The Booster Pack Network

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] Underground comics, fanzines & garage bands. All these critically acclaimed art forms are created by passionate people who simply love the medium in which they work. Many of the worlds best artists started in these raw, unregulated, domestically developed mediums. Enter...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] This time Rands is joined by one of the most prolific collectible trading card game designers of all time—Paul Peterson. Paul tells us how he rose from Customer Service at Wizards of the Coast to become their go-to "TCG guy" during that company's most activ...

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[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] Alright, you betta buckle up for this one. You've been warned. On this episode, we got ourselves one of the most prolific CCG designers ever! That is Luke Peterschmidt! If you didn't already know the name, you won't soon forget it because he is one of the m...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] This time on The Booster Pack we focus on the future, rather than the past. Rands sits down with Sterling—an Atlanta animator turned trading card game creator—about his brand new TCG called "D-Spirits". D-Spirits captures the charm and nostalgia of monster tamin...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] On this bonus episode of The Booster Pack, Rands is joined by Richard & Harry from the YouTube channel "DEAD DECKS" to talk about their Top 5 personal favorite dead collectible / trading card games. What is a "dead" TCG / CCG ? Simply, it is any out-o...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] On this episode of The Booster Pack, we jump in the Mystery Machine & take a ride back to the late 1990s & early 2000s with former Journeyman Press Assistant Manager Brian Woodward. On this adventure, Brian shares his stories from playtesting the X-Files CCG to co...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] On this episode, Rands is joined by L Scott Johnson... or LSJ as he is known to "Vampire: The Eternal Struggle" players around the world. LSJ is an instrumental figure in the history of VtES & here we explore his journey from a self-proclaimed “rulemonger” o...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] On this episode, Rands is joined by Theo & Michael Stern—the initial design team behind Fleer’s OverPower CCG.  These brothers share the story of how they went from avid game lovers & comic book fans to being the designers for the first-ever collectible game to fe...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] On this *bonus episode* of The Booster Pack podcast Rands chats to comic book writer Jed MacKay! Wait, what!? Comic book writer, you ask. Yes, comic book writer. You see, Jed was a CCG player of yesteryear & is currently the writer of Boom! Studio's Magic: The Gathe...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] Today on The Booster Pack we have a KICKSTARTER launch interview with CCG creator & publisher Assad Quraishi. Assad's company—Haunted Castle Gaming—makes Genesis: Battle of Champions. We talk though the first 4 years of the Genesis CCG, the philosophy behind the...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] On this episode of The Booster Pack Rands is joined by games industry maverick James Ernest to discuss the handful of eclectic collectible games he designed throughout his career thus far. We cover everything from his early work for Wizards of the Coast, him making the fi...

This week the lead designer of the Prisoner of Azkaban virtual expansion (POA) for the Harry Potter TCG Revival group is our guest on The Booster Pack bonus show: the Rare Slot! In this episode Rands & HPTCGR’s Sammy DiSalvo discuss the high quality of work being put into the fan-revival for the Harry Potter Trading Card Game & also chat about their opinions on the very philosophy of TCG/C...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] This week we deviate from talking about the past & instead discuss the future.  In this episode Rands is joined by Flesh & Blood content creator Bronson to chat about the significant shift in the way people perceive the TCG/CCG secondary market, how its changed over...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] In this episode, J Morgyn White—the founder of SCRYE magazine—joins Rands to discuss the origin story of the very first dedicated COLLECTIBLE TRADING CARD GAME magazine. Over this fascinating discussion, we hear the previously untold stories of how & *why* SCYRE magazine...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] There is something special about our episode this week because we are talking about history in the making! In his first-ever interview about his new Trading Card Game, PoE Creative Director Erik Olofsson, talks about his new game— SORCERY: CONTESTED REALM Erik shares his...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] On this very special bonus RARE SLOT episode we dig into depths of collectible game history to bring you a previously untold story about a CCG that was never published. Way back in the mid-1990s, college student Quan Williams created a fan-made collectible card game based on...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] This week on The Booster Pack:  Rands is joined by veteran MMO & CCG designer Shawn Carnes for our longest episode yet.  Shawn shares his stories from his early gaming days all the way up to leaving Wizards of the Coast in 2000. Along the way he has stories about the...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] This week we feature a listener-suggested game— the Sailor Moon CCG! Rands is joined by the president of Dyskami Publishing Mark MacKinnon to discuss his brief time away from designing RPGs, when he crafted the surprisingly unique Sailor Moon Collectible Card Game. We tal...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] After barely scratching the surface in our previous episode, Justin Gary returns for another visit to The Booster Pack. This time we go deep on the CCG that started his game design career: VS System! If you were a player of original VS System or even simply curious about...

In this episode we step back to the dawn of fantasy hobby gaming history with original TSR game designer Jim Ward (sometime credited as James M. Ward) Jim shares his origin story—working with Gary Gygax on the earliest Dungeons & Dragons products—before we move onto discussing the second-ever CCG to be released: TSR's Spellfire! Jim shares his Spellfire stories, some fascinating & oth...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] For this mini-episode we talk to Chris Malec, the person behind the brand new remastering of the Legend of the Burning Sands CCG . Chris tells about the origins of this fan-project and explains the effort that went into updating & streamlining a 20 year old collectible c...

[[ Originally released as "The Booster Pack". This show has since been retitled "Booster Pack Throwback" ]] This episode we chat to legendary card game designer Mike Fitzgerald! Mike is the brains behind some of the most recognizable hobby card games in the market today including Mystery Rummy, Diamonds & the deck-builder Baseball Highlight 2045. Before all those however, h...

[[ Originally released as "TBP: Rare Slot" — a Bonus Episode of the former "The Booster Pack Podcast" ]] Our mini-episodes are going to be titled the "The Booster Pack: RARE SLOT"... you know that place in The Booster Pack everyone is searching for! These episodes will be a departure from our normal interview episodes.  While the normal episodes are history-based, the...

Welcome to PART 2 of our interview with award-winning collectible card game designer Chuck Kallenbach. In this episode Chuck talks about some of the IP-based card games he created from scratch. These include a games for the popular '.hack' anime/video game franchise & the legendary MegaMan character. Chuck also talks about Decipher's attempt to revive the mechanics of the Star W...