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Welcome to the off week odds and ends episode! A variety of topics are being put out today, mostly extra conversation from Episode 9 with James Hudson. In addition to those topics, we've add in our conversation post-GenCon about Madcala and I really hope you enjoy that as much as we did. Finally there will be a small little nugget about Coma Ward - a game that Mark very much wants to get a second...

It's the best time of the year: Spooky Season! And darn it if Mark and Scott didn't forget to record a segment on this for release in an October episode. The joy of not considering release dates during pre-production. That'll be changing in the future, but until then have a whole singular helping of the topic. Enjoy! 00:00:00 - Intro  00:01:36 - Honorable Mentions 00:06:37 - Scott Game 1 00:08:49...

This week's episode is one that Mark and Scott had an absolute blast recording and are still pumped that it happened. We have the inimitable James Hudson from Druid City Games on with this today and we got to talk a wide array of things with him. In addition to discussing gaming from an industry perspective, he also gave us a number of heads up on things from Wonderland's War, Tidal Blades, and ev...

Mark and Scott take on two games of the Flatout Trilogy, Calico and Cascadia, and break down the way the games work, why they like the one they do, and what they don't enjoy in the other. At the end of the episode, they also give a recommendation to explore similar games.   This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro  00:00:55 - Calico vs. Cascadia 00:16:56 - Recommendations / Outro You can email us...

This episode's segments: 00:00:00 - Intro / How Our Reviews Work 00:03:31 - Review: Intent to Kill 00:23:17 - Review: Neon 00:39:51 - Outro Thank you so much to Hobby World for providing us the copies of these games to review. This was not a paid review, however, the games were provided to us for free to review. If you would like us to review something, please reach out to us: You can email us at...

Another themed episode, this week we discuss solo modes and all the associated fun around that. We had a lot to say on it - really an enormous amount as it turned out - so one of the segments is being cut out and will be released as off-week content next Tuesday so we can keep to our general episode length. Hope you enjoy the conversation and if you have anything to add, always feel free to hit us...

The cursed episode finally releases! We had to take three swings at recording this one between tornadoes, corrupted audio, and just finding the time to get it all put together. This is one of our favourite episodes we've done so far though. Not only do we have a wide ranging and thoughtful discussion on expansions, but we managed to talk about more games than any other episode so far. Thank you al...

Surprise! It's an extra little piece of bonus content for your Friday. Roleplaying provides insanely fun stories, some of which become that legendary status among groups. This is a way for us to tell those stories and prompt you to let us know what yours are! These won't be regular but they will always be a surprise!   You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com. We can be found at www.boa...

Scott's back with their next installment of "The Games That Made Us". They are already breaking the rules as they talk about the classic tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons.   This is dedicated to Staff Sgt. Marvin Lee Trost, who passed away on December 5th, 2004 when an I.E.D. detonated near his Humvee. "Thank you Marvin, for always seeing me, even as I was learning about who I was"...

While we're adjusting to the editing process of multi-track recording, here's a random assortment of extra stuff that we've recorded and not released yet. We hope you enjoy the bloopers as much as we did, because parts of it we still totally lose it over. There is one blooper where Mark swears - other than that the episode is clean but we figured we'd hedge our bets and call it explicit just in ca...

This was some of the most fun we've had in an episode so far. We cover a wide range of games that we love (and one that Scott mostly can't stand) and focus on the idea of what's the best player count for any particular game. We got slightly rambly but in the process manage to sort of sneak in a bonus set of Table Shelf Trade reviews at the top! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!   This episod...

On our off weeks, we still try and get you all the content your heart desires. So this time around, Mark talks about the 5 Games To Transition a Game Night with. Games that are used to start or end an evening or, more likely, to throw on the table while someone has to go be a responsible adult for a few minutes. He's talking all filler games and at some point Scott may provide his list as well.  ...

It's an episode on the fives, meaning it's time for a Top Ten episode! That means we eject most of the regular segments and just have a fun time talking about a specific topic with a guest the whole time. This week's episode is the Top Ten Games to Start a Collection With! We had Jason on with us, ironically this was before any of the GenCon episodes, so you get to hear a bit about him as well. Th...

While we recover from GenCon and adjust to our new bi-weekly schedule, here is another episode of The Games That Made Us, from Mark this time, about Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia. We'll see you here next week for episode 5 - the Top Ten Games to Start a Collection With!

Hey hey BATT Family! With the advent of GenCon upon us, and getting out those extra preview episodes last week, this week's episode drop is the first from Scott of The Games That Made Us. In addition, there is a small notice at the start of the episode regarding our release schedule. In case you skip past that to go straight into the content - life got extremely busy and the editing process has si...

In Part Two of our 2024 Gen Con preview coverage, we go through an amazing amount of games that we are looking forward to demoing and picking up. We had a lot of fun recording this, but there are a few episode notes to mention as we lost some of our segments to recording corruption: 1) As a correction, Nexus Ops' first edition was 2005 but the second edition was 2012. Regardless, look up the new e...

Part One of our Gen Con preview coverage, this more rambling and less structured than normal conversation with fellow Theater Geek Jason was recorded on July 3, 2024. In this half of the conversation, we're discussing what we do when we show up in Indy, the food we all like to eat (hiiii-yah!), and the non-gaming events that are fun to attend. In Part two we'll be discussing all the games we want...

This week, we head straight into the discussion and continue on to our longest episode yet. Our regular episodes will always try and be in that 45-60 minute range and we just barely tipped over this time. But we had a great time talking about old favourites, new reinterpretations, games that caught us entirely by surprise, and even accidentally kind of putting the same game on Table, Shelf, or Tra...

We're settling in and we're back to talk more board games. This week we each brought more games to talk about than the previous episodes, we torture Scott with an abstract area control game, introduce a new rotating segment, and have a guest baby at the end. We also have deployed a new intro and outro, please give us feedback on what you think! This episode's segments: 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - What's B...

We're back and we have a wide array of games that we discuss this time around. We talk about friends that we've met in the industry, games we are excited for, and memorialize a lost designer.   This episode's segments: 0:00 - Intro 0:37 - What's Been on the Table 7:38 - Topic of the Week: Do You Have a Rating System? 22:04 - Why Did I Play That? 29:36 - Table, Shelf, or Trade 35:45 - TST Note 36:4...

Our first main episode! We're stoked to get it launched and have you listen to it. This episode's segments: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - What's Been on the Table 6:00 - Topic of the Week: Collection Management 11:35 - Why Did I Play That? 20:45 - Table, Shelf, or Trade 40:03 - The Archives 50:03 - Outro

We decided to launch, and release our main episodes, on Tuesdays. So in the spirit of still providing content when we promised it. here's the first of a series that Scott and I will be embarking on. We're going to have discussions about the games that helped form us both as gamers and as people. This one was particularly close to my heart and so I hope you enjoy it! We'll see you with Episode 1 on...

Our Episode 0 Supplemental content while we get ready to release the rest of the series. We had a blast talking about our top ten favourite games and hope that you enjoy coming along with us for this. 

Hey hey! Welcome to the BATT Family. In this episode 0, we talk about who we are as hosts, our experience and tastes within the board gaming hobby, and our goals for the pod as a whole. We're so excited you've decided to join us!