The Shelfside Podcast

This is Episode 14, NOT 13 as we say in the recording! Playing Campaign board games is quite a different experience from normal board gaming! We mean this in the sake of building a community, being able to play it frequently, and the sheer amount of depth many of these games. Frosthaven, Tainted Grail, Aeon's Trespass, and Scythe Rise of Fenris are mentioned.  We also talk about a whole bunch of other stuff after our podcast hiatus, like TI4, civilization, our reviewing process, narrative vs. story vs. plot, and more.

Whether it be Kickstarter, Gamefound, or whatever crowdfunding way to buy your board game, there’s incentives on both ends: Buyer & Seller, for their to be crap included. How can this be avoided, and is it even possible? Should you buy later editions of kickstarters? We talk about our recent board gaming of ISS Vanguard, Tainted Grail, McGordon music (Doom), and even a teensy little bit of Frosthaven. 

Going down the BoardGameGeek Top 100 from what games we've played on it! As the title reflects, yes this is the audio from an upcoming YouTube video, that is now completely ad free! We talk about games like Frosthaven, Castles of Burgundy, Twilight Imperium 4 (and 3!), and even have a talk on Rising Sun, which didn't make this list.

A Halloween themed episode on horror/scary attributes of board games, and how that relates to video games and books! We discuss Tainted Grail, Eldritch Horror, Mansions of Madness, Dead of Winter, and more scary games! Also features a discussion of our most recently played games, Sidereal Confluence and Deal or Death.

The video games and board games should steal from one another! Very fascinating comparing the more mature industry of video games to the recently developing industry of board games. Iconography, open world, content, and more discussed! Inspired by Civilization, Tainted Grail, Twilight Imperium, and more.