Current Plays

For April 2024, this episode is jam packed with our plays from March and April including Zavandor, The Hobbit, Forest Shuffle, Dice Thorne Adventures, 20 Strong, and Legacy of Yu! Thomas also mentions several games he claims are not worth mentioning. We end off the episode with our plays of Concordia Venus and Res Arcana.

Your intrepid hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss their time at this year's BreakOut Con in Toronto, including lots of games like Ex Libris, Sobek: 2 Players, Wizards of the Grimoire, Trekking through History, Brass: Birmingham, The Fox Experiment, Battle Tech, and Tiletum.

Jordan and Thomas banter about their thoughts on player elimination and players bending their interpretation of rules. Other plays includes discussions of Dorf Romantik, Monopoly Deal, Horrified: Greek Monsters, and It's a Wonderful Kingdom. Current Plays: 1:16:20 - Age of Innovation 1:53:40 - Wyrmspan

For January 2024 The guys don't have many Other Plays this episode, but manage to fill 40 minutes of banter anyway. Then it's app assisted game Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth, followed by an oldie-but-a-goodie, Viticulture, Essential Edition. Then the guys take a break from games to discuss the merits of hexagonal shaped tables. Exciting, right!? The episodes caps off with the...

For December 2023 we have a special episode with our first guest. We have the distinct honour of a sit-down and chat with Mr. Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games! What a way to wrap up 2023! We open the episode with a talk about Jordan's new additions to his collection for the Christmas season. Thomas's additions closely follow this. We switch gears into discussing the fear of missing out...

Season 2 Episode 6 starts with Thomas starting a discussion on different solo mode styles that he noticed while playing Near and Far & Now or Never. This leads to the topic of how adding a good solo option to games can increase the value proposition of those games. We took a slightly different approach to this episode by separating some of our Current Plays with banter portions. So after a cou...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 5 where Thomas starts us off with a quick update on his 365 Play Challenge. We follow this with a discussion about how we believe there is a board game out here for everyone. Of course, this positivity can only last so far before Jordan and Thomas devolve into rants about the Canadian market for board games, shipping, duty, brokerage, and Amazon Prime. Jordan gives us a...

In episode 4 of season 2 Jordan starts us off with the amazing charity efforts of Stonemaier Games. Thomas brings the conversation to chess and how he was crushed by Canadian FIDE (fee-day) International Master (IM) Mark Plotkin. He then transitions into his thrift store find of Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game and his disappointment with the rule book. Both host talk briefly about using b...

In this bonus episode Thomas and Jordan sit down to discuss how they approach a new game to try to win and avoiding floundering.

This lengthy episode sees our hosts go off on several tangents while trying to discuss the games they've played this month. Thomas has been deep into campaign game mode with Jaws of the Lion and didn't have huge list, but Jordan made up for it with a larger list than usual. We talk Expeditions again, but this time we talk about playing the game at 5 players as well as Solo. Then we do a bi...

We're back with another episode of the Current Plays Podcast! And with it, we're bringing back the banter with a discussion on Dueling Card Games, specifically, Radlands and Mind Bug. Thomas dives into a lengthy list of his Other Plays for July and Jordan brings some old classics back to the table. After that, it's out with the old and in with the new... Warhammer that is. We talk abou...

The long awaited return of the Current Plays Podcast is here! This is the inaugural episode of our new monthly format and because of the time gap, we're reviewing a LOT of games. See timestamps below. Please give us a rating and review to help the show get noticed. If you'd like to support us even further, you can buy us a coffee at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ko-fi.com/currentplays⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , or if you thin...

Episode 25 is finally here and Jordan and Thomas are so stoked to talk about all things Warhammer 40,000 by Games Workshop. With some clever editing skills Jordan sets the theme with a chilling intro into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Instead of moving on to the Other Plays both hosts can't hold their excitement in to talk about Warhammer. Finally, trying to get back on track Jordan brings up...

This weeks episode sees Jordan and Thomas discussing the Scythe Expansions. We begin the episode with some housekeeping podcast updates. With that out of the way Jordan talks getting Fort to the table with his family. Thomas moves on to playing Downforce at his office before switching gears into his weekend visit with his brother and family. No weekend is complete without games being played and Th...

Jordan and Thomas discuss the final game in the Arzium Trilogy, Now or Never by Ryan Laukat and Red Raven Games. Thomas begins the other plays segment talking about one of his preferred FLGS Game Shack and picking up Welcome to the Moon. Jordan on the other hand has been sucked into the world of Hyrule sinking his time into the new video game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This discus...

Near... Far... wherever you are, tune into this week's episode of the Current Plays Podcast! Our host phalanx, Jordan and Thomas, discuss Near and Far published by Red Raven Games and designed by Ryan Laukat . The boys discuss Magic the Gathering based purely on the names of cards being similar to Near and Far, and also discuss one of the best names in the Magic community, The Professor, or To...

This episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our child-at-heart hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss Fort published by Leder Games and designed by Grant Rodiek. After introducing the title of the Current Play, Thomas quickly interrupts to talk about Leder Games as a powerhouse publisher with a spotlight on Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile. Moving into what we played this week Thomas brings up Car...

This episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our civilization-building hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss Above and Below published by Red Raven Games and designed by Ryan Laukat. After 20 episodes the hosts discuss how the podcast has been going and what changes and growths could be on the horizon. This chat leads to Jordan bringing up Critical Role and we talk about getting into the mindset of yo...

This episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our time travelling hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss Anachrony published by Mindclash Games and designed by Dávid Turczi. Thomas quickly mentions his top 3 themes before the podcast quickly falls of the rails discussing Tom Cruise, and Thomas and Jordan's shared fear of heights. When they eventually get back on track they discuss Warhammer Tacticus...

This episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our hard working hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss Scythe (Jordan's favourite game) published by Stonemaier Games. After a short conversation of what we've been up to instead of recording Jordan starts the gaming conversation with introducing Hadrian's Wall to his wife. He then brings up the game Ghost Blitz which he was able to get played w...

This episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our hosts Jordan and Thomas discuss Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar, published by Czech Games Edition (CGE). Jordan jumps in with a short discussion on playing Hadrian's Wall and Everdell again before Thomas describes an older game, Castle Panic. A tower defence game, of sorts, that Thomas enjoys with his family. Then Thomas reveals some amazing...

In this episode of the Current Plays Podcast our hosts, Jordan and Thomas, discuss Narcos: the Board Game, by CMON. We kick it off with a discussion of Asmodee and their influence on the board game industry. Then we recap on some new plays of Lost Cities, Arboretum, and Rolling Realms in our Other Plays segment. For our Current Play, Thomas takes his time going into an extensively in-depth explana...

This shorter episode of the Current Plays Podcast sees our, studious hosts Jordan and Thomas, discuss our first IP game, Red Rising, based on the novels by Pierce Brown, and published by Stonemaier games. Our Other Plays segment focuses on our past and present favourite war games, Hordes and Warhammer 40K. We also talk about how modelling and air brushing fit into those hobbies. However, we kick i...

In this episode of the Current Plays Podcast our majestic hosts, Jordan and Thomas, discuss the board game Warhammer: Underworlds, by Games Workshop. In our Other Plays segment, Jordan gushes about the upcoming "sequel to Scythe", Expeditions! Thomas gives us a hobby update, talks about Narcos: the Board Game, and then Dragonwood, and other family games by Gamewright.  Please give us a r...

In this episode of the Current Plays Podcast our intoxicating hosts, Jordan and Thomas, discuss the board game Champions of Midgard, by Grey Fox Games. In our Other Plays segment, we banter about accents in board games and D&D. Thomas rants about Games Workshops update to their update! This leads into a short discussion about painting miniatures. We then get back to board games with our experi...