Ep. 87: Origins First Builders & why we love dice

Today we review Origins: First Builders by Adam Kwapinski, better known for super-thematic American games like Nemesis that he’s designed for Awaken Realms. He’s given us a new dice drafting game about worshipping alien motherships. Have you ever wanted to play out the plot of Stargate, with ancient aliens assisting primitive humans to become dominant civilizations? Well too bad, because Origins: First Builders is a themeless euro published by Board & Dice, publisher of themeless euros. But have you wanted to play a highly mechanistic combotastic game with many balanced strategies? Well… listen and find out if this is the one for you.
We also get overly enthusiastic about dice.

1:37 Now or Never, Sleeping Gods
2:03 Near & Far, Islebound
2:41 Empires of the Void II
3:53 Men at Work
4:49 FEATURE REVIEW – Origins: First Builders
5:07 Tabannusi, Tekhenu, Tawantinsuyu, Teotihuacan
25:48 New Frontiers
32:25 FEATURE DISCUSSION – Why We Love Dice
33:04 The Voyages of Marco Polo
33:43 Agricola
34:06 Origins: First Builders, Teotihuacan
35:26 Praetor, Teotihuacan, Origins: First Builders
35:54 Dice Realms
36:07 Eclipse
36:18 Lorenzo il Magnifico
36:57 Roll for the Galaxy, Race for the Galaxy
37:43 Abomination: Heir of Frankenstein, John Company, Twilight Struggle
38:52 Chaos in the Old World
40:26 Dice Throne
40:34 Beyond the Sun
42:02 Dungeons & Dragons
42:51 Warhammer, Warhammer: 40K
45:06 That’s So Clover, Longshot: The Dice Game, Now or Never