We’re Not Wizards Tabletop Podcast

To start our next 100 Episodes, Richard is joined by Ed Jowett from Shades of Vengence to chat about his latest Kickstarter campaign - Era Balam, which takes to Era System into space and allows you you become a pilot, forging your path through the galaxy. Ed, as always, is great fun to have on the show and fear not, while this visit is short and sweet, he'll be coming on again soon for a proper ca...

Welcome to our 100th episode where Colin joins Richard to chat about a whole pile of games they have been playing and we get to hear about Colin going LARPing. We also spoke about the following games Got to the Table Quantum, Star Realms, Viticulture, Dark Souls Boardgame, Space Crusade, Mechs Vs Minions, Ashes -Rise of the Phoenixborne Get off the Shelf Bloodborne, Formula D, Abyss, Heroquest Giv...

Carla Kopp joined us from Weird Giraffe Games to talk to us about her up and coming Kickstarter, Stellar Leap, that goes live on the 18th September. She gives us some background about her time in the hobby and gives us a lot of info behind the design decisions she made on her previous game Super Hack Override. Carla was a brilliant guest, a lot of fun, and we look forward to seeing what happens wi...

We were joined by Mike Barnes from Who Dares Rolls, who is also the UK Regional Manager For Dized, the Tabletop Companion app that teaches you while you play.  We spend ages talking about Mike and then realise we've done a Frank West and should be talking about Dized as well.  So we do. And we have a fantastic time doing so.  If you are interested in looking at companions apps you should consider...

Richard is joined by the Legend that is Steven Tudor from Polyhedron Collider who paid us £8.76 to tell everyone he is a legend.  Take a trip down nostalgia lane as we delve into Steve's beginning in the hobby, teach you all about the Yellow Pages and adverts for boardgames in the 80s and we forget we're recording and just have a laugh with no real agenda or idea what we are doing.  This was a lot...

Richard is joined by Phil Collins from Board Game Crate to chat about all things cardboard and to give us information on how he started his subscription service for boardgame lovers.  He talks about some of the games he's been playing, including potion explosion, and the excellent The Captain is Dead.  Phil goes into detail about the technology behind the service, including how the software select...

Richard is joined by the Development Manager of the Dark Souls Boardgame David Carl, better known as DC. From working on titles such as Warmachine in Privateer Press to being part of the team that brought one of the most loved videogame IPs to cardboard, DC goes on to talk about the Dark Souls Card Game and some info about the coming to Kickstarter Resident Evil 2. DC was a pure deligth to talk to...

Richard is joined once again by Matt Jarvis, editor of Tabletop Gaming Magazine to talk a bit about what happened a Gencon, what he has been playing, and what games box his Cat is currently sleeping in.  As we say at the top of the shop - the views expressed by Matt unless stated are his views alone and not that of Tabletop Gaming Magazine or The Warner Group Matt is a fantastic guest, has lots of...

Richard is joined again by professional writer Stephen Rhodes to chat about Dark Imperium, The Others, CMONs recent Kickstarter using the Game of Thrones IP, and not being able to easily get Yorkshire Tea in Canada. Stephen is such a great guest, and yes we spend and hour chatting and catching up and it just happens that i recorded it and we release it as a podcast episode. We had a lot of fun. I...

Richard is joined again by Callan to get a progress update on the Runicah campaign.  If you haven't looked at the campaign next and like some Norse Mythology and Runes and Revenge, then check it out through the links below -  Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplayfulgnome/runicah-norse-theme-card-game-focused-on-player-in   Replica Axe Giveaway - https://gleam.io/jZwjr/runicah-...

BEZ BEZ BEZ BEZ BEZ BEZ. The world needs more Bez and she is back to Talk - MONOPOLY POLE DANCING WIBBELL ++ GO KITTY CATACLYSM GENERAL NONSENSE LINKS OF NOTES https://twitter.com/stuffByBez  http://www.stuffbybez.com/  https://www.facebook.com/thingsbybez    PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD. YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03LRG64f05w0C3Bs3aZ4sA   Board Game Geek - https:/...

CONTAINS A FABLE 2 SPOILER Richard is delighted to be joined by Richard Ham, aka as Rahdo from Rahdo runs through it.  Unlike our normal chats, we go futher back into Rahdo's past and talk about his work on Fable 2 and dealing with Peter Molyneux, his movement into starting his own channel, why Richard is the only person who thinks Rahdo's commentary is relaxed and why he likes where he is even be...

Richard is joined by Rory J Somers, and we have the Web Cam on during the Skype call which leads to all types of shenanighans. Rory talks about how he got into the hobby, Plague Inc, loving Sub Terra, backing lots of Kickstarters and why you need to have custard crems in the house if Peter Blenkharn visits you.  We had a laugh and a half and Rory will be coming on again in the next couple of month...

Richard is joined by Joan Graef, boardgamer, rolwplayer and  all round fabulous Person. We talk about her history, Star Wars Role Playing games, why Mechs VS Minions has the best Inlay and we talk about Bryan Wade, and more Bryan Wade and keeping your games in a linen closet. Make sure you listen to the end for extra Bryan.  But also make sure you listen to the episode of Expanded  Universe that B...

Richard is joined one again by Brad Talton, owner of Level 99 Games and all round brilliant person to guest on a podcast.  I speak with Brad about the current Kickstarter campaign, Argent - The Consortium, the up and coming Seventh Cross, Empyreal Steam and what is favourite Castlevania Game is.  He was a brilliant guest, and I encourage you to checkout his current Kickstarter Campaign and even ge...

Richard meets Wrench Games who think wizards are great and ruin the show for an hour with some highly insightful chat about interactive digital gaming. . Nic, Alissa and Brady were real sports for putting up with my obvious disdain. . So please do them a favour and check out their interesting Kickstarter which merges and app and card play.  . LINKS OF NOTES   Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.co...

Richard is joined by Henry Jasper from Grublin games, creator of the fabulous Cornish Smuggler, Waggle Dance and the soon to be released Perfect Crime. Richard and Henry talk about his history, the success of cornish smuggler, reprinting games, angering the Daily Mail and some general nonsense.  There are some audio issues with this episode as Richard's computer lost a couple of parts of his side...

Richard is joined again by Ed Baraf, from Pencil First Games, to chqt Legendary Creatures, Expanding Lift Off and HAIR CARE.  As Always, Ed was a delight to have on.  Please check out the Legendary Creatures Kickstarter!! LINKS OF NOTES https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebaraf/legendary-creatures?token=7e130e2e  http://www.baraf.com/ http://www.pencilfirstgames.com/lift-off/ https://www.faceboo...

Richard is joined by Callan Sargeant from The Playful Gnome, to chat about his Kickstarter Runicah, the challenges of facing your second attempt at a campaign and the importance of showing your working when you are a maths teacher.  And we have a big chat about Pandemic, because we don't assume everyone has played it and they might want to. Richard ruins things by ranting about negative numbers, a...

Peter Blenkharn headed up the highly successful award winning Sub Terra campaign and is now promoting his next game Newspeak. Jamey Stegmaier is one of the most respected designers in the industry, with such well known and loved award winning games as Viticulture, Scythe and Euphoria in his resume.  I would love to say we had been planning this for months but the truth is that Peter jumped in at t...

Richard is joined by Jon Cage from Polyhedron Collider to talk about being part of the Top Gear of Boardgames, dealing with Andy Lewis and chatting about the wonderful world of Talisman and all it offers.  It was a great deal of fun and we hope you enjoy our little chat.  Links of Note https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/talisman/  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1152/mystic-wood  h...

COLIN IS BACK.  Got to the Table mechs vs minions - https://na.merch.riotgames.com/en/other/board-games.html   Quartermaster General 1914 - http://www.grigglinggames.com/shop/euro/quartermaster-general-1914/  Abyss http://www.abyss-the-game.com/The Bloodborne Card Game  https://cmon.com/product/bloodborne-the-card-game/bloodborne-the-card-game Dark Souls Boardgame. http://steamforged.com/dark-soul...

Richard met Kris. Kris talked about how much he loved Burgle Brothers. So Richard talked to Tim Fowers who created Burgle Brothers plus others.. And asked him if he would come on and chat. Tim said Yes. Richard asked Kris to come back on. Kris said Yes. This podcast is the result of this.. and everyone had a great time even though Kris HAD A BAD SORE THROAT.   These links are super dooper importan...

Richard is joined by Marc Neidlinger from Orange Nebula Games to talk about his Kickstarter comeback with the FULLY FUNDED Epoch - The Awakening. Marc talks about how he embraced the cardboard, the lessons he learned as he ran Epoch the first time round and why community is so important. But most of all, how awesome your gaming group can be when you try to get your own idea to the table.  Marc is...

Richard is joined once again by Aron West from Elzra Games to have a catch up chat on the progress of the Catacombs and Castles Kickstarter as well as chatting about Catacombs Conquest and the future with Catacombs Monster Pit.  Aron is a fantatic guest to have on the show and we hope you enjoy the episode. We were very lucky to have him back on and we really appreciated the time he gave us, espec...