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Ep. 6: Grognards and Grandmas

We discuss our favorite games which can be enjoyed by newcomers and veterans alike.

Original games that aren’t for everyone: Millennium Blades, Mystic Vale, and Vast.

Tyrants of the Underdark and deckbuilders with a map – a derivative (but wonderful) sub-genre.

Defending the derivative in Islebound.

We review Simone Luciani’s Newton, rank our top games of 2018, and discuss originality, and its problems.

We discuss Stefan Feld’s Carpe Diem, Ryan Laukat’s Empires of the Void II, and how teaching a game well creates great first impressions.

We review Architects of the West Kingdom and take a look at player interaction we like and don’t like.

In which we review Teotihuacan, and discuss Legacy games in general and Scythe: Rise of Fenris in particular. 21:32 Scythe:

We talk about when whining is humorous and when it’s corrosive, how first player is implemented in a variety of modern board games.