# \#173: Witchstone **URL:** \ **Category:** So Very Wrong About Games\ **Created:** [15 June 2021 10:37 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887 "2021-06-15T10:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robot\_Maria](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/robot_maria/32/7849_2.png) [@Robot\_Maria](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Robot_Maria)\ **Post date:** [15 June 2021 10:37 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887/1 "2021-06-15T10:37:03Z")
[https://d1dwvcwq657ipv.cloudfront.net/episodes/high/33421095.mp3?episode\_id=45304194&show\_id=2761736&user\_id=10238956&tenant=SPREAKER×tamp=1623753423&media\_type=static&response-content-disposition=attachment%3Bfilename%3D%22episode\_173\_witchstone.mp3%22&Expires=1624444623&Signature=vS22YZhkTUGXWNuJ39mU%7EJe9V5aTSEkVPP8uZGexnoZXKiSE5xv3dT19WvqI5v8HundnTpE1G8xDIVC9yyjYiVHIRLRn-91F-cQml6fW7Kvmf2gEyhKKnbqneyIJ0oVmi3N-tmcaikXib8KQJtRarfhzEKb89Im1BgsVk3JGMyLxMrA1BV5KfYFP6TH4JbqxuA1KLBQjzLTEIDUo6n4GuBXFS4Bl2x3%7E3R21g9%7ETz44BKu93QQ8U%7EbdMIFHF3TNHQffUv3gyP7n6hCadeaV2gaQSDEzJVKDIycIe9NeG%7EaaN9L0Z-3iBUybyy93CQWXvdLo9wjmiRGzu8Ug-ResnYg\_\_&Key-Pair-Id=APKAINDIVJ7TLFUAJI3A](https://d1dwvcwq657ipv.cloudfront.net/episodes/high/33421095.mp3?episode_id=45304194&show_id=2761736&user_id=10238956&tenant=SPREAKER×tamp=1623753423&media_type=static&response-content-disposition=attachment%3Bfilename%3D%22episode_173_witchstone.mp3%22&Expires=1624444623&Signature=vS22YZhkTUGXWNuJ39mU%7EJe9V5aTSEkVPP8uZGexnoZXKiSE5xv3dT19WvqI5v8HundnTpE1G8xDIVC9yyjYiVHIRLRn-91F-cQml6fW7Kvmf2gEyhKKnbqneyIJ0oVmi3N-tmcaikXib8KQJtRarfhzEKb89Im1BgsVk3JGMyLxMrA1BV5KfYFP6TH4JbqxuA1KLBQjzLTEIDUo6n4GuBXFS4Bl2x3%7E3R21g9%7ETz44BKu93QQ8U%7EbdMIFHF3TNHQffUv3gyP7n6hCadeaV2gaQSDEzJVKDIycIe9NeG%7EaaN9L0Z-3iBUybyy93CQWXvdLo9wjmiRGzu8Ug-ResnYg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAINDIVJ7TLFUAJI3A) 2021-06-15T10:00:16Z Titles, as Herr Doktor Doktor Vincent Diesel, esq. O.B.E. could tell you, are important things. They must be recorded for posterity, quite literally in the case of Dogberry: “But masters, remember that I am an ass, though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.” Mark and Walker are bereft of such honorifics; “Gilded Ones” apparently only applies if you go the full gilt route, which sounds way too painful to endorse. Whether philosophers get any titles past “lovers of wisdom” is a matter of some controversy; Mark weighs in all the same. Games Played Last Week: 00:50 -Pandemic: The Cure (Matt Leacock, Z-Man Games, 2014) 04:07 -Fairy Tale (Satoshi Nakamura, Z-Man Games, 2004) 07:13 -Plantopia (Daryl Chow, Origame, 2020) 10:30 -Paleontologists (Joe Hout, Web published, 2020) 11:15 -Shards of Infinity (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2018) 16:00 -Dominion (Donald X. Vaccarino, Rio Grande Games, 2008) 16:39 -Imperium: Classics (Nigel Buckle & Dávid Turczi, Osprey Games, 2021) 22:56 -Let’s Make a Bus Route: The Dice Game (Saashi, Saashi & Saashi, 2021) 25:54 -Nanga Parbat (Steve Finn, Dr. Finn Games, 2021) 30:54 -Street Masters (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2018) News (and why it doesn’t matter): 33:25 “Swirling the Drain:” Tasty Minstreal loses Orléans to Capstone 34:25 “Swirling the Drain:” Unfathomable re-skins Battlestar Galactica to Arkham Horror 38:02 Phalanx’s Coalitions: Grand strategic Napoleonics! 39:17 Compass Games’ Coalition: Grand strategic Napoleonics! 40:11 GCT Studios’ Bushido 40:54 Traitorous trick-taking: Shamans by Cédrick Chaboussit 42:05 Age of Sigmar: Dominion from Games Workshop 42:29 Feature Game: Witchstone (Martino Chiacchiera & Reiner Knizia, R&R Games, 2021) 1:02:16 SVWAG Presents: Masterpiece Theatre: Tokyo Drift > **[\#173: Witchstone](https://www.spreaker.com/user/10238956/episode-173-witchstone)** > > Titles, as Herr Doktor Doktor Vincent Diesel, esq. O.B.E. could tell you, are important things. They must be recorded for posterity, quite literally in the case of Dogberry: "But masters, remember tha ---
**Author:** ![lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lalunaverde/32/28591_2.png) [@lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/lalunaverde)\ **Post date:** [16 June 2021 00:46 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887/2 "2021-06-16T00:46:44Z")
Ooohh Im keen on **Shamans** now. And **Witchstone** sounds like a disappointment to me. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [16 June 2021 08:20 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887/3 "2021-06-16T08:20:22Z")
> [@lalunaverde](#): > > Ooohh Im keen on **Shamans** now. I caught a mention of it elsewhere, went and looked at the Dice Tower review, and fell in love with the artwork. It’ll be great if it’s a good game too. 🙂 ETA: “elsewhere” was [on BGG](https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/118700). ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [16 June 2021 12:48 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887/4 "2021-06-16T12:48:24Z")
Unfathomable: FFGAsmodéeMonopolist and their particular shoot-Cthulhu-in-the-face version of Lovecraftiana turns me off even before I get to the gameplay. While I’ve played BSG once, and quite enjoyed it, I generally prefer “pure” social deduction games over the coop-with-possible-traitor that you get there and e.g. in _Shadows Over Camelot_ or _Dead of Winter_. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [2 August 2021 13:48 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/173-witchstone/2887/5 "2021-08-02T13:48:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Maria](#): > > 33:25 “Swirling the Drain:” Tasty Minstreal loses Orléans to Capstone Hmm. Everyone fired except the owner, all game development halted, plan to spend the next 2-3 years selling off existing stock… > **[Yokohama publisher TMG reportedly lays off staff, halts game development...](https://www.dicebreaker.com/companies/tasty-minstrel-games/news/tasty-minstrel-games-virtual-bankruptcy)** > > Tasty Minstrel Games, the publisher of tabletop titles such as Yokohama, is reportedly in “virtual bankruptcy”, leading…