Author: Anthony

Jason is moving this month, so we’re slowing down the content train just a bit this week. Jason did two guest spots on other podcasts, which you may have already heard. If you have, then please enjoy some other podcasts and come back next week for all new stuff. If you haven’t heard, then please enjoy some snippets from other shows that you should be listening to! The first part is a review of U-Boot: The Board game that Jason did with Steve and Elijah from the One Stop Coop Shop podcast. This is a cooperative WWII simulation game that’s…

Although the ENGN crew won’t make it to the big show in Ohio this year, we’re still interested in all of the new games that will be demoed and played this year. First, we review the games we previewed last year, letting you know if they ended up worth checking out (hint: one of us has a great record, and one falls on his face). After that, we chat about a bunch of games we are really looking forward to, including Jason’s usual gaggle of adventure games and Anthony’s pile of roll ‘n’ writes. If you plan to attend origins,…

We’re back with another “if you like” feature this week, this time looking at Suburbia and six games you might be interested in if you’re a big fan of the city building modern classic. To kick things off, we have some announcements on the Patreon contest front. Be sure to head over to Patreon.com/bga to learn more about the changes. For our question of the week, this week, we asked the listeners “How do you decide which games to queue up for the next game night? Hotness? Time since last play? Something else?” For our acquisition disorders, Anthony looks at…

We are tacking a very critical subject this week – board game reviewers who receive payment for their reviews. A lot of folks in the various forums and social medias have been discussing the topic, which was inspired by a video posted by Rodney Smith on paid reviews – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7LSY6HOX5c&t=1s. I invited a couple of content creators on to talk about the issue – Liz Davidson from Beyond Solitaire, as well as first time ENGN guest Lance Myxter, the Undead Viking. We engage in a long, critical discussion about the topic from two very different perspectives (if you know the…

First up, we have the winner of this week’s Patreon contest – Elise will be getting a game of her choice from Game Surplus. To kick things off this week, we ask the question of the week, looking at listener answers to “What’s the worst title for a board game (whether the game is good or bad)?” There are some very bad ones out there! For our acquisition disorders, Anthony looks at Star Wars: Dark Side Rising and Chris looks at the Knights of the Round Table expansion for Merlin.  At the table this week, Anthony reviews the Bunny Kingdoms…

If you heard our last episode with the Top Ten Fantasy Games, you’ll know that the Sadlers will soon hit Kickstarter again with Alter Quest. This is a huge, new fantasy adventure game, combined with the same Modular Deck System as Street Masters and Brook City. The Sadlers elaborate on influences like Hero Quest and Descent, then talk about how their game tries to capture the magic of old school, wondrous adventure with new school mechanisms. And, oh yeah, furniture! Mike also provides insights as a playtester.

We welcome back Adam and Brady Sadler to talk about another big, honking project of theirs from Blacklist Games, Altar Quest! However, instead of a straight-up preview, Jason figured it would be fun to invite the guys on to share their main influences for crafting their newest fantasy Kickstarter project. So, along with Mike Dilisio from Solomode Games, we put together a list of Top Ten Fantasy Tabletop Games. We all made our personal Top Tens, then smushed them together to make an uber list. Spoiler alert: Adam and Brady have a LOT to say about two games that seem…

Welcome back to another episode of Board Gamers Anonymous. This week we’re joined by Jason from Every Night is Game Night to look at the best of the best Game of Thrones board games. First up, we have the winner of this week’s Patreon contest – Brian will be getting a game of his choice from Game Surplus. To kick things off this week, we have a reminisce about the final season of Game of Thrones. Yeah, we have thoughts. Then we dive into the Spiel des Jahres nominees and the Dice Tower awards nominees to discuss what we like,…

We go card game crazy once again in this episode. Jason begins with Tiny Ninjas (5:48), a very small, single deck, card dueling game with chibi ninjas, dice, and an interesting wrinkle on attacking and defending. Anthony then shares about Oh My Goods with the Longsdale expansion that adds a more robust solo mode and a campaign (11:32). Jason then welcomes Nettersplays, Annette Villa, on to the podcast to talk about a personal favorite for both of us, Race for the Galaxy (24:58). It’s easy to walk into that game and get completely smoked by a decent opponent, so we…

Welcome back to another episode of Board Gamers Anonymous. This week we’re looking at some of Anthony’s favorite quick play roll and write games. First up, we have the winner of this week’s Patreon contest – Rico will be getting a game of his choice from Game Surplus. To kick things off, we ask our question of the week, “Are there any games you used to love that have fallen out of favor, either due to a new game taking their place or just your tastes changing?” For our acquisition disorders this week, Anthony looks at Clinic Deluxe and Chris…