Pick Up and Deliver

Pick Up & Deliver 291: Gaming Assumptions, part 1 - Brendan shares his thinking about how our assumptions of the way games will work shape our expectations and experiences of those games. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 290: Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 2 - Brendan continues thinking about how to make board games out of Christmas movies. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 289: Christmas Movies Themestorm, part 1 - Brendan shares some ideas about how you might make a movie out of some classic Christmas films. Join us, won’t you?

Pick Up & Deliver 288: The 'geek asks 7 - Brendan answers BGG forum posts whose subject lines feel like questions for him to answer.

Pick Up & Deliver 287: Top of the Stack, December 2020 - Brendan shares his gameplay stats from the last month, how he did on his plans, and his games on the stack for next month.

Pick Up & Deliver 268: Calico, Railroad Ink: Red, Visitor in Blackwood Grove (Shootin’ from the Hip) – Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he’s tried recently. Join us, won’t you?

Pick Up & Deliver 285: BGG Weighs In on the 180-degree Rule, part 2 - Brendan continues his follow-up discussion of the 180-degree Rule in Board Games, elaborating on additional ideas introduced by readers on Boardgame Geek. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 284: BGG Weighs In On the 180-degree Rule, part 1 - Brendan returns to the discussion of the 180-degree rule to discuss the feedback he received from this thread on Boardgame Geek. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 283: Rules Blunders Revisited - Brendan returns to a topic he covered nearly two years ago, "Rules Blunders," and discusses a few new mistakes he's made, and how they affect the experience of the games.

Pick Up & Deliver 282: The State of Board Gaming for Me Right Now - Brendan shares his thinking about the state of his board game life, what he's been doing to keep things going, what forums and discussions have helped, and how he's keeping spirits up.

Brass Lancashire & Birmingham (Message from the Deep) - Brendan returns to an old show format, in which he talks about a game in depth. In this episode, Brendan discusses the two Brass games, Brass: Lancashire and Brass: Birmingham. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver, episode 280: The Board Game 180-Degree Rule - Brendan discusses the film concept of the 180-degree rule, what it means, and how it translates to Board Game Design, then considers a few games that perhaps break the Board Game 180-degree rule.

Pick Up & Deliver 279: When Belief Overrules Evidence - Brendan talks about how our impressions and experiences shape our impression of a game, and how those impressions sustain long after those ideas have been undermined or disproven. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 278: Otys, My City, Parks, & Obsession (Shootin' from the Hip) - What games have you been playing lately? Drop over to our boardgame geek guild #3269 and join the conversation.

Pick Up & Deliver 277: Good Sports and Sore Losers - Apropos of nothing in particular, Brendan talks about how games and players encourage players to be good sports and help discourage players and play that spawns sore losers. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 276: Backstage on Halloween among the Bad News Bears (Shootin’ from the Hip – Expansions) – Brendan shares his thoughts on his early plays of three expansions to games he enjoys. Join us, won’t you?

Pick Up & Deliver 275: Top of the Stack, November 2020 - Brendan shares his November update, discussing what games he played in October and how he did on his yearly and monthly goals. He also shares which games he'll play in November. Join us, won't you?

Pick Up & Deliver 274: Consulting Detective Box Set Breakdown - Brendan looks back over the four boxes of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, discussing what the differences are among the games and which ones you might want to explore, and in what order.

Pick Up & Deliver 273: The Exorcist (Themestorm) - Brendan brainstorms some ideas for a game themed around the 1973 film, The Exorcist.

Pick Up & Deliver 272: Organizing Your Collection - Brendan shares his recent experience organizing his game collection, and a commentary about some recent game plays.

Pick Up & Deliver 271: Lovecraft as Stand-in (Culture and Games) – Brendan shares some of his thinking about Lovecraft’s use as a way to shift how we use themes like the Lovecraft mythos in relation to history.

Pick Up & Deliver 270: Top of the Stack, October 2020 - Brendan does his monthly gameplay summary episode, the "Top of the Stack."

Pick Up & Deliver 269: Celestia, Automobiles, Pendulum (Shootin’ from the Hip – Triple Shot) – Brendan shares his first impressions of three more games he encountered recently.

Pick Up & Deliver 268: The Search for Planet X, Sushi Roll, Isle of Skye (Shootin’ from the Hip – Triple Shot) – Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently.

Pick Up & Deliver 267: Gentle Conflict Mechanisms, part 2 - Brendan continues the discussion about Gentle Conflict Mechanisms, started in episode 266.