In this episode of Tabletop Throwdown, Mike Dunn and Steven Starkey speak with Christian Hoffer, a prominent voice in the Dungeons & Dragons community. They discuss Hoffer’s journey from writing about comics to becoming a key figure in tabletop RPG journalism, his experiences at Comic Book, and the impact
Mayfair Games’ Sean Brown dropped by to show us Empire Builder: Europe, a new version of the classic Eurorails, launching on Kickstarter today. Sean walks us through the history of the game, demonstrates some of the changes they made to modernize and speed up the game, and plays a few
It’s been nearly four years since we ran an actual play mini campaign on Roll20 (“Return to the Glory”); the height of the pandemic, when we were all huddled in our houses, trying to figure out how to play games that usually required everyone to be in the same
Recently we got to chat with Morgan Rosenblum and Jonny Handler of Dark Rose Studios about their Excellent game, Winds of Numa Sera, which is on Kickstarter right now (but ends this week!). Johnny and Morgan dive deep into the lore of the game, which is based on their graphic
We’re back and about to go to Gen Con! Join us as we talk about games we are excited about seeing at Gen Con this year, and tease a bit about what else we are doing!
Games we are looking forward to:
* Gnome Hollow
* Luthier
* Undaunted 2200 Calisto
* Boop
Game durations on the side of the box- who comes up with those? Why do they always seem wildly inaccurate? What is the point? We talk with five luminary game designers and ask them those questions and more on this week’s episode. There are definitely some spicy takes out
We recently got to chat with Matthew Lillard, Jasmine Bhullar, Tyler Walpole, and Deven Rue about the newest drop from Quest’s End Whisky and Find Familiar Spirits: Sandkheg’s Hide, straight from an episode of Critical Role:
Straight out of the lore of Campaign 1 of Critical Role’s
Incredible Dream has been publishing hit game after hit game since their co-operative adventure Kinfire Chronicles, with long-time game designer and Fantasy Flight Games vet Kevin Wilson at the helm. James and Mike got to chat recently with Kevin about their latest title which just hit Kickstarter: Kinfire Council, a
