Donald Scott and Erik talk about games with large groups

Giles & Donald talk about games with large groups

1. Werewolves of Miller's Hollow, New Moon, Ultimate Werewolf, Possession, Do You Worship Cthulhu?, reviewed by Giles and Donald
2. Battlestar Galactica reviewed by Erik
3. Rorschach reviewed by Donald

Outro
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Music Contest Part 2 extension
Round Table
Erik, Scott, and Donald talk about Take That! games

Reviews
A Touch of Evil Supernatural Game from Flying Frog Productions reviewed by Erik
Taluva from Rio Grande Games Reviewed by Giles
Torches & Pitchforks from Green Ronin group review
Dominion from Rio Grande Games group review

Outro
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The first episode of All Alone where Erik talks about solitaire gaming.

In it he discusses the three types of solitaire games and then reviews Zombie in my Pocket.

Enjoy.

OBG 30: Start Your Engines
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Round Table

Scott and Erik discuss racing games

Games in Education

Giles talks about using punchboards

Reviews
Don, Scott, and a host of others review Cockroach Poker
Erik reviews Roborally

Outro
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OBG29: Store in a Cool Dry Place
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Round Table

Donald, Scott,and Erik discuss the different ways to store your game collection and the game components. We also learn that Don has issues.

Tuckbox generators on the Web:
http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/tuckbox.cgi
http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/
http://www.comfused.be/flex/tuckboxmaker/v3.swf



Games in Education

Giles talks about his lunchtime gaming program

Reviews
Don, Scott, and a host of others review Bacchus' Banquet
Giles reviews his favorite small publisher
Erik reviews Wings of War: Famous Aces
Erik reviews Revenge of the B-Movie

Outro
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The Dread Pirate Walsfeo takes over the On Board Games feed for a special Talk Like a Pirate Day episode.

Review
 Caribbean published by Rio Grande Game's

Special
This year's TLAPD is Friday September 19th. Ifn' you don't know about Talk Like a Pirate Day, get over to http://talklikeapirateday.com

Music
Music provided by the Pyrates Royale from their album Blackjack
* You Fair Spanish Ladies
* Being A Pirate

http://pyrates.com


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Music Contest part 2
North Star Games and Days of Wonder Sign Worldwide Licensing Deal Wits & Wagers Goes to Europe!

Round Table
Donald Scott and Erik talk about the place of small game companies in the hobby, and discuss review copies of the games.

Interviews

1. Craig Ichabod O'Brien Designer of Megamaniology.
2. David Crockett Designer of Beyond Chess http://www.gobeyondchess.com/

Outro

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Loot from Gamewright Games reviewed by Donald Dennis

Walk the Plank review correction
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/311979
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/313724

Music provided by Marc Gunn
Drop of Nelson's Blood & Irish Rover

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http://www.celticmusicpodcast.com/

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Music Contest Results
Thanks to Out of the Box Publishing, Gorilla Games, Pat, Johan, Dave, Dan, Christopher


Donald's review theme is Clockwork 3
Scott's review theme is Chris Suburban
Erik's review theme is Chris Cheese
Ben's review theme is Chris's Baby
Giles's  review theme is Dan's Durak60 1,
Game  review themes are Pat 3 or Chris's  Atlantis

Round Table

Donald Scott and Erik revisit classic American board games from their youth.

Scrabble Lawsuit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25836583/

Wandering Geek Promo

Reviews

• Risk Black Ops reviewed by Scott
• Scrabble reviewed by Erik
• Battleship reviewed by Ben
  
• Battleground: Crossbows & Catapults reviewed by Giles & Donald
• Sorry! reviewed by Donald
  

Outro

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Mail bag and train game episode feedback.
Hobby Games: The 100 Best homework and call in request

Round Table
Teaching games Scott, Erik, & Donald

Correspondent Segments
Giles on the Boardgames Australia Awards.

Reviews

• Adventurer: Card Game reviewed from Shadowcircle Press by Scott & Donald
• Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game from Flying Frog Productions reviewed by Erik
• 10 Days in Asia from Out of the Box reviewed by Giles & Donald

Outro

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Giles interviews Alex Yaeger of Mayfair Games.
Also posted at http://gamesforeducators.com/

Contest Episode where I share the contest entries. Visit the BGG guild to chat about them!


http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2417437

Submissions by
Pat
Johan  - 30ought6 on BGG
Dave - clockwirk on BGG
Dan -  Durak60 on BGG
Christopher

Special Interview

Game Awards Scott, Donald and guest Greg Schlosser
http://www.internationalgamersawards.net/

Correspondent Segments

Games in Education - Giles discusses talks about the Games for Educators site. http://www.gamesforeducators.com/

Preview 

• Ghost Stories Preview from Repos Productions previewed by Donald & Scott 

Reviews 

• Dungeonquest & Dungeonquest Catacombs, from Games Workshop reviewed by Scott
• Imperial from Rio Grande Games reviewed by Erik

Rights, Recognition, and Links

• A big thanks to Erik, Scott, Giles,
  
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Chit Chat

Round Table

Correspondent Segments

Reviews

 

• Stone Age reviewed by Scott
• Covert Action reviewed by Erik
• Pandemic reviewed by Ben
  
• Transeuropa reviewed by Donald, Connie, Danny, & Joey
  

Outro

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New segment introduction

Walk the Plank review by Donald Dennis
http://greenronin.com/

Happy Jack’s Undrinkable Ale, by the Poxy Boggards
http://www.poxyboggards.com/

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Contest
Announcement/refresher - the Music for the show.

OBG Mail Bag
Links for Chris about getting someone to play your games

Round Table
Print and Play Games Scott, Erik, & Donald
No links provided for making your own board tutorial. Sorry. I blame Erik.
For more info on print and play games, check out the Print and Play podcast which has recently moved. http://www.printandplay.co.uk/

Correspondent Segment
Games in Education - Giles discusses the stigma of games in schools, and curriculum support justification of including them in the classroom.

Reviews

• Black Death v1.01 from BTRC reviewed by Erik
• Caveman from MAG Ltd reviewed by Scott, Tammy, and Donald

Sorry for the delay of podcast, but we had an emergency in the family that had to take precidence. Connie's sister has disappeared. If you are in the area around NY state, and would be willing to hand out fliers, or could help us get keep this in the news, please let me know.

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I’ve been very busy dealing with a family emergency, so the episode that was supposed to drop today will be delayed for up to a week.

As an April Fools special we are ignoring our established format and sharing a couple interviews from my trip to Prez Con this spring. We have two interviews, one with designer Andrew Parks and one with Pete Fenlon the CEO of Mayfair Games.

Episode Content
A short blurb about the contest.

Andrew and I talk about

• His history in the gaming industry
• How to approach a publisher and get a game seriously considered
• Eurogamer or Amerigamer?
• Game events

Andrew Parks Games Mentioned

• Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean
• 300: The Board Game
• Ideology: The War of Ideas (2nd Edition)
• Camelot Legends
• Gremlins: The Game

Scott Sigler Promo

Giles previews a game book!

• Gamer's Companion to Shakespeare

Wandering Geek Promo

Pete Fenlon and I talk about

• Mayfair supporting Pulp Gamer
• Mayfair's maximum discount policy
• Do we really need a new edition of Settlers?
• The Phalanx line
• Catan Dice Game

We will get back to our normal format, and future interviews will appear in episodes like other segments.

Scott's blatant plug - Tulipmania
Contest announcement - Contest to create music for the show

Round Table
Player scale-ability  Scott, Erik, & Donald

Erik's traitorous work for the Print and Play podcast
Scott's Game Lab work
Donald talks about boardgamepodcasts.com

Correspondent Segments

• Games in Education - Giles reveals game uses at school.
• A Guide to the Geek - Ben covers the advanced search feature on Board Game Geek.
  

 

Reviews 

• Realpolitik from Peccable Productions reviewed by Scott
• HeroScape from Hasbro reviewed by Erik

Promos
Wandering Geek
OBG Music Contest
Infected by Scott Sigler

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Alert! This episode is produced in a factory that also processes RA!

Round Table
The twelve lowest ranked games on BGG discussed, Donald, Erik, &  Scott

Correspondent Segments

• Games in Education - Giles discusses the ways he has used games in schools.
• A Guide to the Geek - Ben covers the user Ranking system on Board Game Geek

Interview
Donald interviews Steve LeShay of Sherco Games

Reviews

• Kingsburg from Mario Truant Verlag,  Edge Entertainment,  Ubik,  Stratelibri,  Ulisses Spiele,  Elfinwerks, reviewed by Scott

Outro

• Donald would like to thank Erik for editing the round table, and Scott, Giles, and Ben for all of their contributions
  
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We're excited to have over 200 guild members and 15 BGG users who own the On Board Games microbadge!

Join the On Board Games Guild - a big thanks goes out to all those fans of On Board Games who have contributed their ideas, opinions and thoughts in the guild, it's been great to read your responses to our roundtable discussions, and to hear your thoughts on the show.

Prezcon announcement

Round Table
The Culture of Game Consumption Scott, Erik, & Donald

Wandering Geek OBG Promo

Correspondent Segments
Games in Education - Giles discusses why games make a good addition to any classroom.

Reviews

• Fire & Axe: A Viking Saga, from Asmodee Editions, reviewed by Erik
• Hollywood Shuffle , from All Things Equal, reviewed by Ben
  
• Container, from Valley Games, reviewed by Scott
• Blink!, from Out of the Box Publishing, reviewed by Giles
• Combo King, from Gamewright Games, reviewed by Donald, Connie, &  Danny 
• Gulo Gulo , from Rio Grande Games, reviewed by Erik and Hope

Endgame

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In this episode the guys discuss different types of gaming events. We offer a plethora of Stoplight game reviews. And friends of the podcast, Caradoc and Blott  chime in as well.    Warning! This episode may contain RA!

Another "Donald is going to PrezCon" announcement.

Round Table
Event Round Table
Erik, Scott, and Donald discuss industry only shows, trade to consumer shows, and fan oriented shows.

• BGG Con
• Chitag
• GAMA

Australian Big Event segment by Caradoc

Reviews

• Smuggler review by Scott
• Hit & Run Zeus on the Loose review by Donald
• 1960: The Making of the President  review by Erik
• Rage review by Blott
• Good Question review by Donald
• Felix, the Cat in the Sack review by Scott

Outro

• Big Thanks to Erik, Scott, Blott, and Caradoc,
  
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On Board Games Round Table

Don, Erik, and Scott discuss games with long down time and players who cause a delay of game. Suggestions are given on how to pass the time, or get the game moving.

Stoplight Reviews

• Rattlesnake (Fantasy Flight Games) reviewed by Scott
• Cluzzle (North Star Games) reviewed by Donald
• Engle Matrix Games
  • Sherlock Holmes Case of the Dead Duke reviewed by Erik
  • Jack the Ripper  reviewed by Erik
• Cleopatra and the Society of Architects (Days of Wonder) reviewed by Erik

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