The Last Standee

Hi all, and welcome to episode 86 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, after the unmissable Standee Catch-up, Audrey talks about Dungeons & Dragons: Bedlam in Neverwinter, the investigation boardgame about the popular monster-hitting TTRPG. After that, Fen will review Leviathan Wilds, a production which brings back Shadow of the Colossus vibes with a bit of whimsy, and finally Alexis and the group will talk about Eat the Reich, the actual TTRPG.

Welcome to Episode 85 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode is dedicated to very confused introspection, as we follow with increased worry Alessio and Cara talk at length about boardgames and bureaucracy. But before we get to the latter, we have an inexplicably long Standee Catch-up where we discuss the former, along with the intricacies of time loops. After we are done, Cara recounts her experiences with a Fen-favourite (yes, spelling is right) game of yore: A Game of Thrones, Second Edition by Fantasy Flight Games. Alessio follows with a new edition of a, okay still new, sports game: Trick Shot, Second Edition by Wolffdesigna. To put the cherry on top, this recipe for disasters is completed by having Alessio mangle the excellent Baba Yaga soundtrack by Kevin Macleod (a man who saved many podcasts with his excellent CC-licensed music) by showing an absolute disrespect for volume control.

Hi all and welcome to episode 84 of The Last Standee Podcast! And not just "any" episode - this is one episode from the A-Team (Alexis, Audrey and Alessio), or how we humbly call it, a triple-A episode (no seriously, why you keep following us?). After a catch-up with some news from the boardgaming world, Alessio talks us about Rebel Princess, aka the Hearts variant you didn't know you needed. Then, Audrey leads a team talk about MLEM: Space Agency, the game where cats go to outer space on their own free will and besides there are CATS WITH WEIRD FACES AND A DISCUTIBLE FASHION SENSE RIGHT IN THE COVER FFS (by the way, production value is very, very good). Finally, Alexis eases up in a review and discussion about Serious Poulp's last fatigue, The 7th Citadel!

Hi all, ready to feel the groove with us? After the Standee Catch-up, Fen takes on the ouverture with the Gig. Now, I would really say that the Forest Shuffle, about which Audrey talks next, is a dance move, but I guess you'll have to listen to the episode to find out. The Finale is in the capable hands of our Cara, who brings us back in the world of Tidal Waves with the Banner Festival!

Am I the only one feeling sleepy in Spring? Welcome to episode 82 of The Last Standee Podcast - early Spring edition! In this episode in the sign of egregiousness (I swear, this is not AI-generated!) we start egregiously drifting aimlessly in lazy recollections with the Standee Catch-up, at the end of which Alexis gives us an update on what is the current situation with Golden Bell Studio crowdfunding projects. Then it's time to start the Edventures with Audrey presenting Cartaventura games (that must be misspelled, it's evidently CartEventura). We finish with a lot of Dalmatians and Dalmatians-contingent (but sans Ms. De Vil, sadly) with Spots!

Argh, we're late! Again! Welcome to Episode 81 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, our three chatty hosts/speakers have a long, winded Standee Catchup, then Fen leads the talk to the main course of the episode, ISS Vanguard - one of the latest fatigues from Awaken Realms, with the ambition to narrate an epic spacefaring campaign which starts and ends (or ends and starts?) with a mystery encoded in the DNA of all lifeforms. Was this ambition successful? Well, you'll have to listen to the episode to find out! (Just sayin', a game about space rangers sworn to protect vans across the galaxy would be an instant buy...)

At long last, episode 80! It always feels nice when we get to complete tens of episodes, doesn't it? Anyway (anyho), this episode begins with the usual catch-up, then we have Fen presenting The Plum Island Horror. Unsettling mysteries continue with Alexis talking about Pop-up Mystery Manor, until we can finally rest and relax with Cara, presenting us her list of relaxing games - Namiji, Tranquility and In Dreams (Cara reviews woo-hoo!)

Welcome to episode 79 of The Last Standee Podcast! In our endless pursuit for aesthetical perfection, always striving for novelty, we bring you a... special? Is it the right word? Would it be better "weird"? Oh, it's yours to judge (definitely weird) episode, because that's a two-people recording, dedicated to two games, which are two-player games (not one, not three)! After all, it takes two to tango! ...And now that I wrote that, I can retire with a smile. Anyho, after the Standee Catch-up, we have Alessio talking about Sky Team, last Essen fair's sensation, then Alexis bring us a pearl from Level 99 Studio, Pixel Tactics! Stay tuned for more weirdness, er, novelty! (and I'm sure we didn't remove all the tags from the public domain tango audio track we used to mix with the base)

Three steps, as it has always been. First, a welcome: Welcome to Episode 78 of the Last Standee Podcast, and our first episode of 2024! How are the smoldering remains of society treating you at the beginning of the new calendar? Second, an intro: after long debate, we decided to kick off the year with an episode with the regular formula: three games, three speakers, some fil rouge to connect everything. Yet, this episode is special? Is it maybe because one speaker was recording from a van parked in an undisclosed location, a location which we can only hope isn't deeply unsettling? Maybe. Or maybe because our good sound engineer and entertainment scientist Alexis found the audio quality of that recording to be among the best ones? Your guess is as good as mine. Third, some details about the episode: we have the shortest long Standee Catch-up ever, then we merrily follow the macabre titular three steps: first step, Alessio talks us about Kiri-ai: The Duel, an elegant two-player card game about a samurai duel which, you bet, can only end with the creation of a fresh body. Second step, Alexis follows up with the bureaucracy regarding a freshly created body with Body of Evidence, a high-end mystery game with a cool gimmick where investigators try to solve what you could define a "cold" case surrounding an autopsy. Third step, Fen recounts what happens when all these corpses get inevitably reanimated in Dawn of the Zeds: Third Edition, a very versatile game which is only arguably a tower defense, or we can say, a tower defense and much more! So, without further ado, let's get it on with the episode!

Welcome to Episode 77 of The Last Standee Podcast! This time, the content of the episode is a mystery. No, not because this is a mystery-themed episode (one day!), but because the francophones took over the episode! What will they be talking about? Are there even three people in the staff speaking French? Is THIS the way we spend Patrons' money? The answer to these questions, and maybe many others that will probably arise, lies within this very special track! Yes, with the end of the year we always get a little crazy and we like to be original, why'd you ask?

Welcome to Episode 76 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode we trade common sense and decency for a hearty laugh - and that shows right away from the Catch-ups! This episode will probably be remembered as "the one with the best transitions ever" - we feel so sure of it that we account even for future episodes. Cara begins the -no, not serious. Not even "more structured" - let's say the chat about crowdfunding - what has been, where we're at and future plans, for what are worth. After that, Audrey brings us Shadow Hunters, aka japanese design twists applied to hidden role/social deduction games reminiscing Bang! just a little. Finally, Alessio closes with Combo Fighter - Plotmaker Edition, the short fighting game filler you didn't know you needed! Really, these recaps are useless - just don't take us too seriously and embrace the chaos with us!

There were five or six speakers, a few more listeners, a lot of monsters, some designers in the darkness. Everybody knew nothing. Welcome to Episode 75 of The Last Standee Podcast! For this episode, we are back doing what we do best, and that's idly chatting about boss battlers (yeah, we could have done a bit earlier, but we wanted the entire crowd of speakers to be on the same page). In this episode, we begin discussing the Gambler's Chest Expansion of Kingdom Death: Monster! Yeah, thankfully this one will have content for a few episodes more, but here we are, to begin with - a "first and somewhat curated impressions" of the GCE overall and (almost) the first 12 Lantern Years of a People of the Dream Keeper campaign. Nuh uh, won't spoil anything here (and if you listen without skipping, the spoilers will be clearly marked!) - so I'll just leave you with the episode, with an almost full crowd (congratulations David)!

Boardgamers ahoy! ...or not quite, because we got exactly ONE game not fitting the sailing theme! Oh well, as they say: sometimes you eat the bear... This episode, after a Standee Catch-up which doubles as a PSA for animal care, Cara sets sail to distant shores into EOS: Island of Angels (which was called once... nah, listen to the review :) ). Then, Fen starts what could very well be a series of articles with the very beginning of the Pathfinder LCG series: Rise of the Runelords. Last, Alessio is here once again to somehow talk about another trick-taking game - Sail!

Welcome to episode 73 of The Last Standee podcast! Yes, there will be space, aliens and ancient Egypt, and no, it's not a Stargate Episode. But we are getting ahead of ourselves now. As usual, we begin with our Standee Catch-up among Alexis, Fen and Alessio. With that done, it's time to go through a couple news items that are floating around these days. After that, it's time to finally talk about boardgames! Alessio got Amun-Re: 20th Anniversary Edition and is eager to tell us how it aged since the 2003 classic, then Fen brings us into deep space with the alienest spinoff of Legendary Encounters!

Welcome to Episode 72 of The Last Standee Podcast! It has been a pretty egregious vacation, albeit a very belated one, but we are now here in full swing to bring to your table our opinions of what we brought to our table (an example of traditional Hobbit speech). We usually compose titles with some smart puns about the theme of the episode, so yeah, this episode's title is more wishful thinking than everything. After the usual Standee catch-up, we'll have Alessio talk about Keep the Heroes Out, then Cara follow up with Dawn of Peacemakers - which is OOP of course, but there's a Gamefound campaign right now for the revised edition Peacemakers: Horrors of War, then Audrey closes the episode with impressions about Tiny Epic Pirates.

Welcome to Episode 71 of The Last Standee podcast! This being the second part of our immense KDM retrospective, y'all already know what you are signing for! In this episode, Fen, Alexis and Audrey continue the chat about mechanics and talk about the hobby aspect and a few other topics.

Welcome to episode 70 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, while the team waits for the King and, well, the rest of the stuff in the Gambler's Chest, we have the first part of our Kingdom Death retrospective! In part 1, Fen, Alexis and Alessio chat about the origins of the genre, KDM's own history and some mechanical insights. Stay tuned for part two!

Welcome to steamy episode 69 of The Last Standee Podcast! What's in store for the sexiest number of them all? But of course, a contest to find the least sexy game in our collections! NO SPOILERS HERE, so you'll have to listen to the episode to find out what it's about (spoiler: all games discussed are actually good games!)

Welcome to Episode 68 of The Last Standee Podcast! Despite the heat (without the pedal to the metal) wrapping up everything in the Northern Hemisphere, we are once again at our posts to provide you precious opinions about boardgames! After the catch-up, Alessio brings up the Tourney vibe with Challengers!, then Fen goes on with a critique of Lands of Galzyr - finally it's Cara's turn to talk about a famous RPG we won't even name directly to not draw the attention of the lawyers of the wizard who lives by the sea, let's say.

Welcome to this belated and much anticipated episode of The Last Standee Podcast - now with cutting "uhmmms" when we spot them in the sound curve! In this episode we have a bit of everything: we begin with the Standee Catch-up with two very different heartwarming pieces of news: one about human empathy and the other about eternal kickstarter projects getting closer to fulfilment. After that, we have Alexis talk about Journeys in Middle-Earth, then Fen does their own catch-up with a lot of mini-reviews. It's the turn of the team sharing a crowdfunding update from around the hobby, then we go freeform discussion mode (THERE ARE OPINIONS!) about Golden Geek Awards 2022!