Ryan talks to himself for a few minutes and then Chad joins him to chat about clever board game components and what they add to the tabletop experience. We also go back in time to two weeks ago when we played Anachrony, and discuss how Bret Hart almost threw a chair at Chad.

Of Dice and Men is broadcasted live on 91.3 FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio - our next broadcast will be May 21st at 8 PM CST.

For those of us on the “collector’s” side of the board gaming hobby, a question that always comes up is how one curates their collection - what process do we use to decide which games to purchase, keep, or remove from those overloaded shelves in our homes? Everyone’s got their own secret formula, but here’s a few things to consider.

Adam, Ryan, and Chad discuss how technology has enhanced and improved board games in the last few years. We also discuss this episode’s feature game Mage Knight, and chat about Vast: The Crystal Caverns and Terraforming Mars.

Of Dice and Men is broadcasted live on 91.3 FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio - our next broadcast will be May 7th at 8 PM CST.

2017 is shaping up to be a great year for board games, much like the years before it. Here’s a few releases in the coming 8 months that we’re excited for!

Inspired by Epic Gaming Night’s tweet asking “What’s your favorite small box game?”, we decided to put together a quick list of our favorites! Small box games can be defined as board games that fit into a smaller-than-average box and usually slide in at a lower price point than most games. They tend to be lower-complexity games that don’t take a lot of table space (although not always!) and are generally good as “fillers” (games to play before/after larger games), gateway games, or ice breakers.

Chad, Adam and Ryan drop their meeples on the Worker Placement genre, mispronounce Agricola, and discuss how badly Ryan destroyed them at El Grande. Also a shout out to Millennium Blades, Argent: The Consortium, and Clank!

Of Dice and Men is broadcasted live on 91.3 FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio - our next broadcast will be April 23rd at 8 PM CST.

This week we welcome a guest post from Derek Turner, local board game design advocate and game designer. The original full-length article is available here and you can find out more about the Regina Game Forge design group here.

There are over 1,300 entries in the BGG database that feature Worker Placement as a mechanic, including many entries in the upper echelons of the ranks of BGG. WP has emerged as one of the leading mechanics in crowdfunded games as well, and it has become a genre which could easily consume most - or even all - of a player’s time. There’s even a WP game set in an office building entitled “Worker Placement”, which might be the point at which the mechanic unofficially jumped the shark, so suffice to say that it is a very popular genre.

Most board game “collectors” have a shelf of shame - a stack of games that they’ve purchased but just haven’t got around to playing yet. Some might even have the shrink wrap on them still! In an effort to shame myself into playing them, I’m going to divulge my shelf of shame for all to see, along with why it might not have hit the table just yet.

Ryan and Chad passive-aggressively make fun of all their friends while discussing all the social nuances of playing board games with other humans. Also included is a review of Clank!, Gloomhaven, the newest TIME Stories expansion, 7 Wonders, Cosmic Encounter and more!

Of Dice and Men is broadcasted live on 91.3 CJTR, Regina Community Radio - our next broadcast will be April 9th at 8 PM CST.

London Dread is a recently released real-time game that name drops like a 1st year arts college student; it claims to draw inspiration from “Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, H.P. Lovecraft, Sean Phillips, Ed Burbaker, and many others”. With a line up like that, how could you go wrong? For the most part you can’t, but there’s a few ways that London Dread manages to miss the rather broadly-defined mark.