Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony cofounded Board Gamers Anonymous in 2013 and has been on (almost) every episode. Today, he lives in Philadelphia with his family and teaches first year writing at Thomas Jefferson University.
NOTE: US Listeners Only due to shipping (we’re working on something for our international crew soon!) For everyone who can’t make it to the 25 hour gaming marathon on Staten Island, we’re having a special Podcast-listener online raffle. What’s the deal? Donate $10 or more to support children’s hospitals on Extra-Life.org – make sure to link to Board Gamers Anonymous (instructions below) Send us a quick message to verify your entry. Get extra entries by sharing on Facebook, Liking our Page, or Following on Twitter. In 2 weeks, we’ll announce the winners! There will be AT LEAST 3 winners and…
Anthony is over the moon this week as his first foray into Kickstarter finally delivers and a copy of Canterbury from Andrew Parks shows up in the mail. The team gets together and sits down for a few plays of Canterbury, one of those plays with the designer himself. We also get a chance to play through the newest set for Magic the Gathering, the mega-cool theming of Theros, as well as Hordes: High Command and Revolution! Finally, we get Bruges back to the table one more time and see how it stacks up after a few more plays. At…
One of the most popular games at the BGA table is Suburbia, an instant classic from Bezier Games and Ted Alspach that deserves every bit of accolades it pulls. This week we’ll be reviewing it in full, along with a number of other games we got to the table (and tablet) lately. Check in to learn more about Dungeon Roll, The Crazy Creatures of Dr. Gloom, and the ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying Game from Steve Kenson – all hitting our tables this week. On the Tablet Two games we want to hit on this week that hit our tablets lately -…
This is a game we’ve been waiting impatiently for for weeks and it’s finally here – Plaid Hat’s take on Bioshock Infinite, The Siege of Columbia. The new miniature-heavy area control board game finally hits our table (a few times) and we share whether it lives up to the Bioshock legacy or should be left in the dust with other video game adaptations. Also this week we play the newest Ascension release, The Darkness Unleashed, and Chris gets the epic Dominare to the table – find out how this one plays as part of the Tempest universe. At the Table…
So we’ve been talking about it for weeks and it’s almost here. Extra Life 2013 will be held on November 2nd and 3rd from 10am Saturday to 11am Sunday at Myriad Games in Staten Island and will be the culmination of weeks of work by the Board Gamers Anonymous team. Here’s everything you’ll need to know about the event, participating, and donating to children’s hospitals and saving the lives of children: Supporting the Team If you haven’t yet, join us on Extra-Life.org as a participant. Here’s how: Click this link for the Extra Life site Click the “Support Me” Button…
This week we have TWO features and are extra excited because of it. First up is our full list of the top 10 two player games we regularly get to the table. Dan and Kim are huge fans of a lot of these and Anthony has started mining the list for his own growing collection and date night gaming. After we list off our favorite two player games, we’ll sit down and discuss the newest game from Z-Man Games and Stefan Feld – Bruges. Find out if Feld’s newest (and one of four releases this year) stacks up. At the…
Anthony has found a new favorite game and some of the table isn’t as impressed. Join us this week as we review Spyrium, a lightweight, low cost worker placement game that does a lot of things right but leaves some question marks at the table. Chris, Dan and Kim will also be talking about Shadow Hunters, the go to game for groups of 7 in our game group, Werewolf Inquisition, the black hole obsession that is Mage Wars, and San Juan – one of the most elegant card games around. At the Table This week, we were busy! Having played…
This week we took things a little easy to make sure we had enough stamina to tackle our feature review in full – Nothing Personal. As the newest release from Game Salute, courtesy of Tom Vasel and Steve Avery, Nothing Personal is an exercise in resilience, backstabbing, and brilliant components. Learn what we think of this one and whether it’s worth tracking down an admittedly hard to find copy of your own. We’ll also be reviewing the newest expansion for Quarriors, the Quartifacts set, the base set for Smash Up, Poison, and classic game for 8 – Citadels. At the…
This week promises to be an interesting one with a pair of games that earned our as of yet unused lowest rating on the scale. Find out which games hit the bottom of the bottom rungs and just how quickly we want to burn them. We’re also talking about the new deck builder from Privatereer Press – Warmachine: High Command and a classic that we’ve been meaning to get to the table for some time. Join Anthony, Chris, Dan and Kim for episode four. At the Table We get four games to the table this week and the quality range…
One of the first and most beloved games in our collection is the Game of Thrones LCG from Fantasy Flight Games. While there is a big lifestyle movement around this game and a huge tournament scene, we love just playing it out of the box with the core set cards and this week we sit down to review that experience (NOTE: This review was recorded well before the 2nd Edition and only refers to the 1st edition core set). Join Anthony, Chris, Dan, and Kim this week to discuss AGoT along with Guilds of Cadwallon, Castellan, Munchkin Legendary, and Timeline…