Episode 1: Dwarves Don't Do Farming

Boardgames More Games Than Time
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Welcome to the first episode of a new boardgaming podcast by Roger Bell_West and Lee Broderick. This time, we talk about games we’ve been playing, and think about forms of player interaction.

Among the games we’ve been playing, we mentioned:

and in Player Interaction, we mentioned

Main theme: Coffee Stains, by Riot

Interstitial music: Deadly Roulette, bu Kevin MacLeod

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That’s a lot of games! I’ll have to give a listen

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Most of them we only mentioned in passing, but it seemed polite to tag them all. The bolded ones are the ones we talked about at any sort of length.

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As an owner, but not yet player, of Hokkaido, I may need to give this a listen.

Here’s my podcast of the games I’ve been playing lately.

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There you go! :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, :sob:

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Nice to hear some love for Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks - which I feel is more suited to being a solo game than a co-op one, and more challenging that way.

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I need to get Nicola on here. :slight_smile: But you can find some of her posts on BGG under “Nicola Zee”.

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Let me know what you think!

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I notice that the Heroine-empowering game is written by a chap.

So is the suffragette themed indie RPG I’m currently reading.

A sinister trend!

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In all seriousness, this could be regarded as appropriation just as much as Europeans writing games about African cultures, and I think it needs sensitivity to do it right.

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I’m not sure I’d classify anything as ‘hate drafting’. Yes, you always think (at least I always think) of how this card might help the player I’m going send it on to.

But whatever I choose I always think first: which of these cards can help me most?

I only wonder about which cards might help my opponents when I have nothing in my hand which might help me.

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Depending on the game, there may be a choice between (thing that helps me a little bit) and (thing that will mess up my opponent a lot). Or one may be hopelessly behind the leader, but have a chance to knock them back a bit. I think any drafting game with a common pool has the potential for hate-drafting, but some definitely encourage it more than others.