

15. Minecraft (5:14) 

14. Back to the Future: Dice Through Time (8:00) 

13. Abandon all Artichokes (12:12) 

12. Metro X (14:06) 

11. King’s Forge (17:00)  

10. Hokkaido (19:47) 

9. Roll Player Adventure (22:06) 

8. Age of Atlantis (26:00) 

7. Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons (32:55) 

6. Intrepid (37:52) 

5. Overlord (41:11) 

4. Roll Camera (44:20)  

3. Concordia: Egypt Map (47:08) 

2. Marvel Champions: Black Widow (48:55)  

1. Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion (50:34)

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And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/EX-j_dK2lr0

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

•••[2:12] Games Q&A►►►
Fedex freightbox overseas? Top 5 if no expansions? Fave expansion of all time? Mediocre games fixed by expansions? New games vs expansions? Games that need expansions? Deckbuilders vs bagbuilders? How to improve least fave mechanisms? Sundry? World series of bardgaming? Star Wars Pandemic? Podcast thumbnails? Mandatory house rules? Jen’s view of Marvel Champions? Why no roll & writes in top 30? Star Trek Super Skill Pinball? Beer & Bread? Village Rails? Most wanted game from Spiel? After Us? Agricola to Caverns vs Brass Lancashire to Birmingham? Jen teaching games? Game teaching tips?

•••[1:05:29] Personal Q&A►►►
RV trip? Rado watches? Crying common? Fave spooky movies? How’d Jen become a glass artist? RV plans? Sam Neill? Jen’s words of wisdom? Doggos? SPOILER: Spider-Man: No Way Home?

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And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and Ruel talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/1nQQ-qOIJtk

For more Ruel, check http://twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

Hey everybody, here's the final Crowd Sorcery for the year, where I talk about some of Jenefer Ham Glass's work in addition to the normal fare, so you won't want to miss this end of the year finale (especially since the show will be going through some changes in the new year!) :)

Ruel and I talk about RVs (Jen and I just bought one!), rank some games, do some trivia, a this-or-that, some Q&A... oh, and let's not forget episode 51 of the R&R show :)

New year, same podcast

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:58] Games Q&A►►►
Fave “T” game? Solo runthroughs? Klingon sub notification timing? Game room? How much play before filming? Official boardgame release year? Atlantis Rising? Spiel des Jahres recognizing official boardgame release year? Reviewer perspective different than gamers? Apply narrative device from Maracaibo to Trajan? Roll to resolve in Star Trek Expeditions? Event deck in Shadowrun Crossfire? TTS vs ETSY? 2020 a good or bad year for gaming? Nidavellir? Sports themed boardgames? London too random? Formidable opponents? RRT voting double? Castles of Tuscany rules goof? Castles of Tuscany official rules change? Rulebook structure? Darwin & Vanguard not on to anticipated list? Pandemic 0 vs regular Pandemic? Smile & a Gun a top 2p game? What does Jen remember about games? Fave AE Nemesis? Changing Rahdo audience? Has RRT changed our gaming preferences? Jen interested in role playing games?

•••[02:29:22] Personal Q&A►►►
Dark? Coping with loss of dogs? More than 2 dogs? Social justice on RRT? Terry Pratchett? How did Gamer Glass do in 2020? World Economic Forum’s global economic reset proposals? Using covid for societal reset? Why so many haters? Why no sports? New Star Wars lineup? Ted Lasso? Character growth in Back to the Future? My work on Sims? Discovery season 3? Mandalorian?

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SOOOO many questions!

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:00:25] Games of Interest►►►
Hero Realms, Targi Expansion, Angry Ocean, Walking Dead: No Sanctuary, Fabled Fruit, The Bird Told Me To Do It, Mines of Olnak, Legends of Andor: Dark Heroes, Lorenzo the Magnificent

•••[00:28:30] Top 10 2p Only Games Revisited

•••[00:38:01] Q&A►►►
How many games a week? LOAD controversy? Hybrid games? Rethinking dismissed games? What themes would Jen like to see? Scantily clad minis? How to keep collection under control? Most played games? "In the know" games? Overproduced games? LeiriaCon? Do old faves still stand up? The Rahdo effect? Watch it played? What would RRT videosgames look like? What kind of conflict do we avoid? Jen's mic? Standard boardgame review format? Most viewed vids? Best and worst things about RRT? Fave historical period for games? Best games to represent various mechanisms? Why so much ranking? How can I rank with so few plays? Can I leave the cult of the new? Update on Jen's top10? How to get into boardgame graphic design? Why no good boardgames in mainstream stores? What's gaming like in Germany? What were our "next step" games? How to help AP? Gateway to Agricola? Treasure hunting games? Does Jen disagree about games with Rahdo? Are game reviewers too tight with game publishers? Conflict heavy top 10? Table Top audience?

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In addition to the must haves countdown, there's lots of fun chitchat & banter to be had in the latest extended R&R audio edition! :) 

Hey everybody, here's a bonus show for your audio enjoyment... it's all of the stuff I live streamed on Feb 14th that WASN'T me recording the rankening show or the podcast! Over an hour of gameplay and Q&A :)

•••Personal Q&A►►►

Beagles (continued)? Staying positive? 80's nostalgia? Stranger Things? Where do we get news? Jen's Words of Wisdom? Spoilers for Star Trek Brave New Worlds? Spoilers for Pandemic Legacy 1, 2 and 0?

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•••[00:02:07] Games Q&A►►►

Wrath of Lich King qualification? Mythwind? Carnegie? London Dread & dice? Roll to resolves I like? Concordia a deckbuilder, part 3? Replaying top 20? Fractal: Beyond the Void? Roll Camera vs Intrepid? Dinosaur World? Cantaloop? Review vs Preview? Marvel Champions: Sinister Motives? Getting Jen to love Marvel Champions? What would happen to RRT without Jen?

•••[00:59:46] Personal Q&A►►►

Fatman Beyond? Masks in videos? My brother and mushrooms? Drinking while recording? Dynamic ads for podcast?

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Sponsored by https://arcanewonders.com

Help Rahdo Run: http://patreon.com/rahdo ❤️ Code of conduct: http://conduct.rahdo.com 🙂 And now...

A video ranking all the games we played in the month of July!

0:00 Sponsor

Age of Wonders: Planetfall https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353848/age-wonders-planetfall

Neotopia https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360359/neotopia

World Wonders https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365258/world-wonders

Call of Duty https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386403/call-duty-board-game

4:16 Intro

4:50 19. TIME Stories: Cavendish https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295480/time-stories-revolution-cavendish

6:48 18. Everything Ever https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391086/everything-ever

9:48 17. Splito https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359878/splito

13:02 16. Findorff https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360617/findorff

16:50 15. After Us https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369548/after-us

21:15 14. Midhalla https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359291/midhalla

26:16 13. Four Horsemen https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368540/four-horsemen

35:06 12. 3 Ring Circus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkNEvHYB1o

38:38 11. The Gardens https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322568/gardens

42:25 10. Lost Ruins of Arnak: Missing Expedition https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/382350/lost-ruins-arnak-missing-expedition

49:03 9. Everdell Farshore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2_NithxdYs

51:59 8. Space Explroers: Age of Ambition https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/346246/space-explorers-age-ambition

57:22 7. World Wonders https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365258/world-wonders

58:43 6. Fromage https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/384213/fromage

1:01:44 5. Rauha https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371922/rauha

1:04:35 4. Wild Tiled West https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342032/wild-tiled-west

1:08:15 3. Forbidden Jungle https://youtu.be/_wTIdAqQt50

1:10:43 2. Barcelona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_e7CWNNwqA

1:12:48 1. Marrakesh Essential Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oTtyPct6YM

1:14:22 Special Thanks

CATCHUP!

SHOW NOTES:

•••What Have We Been Playing? (00:00:40)►►►
prime time, the networks

•••Games of Interest (00:10:13)►►►
nations dynasties, galaxy trucker missions, russian railroads german railroads, theseus hunters, automobiles, lunarchitects, burano, peloponnes card game, runebound 3rd edition, fury of dracula 3rd edition, warhammer quest the card game,pursuit of happiness, inhabit the earth, treasure hunter, dingo's dreams, brettspiel adventskalendar, aya, grand austria hotel, hengist, morocco, adventure land

•••Q&A (00:41:40)►►►
underrated game designers, rare game finds, the peter molyneux of boardgames, my top10, ethical content in boardgames, prototypes, the movies, real life runthroughs, more prototypes, dice tower overlap, playtesting

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Anticipation, 2019-style!

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:01:45] 45 Games of Interest!!►►►
Adventure Games series, Carnival of Monsters, Carnival Zombie, Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale, Chocolate Facotry, Chocolatiers, Circadians: First Light, Coloma, Sierra West, Cosmic Run: Mining Colony, Dawn of Mankind, Deckscape: Behind the Curtain, Dice Upon a Time, Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition, F.L.O.W., Humboldt's Great Voyage, Inhuman Conditions, Strange & Norrell: the Boardgame, Kingswood, Legend Raiders, Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game, No Dawn, The One Hundred Torii, Outlaws In A Strange Land, Patchwork Doodle, Second Chance, Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, Quantified, Quodd Heroes, Ragusa, Res Arcana, Revolution of 1828, Roam, Scotland Yard: Das Wurfelspiel, Seventh Cross, Snowdonia: Deluxe Master Set, Solomon Kane, Space Gate Odyssey, Space Race, Tang Garden, Tiny Towns, Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage, Victorian Masterminds, Villagers, Yinzi: Shining Ming Dynasty

•••[01:31:05] Expansions of Interest & Already Filmed Games of Interest►►►
Barenpark: Die Grizzlies sind los!, Dice Forge: Rebellion, Dungeon Alliance: Champions, Homesteaders: New Beginnings, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire - Cold War, Mystic Vale: Harmony, Railways of Portugal, Roll Player: Fiends & Familiars, TIME Stories Madam & Hadal Project, Thunderstone Quest: Barricades and What Lives Beneath, Zhanguo Expansion, Madeirs Expansion, Railroad Revolution: Railroad Evolution

The Crusoe Crew, Detective: City of Angels, Diceborn Heroes, Domination: Road to Civilization, Dreamscape, Exploriana, Heroes of Tenefyr, Incoming Transmission, Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game, Museum, Neta-Tanka, Seize the Bean, Sorcerer City, Stygian Society, Vadoran Gardens, Welcome to DinoWorld

•••[01:55:12] Top 25 Games of Interest►►►

Steamopolis, Imperial Century, Roll Player Adventures, Rome and Roll, Grim Heroes, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Aerion, Sarah's Vision, The Ancient World 2nd Edition, Dale of Merchants Collection, Edge of Darkness, On Tour, La Stanza, Artificial Intelligence, Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea, On Mars, Comanauts, Wingspan, Project: ELITE, Sleeping Gods, Aeon's End: Legacy, Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated, Machi Koro Legacy, Glen More II: Chronicles, Black Angel

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Hey everybody! Here's this weeks's episode of Corner to Corner, and here's the youtube link if you'd like to watch instead of listen:

Episode 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvjHQ6pEOTA

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Another month, and another big bunch of games to talk about! This time, I'm also posting the full live extended episode from Twitch, so it includes additional Q&A, some unboxings, and other silliness. Let me know if you don't think this should be on the podcast and you'd prefer to stick to just the main show! :)

We only played 10 new games this month, but they were 10 fantastic games! And with all the contributors we're actually talking about more than 20 in this episode :-)

Man I just love Grant's monthly segment, as he's constantly exposing me to games I wouldn't otherwise know about. I genuinely feel like a more well rounded gamer after watching :)

Ooops, forgot to post the "rahdo patreon podcast" version of this week's R&R the other day! just one more mistake in a series of unfortunate events related to this episode!

We're still on the road in Alaska for one more day, and this morning I filmed a fast [b]ep #2 for Crowd Sorcery[/b], where I talk about the 7 best games ending their crowdfunding runs over the next 2 weeks (sorry for the audio at the end, d'oh!) 

Alex has got a lot more games he's found ending their campaigns soon, and I sadly say goodbye to the open road in this episode of CROWD SORCERY!

This time we've got Raina of Pandasaurus and 1 Minute Boardgames to help us count down the 10 best games for couples! :)

Hey everybody, here's me talking about 20 games that I think are the most must have of the show! And I'm just getting started... :)

In addition to the mid-year check-in, we've got plenty of chitchat plus a new This or That in the latest R&R&R :)

This is an R&R epsisode like no other... a top 15, talking about bad game experiences, and a 3 person show (or maybe 2.5 person) :)

I'm back home with a VERY long list of games for myself and the contributors to round up! :)

0:42 [Shea] 6. Mycology (sponsored preview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lddb6wjtjI

2:24 [Shea] 5. Weirdwood Manor (sponsored preview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGCq7Mzj20s

5:14 [Shea] 4. Marvel Zombies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoG1N3qcF7c

7:40 [Shea] 3. Fractured Sky (sponsored preview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFqFXY-pgyk

9:37 [Shea] 2. Monster Hunter Iceborne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4BirtkgnuY

12:54 [Shea] 1. Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVOrgP9AUw

16:05 [Kimberly] 4. Vedur (sponsored preview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJX6s_bFOds

17:29 [Kimberly] 3. Holotype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnR4o3_r4oo

19:10 [Kimberly] 2. Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVOrgP9AUw

20:56 [Kimberly] 1. Revive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt4yuad4eHc

23:11 [Ruel] Ecosfera

24:28 [Ruel] 5. Point City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZU6XECBkE

25:44 [Ruel] 4. Project L: Finesse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJxgWlAjdPs

27:22 [Ruel] 3. Paperback 10th Anniversary (sponsored preview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBPoLuLf1s

29:05 [Ruel] 2. Let's Go To Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkvZ2HpD658

30:52 [Ruel] 1. Mosaic: A Story of Civilization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUmxur2Bhw

32:42 [Ruel] Mousetrap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1AvWq9QJw

34:03 [amy & maggie] Expedition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75S9NE6la4I

36:32 15. Voices In My Head https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/354254/voices-my-head

40:43 14. Polynesia https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301084/polynesia

44:16 13. Sumatra https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/313000/sumatra

47:42 12. Stellarion https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360843/stellarion

51:26 11. Score Cards https://plaay.com/score-cards

56:04 10. Good Dog, Bad Zombie https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/238182/good-dog-bad-zombie

59:20 7. Frontier: Enchanted Land https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269586/frontier-enchanted-land

1:02:52 9. Motor City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YjuBhx2xQ

1:05:41 8. Dice Colony https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367521/dice-colony

1:09:17 6. Meadow: Downstream https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/355957/meadow-downstream

1:13:37 5. Queen of Hansa https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/274429/queen-hansa

1:16:29 4. Paperback: 10th Anniversary Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBPoLuLf1s

1:20:54 4. Typewriter https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385645/typewriter

1:23:58 3. Raising Robots (sponsored preview) https://www.patreon.com/posts/raising-robots-82160020

1:27:14 2. Your Best Life https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378279/your-best-life

1:30:37 1. The Loop: Fur Brigade https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/365130/loop-fur-brigade

1:33:07 Thanks & Shoutouts :)

Ruel and I are taking a loot at the coolest upcoming Kickstarters (in our opinions). If you'd rather watch this than listen, you can check it out on youtube at https://youtu.be/HPTU_JosSac :)

Hey everybody, today we're talking gateway games as we disagree about which games should have one the Spiel Des Jahres for the last five years! :)

Hey everybody, I recently did a 2 hour interview with Scott Alden of Boardgamegeek.com, where we discussed a wide range of topics and basically tried to get to know each other a little better. If you'd prefer this in video form, you can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPhPrPhcH8

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Oh my, jen and I are in winter wonderland at the Grand Canyon, trying to figure out our new normal, but that doesn't stop the crowd sorcery, so here's me and Alex running you through a ton of crowdfunding games ending soon :)

Folks, no worries about the opening where I talk about my extreme dizziness for the last few days... doc says it's BPPV and very treatable. I posted more about it at the guild.rahdo.com as ruel promised, and now on with the show! :)

5 new games Grant tells us about, including one that's never been announced anywhere before! :)

Chris, Ruel and I come up with a list of 12 games to get if your budget is under $300, and things quickly go off the rails!

Hey everybody, we're talking about 24 upcoming crowdfunding games today that have caught our eye! Plus, we're also raising funds for Ukraine... please check out https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/TLNUKRAINE?utm_term=rgqq2GKaz for details :)

But that's not all... we do some Q&A, talk about DTW, and work our way through a surprisingly tough Top 3!

It's the last show of the year, and we had a good old time bringing it to you. GOOD AFTERNOON! :)

Ruel and I talk one of our favourite genres and get a bit of a practical joke played on us in our 50th episode! :)

Ruel has good news and we've got some super deals on some on sale games in this month's R&R show :)

There's a bunch more travel games in the post show, and some more fun chitchat in the pre-show :)

Hey everybody, this is the extra long edition of episode 24 of the R&R show, with an additional hour or so of behind the scenes going's on! :)

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/v-2i68S7JSM

For more Ruel, check https://www.youtube.com/ruelgaviola

I love ruel's picks in this month's R&R... i went cult-of-the-new, and he picks some "should be" modern classics! :)

And now... the latest episode of the R&R show! Rahdo and guest co-host Shea talk board games!

To watch this in video form, head over to https://youtu.be/OX7tBpuagqk

For more Shea, check https://youtube.com/rtfmshow or http://shea.rahdo.com

0:00 Intro

1:08 What's on Rahdo's Table?

5:12 What's on Shea's Table?

8:10 Contest time!

14:23 Top 10 Sci Fi Game

18:04 10. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

22:08 9. Dune Imperium 

28:07 8. Cosmic Colonies

31:20 7. Nemesis: Lockdown 

37:11 6. CloudAge

40:38 5. Ganymede

45:18 4. Black Angel

50:13 3. Star Realms

54:35 2. Roll for the Galaxy

59:46 1. Twilight Imperium

1:08:11 Outro

•••[00:02:25] Games Q&A►►► Feld over Pfister? Imperium fall? NFTs in boardgames? Faiyum drop? Final Girl? 7 Wonders or Continents? Land vs Sea? Anunnaki? Stonemaier swingy cards? Aeon’s End the best & storage? Verdant vs other entwined drafting? Corrosion playtime? Future boardgame trends? Guessing Jen’s gaming preferences? The future for print&play? What game have I most influenced? How do I keep rules straight? Boardgames going mainstream? Asmodee sprawl?

•••[01:10:01] Personal Q&A►►► How was our holiday season? Best farm dog? Driving differences in Europe? Potato donuts? Single world government? Die vs dice? Meat substitutes? What else do we miss from Europe? Annoyances living in Europe? My involvement in Gamer Glass? Rank these shows! 2.5x speed! Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye? Netflix Daredevil? Jen’s words of wisdom? DOGGOS!!! (spoiler warning) Hawkeye show thoughts? Spiderman No Way Home thoughts?

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Hey everybody! Here's this weeks's episode of Corner to Corner, and here's the youtube link if you'd like to watch instead of listen:

Episode 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuihReetWf0

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Hey everybody, this month's top10 is a top 25... namely the most anticipated games of Essen Spiel. If you'd rather watch the video, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtrGkaZtos8

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Okay folks, here's the podcast version of my latest attempt to pick the best of the best! Things go off the rails a couple of time, but still fun was had :)

In this month's episode, Grant goes through a rollercoaster ride of emotion as well as tells us about 5 great games! :)

And now... a episode outlining the new games we played in November! If you'd rather watch this in video form: https://youtu.be/I1O06SDwAX0

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As always, keep the questions coming to questions@rahdo.com !! :) •••Game/show Q&A►►► 1:36 Improving my final thoughts? 9:35 Exit surveys? 22:52 Feld City collection? 26:59 Marrakesh Nomads vs Camels? 32:00 How I rank hidden gems? 47:21 Alternatives to pre-ordering? 1:02:39 Mr. Beast & boardgames? 1:11:01 How the boardgames biz doing? 1:13:46 Are my runthroughs misleading? 1:24:22 Influential board game artists? 1:37:32 Managing my BGG collection? 1:43:39 Boardgames fan demographics? 1:53:24 Normalizing unhealthy boardgame habits? 2:03:20 More conventions in our future? 2:05:45 Throwing games in the trash? •••Personal Q&A►►► 2:08:50 Roadtrip to BGG Con? 2:19:08 Does Jen think I'm a bad driver? 2:23:57 Future evolution of the Rahdo channel? 2:39:32 Retirement advice? 3:04:29 Must-see RV spots in the USA? 3:07:01 Jen's Glass work on the road? 3:09:38 Video game industry morality? 3:27:16 Reconciling my violent video games & my carebear-ism? 3:47:33 UBI and inflation? 3:58:20 Ridin' with Biden? 4:01:08 AOC lies?

Here's an hour of chitchat between Ruel and I from the live stream today where we got together to play Glory to Rome. So this file is the jibber-jabber between us before and after the game :)

Hey everybody! Here's this weeks's episode of Corner to Corner, and here's the YouTube link if you'd like to watch instead of listen:

Episode 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWdYFWqnAo

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So many games to talk about I lost track of them! 27? 28? and then two bonus ones from Kimberly as well, so 30 in the end! Yowza!

Hey everybody! Here's this weeks's episode of Corner to Corner, and here's the youtube link if you'd like to watch instead of listen:

Episode 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdHawg7eqE

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So much to talk about...

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:00:54] Games of Interest►►►
A Thief's Fortune, 5-Minute Marvel, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse! Roll Player Adventures, Solenia, Shadowrun Crossfire: Prime Runner's Edition, Dragonfire: Heroes of the Wild, High Rise, Troyes 2, Roll Player: Fiends & Familiars, Tale of Ord, Legend of Andor: Verschollenen Legenden, EXIT the Game, 3rd series, Mesozooic, New Frontiers, Roll for Adventure, Snowdonia Delxue, Sleeping God

•••[00:25:12] Top10 Revisits►►►
Boardgame Boards, Part II & Roll and Writes

•••[00:59:52] Game Q&A►►►
UKGE recap? First player choosing? How to learn new games? How to teach Burgundy? Theme of Chess? Go? Checkers? Too much theme in modern gaming? How to consume lots of rules? Project Elite's future? Learning Dungeon Petz? Pandemic pre-Legacy? Music while gaming? Yspahan? D&D history? Season's theme? In the zone while at conventions? Most thematic Feld? Rosenberg? Kiesling? Knizia? How to theme dry euros? Dragonfire ranking? Dragonfire vs Gloomhaven? How much time does RRT take? No boardgames or no TV? More optimisitc in the podcast than the final thoughts? Seperate the art from the artist? Roverboat? Jen's glass art as chess set? Runthroughs from Malta still? Isle of Skye Journeyman?

•••[01:56:01] Personal Q&A►►►
Gloucester cheese roll? Saul vs Breaking bad? The push? Camper vanning? Awesome possum? Snacking while gaming? Fave clothing? Map of RRT viewers? Quiet time? Jen, why London? How handy are we? Local food recommendations? Jen's words of wisdom?

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In addition to the grande finale of the top100, this episode also marks a big change for the show as well, and we go into detail in the extended episode!

Unleash the doggo pics at http://doggo.rahdo.com :)

SHOW NOTES:

•••[00:02:49] Games Q&A►►►
Immorality of copyright infringement? Why cover long games? Mercado de Lisboa? 2020 Feld game coverage? Roll for the Galaxy tactics? Beer hangup? Plunderous cancellation? Covid's effect on digital boardgaming? Adventure Ink? Rank Marvel Champions expansions? Recent cull? Freedom Five? Alternatives to KDM? Furnace vs Wonderful World? Downtime between runthrough and final thoughts? Orleans Stories? Hadrian's Wall? Glasgow? Lookout vs Kosmos 2p lines? 7 Wonders Duel Agora? Revisiting my top 10? IP conflicts? Wingspan eggs strategy? My rankings ignoring Jen? Ranking Pandemic expansions? Duelosaur Island? Digital conventions? WYG status? Expansions in Yearly top10? Rahdo houserules?

•••[01:55:16] Games with Jen Q&A►►►
Dungeon Petz revelation? Dummy players? Preferred game themes? 

•••[02:19:39] Personal Q&A►►►
Lovecraft country? Storytelling rules? Qualities of a wonderful person? 5 year tea plan? Jen's glass business? Jen's fave tea? Gateway teas? What do we do about our carbon footprint? Fireworks? Jen's words of wisdom? 

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Here's the audio version of grants latest 5 game countdown, and i'm pretty jealous of some of these games that I haven't played yet!

Hey everybody, a new year calls for a new series. Hope you enjoy! :)

Grant Lyon is back listing his favourite five games of the last month, and I had no idea he played so many games... way more than us!!!

here's the audio version of grant's latest 5 game countdown, including 2 games that you never would have heard about on the channel otherwise :)

27 games talked about this month in the roundup, and here's the audio version! Lots of good stuff, including some top10 of the year candidates! :)

Here's the ad-free audio version of this weeks R&R&R show where we're joined by Mike Kelley of the one stop co-op shop, and he's calls me out (for good reason!) :)