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In today's Spherical Fish, we review: Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond The Black (the expansion), Near and Far, and Wild Skies: Europa Tempest. Some deeper thoughts on Wild Skies (since this was a legit review copy instead of just us talking about stuff we bought): Wild Skies: Europa Tempest is an

Today on Spherical Fish, we review some games we received. We talk about Mutant Crawl Classics, Tokaido, Predation, and Zombicide: Green Horde. Music credits for the show can be found here. download audio

Today, we talk about board games, surprise surprise! Dark Souls Near and Far Vurt We also chat some business ideas for software that supports gamers. Three words went an interesting direction, I'd say. Music credits for the show can be found here. download audio

Well, a dozen if you count the Lost Episode of 2016. Which I do. We talk about Star Wars some more; my preliminary dieroller webapp can be found here. Warning: it looks terrible. I was mainly messing around with some new frameworks and libraries. In general, I think Angular 2

Let's talk about swords and sorcery! Phil spends some time taking apart the trad D&D cosmology and replacing it with Manichean dualism. Or something. Eric gets into High Frontier, which he loves. Shout out to the online ButtonMen implementation at http://www.buttonweavers.com Three words this week

Hello and welcome to the Spherical Fish Radio Hour show number Ten type listening event thing. We're talking a bit about putting things into boxes bitboxes! We also chat about the Fantasy Flight Star Wars RPG, 5E D&D, and Blue Medusa. It's a hoot as always! Music credits

In which Eric bemoans perceived injustices at the gaming table, brags about his Disco Vampire Family and their Heavy Metal Teenage Demon. Phil talks about his ideas for the heal economy in 5e D&D and we do our three-words impromptu scenario authoring with "steering wheel", "submerge", and "bandits"

Hey everybody! We have a new episode up. The Spherical Fish Radio Hour is back. There was an episode 7 recorded, but I had a cold for about three weeks during the holidays and my voice sounded terrible. Plus, I'll be honest: politics threw me for a loop. It still

In today's episode we chat about what's going on with our games. Of interest is: do you ever go easy on people when you're worried they won't like a game if they just keep losing? Is it a good idea to scale back your gameplay if you've got a new

In today's show, Eric and Phil talk about dungeon-crawly board games, specifically Dark Souls and Kingdom Death: Monster. We also chat about a really neat-looking role-playing game for people who loved Stranger Things, the Goonies, and other 80s (and 80s nostalgia) shows. Tales from the Loop looks awesome. Also, and

This episode was recorded last week, before Election night in the US. I will probably have a blog post (check the main site for more content than just podcasts) soon about my own opinions on the matter. Spoiler alert: I'm still with her. Anyway, this is the first in a

Here, Eric and Phil talk about the right amount of randomness in a role-playing game. We also talked about some kickstarters: Operation Unfathomable Moonstone Fantasy Skirmish As always, feel free to yell at me in the comments or on twitter. download audio

Spherical Fish number two, wherein Eric regales the Captive Audience (and Phil) with tales from his tables. There's the group of players who seem to be role-playing a dysfunctional party (amusing, but ineffective), and the group of players who decided it would be okay to let the NPCs build a

The first episode of Spherical Fish, the podcast where Eric and Phil talk about whatever is on our minds, usually something to do with the gaming hobby. In this podcast we're going to talk about the evolution of modern RPGS, plus two kickstarter campaigns that are currently active (Invisible Sun