Episode 102: Cocktail Naming Contest + I Crown My Top Lightweight Game of 2025
Name the cocktail that Skrrt’s making with his homemade plum liqueur and win modest prizes. Also, I crown my top multiplayer lightweight game for 2025.
Episode 100: Pyrotechnics Review, Playing With Dystopia, Surrendering Secret Wars
Cheers, Breakup Gaming Society hits 100! “Ohh” and “ahh” to the clever card play of Pyrotechnics, then brace yourself for the twin dystopian visions of Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel.
Episode 97: Sykes-Picot Plays With Colonial History (And Dry-Erase Markers)
Sykes-Picot: The Secret Treaty to Partition the Ottoman Empire hits the table for the first time. Also: Deeper explorations of Squad Leader, Star Wars: Outer Rim and the Dwelling solo RPG.
Episode 96: Carolina Death Crawl RPG (Lemonade Beer Punch Sold Separately)
Tip a lemonade-beer punch with us and learn about Carolina Death Crawl, a Southern Gothic RPG set during the Civil War.
Episode 95: Vijayanagara Review or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bahmani
Take your seat as one of three empires vying for control of 14th Century India with the thrilling Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India 1290-1398.
Episode 94: Avalon Hill Squad Leader - Shots Fired After Owning This for 40 Years
Squint at the analog majesty of Squad Leader, Avalon Hill’s classic infantry combat game from 1977.
Episode 93: Dwelling Solo Journaling RPG aka The Human Heart is Spooky AF
I’m wandering deeper and deeper into the haunted chambers of the heart with Good Luck Press’ Dwelling solo journaling RPG.
Episode 91: Pavlov’s House Puts the “Fun” in “You’re Fundamentally Screwed”
My first three tries running this slick gamification of Pavlov’s House, one of Stalingrad’s most legendary tooth-and-nail standoffs.
Episode 90: Hadrian’s Wall Has a Spankin’ New Pict-Fil-A
I review Hadrian’s Wall, where Rome — in all its cupidity, muscle, and rot — comes alive under your Sharpie.
Episode 89: Escape the Dark Sector + New D&D NPCs for GMs
The acrid tang of sweat on a space station, a whiff of Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select, and why D&D and rap go together.
Episode 88: Project L Review and More Seductive Stouts
It was like being inside a warm cardboard computer, hands and mind humming in tune with the circuitry.
Episode 86: I Review Storm Above the Reich and My Seasonal Depression
Cinnamon whiskey and hot chonklit vs. the cold. Introspection vs. depression. WWII vs. boredom. Sadat X vs. your boring playlist.
Episode 85: 2024 Top Board Game Moments: 10 Indelible Scenes
2024’s 10 most memorable board gaming scenes, a cocktail recoo from our Chief Mixologist, and a Craig Mack track.
Episode 84: Enough Thanksgiving Board Games to Make You Puke
Thanksgiving ‘24: An admonishment to the tenebrous heart that spends too much time counting its wounds. Also, board games.
Episode 82: Jeremy’s Fall and His Climb to a WSOP Table
Jeremy plunged off a rock face in 2004 and decided to climb green felt surfaces after that. All the way to the WSOP in 2014. (Photo: Jamie Thomson, Vegas Photo Studio)
Episode 81: Board Game Peeves, Rants and Passions
The board game passions, biases, and peeves that make me the irascible podcaster that I am.
Episode 80: Star Wars Outer Rim and a Nice Glass of Farmer’s Punch
Mix Farmer's Punch, shake with Star Wars Outer Rim, garnish with diss track by Masta Ace.
Episode 79: After the Board Games of Summer are Gone
Vale of Eternity, Wingspan, Cascadia and Cockroach Poker: Boardgaming highlights of Summer 2024.
Episode 77: Final Girls, Bulldogs and Brooklyn Cowboys
My first Bulldog cocktail, my first Final Girl game, and then we ride out with a bunch of Brooklyn mic psychos. Giddyup.
Episode 76: Dustrunner vs. Tin Helm
Will Dustrunner steal any table time from Tin Helm? Will somebody bring me more Stampede lager? Will I ever figure out why my output levels died on export despite not having changed a single setting in years, on a Track of the Week segment in which I highlight a J-Live/Jazzy Jeff track that focuses on the importance of craft? It’s goddamn embarrassing.

