Episode 55: Our First Test Play of Cytress, a Cyberpunk Board Game
Friendly locals help me navigate the treacherous caste system and complex terrain of Cytress.
Episode 54: An Elegy for The Magician and His Final Spell
A massive retro JRPG released just before the death of its creator. Also, a bottle of good añejo, some G-funk, and a poem.
Episode 53: Climbing the Stratus with Sean Lee, Creator of Cytress
Talking with the creator of Cytress, a richly imagined cyberpunk board game.
Episode 52: We’re Not Going to Space McDonald’s, We Have Despair at Home
Repeated injuries will not dissuade me from looking for space junk in a solo RPG.
Episode 51: That Time I Turned Neuroshima Hex into an RPG
A moonshine margarita is made and considered. I reflect on how I fell down a rabbit hole by making my own quasi-RPG out of the combat game, Neuroshima Hex. And Whodini’s inside the joint.
Episode 50: In Praise of Lovely Little Friends
Suerte Anejo is good. A surly merfolk learns a new solo dungeon adventure. Then Max and I shut ‘em down.
Episode 49: A Mendicant, an ESL Student and a Fetus Walk Into a Bar
A fantastic 10-year-old bourbon, a pirate game, Run-D.M.C. and original poetry. This is all I got.
Episode 48: Brendan of UnChefed is Fielding My Frito-Lay Complaints
Hot toddies. Norman invasions. People Under the Stairs. That about covers it.
Episode 47: Grieving on the Mic and Painting Miniatures Again
Trying to process grief with a paintbrush and microphone
Episode 46: Which One of You Dirty Wookies Stole Humpty’s Nose
Someone in Colorado once stole Humpty Hump’s nose and it triggered a meltdown.
Episode 45: Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Mindbending Chaos
Benjamin explains how his group played two simultaneous games of The Resistance: Avalon while drinking.
Episode 44: Playing Dominion in a Negroni Fever Dream
Drinking Negronis and showing two first-timers the intuitive fun that lies behind Dominion’s thorny exterior.
Episode 43: Boozing and Singing on Zoom With Drunk Theory
It’s a conspiracy of fun on Zoom, drinking and singing with the cast of Drunk Theory.
Episode 42: Warhammer 40,000 Conquest is Still My Favorite Game of All Time
The best card game. The best rapper. The lamest Congressman. We’re on one.
Episode 41: Artist Drinks Beer, Plays The Grizzled, Flees Trinidad
Platoon morale is low: We need Coors and a card game about WWI.
Episode 40: Consulting the I Ching and Beanie Siegel for Timely Wisdom
The JK talks about his I Ching practice and why I was out of line shitting all over a Beanie Siegel track.
Episode 39: The Crew Card Game and Tasting Tequila With Geriatrics
My cousin shows us The Crew, a co-op card game, I taste tequila with the fam, and then I play Chubb Rock.
Episode 38: I Got Owned at Splendor by NOObz
I did dabs and lost hella bad because I thought the card with a galleon at sunset was actually moving and making sounds
Episode 37: Scotch, Farkle and Small Quadrupeds Are Involved
Local mom-and-son duo teach me to play Farkle and overcome my revulsion to Scotch.
Episode 36: Fuck Genestealers, All My Homies Hate Genestealers
A bottle of Jameson is drained and the Allfather discovers the edge-of-the-seat thrills of Space Hulk: Death Angel