Author: Anthony

For the sheer volume of “trading in the Mediterranean” games out there, it’s surprising that only a handful have tackled the well-documented travels of one of history’s most famous traders – Marco Polo. He wasn’t first to China, nor was he the wealthiest, but over the course of his 24 years traveling between Europe and Asia, Marco Polo recorded countless tales of his travels, including the men he traveled with, the men and women he met on his travels, and everything he found in medieval China. And despite Netflix’s best efforts to convince us to the contrary, it was pretty…

About a year ago, we did something a little different. We pitted 64 games from the BoardGameGeek Top 100 list against each other in a battle royale tournament to determine the best of the best. That tournament was a blast. Held over the course of three episodes and with votes from you, the listeners, the winner was eventually crowned, Dead of Winter. This year, we wanted to do it all again, but with a bit of a twist. Rather than pulling from the same list we used last year (the BGG Top 100), we decided to focus only on games…

A year ago, Chris and Drew sat down to make predictions for 2015. Some of those predictions turned out nearly spot on (including some that were mocked by several members of the BGA team), and some did not. This year we’re doing it again, but not before we run through the predictions for last year and see what happened, what didn’t, and what was way off base. Then join Chris, Anthony, Drew, and Daniel to review 16 new predictions for the coming year. Scoring our 2015 Predictions Before we dive into our predictions for 2016, we sit down and discuss…

It’s been one heck of a year for the board gaming hobby and for Board Gamers Anonymous. In a very special Episode 97, we’re taking a look at some of the best games, experiences, and plays of 2015, with a few special twists from each of the hosts. Learn what games we had the most fun playing, which acquisition disorders hit our list the most, and which games we’re excited to keep playing in 2016 and beyond. Around the Table Drew’s back with a bevy of new topics on the board gaming hobby. Join Drew and the whole BGA crew…

I don’t have much time to blog nowadays and one of the reasons is that I spend an awful lot of time reading everyone else’s blogs. In fact, I’m quite the Power Lurker. I subscribe to 160+ blogs, forums and mailing lists right now, so there’s an awful lot to process. A year ago I used to make a list of the best blog posts of each week, but that ended up being a lot of work. Instead, I’ll just cut out the middleman by pointing you to the best blogs I’ve been reading and encourage you to check them…

I’ve been struggling with what to call my new series of ‘funnies’, which I’ve been posting to the @BGAPodcast twitter feed daily Mon-Fri. They’re not Memes, and they’re not Cartoons. I stopped trying to name what they are and switched to thinking about what they feel like… They’re fun, which is why I called them ‘funnies’, like the old newspaper comic strips. But they’re also about games, so the title has to reflect that. I did an idiom search on the ‘net and came up with phrase that was so obvious, I had a ‘Duh…’ moment. I decided to call…

It’s that time of year again, which means we’re back with our big annual shopping guide! If you are buying for the gamer in your life and need a creative idea for how to make them happy (especially if they already have a serious case of acquisition disorder), this is the guide for you. Join Chris, Anthony, and Daniel to discuss the games and accessories they recommend you pick up this year. Shout it from the Tabletop! This week on Shout it from the Tabletop, Drew shares a bunch of interesting stories to keep us engaged through the long holiday…

This week the team gets together to talk about Splendor and some of the games you might like if you also like this one. We’ll share 12 games from four of Splendor’s mechanics and themes that we like, along with three games we recently played, three acquisition disorders, and a run through some of the news Drew posted to the Twitter feed this last week. Shout it from the Tabletop This week Drew posted dozens of interesting stories to the Twitter feed (@BGAPodcast). Here are some of the most interesting that we discussed on this week’s episode: Film News: Upcoming…

This week we welcome back an old friend – one of our first non-review segments, VERSUS – and in what seems like a pretty straightforward comparison, we look at Suburbia and The Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Join Anthony, Chris, and Daniel as we dig deep into both games though and have a rather contentious vote on which game is better and worth your table time. We’re also talking about a boat load of Munchkin expansions, T.I.M.E. Stories and a whole lot of very pricey acquisition disorders (mostly from this wild fall of Kickstarters). Shout it from the Tabletop New…