The Hobbies + Happiness Podcast: A Disney Lorcana Podcast

Got another good topic to discuss this week, and it's kind of a continuation of last weeks episode. In case you missed it, last week we talked a lot about the upcoming Star Wars TCG, Star Wars Unlimited. We're optimistic, but pretty hesitant, as it's coming from FFG, who doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to Star Wars card games. In that conversation, we touched on companies, the...

We're back! It's been good to be off for a few weeks spending time with family and those closest to us, but it's also great to be back in front of the camera and microphones! Quite a bit has happened in the past few weeks, with one of them being the most recent announcement of Star Wars Unlimited TCG! Join us as we talk about the most recent SW TCG announcement, and what we think it means for the...

Today, we sit down for a conversation with Jacob Bartram, co-owner of The Realm Games. The Realm Games is local game store in Ontario, Ohio which Jacob and his brother own. Dan and Jim chat with Jacob about running a local game store, what's LGS stores and owners should focus on, and if doing large tournaments are important for local communities. Sit back and hope you enjoy this conversation! Foll...

Well...we finally have the basic rules for Disney Lorcana. At times, it seemed liked we may never get here, but here we are! Todays episode is a return to form of sorts. Since the rules release, we have been really digging into, conversing over, and just really thinking long and hard about how we feel about the game now. The long and short of it, we think Lorcana is going to be a fantastic game, a...

Today on the podcast, we chat with designer Anthony Tessitore! "Ant," as he is commonly referred to, designed the first-person expandable card game, Varia and is co-founder of his studio Guildhouse Games, LLC. We chat about our mutual love of card games, and talk quite a lot about Varia and his approach to the design of the game. We hope you enjoy the episode! Learn more about Varia: https://www.p...

Today, we sit down with former professional Flesh & Blood player and self-described "amateur" Brendan Patrick! Brendan is also a co-host on multiple podcasts such as Podcana: A Disney Lorcana Podcast, the Arsenal Pass Podcast and The SNAPshot Podcast. We hope you enjoy the episode! Follow Brendan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanAPG Follow Podcana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/podcana Foll...

This week, Jim and Dan sit down with content creator and streamer Silverfuse. We have a fantastic time chatting with Silverfuse about content creation, her love for the strategy and card game genre, and her love of League of Legends. Be sure to check out her content and follow her on Twitter! Follow Silverfuse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SilverfusePlays Follow Silverfuse on YouTube: https://ww...

On this weeks episode, we sit down with the talented James Hsu, from the podcast Humans of Magic. This is a conversation you don't want to miss. We talk a bit about Magic, but we dive into a multitude of different topics such as life, content creation, always looking to get better, and touch on the things that make us happy. Buckle up, and we hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed talkin...

This week on the podcast, we sit down for a chat with Darrick "Charm3r" Oswalt. Charm3r is fellow card and strategy game content creator as well as an E-sports caster for games such as The Elder Scrolls Legends, Flesh & Blood...the list goes on! Today we talk with Darrick about his career in the tabletop space, what some of his favorite games are in the space...and of course, Disney Lorcana. We ho...

On this weeks episode, we have a good time. We have a great time. We sit down for a chat with Matt "Flake" DiMarco. Matt is no stranger to the trading card game space, as this, in his own words "is his life." Matt is podcaster, host and caster for multiple different card games, and we talk with him about many of them, as well as casting and how it applies to the card game space. We hope you have a...

This week, we sit down for a chat with Aislyn Hall & Aaron Shaw, designers of the card and board game, Ivion. Aislyn founded Luminary Games in 2016, and Ivion is her brainchild. We first met Aislyn and Aaron at GenCon 2021, and that was where we first heard of and learned about Ivion, and we immediately loved the game. It takes everything we love about card games and marries it with the concept of...

This weeks episode is getting posted a few days early, and that's because we interviewed game designer and Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour winner Justin Gary! Justin's latest game, Ascension Tactics: Inferno, is hitting Kickstarter on February 21st, so we wanted this episode to go live before the game launches. This was such an amazing conversation. We had been wanting to talk to Justin for quite a...

This was an absolute blast. When Joe initially reached out to us, we weren't sure what to expect. But when we started talking, we found out he had a lot to say. And I mean a LOT. We had such a fun time chatting with Joe about all things TCGs, CCGs, and just tabletop gaming related. We talk about where he sees the space and industry currently, his experiences, Disney Lorcana, and so much more. We h...

In today's episode, we talk about the game that has taken the digital card game space by storm, Marvel SNAP! We're sure you most likely pretty familiar with the game by now, and today, Dan explains to Jim (who still has not played the game), what it's all about, and the "problem," with the game contained within. Hope you enjoy the episode! Be sure to check out Marvel SNAP for yourself!: https://ww...

Today on the podcast, we sit down for a conversation with Ridge Kiley. Ridge is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rising Empire Studios, the company behind the new indie trading card game and universe, Alpha Clash. We get to know Ridge a little bit, and learn all about this new up and coming trading card game. We hope you enjoy the conversation! Don't forget to check the links below, where you can still g...

Today we finally about the fiasco that is the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License (OGL). There's so much to talk about, and honestly there's not enough time to talk about all of it. We have some links below where you check out some of what we mentioned in the podcast. We are focusing mostly on the community aspect and how the D&D community as a whole is affected. There's a lot to get into here,...

Jake is editor extraordinaire for the Command Zone and Game Knights, probably one of the largest EDH channels on all of YouTube. He also has his own personal channel where he currently creates gameplay and deck videos for the Digimon Trading Card Game. We had a blast being able to sit down with Jake and learn how he got his start in the tabletop space, Magic: the Gathering, being a content creator...

We're back and excited to get back to the podcast in 2023! This week, Dan & Jim go over their holiday breaks, what games they played, plans for 2023, and then talk about the main topic of the week, Power Creep! This is a great episode and we're excited to share it with you! NOTE: Unfortunately forgot to record the main microphones during recording, unfortunately we had our overhead boom mics on an...

We wrap up 2022 and look back on highlights from the year. We also go over listener questions, and we wrap up the episode with looking forward to what is to come for us in 2023! Sign up for your free 30 day trial of Audible by using our code: www.audibletrial.com/hobbiesnhappiness Find us on Social! Find us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/hobbiesandhappiness Find us on Twitter: @_dgcampbell...

We revisit our discussions on Organized Play in todays episode! We know we've touched on the topic before on past episodes, however those discussions have pretty much heavily revolved around Magic: the Gathering. Today we open up the discussion and discuss OP on a more broad scale, and then dive into what we're looking for and wanting from Disney Lorcana! We hope you enjoy the episode! Be sure to...

Todays episode features an interesting topic! Today we discuss card games and the connection between sports. We talk about the proliferation of e-sports and how that is helping to shape the card games within that space, as well as discuss the question...are cards games sports? We hope you enjoy the episode! Sign up for your free 30 day trial of Audible by using our code: www.audibletrial.com/hobbi...

Another doozy of an episode this week. It feels like I say that just about every week, doesn't it? But we tend to deliver on the dooziness...don't we? In any case, we again had a great time recording this weeks episode talking all about investors in the TCG and CCG space, and giving our thoughts. We hope you enjoy the conversation! And as always, be sure to shoot us an email at hobbiesandhappiness...

We've got a doozy of an episode for you this week? We are talking all about one of our favorite things here at hobbies + happiness...and that is community. We really love the communities that we are a part of. Many of them have helped shaped who we are as people. Many of them have gotten us all to where we are today. Some may say, we wouldn't be where we are without our community. Well, today we a...

This weeks episode is a more broad scoped topic, and applies to all card games...at least in our opinion. Today we are talking about 3 keys to successful card games. This topic originally started as a topic covering cards from a playability or collectability standpoint, but then quickly changed into this topic, as we thought we can really nail it down a bit further. We hope you enjoy! Sign up for...

This weeks topic we thought was kind of a meme...which it kind of is. But upon further inspection and conversation, we realized that maybe it's not? Okay, so the conversation started by checking out a meme in the Disney Lorcana HQ Discord about Lorcana being a part of the "Big 3" of card games. We looked at the meme, laughed a little bit...but then we started thinking. Check out the episode and th...