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.
(Whipped up by Drew Davidson) The best things in life are mash-ups. Take food for example: Peanut Butter & Jelly; Chef Salad; Chocolate Milk; Cheese Omelets. Take two foods you like and slap ‘em together: Suppertime Mash-up! Of course, you just can’t take two ingredients randomly and combine them. You have to have a sense for what two foods would blend well in the same pot. It’s the same thing with board games. If you have a good understanding of games and know how to blend them, you could create some tasty mash-ups! And you know we’ve all done it…
While I am woefully behind on the audit of my board game collection for Board Game Geek, if you were to ask me what I own more of than anything else, hands down it would be two player games. I own a lot of them, primarily because when I started playing board games, the only person I played with other than my weekly visit to an FLGS was my wife. So those were the games I’d buy. Sure I liked others, but no matter how much fun I had playing 7 Wonders, I wasn’t going to buy a copy for…
This week, Anthony, Chris, and Daniel discuss one of the hottest kickstarter projects fulfilled in the last year – Myth – with an introductory dungeon crawl in the open-sandbox style game. We also talk about some of our favorite games from recent plays including Alhambra – a favorite in Anthony’s house – DC Deck Building Game, and In the Year of the Dragon – one of Stefan Feld’s first games. We also dig into Hearthstone for the first time – one of the hottest digital releases of the year and an interesting diversion when home alone without fellow gamers. On…
When we launched Board Gamers Anonymous last summer, it was to have fun talking about tabletop games with friends. But in the back of our minds there were other goals – things we thought would be really, really cool if they ever happened. Joining the Dice Tower Network was one of those things. The Dice Tower itself is one of the most prolific podcasts around with more than 350 episodes and hundreds of reviews released annually, and Tom Vasel’s extended network gives a platform for nearly a dozen other podcasts, video series, and websites, all talking about this awesome hobby of ours.…
It’s been a big week of gaming for the team here with a bunch of very good games hitting our table, including yet another find from Pax East. This week, we’re going to focus our efforts in the feature review on Rivet Wars – a brilliant new miniature game from Cool Mini or Not – along with a handful of other plays such as Coal Baron, Gravwell, Buccaneer Bones, and What the Food? Listen to hear what we think of this week’s batch of new games. At the Table We got a whopping four games to the table this week,…
We’re back from Pax East and that means LOTS of games to discuss, gaming discussions and a lot more. Plus we have a special guest with us this week as Rob sits down with Anthony and Chris to talk about board games and all things new and recent from the world of board gaming. Learn what we loved most and what games we’re excited to play in the coming weeks after our very first BGA-centric convention. Pax East Review It was a wonderful weekend as Anthony and Chris headed to Boston with Dan and Kim to check out one of…
This week we get a good number of solid games to the table and start talking about one of the most controversial topics in the board gaming hobby – Kickstarter. Anthony and Chris are joined by Rob and Daniel for a feature review of Rob’s new favorite, Quantum, along with a Daniel fave, DC Deck Building Game, the Heroes Unite expansion, and group play throughs of Sentinels of the Multiverse and Civilization the Board Game. Listen and learn whether you should buy, play, dodge, or burn our featured games this week. When to Back a Kickstarter Game In recent weeks,…
Now this is one we’ve been waiting for for a while. Battlelore: Second Edition finally arrives and we’re excited to sit down and get it to the table. Anthony, Chris, Dan and Kim all get a shot at this wonderful, newly revised two player game and share their thoughts on it as a two player experience, an upgrade from the first edition and a skirmish battler. We also talk about Terra Mystica again, this time with a full five players, and the new expansion for Boss Monster, Tools of Hero Kind. At the Table This week we managed to get…
It’s a BIG week for gaming as we bring 6 games to the table PLUS we get a chance to discuss our recent Super Bowl experience (in which Anthony was a very happy fellow). The big review this week is of Terra Mystica – a game we’ve been trying to track down copies of for months – while we also have a chance to get favorites like City of Iron, Rampage, Tokaido Crossroads, 1st and Goal, and Spartacus to the Table. Hear how each of these games stacks up in this week’s episode. At the Table At the table this week,…
Anthony, Chris, Dan and Kim get together this week to talk about one of the most talked about games of 2013 and one of the hardest to find – Caverna. As we get this new one to the table, we discuss the merits of it as a euro, and compare it to its spiritual predecessor, Agricola. Also this week, we play through a bunch of games, including bringing a couple of old favorites back to the table. Back to the Table Every now and then we want to go back into the vault and play through games we haven’t had…