In this episode, my friend Ken Coble and I sit down to discuss our experience with MACE, a semi-local gaming convention in Charlotte, NC.  This was my 11th straight year going to MACE, Ken’s 3rd, and the convention’s 2nd year in Charlotte.  While we do spend a little time talking some about the con itself and some of the people we met, the bulk of our comments here are about the games we played throughout the weekend, so hopefully this show will be useful even to those of you who will never have the chance to come to MACE.

Listen, enjoy (hopefully), and feel free to give me feedback either here, via email (gamerchris@bellsouth.net), at my Guild on BoardGameGeek, or on Twitter (@kilroy_locke).

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Links

MACE website

My MACE reports from 2011, 2010 (Part 1), 2010 (Part 2), 2009 (Part 1), 2009 (Part 2), 2008 (Part 1), 2008 (Part 2), 2007 (Part 1), 2007 (Part 2)

Time Index

0:28        Intro

2:07        MACE 2013 Report

4:00        – Battle for Souls

9:40        – Gravwell

15:05      – Hanabi

21:13      – Robinson Crusoe

30:36      – Sentinels of the Multiverse

33:10      – Maximum Throwdown

37:13      – Coloretto

41:20      – OGRE!

51:43      – Dark Heresy (RPG)

54:04      – Fiasco (RPG)

1:03:15   – Freedom: The Underground Railroad

1:10:45   – Mice and Mystics

1:12:16   – 1775: Rebellion

1:13:19   Final Thoughts

1:17:00   Outro

Music:

A beautiful second before we lose the signal by Ending Satellites on the Free Music Archive