We’re Not Wizards Tabletop Podcast

Richard Keene infiltrates our compound with his rampaging dinosaurs and comes in to tell us all about the Dinogenics expansion as well as what happened with the first campaign and why he is releasing a correction pack for the first edition. He also promised to dance to walk the dinosaur in his T-Rex costume if the campaign hits one million dollars. I NEED TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.  Links Of Notes  https...

Richard is joined by Pete Waite, long time listener and friend of the show and we have the best chat about games and home made monopoly, playing trumpets, making centrepieces and working in telecoms.  You can follow Pete on twitter.  www.twitter.com/pedro_xxl AND HE DID THE INTRO WHICH IS AWESOME   ================================================================== If you like what you have heard,...

Richard is joined by Darren Terpstra, the angry stunning flame-haired auburn warrior, here to take ass and kick names and tell us all about his success with Ignite.  And the campaign has finished, so it's a chance to just kick back and chew the fat and talk about stuff.  You can however still get a copy of the game if you want and you can do that by checking out the show notes below...  Links Of N...

Brandon Rollins returns to chat about Tasty Humans, his currently Kickstarter campaign which is a mixture of puzzle and scoring with a neat theme and interesting mechanics.  We talk about scrapping Highways and Byways, what they learned from the previous campaign and their delight about the success of Tasty Humans Make sure you check out the links to the campaign below.  Links of Notes  https://tw...

Bez is back to chat about BGDevCon, which is a meet up for board game developers to chat their craft, have some fun and learn about each other.  If you are interested then check out the details below, to date though, the Kickstarter link still is not available.  https://www.facebook.com/events/381134992686388/ https://twitter.com/stuffByBez   =======================================================...

Marc Davis joins us once again on his 1 year anniversary of his first appearance and if you want to hear us talk about contractors and decorators and milking animals then start from the beginning.  If you want to hear a serious show about 18XX and Tiny Towns then skip ahead to the 20 minute Marc.  But I know you're listening from the beginning.. you little scamp.  Links of Notes   https://thethoug...

Colin is back after a long time to talk about games and things we have been doing at DWARF and stuff. Oh, we got the rules wrong for Dinogenics btw.   Got to the Table  Dinogenics - Ninth Haven Games - https://www.ninthhaven.com/ Donning The Purple - Tompet Games - https://www.tompetgames.no/ Get These off the Shelf   Vast - Leder Games - https://ledergames.com/ Heroes of Land, Air & Sea  - ht...

Andy Bussey joins us to catch up all about preparations for the Glasgow Games Gathering and why you should be considering coming along  LINKS of NOTES  https://www.g3gamers.co.uk/index.htm https://twitter.com/glasgowG3 https://www.facebook.com/G3-Gamers-142318565887156/ https://www.instagram.com/g3gamers ================================================================== If you like what you have h...

Bez took over the show and then asked me about my blog post and I'm sorry.  Links of Notes  http://www.stuffbybez.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/29655/stuff-bez https://www.facebook.com/thingsbybez/ ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://...

Richard is joined by Sally Jones from The Crafting Jones to chat about creating gifts for the Board Game and Tabletop space, how she gets her ideas, where she markets and what happens when one of her family changes jobs.  Please consider clicking on the links and perusing some of her fine wares.  Links of Notes  https://www.facebook.com/TheCraftingJones/ https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheCraftingJon...

Frank West,  In a Vest, Here to Guest,  Frank West. He's got a game,  Frank West,  It's not the same,  Frank West  As the Bear Game  Frank West. To tell a fact,  Frank West, It's about a cat, Frank West,  Like all the Cats, Frank West,  So he's here to guest, Frank West,  He's made me guess Frank West, The price for his Quest, Frank West, His Feline Quest.. Frank West. In a vest,  Frank West.  He'...

Join myself and Janice Turner as we talk about food allergies and being away from home, labelling and packaging and how some restaurants get it right and some need a bit more encouragement.  Oh, and we forget to do an intro and we do talk about Sensor Ghosts and the expansion to their first game Assembly and why there isn't enough Stu in podcasts and things in general.   Make sure that you conside...

Richard is joined by Elizabeth Snyder, role player, D&D collector, potential vampire and office talker to chat all about Mixed Company, her social communication and discussion game which aims to cut through small talk and aid discussion between people.  We chat about a manner of things and have a great time and we hope you enjoy our chat.  Links of Notes  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m...

We have a returning visitor. Fresh from the UK Games Expo, Justin from Bad Cat Games pays us another visit to chat about his fully funded Kickstarter for Gladiatores. So we chat a bit about mechanics, a bit about relaunching, a touch on competition in your field regarding similar themes and it's all good fun.  Please check out all the links below.  Links of Notes  https://werenotwizards.blogspot.c...

Kai Herbertz is an author and games designer who kindly supported us through our Kickstarter at the beginning of the year.  He joins us today to talk about a manner of things. His writing process, how he got into designing games and why the German dubbed version of Star Wars and Die Hard is much much better than the original films.  Please check out the link to his latest campaign, Albedo Yggdrasi...

Richard is joined by Henry So, boardgamer, solo games player and most importantly Kickstarter backer. Henry gives us a look on Kickstarter from a backers perspective, especially what campaigns attract him, what makes him watch preview videos and what you should consider adding as a creator to your campaign in order to help them with their Backer decisions. Also. The answer is Blood Rage, and you'l...

Richard is joined by the absolutely awesome Holly Nielsen who is a Board Game Historian, writer for the Guardian on Video Games and is all round excellent person to chat with.  I totally enjoyed this chat and I hope you do to.  Links of Notes  https://twitter.com/nielsen_holly  ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time...

Richard is joined once again by Cass Suwinski of Tomb Guardians to chat about the success of his last campaign, and their new project which will be about modular dungeon tiles. Please check out the links below and I hope you enjoy the episode.  LINKS OF NOTES  www.tombguardians.com https://www.facebook.com/tombguardians/ https://www.instagram.com/tombguardians/ ====================================...

MAKE SOMETHING AWFUL #1 In something a bit different and after that tweet, I am delighted to be joined by self published author Merrick Tull-Johnson, who is currently studying Journalism in college and in the process of writing his latest book after publishing his detective noir novel Soiled Grounds. This isn't connected to board games or tabletop in any way, it's just a chat about how someone app...

Mark Stockton-Pitt is a Mathematics teacher who has used his talent in design to bring us the marvel that was Newspeak in conjunction with Inside the Box Boardgames. Now he sets to delight us with his insider trading, stocks and shares trading game of Forks.  We chat about his journey so far, the effect of potential tariffs and why cheesy jokes at the end of an episode are never a good idea.  Fork...

MAKE SOMETHING AWFUL #1  In something a bit different and after that tweet, I am delighted to be joined by self published author Merrick Tull-Johnson, who is currently studying Journalism in college and in the process of writing his latest book after publishing his detective noir novel Soiled Grounds. This isn't connected to board games or tabletop in any way, it's just a chat about how someone ap...

Liz Davidson runs the wonderful and successful Beyond Solitaire which is all about playing tabletop games on your ownsome. And while one is the loneliest number, Liz is here to tell us why it can be the funnest way to play certain games that you aren't getting to the table.  So we chat Latin, and play throughs and reviews and what games do Solo well and why Mike DiLisio is not as much of a disappo...

David Rodriguez steps on stage to chat about getting creative and acting and singing and then quite literally getting his bad ass princess get up on with Charmed and Dangerous, and interesting and stunning looking project he and the team are successfully running on Kickstarter. You'll find out about our favourite musicals and why I've got a bit of a Messiah complex. Please check out the links to f...

Richard is joined by Cassie Elle, co-founder of the Indie Game Report and currently working with Dan Letiman of Letiman Games on their latest Kickstarter Matryoshka. We talk with Cassie about making things for people to look at, the joys of star trek, toffee bacon, interrupted ambulance rides and why you should by backing this beautiful looking set collection game if you like a bit of Russian Doll...

James Lang joins us to talk about Vorpal Board, a way to play board games with your friends when you are in different places to each other so that you can still play games together even though you might be in different locations and you can still get on with that legacy game so no excuses and James is giving me a sound board if it funds so you better all back this game because I want my sound boar...