Pyramid of Pengqueen, Looking ahead to 2019 - Boards & Swords #119

Enough with this 2018 garbage! We gotta look ahead to 2019! That’s what everyone else is doing right? Plus a review of Brain Games’ new Pyramid of Pengqueen game (set in the Ice Cool universe)!

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Blades in the Dark Pt. 2 "Hard Times for The Final Dawn" - The Dirtbags of Holding #121

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Now that character creation is done, its time to misbehave! Our “heroes” find themselves neighbors to a doomsday cult, and are not too happy about that, as we continue our Blades in the Dark game.

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You Don't Have To Like A Game Because It's Popular!

Once again, I'm expanding on a twitter rant I had a couple of weeks ago. This time, it was spawned because of various facebook posts I've seen over the past couple of weeks in regards to Keyforge. If I were to summarize these posts, it would sound something like: OMG WHY IS KEYFORGE SO POPULAR? IT'S A DUMB CARD GAME AND A WAY FOR FFG TO MAKE MONEY CALLING IT A UNIQUE GAME WHEN ITS ACTUALLY JUST A CCG WITH A NEW COAT OF PAINT! 

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The Arrival, Montana, Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, Our Holiday Wishlists - Boards & Swords #117

Not much worth talking about news wise, so we take a look at what was popular in Summer 2018. Plus our usual reviews and then we finish up by talking about what games we want for Christmas!

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Blades in the Dark Pt. 1 "Let's Be Bad Guys!" - The Dirtbags of Holding #120

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So Cthulhu chewed us up and spit us out, so we had to switch gears to a new game: Blades in the Dark from John Harper and Evil Hat Publishing! In this game, we will be making scoundrels that will be running amok in a steampunk victorian horror town.

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When You Don't Have Enough Spoons For Board Games

Are you familiar with the Spoon Theory? I've linked to wikipedia for some quick info, but there's a lot more in depth stuff available to read on. Also, I'm not an expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Basically, the idea behind the Spoon Theory is that people only have a certain number of "Spoons" in a day, representing the amount of energy you have to conduct activities. For those with disabilities or mental illnesses, some tasks require more "spoons" than they would for another person, especially activities that require interacting with other people. 

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Spirits of the Wild, DC Spyfall, Reddit Roundtable - Boards & Swords #115

No news in this episode because we only recorded it a week after the last one! We fill in a few more reviews that didn’t make the cut in the last extravaganza, then we take some questions we found on Reddit and give our own unique answers to them. Oh and game shows!

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