Welcome to Episode 131 of the Devon Dice Podcast, where we serve up a delightful mix of gaming and pop culture chat in our third installment of Topic Tapas! Joel, is your host, and he is by Nick, our Spiel des Jahres Analyst Extraordinaire, and Sam, putting the “Yo” back in “polyomino”. In this episode, we’ll dive into the games we’ve been playing—Pioneer Rails, Darwin’s Journey, and Terraforming Mars with some exciting custom twists. We’ll also share some rules we got hilariously wrong, chat about holiday board gaming, and explore the non-gaming things we’re currently obsessed with!

• Joel: Pioneer Rails
• Sam: Darwin’s Journey
• Nick: Terraforming Mars with Prelude 2, custom Milestones & Awards, and on the fan-maps Vastitas Borealis and Amazonis Planitia big-map

• Joel: Clank! Crystal Caves
• Nick: Borrowing one of Chris M’s: Century: Spice Road
• Sam: Jamaica
• Discord: join in here https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
  • BoardGameJimmy: Terraforming Mars
  • Craigdavid1987: Valeria card kingdoms

• Joel: Tails from Cyprus board gaming

Joel

• Deadpool and Wolverine – at the ol’ cinema
• Clank Digital

Nick

• Wyatt Earp & The Cowboy War on Netflix
• The D-Con Chamber – Star Trek actors, Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, interview other Star Trek cast and crew from all the varieties of Star Trek
• Star Trek Prodigy Season 2

Sam

• Alien: Romulus
• Replaying Dredge
• Bought a Steam Deck – Lewis was right.

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Welcome to the long-awaited podcast all about the UKGE 2024 (NEC). Joel, Nick, Lewis, and Sam go through the thoughts and stories from the event this year and give you their opinions on whether it was the best it has ever been.

• • Meeples™ Choice Awards winners announced – Nucleum, Earth, Sky Team, White Castle (and runners up: Darwin’s Journey, Forest Shuffle, Faraway, Age of Innovation, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Apiary, and Hooky)
  • Attendance figures (as mentioned the last pod): 39,306 unique; 65,281 total attendance.
  • UKGE Judges Awards / UKGE People’s Choice Awards £18,000 raised for charity at UKGE 2024

• General chat about the event: Tickets, Bring & Buy, Met Craig v87 from our Discord server, live shows Knightmare Live show, The Dark Room, see news games coming: Alley Cat Games’ new games coming, Ada’s Dream, Luthier, WTIIA live show
• Lewis’s Family Day at UKGE: Family Zone, Getting some family games, Hunting down them bargains, New Diamant: £12, Lost Ruins of Arnak: £40, One big punt…One regret
• Joel’s show reviewed:
  • pickups: Zuuli promo (buy), Forest Shuffle: Alpine,Medici, Age of Comics
  • Claire buying game: Return to Dark Tower
  • Played: Sea Salt & Paper, Marvel Remix, Looot!
  • Demos: Invincible the board game, Hamlet , Rebirth, To Glory! gimmick, Heat: Heavy Rain 2nd expansion, HeroScape, Towers of Ra!, Monsters of Loch Lomond, Windmill Valley, Deep Regrets,

• Holy Grail games Another one bites the dust
• BGA is doing well in its post-Asmodee-acquisition era
• Parks is removed from BGA
• Moon Colony Bloodbath – A new Donald X. Vaccarino deck building + destruction of a shared deck
• Res Arcana Duo – Yet Another 2-player Redux
• Stamp Swap – Stonemeier’s next game
• A couple of notable expansions coming soon:
  • Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet
  • Faraway: Le Peuple du Dessous (“The People Underneath”)
  • Hundred Acre Wood Fluxx

• • Ocean City Games Expo – gaming convention in Plymouth on 26th October – run by Andy Bright, from our Monday Night Games Group.
  • Devon Boardgame Weekend @ the Fox & Hounds – 8-10th November

• (both squeezed in-between Essen (early Oct) and Gridcon (mid Nov)

• So You’ve Been Cursed (4 days left) – Followup sequel to So You’ve Been Eaten
• Tír na nÓg (12 days left) – reprint and expansion
• Cosmere RPG – Brandon Sanderson (4 days left)

• The Cats of Mont Saint Michel (4 days left)

• Ra reprint + expansion + Ra & Write
• I Made You A Mix Tape (~November)
• Everdell Duo