Resource Management, Worker Placement, Area Control. You may have heard some of these terms and others as people discuss their favorite board games. But what do they mean? Using some of the most popular games around, we discuss these terms and others to help you learn more about how many board games are played.
Just a few of the many, many options out there. Knowing how each game is played will help you decide which one you want to play next.
Board games are a more popular pastime than ever, but different people have grown up with their own house rules, and may want to go back and “redo” their turn from time to time. A listener asks how important it is to follow the exact rules and stick to player decisions, and Kurt (with decades of board game playing under his belt) gives his opinion on the subject.
The example game we use for much of the discussion. If you’re not familiar, you need to stay in more.
One of the most commonly ignored rules (see the second paragraph).
One of the most well-known cooperative games available. And topical!
What if you want to kill some monsters, but don’t want to get bogged down in all that pesky role-playing? Well, these games, past and present, may just be what you’re looking for. Kurt covers the highlights of the history of dungeon crawler board games this episode.
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The title is written in blood so you know it’s scary!
For hours and hours and hours and hours of…fun?
Squats are an important part of any adventurer’s workout routine!
By our powers combined, we make…Boardgame Planet! (Captain Boardgame?)
Descent: Journey into tile organization (trust me, don’t just put them back in the box).
Just some of the components you get in the Gloomhaven base set. It’s a whole lot of game!