We're Not Wizards, Tabletop And Board Games Podcast

Richard is joined by Elizabeth Snyder, role player, D&D collector, potential vampire and office talker to chat all about Mixed Company, her social communication and discussion game which aims to cut through small talk and aid discussion between people.  We chat about a manner of things and have a great time and we hope you enjoy our chat.  Links of Notes  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mixed-company/mixed-company-a-conversationally-engaging-card-game https://www.facebook.com/groups/MixedCompanyGroup/ https://twitter.com/mixyourcompany https://www.reddit.com/r/MixedCompany/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/mixedcompanygames/about/ ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/sho

We have a returning visitor. Fresh from the UK Games Expo, Justin from Bad Cat Games pays us another visit to chat about his fully funded Kickstarter for Gladiatores. So we chat a bit about mechanics, a bit about relaunching, a touch on competition in your field regarding similar themes and it's all good fun.  Please check out all the links below.  Links of Notes  https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com/2018/09/gladiatores-blood-for-roses-kickstarter.html https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdee/gladiatores-blood-for-roses-0 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/188758/gladiatores-blood-roses https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/31037/badcat-games https://www.facebook.com/badcatgames/ https://badcatgames.eu/ https://twitter.com/badcatgames ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  REA

Kai Herbertz is an author and games designer who kindly supported us through our Kickstarter at the beginning of the year.  He joins us today to talk about a manner of things. His writing process, how he got into designing games and why the German dubbed version of Star Wars and Die Hard is much much better than the original films.  Please check out the link to his latest campaign, Albedo Yggdrasil, which is an expansion to his successful first game.  Kai was a delight to have on the show, and we can't thank him enough for coming on.  Links of Notes www.forw.de https://twitter.com/KaiHerbertz https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arcane-Arts-Anthology-Kai-Herbertz/dp/1543071554 http://hespiele.de/ ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE

Richard is joined by Henry So, boardgamer, solo games player and most importantly Kickstarter backer. Henry gives us a look on Kickstarter from a backers perspective, especially what campaigns attract him, what makes him watch preview videos and what you should consider adding as a creator to your campaign in order to help them with their Backer decisions. Also. The answer is Blood Rage, and you'll need to listen to find out the question.    Links of Notes https://twitter.com/inxi ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ  YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast www.patreon.com/werenotwizards  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH

Richard is joined by the absolutely awesome Holly Nielsen who is a Board Game Historian, writer for the Guardian on Video Games and is all round excellent person to chat with.  I totally enjoyed this chat and I hope you do to.  Links of Notes  https://twitter.com/nielsen_holly  ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ  YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast www.patreon.com/werenotwizards  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£  www.werenotwizards.blogspot.com - Read our Reviews Board Game Geek - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast/35093/were-not-wizards  Website - www.werenotwizards.com    Facebook - http://www.face

Richard is joined once again by Cass Suwinski of Tomb Guardians to chat about the success of his last campaign, and their new project which will be about modular dungeon tiles. Please check out the links below and I hope you enjoy the episode.  LINKS OF NOTES  www.tombguardians.com https://www.facebook.com/tombguardians/ https://www.instagram.com/tombguardians/ ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ  YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast www.patreon.com/werenotwizards  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£  www.werenotwizards.blogspot.com - Read our Reviews Board Game Geek - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast/3

MAKE SOMETHING AWFUL #1 In something a bit different and after that tweet, I am delighted to be joined by self published author Merrick Tull-Johnson, who is currently studying Journalism in college and in the process of writing his latest book after publishing his detective noir novel Soiled Grounds. This isn't connected to board games or tabletop in any way, it's just a chat about how someone approaches what they create, and the challenges they face and also Merrick shares what works for him and why he does what he does. If you want to support Merrick, then please check out and/or share the links below. If you are creating or making anything and want to be on the show then please get in touch via Twitter @msomethingawful LINKS of NOTES https://mtj14567.wixsite.com/merricksbooks/books http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/merrick-tull-johnson/soiled-grounds/paperback/product-23935249.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/merrick-tull-johnson/soiled-grounds/hardcover/product-239

Mark Stockton-Pitt is a Mathematics teacher who has used his talent in design to bring us the marvel that was Newspeak in conjunction with Inside the Box Boardgames. Now he sets to delight us with his insider trading, stocks and shares trading game of Forks.  We chat about his journey so far, the effect of potential tariffs and why cheesy jokes at the end of an episode are never a good idea.  Forks is good fun and you should check out the link to the campaign in the show notes below.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://radical8games.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/7384/radical-8-games-blog https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radical8games/forks-a-card-game-about-embezzling-investing-and-c/posts https://www.facebook.com/radical8games ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - 

MAKE SOMETHING AWFUL #1  In something a bit different and after that tweet, I am delighted to be joined by self published author Merrick Tull-Johnson, who is currently studying Journalism in college and in the process of writing his latest book after publishing his detective noir novel Soiled Grounds. This isn't connected to board games or tabletop in any way, it's just a chat about how someone approaches what they create, and the challenges they face and also Merrick shares what works for him and why he does what he does.  If you want to support Merrick, then please check out and/or share the links below.  If you are creating or making anything and want to be on the show then please get in touch via Twitter @msomethingawful LINKS of NOTES https://mtj14567.wixsite.com/merricksbooks/books http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/merrick-tull-johnson/soiled-grounds/paperback/product-23935249.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/merrick-tull-johnson/soiled-grounds/hardcover/product-239

Liz Davidson runs the wonderful and successful Beyond Solitaire which is all about playing tabletop games on your ownsome. And while one is the loneliest number, Liz is here to tell us why it can be the funnest way to play certain games that you aren't getting to the table.  So we chat Latin, and play throughs and reviews and what games do Solo well and why Mike DiLisio is not as much of a disappointment as Liz is at the end of the show.. Just a disgrace really.  Check out the links below if you dare...  LINKS OF NOTES  http://www.beyondsolitaire.net/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbSYmhAlOW1RorV_jXmo2w https://twitter.com/beyondsolitaire https://www.facebook.com/beyondsolitaire/ https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/7323/beyond-solitaire ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR W

David Rodriguez steps on stage to chat about getting creative and acting and singing and then quite literally getting his bad ass princess get up on with Charmed and Dangerous, and interesting and stunning looking project he and the team are successfully running on Kickstarter. You'll find out about our favourite musicals and why I've got a bit of a Messiah complex. Please check out the links to follow along with the campaign and consider backing.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th3rdworldstudios/charmed-and-dangerous-a-princess-adventure-game https://twitter.com/davearodriguez https://www.facebook.com/th3rdworldstudios https://www.th3rdworld.com https://twitter.com/th3rdworld ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogsp

Richard is joined by Cassie Elle, co-founder of the Indie Game Report and currently working with Dan Letiman of Letiman Games on their latest Kickstarter Matryoshka. We talk with Cassie about making things for people to look at, the joys of star trek, toffee bacon, interrupted ambulance rides and why you should by backing this beautiful looking set collection game if you like a bit of Russian Dolls in your life.  LINKS OF NOTES https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letimangames/matryoshka-a-set-collection-and-trading-game-for-3 https://www.letimangames.com/ https://twitter.com/LetimanGames https://twitter.com/FriedmanCassie http://www.cassieelle.com/ https://www.theindiegamereport.com/ ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE

James Lang joins us to talk about Vorpal Board, a way to play board games with your friends when you are in different places to each other so that you can still play games together even though you might be in different locations and you can still get on with that legacy game so no excuses and James is giving me a sound board if it funds so you better all back this game because I want my sound board please.  And we talk about James as well. But the Sound Board is really important here..    LINKS of NOTES https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vorpalboard/vorpal-board https://www.vorpalboard.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m7GzU69u4w https://www.facebook.com/VorpalBoard/ https://twitter.com/vorpalboard ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.

How you do write show notes for one of the most prolific writers in the board game industry? What do you do if you miss?  What we have here is a delightfully interesting discussion with Matt Thrower who has graced the pages of Shut Up and Sit Down, wrote the Haynes Manual on Board Gaming, and had a part to play in Owen Duffy's THE BOARDGAME BOOK.  So we chat about his story, his attitude to reviews and what he would like to be working on in the future. And maybe Richard might just get away with not sounding like a fool this time. Maybe not.  Make sure you check out all of Matt's work in the links below and enjoy.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://therewillbe.games/articles-main-menu/by-author/articles-by-matt-thrower https://twitter.com/mattthr https://haynes.com/en-gb/tabletop-gaming-manual https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/author/matt-thower/ https://www.pocketgamer.com/staff/000218/matt-thrower/ https://boardgamebook.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders   ==================================================================

Richard is joined by Matthew Dunstan, prolific Board Game Designer and man of Science. We chat about Chocolate Factory, his approach to designing games and what he has planned for the future. And it's all very very interesting. Please check out Matthew's work in the links below.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/69007/matthew-dunstan https://twitter.com/wisegoldfish https://twitter.com/the_design_100   ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE..  READ OUR WRITING - https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com  WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ  YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast www.patreon.com/werenotwizards  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£  www.werenotwizards.blogspot.com - Read our Revie

John Harper is a lovely, wonderful, kind, warm and generous. He definitely isn't typing these show notes, however he did donate generously to our Kickstarter Campaign. So me and John are joined by Simon Harper and Duncan Cowan to talk about what we can expect from Tabletop Scotland 2019. We recorded this in Duncan's house, so the audio quality isn't as crisp as normally expected but the laughter and the prompts from Dave's script are, so sit back and enjoy and learn what you can expect to enjoy at this years event.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://www.perthcity.co.uk/event/tabletop-scotland-2019/?instance_id=13447 https://twitter.com/simonharper100 https://twitter.com/the_john_harper https://twitter.com/parsdunk https://twitter.com/tabletopscot https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/   ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    

PLEASE GIVE THIS ONE A LISTEN OR YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON A CRACKER OF A SHOW This is a wonderful joyous white chocolate and cranberry cookie episode in which Michael Grayer generously donated to our Kickstarter campaign and as part of that he asked to come on and have a chin wag and chat about him and meet ups and why they are so much fun. We chat about cheating in bridge, how to click your fingers, and the fun that can be had with strangers and cardboard. Michael is an utter joy to chat with so please listen.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://www.meetup.com/My-Kind-Of-Meeple-Board-Gaming-Group/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=831tJ4EHLBY&feature=youtu.be https://twitter.com/michaelgrayer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405  DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. DON'T GIVE US 10 STARS SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£ www.patreon.com/werenotwizards YO

Richard is joined by Andy Bussey and Andy Paul to chat about the Glasgow Games Group and their upcoming event The Glasgow Games Gathering, taking place at the end of June. We chat about running the group, and organising their first event and what that entails and what people can expect when they come along. Be sure to check out all of the links in the show notes for further information and if you are in the area, certainly considering checking them out. Looks like it will be a bit of fun for those involved.  LINKS of NOTES  https://www.g3gamers.co.uk/index.htm https://twitter.com/glasgowG3 https://www.facebook.com/G3-Gamers-142318565887156/ https://www.instagram.com/g3gamers +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405  DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. DON'T GIVE US 10 STARS SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£ www.patreon.com/werenotwizards YOUTUBE - P

Richard is joined by Jani Kontkanen to chat about board games and Finland, why Richard doesn't like Terraforming Mars, playing through your collection and translated games.  Please be warned for the frankly stereotype Scottish joke that Jani tells in the episode and if you want to complain, then please follow the links below.  LINKS OF NOTES  https://mitapelataan.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mitapelata/ https://www.instagram.com/mitapelataan/ https://twitter.com/mitapelataan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8rysZ3Jkxq7-R7cA7xrjw +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405  DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. DON'T GIVE US 10 STARS SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£ www.patreon.com/werenotwizards YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast Board Game Geek - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast

Richard is joined by the lovable Bearded Rogue Tony Miller. Now that Fire in The Library in out of control and out in the wild, we reflect on lessons learned and how this will change his approach in future, as well as having a grand old chat about breaking into boardgames.  Tony is awesome, please check out everything this darling is involved in. LINKS OF NOTES  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/105348/tony-miller https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHQgSXxJ8EFCrjN_0aRE-g https://twitter.com/beardedrogue https://breakingintoboardgames.libsyn.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/240744/fire-library https://weirdgiraffegames.com/fire-in-the-library.php +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405  DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. DON'T GIVE US 10 STARS SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£ www.patreon.com/werenotwizards YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRI