Boldly Rolling with Jim Johnson from Star Trek Adventures - Boards & Swords #229

Saw and Diablo are getting board games, AI wants to teach you board games, and Murder Mystery magic cards?? Plus, we have Jim Johnson on the show, project manager and line editor of the Star Trek Adventures RPG from Modiphius!

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Toys R Us Returns, Mr. Beast plays Dune Imperium with Ian from Floodgate Games - Boards & Swords #228

Never would have thought I'd hear "MrBeast" and "Dune Imperium" in the same sentence. Or that I'd hear about Toys R Us returning, or that a TCG website would stop carrying Magic: The Gathering? Is it the end times? We find out while also talking to Ian from Floodgate Games about their board games.

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Game Toppers 4.0 Kickstarter Preview (Premium Game Mats!) with Burky - Boards & Swords 227

An RPG maker is suing Netflix? Could you handle 24 people playing Twilight Inscription at one time? And what’s this about combining Barbie with Warhammer 40k? Plus, we’ve got Burky from GameToppers LLC to talk about his latest Kickstarter, featuring a TON of cool new playmats!

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Affordable Dice For All Minis Games with Steven from Baron of Dice - Boards & Swords 226

Rhino Hero to Rhino Zero…money? You’ll never guess, but Terraforming Mars has used AI art before, and Weta Workshop is wetting our appetites for some new 40k action figures. Plus, we’ve got Steven from The Baron of Dice on the show to talk about what else but DICE!

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Nova Open 2023 with Adam and Vince from Snarling Badger Studios - Boards & Swords 225

We are live at Nova Open 2023! Will Chris get the chance to insta-kill Philip AGAIN in D&D? Want a eco-friendly card game with more “bark” in it? Plus, we talk with Adam and Vince from Snarling Badger Studios about their various tabletop miniatures games and going from tabletop players to making a tabletop company.

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1986 Called, Will You Roll Out? - Transformers Core Rulebook Review

It's pretty well known to everyone, but I know TikTok is spying on me. Here I am, reviewing Renegade Game Studios' Transformers The Roleplaying Game, and so I've been talking about it with friends. Suddenly, over the past week, I've started getting clips of various Transformers cartoons and movies in my Tik Tok feed. I'm onto you TikTok, you aren't fooling anyone. Then again, I'm enjoying the nostalgia, so maybe it's working as designed?

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Cyberpunk RED Combat Zone with Dan from Monster Fight Club - Boards & Swords 224

Castle Assault gets popular for the wrong reasons, get dice everyday for a month, and a new card game based on a show based on a card game? We talk about this and more with Dan Scillieri from Monster Fight Club, makers of great terrain and the Cyberpunk RED Combat Zone minis game.

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Can I Unleash Havoc On Some Daemons? Imperial Knights Battle Report

Last time, I talked about my first "real" Warhammer 40K tenth edition game. In that game, I learned how important movement and placement was for my Imperial Knights. Clearly, having had my butt handed to me so severely, I would never make those mistakes again.

Yeah….okay. We'll see about that later.

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Gen Con 2023 Exclusive: Star Wars Unlimited Card Game First Look & Preview by Fantasy Flight Games!

We got a preview game of Star Wars Unlimited from Fantasy Flight Games while at Gen Con 2023. Here's the full match between Shawn and Jeremy (one of the designers of the game).

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Stompy Knights Are A Go....Or Maybe They Aren't? Imperial Knights Battle Report

Well here we are, over two months into Warhammer 40K tenth edition. If you listen to reddit and the competitive scene, there are so many bugs/errors in the game that GW needs to fix IMMEDIATELY! Do they need to be fixed? I dunno, I don't pretend to be a game designer in my free time. But I did figure that this would be a good opportunity to fire up my Battle Reports again.

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Don't Get Your Crumbs On My Plushie! - August 11, 2023 Crowdfunding Roundup

I’m bringing back the blog! You’ll see some other posts next week, but what better way to restart the blog post Gen Con than to talk about some Crowdfunding! Lots of good stuff this week, especially if you enjoy the cute and adorable! So lets get started:

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Gen Con 2023 Recap: Over 70,000 Nerds Trying To Get Lorcana - Boards & Swords 223

Chris is back from Gen Con, and Shawn and him did a lot and saw a lot of things. Also, $300,000 worth of magic cards stolen, people were crazy for Lorcana, and Transformers are coming to Robo Rally! The best part - you wont have to shove through 70,000 other nerds to find out everything that happened!

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Worms: The Board Game with Ronnie Renton from Mantic Games - Boards & Swords 222

They actually made a way for you to play as the Blob in the Arkham Horror LCG, a popular Call of Cthulhu adventure is getting turned into a board game, and “Allons-y”: we’ve got Doctor Who magic cards to talk about now. Then, we talk with Ronnie from Mantic Games about the upcoming Worms: The Board Game.

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Dice Theme Park, Tiny Epic Gloomhaven, Um Actually the Board Game - Boards & Swords 221

One of these days I will stop putting Lord of the Rings MTG stories in the news…I’m sorry but today is not that day. Also: a tabletop minis game set in a trailer park, Gloomhaven: just smaller, and massacre your friends (but only in Texas with a Chainsaw!). And Cory and Jimmy join us to talk about Dice Theme Park from Alley Cat Games and we play the “Um, Actually” card game.

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