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#60: Fast Forward! Fear, Fortress & Flee; Matryoshka on tap; InBetween; Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun! Oct 24, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 60: Fast Forward! Fear, Fortress & Flee; Matryoshka on tap; InBetween; Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun!

Essen is just around the corner and we've got a few of the hot hot releases to talk about! Our big feature today is the new Fast Forward series from Friedemann Friese - three new 'fable' games that you learn as you play and change with each game. It's a wild new idea - did FF pull it off? We've also got a look at the latest from Board&Dice - InBetween - a tight two-player battle over a quiet suburban town. We're also going to share a Kickstarter preview for the latest Green Couch Games title - Best Treehouse Ever's standalone/combinable expansion Forest of Fun! Spoiler: it's FUN. Our on tap is one of our recent plays - the small-box card collecting and trading game Matryoshka - and we share four beer pairings worth hunting down for your collection if you can! Danielle's got a beer primer on the difference between Scottish and Scotch ales to wrap the episode up. But what's that, down there in the timestamps? Seems there's some mysterious audio at the end of this episode after the credits? How odd…

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

03:47 Jake's Essen Picks

11:21 Kickstarter: Legends of Sleepy Hollow

13:46 KS Preview: Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun!

24:12 Recent Plays: InBetween

40:41 Grey Fox Games sponsorship spot

41:32 Feature: Friedemann Friese's Fast Forward Series

43:55 Fast Forward: Fear

49:25 Fast Forward: Fortress

54:52 Fast Forward: Flee

60:08 Fast Forward: Wrap-up

64:55 Recent Plays: Matryoshka

74:22 On Tap: Matryoshka

80:05 Beer Primer: Scottish and Scotch Ales

87:11 Outro?

88:21 Mysterious Audio

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Don't forget to vote every week for your favorite FBGL teams to enter in our drawing for a $100 gift card to an Online Game Store of your choice!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Check out their website for information on all their great games, and sign up for the newsletter for updates direct to your inbox!

Our theme and bump music is from the album "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to the band for their help!Come listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/60fastforward

#59: Six Spooky Games for the Season; Summit on tap; Flamme Rouge; Blood Bowl Team Manager; 2017 GABF Results Oct 09, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 59: Six Spooky Games for the Season; Summit on tap; Flamme Rouge, Blood Bowl: Team Manager, Insider; GABF 2017 Recap

In today's episode, we lean into the spooky season with a six-pack of games for your Halloween festivities. We're also putting Summit on tap with six thematic beer pairings to help you get up the mountain safe and sound. In recent plays, we talk Flamme Rouge, Blood Bowl: Team Manager & Insider, and wrap it up with a recap of the 2017 Great American Beer Festival. Excellent, let's get to it!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

02:18 FBGL Week 4 Recap

05:30 [Essen Intensifies]

07:03 Kickstarter: Near & Far: Amber Mines

09:15 Kickstarter: Zero Hour

11:16 Kickstarter: The 7th Continent follow-up

15:29 Recent Plays: Blood Bowl: Team Manager

21:43 Recent Plays: Flamme Rouge

33:03 Recent Plays: Insider

41:03 Grey Fox Games sponsorship spot

42:12 Six Spooky Games for the Season

66:28 On Tap: Summit, The Board Game

75:57 Quick notes on Summit hops

78:19 2017 Great American Beer Festival

86:48 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Don't forget to vote every week for your favorite FBGL teams to enter in our drawing for a $100 gift card to an Online Game Store of your choice!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Check out their website for information on all their great games, and sign up for the newsletter for updates direct to your inbox!

Our theme and bump music is from the album "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to the band for their help!Come listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/59spooky

#58: The 7th Continent review part 1 & On Tap; Photosynthesis; Lazer Ryders & More Sep 25, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 58: The 7th Continent review, Part 1 & On Tap beer pairings; Photosynthesis; Lazer Ryderz; Raiders of the North Sea; FBGL Update and Understanding Yeast in Beer

In today's land-mass sized episode, we dig in deep to The 7th Continent for the first of what will be several reviews of this mammoth card-based exploration game. How is it holding up after ten-plus hours of gameplay? Judging by the length of this episode, we had a lot to say! We're also giving it the On Tap treatment with five great beers for your next continental exploration session. In recent plays, we look at Photosynthesis, Lazer Ryderz, and Raiders of the North Sea. Danielle wraps up this episode with a discussion of a history of our understanding of yeast in beer. I hope you've got plenty of durability left on your podcast player, because this episode's a big one!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

02:57 Kickstarter: Stellar Leap

05:43 Fantasy Board Game League Update

12:40 Recent Plays: Photosynthesis

23:12 Recent Plays: Lazer Ryder

29:13 Recent Plays: Raiders of the North Sea

38:59 Review: The 7th Continent (Part 1)

40:05 The 7th Continent: Gameplay Run-through

44:29 The 7th Continent: Discussion

84:46 The 7th Continent: Final Thoughts… for now

85:55 On Tap: The 7th Continent

91:49 Understanding Yeast in Beer

96:31 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Don't forget to vote every week for your favorite FBGL teams to enter in our drawing for a $100 gift card to an Online Game Store of your choice!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Check out their website for information on all their great games, and sign up for the newsletter for updates direct to your inbox!

Our theme and bump music is from the album "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to the band for their help! Come listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/58seventh1

#57: FBGL 2017, The Networks Executives, Indulgence on tap, Magic Maze and The State of the Podcast Sep 11, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 57: Second Podiversary! The 2017 Fantasy Board Game League! The Networks: The Executives preview! Magic Maze! Indulgence on tap!

Welcome back, dear listeners! It's time for our second Podiversary - and with that, it's time for the second season of the Fantasy Board Game League! We've teamed up with board game content creators across the boardosphere for this season and it's time to kick off the first week of matchups! We discuss the Top 10 draft picks and look back at the Year Two state of the podcast in our feature segment. But we've also got a big feature at the top of the show - a Kickstarter Preview of the new expansion for Gil Hova's The Networks - The Executives! We dig this expansion (currently on Kickstarter!) so much that we made it into its own feature. We also look back at recent plays of Magic Maze, Eminent Domain & Illimat and then put Indulgence on tap! Thanks again for listening, enjoy the show and don't forget to vote for your favorite FBGL teams each week at draftmechanic.net!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping & happy 2nd Podiversary!

04:35 Games news: Essen buzz & Conventions

09:35 Kickstarter Preview: The Networks: The Executives

23:10 Recent Plays: Magic Maze

31:50 Recent Plays: Eminent Domain

39:03 Recent Plays: Illimat

47:37 Grey Fox Games sponsor break

48:41 The 2017 Fantasy Board Game League!

72:44 2017 State of the Podcast

77:55 On Tap: Indulgence

85:52 Oktoberfest!

93:32 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Don't forget to vote every week for your favorite FBGL teams to enter in our drawing for a $100 gift card to an Online Game Store of your choice!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Check out their website for information on all their great games, and sign up for the newsletter for updates direct to your inbox!

Our theme and bump music is from the album "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to the band for their help!Come listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/57fbgl

#56: Ex Libris six-pack review & on tap; Codenames Duet; Custom Heroes; Seikatsu Aug 28, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 56: Ex Libris six-pack review and on tap; Codenames: Duet; Custom Heroes; Seikatsu; The Beer Primer: Cream Ale

We're wrapping up our Summer of Hot Games bonus episodes with the hottest, freshest batch of games around! Our six-pack review for this episode is Ex Libris, the hot new release from Renegade Game Studios that will be hitting FLGS shelves soon! We've also got three smaller hot new titles to talk about. The first is our yearly check-in with Codenames - how does Codenames: Duet adapt and improve on the system? Second is Custom Heroes from AEG - a new ladder-climbing card game that adds Mystic Vale's Card Crafting system to create cards that are constantly evolving throughout the game. Finally, we're looking at Seikatsu from IDW Games, a three-player abstract game that will leave your brain fried right out. Danielle's putting together a Beer Primer on the Cream Ale style today, and we've got some final thoughts from Gen Con 50 as well. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Episode 56!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

03:51 Gen Con 50 Wrap-Up

12:44 Kickstarter: "Now Boarding" from Tim Fowers

15:10 Recent Plays: Codenames Duet

24:40 Recent Plays: Custom Heroes

34:16 Recent Plays: Seikatsu

42:05 Six Pack Review: Ex Libris

44:14 Ex Libris: Gameplay overview

50:27 Ex Libris: Discussion and review

75:12 Ex Libris: Final Thoughts

76:09 On Tap: Ex Libris

80:53 The Beer Primer: Cream Ale

86:20 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/56exlibris

#55: Gen Con 50 Wrap-up! Aug 21, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 55: Gen Con 50 Wrap Up!

Hey all! Episode 55 is going to be a little different! Each day during Gen Con 50, we sat down with our buds (Shane, Tamara, Steven, Dan) and talked about what we saw at the biggest con of the year (and the biggest Gen Con in history). I've assembled those recordings chronologically just like last year for over an hour of extra content! We really hope you enjoy our wrap-ups, and we'll be back next Monday for another episode and a more in-depth look at some of the hottest games of the year, fresh from Gen Con 50!

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/55genconwrap

#54: The HYPE List 2017! Gen Con 50 Preview and Vegas Wits & Wagers Aug 14, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 54: The Gen Con 50 Hype List & Vegas Wits & Wagers!

The Hype List is here! The Summer of Hot Games wouldn't be complete without our exhaustive look at a big pile of games we're excited to learn more about at Gen Con 50 this week in Indianapolis. In addition to that big feature, we're also busting out our Kickstarter preview of the upcoming Vegas Wits & Wagers from North Star Games! But one feature isn't enough for an episode this big - we're also putting Vegas Wits & Wagers on tap, we've got a special guest popping in to talk about Fantasy Flight Games' big announcement, and we've got a discussion with two of our game group about their plans for their first trip to Gen Con. I hope you've got a long drive, because this super-stuffed episode is just brimming with HYPE!

Intro

00:00 Show Housekeeping

03:20 Corrections from Episode 53

05:19 Kickstarter Preview: Vegas Wits & Wagers!

16:48 Gen Con events roundup! Punchboard Media meet up!

18:47 Sun King Brewery events at Gen Con

20:09 The mystery of HYPE

21:12 Twilight Imperiul, 4th Ed. (special guest Chris Kirkman)

37:48 Getting into the hype list!

1:00:54 Checking in with Tamara and Steven

1:23:32 Back to the hype list!

2:13:22 On Tap: Vegas Wits & Wagers

2:17:37 Wrap-up

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/53diceforge

#53: Dice Forge review; Pit Crew on tap; Terraforming Mars: Hellas; Wordsy; Word Domination Aug 07, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 53: Dice Forge; Pit Crew on tap; Terraforming Mars: Hellas; Wordsy & Word Domination

Welcome back to another Draft Mechanic! It's the summer of hot games, and in today's bonus weekly episode we look at the new dice crafting game Dice Forge from Libellud. Do the parts add up to more than just a pretty package? We've got the new real-time racing game Pit Crew on tap with some speedy beer choices, plus first impressions of the new Hellas map for Terraforming Mars. Also in recent plays, we talk about two new word games hitting the table this summer: Wordsy and Word Domination! Danielle's beer segment is the positive side of last week's segment as she talks about what foeders are and how they help brewers make exceptional sour beer. Enjoy the show and don't forget to come back next week for our Gen Con 50 preview episode!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

02:46 Looking forward to Gen Con 50

04:54 IndieGoGo: Watch it Played Season 7 Fundraiser

08:07 Con Report: MegaMooseCon

12:46 Recent Plays: Terraforming Mars "Hellas" map

21:20 Recent Plays: Word Domination

27:59 Recent Plays: Wordsy

35:21 Review Feature: Dice Forge

35:54 Dice Forge: Gameplay Overview

39:34 Dice Forge: Discussion

58:51 Dice Forge: Final Thoughts

59:45 On Tap: Pit Crew

70:00 The Beer Segment: What is a Foeder?

78:31 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2017/53diceforge

#52: RAXXON; Century: Spice Road; Before the Earth Explodes; Spires; Unearth; NMBR 9 Jul 31, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 52: RAXXON review; Century: Spice Road review & on tap; Spires; NMBR 9; Unearth

It's week 3 of our Summer of Hot Games! Today we've got another exciting Kickstarter preview: Before the Earth Explodes from Green Couch Games! Also, we've got another special Double Feature review for you this week of two hot, hot games. First up, we look at the (finally released!) Century: Spice Road, the debut title from Plan B Games, and then we back it up by putting it on tap with six beer pairing choices. We're also going to do a full review of RAXXON, the secretly-released new [REDACTED] from [REDACTED], which features a [REDACTED] that we didn't expect. In recent plays, we've got Spires, NMBR 9 and Unearth. And going on the theme of RAXXON, Danielle's got a beer segment in which she talks about the different kinds of things that can spoil your beer and cause some very unpleasant side effects. Don't worry, though, because RAXXON is here to help!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

02:37 Con Watch: MegaMooseCon August 4th-6th!

03:51 Gen Con 50 Preview Tool on BGG

06:14 Best Treehouse Ever Contest Results

07:54 Preview: Before the Earth Explodes

13:49 Recent Plays: Spires

22:43 Recent Plays: NMBR 9

27:00 Recent Plays: Unearth

36:57 Review: Century: Spice Road

48:10 On Tap: Century: Spice Road

54:40 Review: RAXXON

77:51 Is my beer infected?

86:36 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

#51: Sentient & Barenpark double feature; Barenpark on tap; Medina, Fields of Arle & Stockpile Jul 24, 2017

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Draft Mechanic Episode 51: Sentient & Barenpark double feature review! Barenpark on tap; Medina; Fields of Arle; Stockpile; Can Beer Quench your Thirst?

The Summer of Hot Games rolls on! We're ramping up with a big double feature of Sentient and Barenpark, and we swing back around to put Barenpark on tap. We talk recent plays of Medina, Fields of Arle and Stockpile. Jake ends out the episode with some discussion about whether beer can actually quench your thirst! You're gonna need it, because it's a hot one!

Intro

01:00 Show Housekeeping

02:42 Con Watch: MegaMooseCon August 4th-6th!

04:04 Contest: Best Treehouse Ever!

05:42 Kickstarter: Star Scrappers Cave-In update

06:20 Kickstarter: Star Realms Frontiers

10:58 Upcoming: Fast Forward - Fear, Fortress & Flee

16:28 Recent Plays: Medina

23:15 Recent Plays: Fields of Arle

36:01 Recent Plays: Stockpile

45:01 Review: Sentient

57:41 Review: Barenpark

75:42 On Tap: Barenpark

83:27 Can beer quench your thirst?

92:08 Outro

We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net!

Join us at the local, our BGG Guild (#2470)!

We're also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook!

Our theme music is "Superpower of Choice" by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to Drew and Jeff for making it happen! And now, you can listen to the full album on our website!

Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we'll see you back here again soon for another round!

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