The Last Standee

Sorry we are late- again! We checked in with the doctor, it was fine, here's our writ! Well, jokes aside, WELCOME to episode 111: Three one's for three A's! The renowned A-Team (Alexis, Audrey and Alessio) are doing the honours in this episode! Right after the Standee Catch-up, we have Alexis talking about Ascension (the Deckbuilder game) - in its Third Edition incarnation to be precise, and with...

Hi all! Sometimes you gotta be informal, amirite? I mean, there's the episode you prepare, you take notes for, and it ends up being mightily fine. Some other times you don't prepare for it, and the unique combination of naivety, earnestness and relaxation makes for something special... a special kind of disaster, that is. This is one such peculiar episode (I wonder how we end up still having liste...

In the end, we are all either Standees or Meeples. It's just that "meeple" is kind of trademarked. No, really, go checking if you need. Done? Well, welcome to episode 109 of The Last Standee Podcast! In the grand scheme of things, we belong to the standee category. Mostly copy-left, done with whatever arts&craft project brought us into existence. It was messy. Anyway! This is the episode where we...

Hello loyal listeners, hope you like discussing RPGs and Initiatives, because if that's the case, you are in for a treat! Presenting team today is Fen, Audrey and Cara! Right after the usual Standee Catch-up, we have Audrey discuss The Cosmere Roleplaying Game System, one which we could define "a system with a plan", err, "a plot" - a fresh take on familiar d20-based mechanics. After that, we have...

Hello and welcome to episode 107! Which has been TAKEN OVER with a REFRESHING NEW course! What can I say, I love Cara's artistic direction. She got the perfect title for an episode where two people discuss two different top threes - a mini special, if you want. In these cases, courtesy dictactes that I don't spoil anything of the games discussed here, so we'll keep it generic: it is adorable to ha...

Sometimes, an episode recording goes south. Maybe it takes the entire episode or waits for the weekend, but it happens. There's no Last Standee anymore, only Unquackable. Do you expect me to write a synopsis of... this? Fine, I'll try. We begin with a Standee Catch-up, par for the course. Then Fen does a recollection of a lot of stuff (Seance of the Blake Manor - wishlisted on Steam!), but mostly...

Hello and welcome to episode 105 of The Last Standee Podcast! Nothing to say, you must be really, really patient with us to bear such confusion in episode descriptions if you are still there, but let me explain. I know the podcast is out on Mondays and it says "Saturday Morning", but if you go into the detail of the games talked about, there is a "saturday morning cartoons" vibe, or at least that'...

A spooky welcome to Episode 104 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode we explore curses, critters and cursed critters which also curse you! But let us get our curse-words (Inigo Montoya vibes here: you keep saying that word - I don't think it means what you think it means) sorted! First, there's our Standee Catch-up with Cara and Alessio, then Alessio breaks ice with Eternal Decks, an excellen...

Hi Last Standee fans! Welcome to Episode 103! You know, sometimes it's difficult to find an episode title that feels smart and has a relevance to all the topics and it's not just cacophonic. I think this episode's title it's a testament to that. I went for a "Video killed the radio star" vibe, but I didn't quite get there. Oh well! In this episode we have a heartfelt Standee Catch-up with the gang...

Hello and welcome to Episode 102 of The Last Standee Podcast! This is a "surprise 2" episode with Cara and Fen, where they go on a free-range chat about electric cars, the weather and shipping woes! Oh, but also boardgames - and we have a lot to say about those. Say you want an expansion? Then Fen has got you covered - Mother of Dragons for A Game of Thrones boardgame (you know it's good because w...

Howdy, Last Standee fans! One day, some GENIUS suggested to do something about instruction manuals with Episode 101 (you know, because 101- got it? heh). Needless to say, that GENIUS was way too ahead of their time, and that proposal is not what this episode is about. Godspeed, beautiful he or her who had this magnificent idea! May the moonlight shine on all your paths, you monumental SoB or DoB!...

Hello and welcome back to The Last Standee Podcast! It has been SIX MONTHS, but we are here! If you have a subscription, I take that you won't believe to the notification icon. Well, we are here. How was the world doing since we were away? On second thought, don't tell me, I'll check these 3407 notification icons on my news app. By the way, it's probably fine. But let's talk boardgames! We saved t...

dary! And welcome to Episode 99 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, stars align and omens appear as we are about to kiss goodbye to two digits for good! The episode begins as usual, with a Standee Catchup with Fen and Cara, of dogs and humankind so to say. Then we begin with Freedom Five, a Defenders of the Realm game from Greater than Games: Fen does the honors here; fun fact: the game...

Welcome to Episode 98 of The Last Standee Podcast! This is one where we have to apologize in advance for making you listen to Alessio for a feature-length episode. No, the team is still there. It's just that it's a mess sometimes to put together speakers geographically distant, and when illnesses and shaky world situation interfere, that's a recipe for missed episodes. We pull through the best we...

Hello and welcome to Episode 97 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, we TRAVEL! After the Standee Catch-up, Fen breaks ice by talking about a recently fulfilling pet project of ours from COVID times, aka Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread, from the same author as Xia: Legends of a Drift System. Then, Audrey recounts her experience with Faraway (not to be mistaken with Far Away, an entirely d...

Welcome to 2025, and also to Episode 96 of The Last Standee Podcast! Moderation and sobriety mark the start of the year with the A Team (Alexis-Audrey-Alessio, cue '80s music), while we learn in the Standee catch-up what everyone has been up to (spoiler: it's flu, mostly. And dealing with job market. Yeah, moderation and sobriety). After that, we begin dabbling into games (I hope you will apprecia...

Hello, hello, hello! The storm went and passed through, and the team is back at work to provide you our best quality entertainment! ...which is an assessment of _our_ best quality, not best quality in general. Anyway! After the Standee Catch-up (guest star: Pamcha!), Cara leads the team into the raging 1995 to talk about the old titan in every gamer's room, Catan! And the team has STORIES. Then, A...

Welcome to Episode 94 of The Last Standee Podcast! From a certain perspective, this is a one-of-a-thing episode with fun twists and shenanigans. From another perspective, though, this is an episode where there's only Alessio. Feeling so alone that he added a text-to-speech track to keep him company! (No seriously, we had good reasons to have so few speakers these last episodes! This is one excepti...

Welcome to Episode 93 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode we reach theatrical heights as we start up in comedy, trying to make an intro right; let's say that quickly turns into tragedy without pretty much of a warning. I mean, I hope you had fun listening at least half as much we had recording. Whatevs! In the Standee catch-up we get some notable excerpts from games presented at Essen SPIEL...

Wouldn't "ensorcelled" be a good "second E" in the outro? But I digress. Welcome to Episode 92 of The Last Standee Podcast! The Standee Catch-up kicks off the episode, then it's news galore (yes, we sometimes take time to relay boardgaming news too), along with a few comments and impressions from the team and boardgame small talk. After the news segment, it's Cara's reviews time! This time, we tac...

Welcome to episode 91 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, after the usual Standee Catch-up and a bit of news, we have Fen discussing Bloomburrow for Magic: The Gathering and, more widely, having a chat about the Cube Format and its applications throughout the (T/L)CG panorama. After that, Alexis guides a review with the team for the Frogdog expansion.

Welcome to Episode 90 of The Last Standee Podcast! How are you, fellas? Refreshed from vacations? Tired from their lack thereof? Meh, as usual? (seriously, let's set the bar a bit higher than "meh") GenCon has come and gone, "closing" 2024 as far as releases that will be honestly reviewed for this year will go. Essen SPIEL is behind the corner, and a new year's worth of new releases is elbowing it...

Simmer in the Summer! ...Feels like I wasted this intro that could have been a good title for another time. But anyway! Welcome to episode 89 of The Last Standee Podcast! Scorching hot July and Hailstorm Downpour July are hosting this beloved/belated episode with Alexis & Alessio. After the usual Standee Catch-Up (Old Man Yells at Clouds edition), we got Alexis discussing something falling out of...

Welcome to Midsommer! And also to Episode 88 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, we'll enjoy near-synchronicity with current news, starting from the news during the Standee Catch-up! After it, Alexis gives us a synchronous look to a STILL BACKABLE RPG kickstarter project, The Hollows. After that, it's time to check the NOT-YET-RUNNER-UP for Spiel des Jahres - Captain Flip, with Alessio....

Hi all, welcome to episode 87 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode we cover a bit of everything, starting from the Standee Catch-up with Cara, Alessio and Alexis. After catching up, it's time to decrypt cyphers with Alexis, who introduces us to Turing Machine, a very good "multiplayer solo" puzzle game with sort-of-programmable states (do you see the tech imprint in this intro? The game's goo...