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Feb 2025
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#347: How Expansions Can Fail

MIKE WALKER & MARK BIGNEY
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Our upcoming convention, July 25th-27th 2025, is in its planning stages! We have a venue but nothing much else yet. Not even a name! Suggestions welcome. Mark quite likes So Very Wrong About Games Fun Times Good Vibes Only Trans Rights Are Human Rights Boardgame Jamboree, but he worries that it might be too pithy. Few things are off the table! Special guests? Maybe! Fabulous prizes? Well, prizes, definitely. More like obligatory prizes.


03:08 AYURIS: Undaunted: Battle of Britain (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)


Games Played Last Week:

04:49 -Malediction (Leo Cunha, Nicole Lobo, and Daniel Pettersen de Lucena, Loot Studios, 2025)

12:09 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)

13:43 -Lone Wolves (Yasuyuki Nakamura, Wonderful World Board Games, 2024)

18:51 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022)

24:01 -Critter Kitchen (Alex Cutler & Peter C. Hayward, Carboard Alchemy, 2025) 

27:59 -Coloretto (Michael Schacht, ABACUSSPIELE, 2003)

29:26 -The White Castle: Matcha (Israel Cendrero & Sheila Santos, Devir Games, 2024)

32:56 -Planet Unknown: Supermoon (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:59 Bullet big box

40:03 Benjamin Sperling Persuasion roll and write on Kickstarter

40:32 Champions of Midgard 10th Anniversary Edition

41:15 SVWWAG Convention! July 25th, 26th, 27th. Details to follow!


42:21 Topic: How Expansions Can Fail




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