We are back for what we hope isn’t a one off episode. Our goal is an episode a month as we get our sea legs with parenthood, playing games, and just the day to day drudgery of the 9-5. What a way to make a livin’. We spit ball about games that we have played over the past three months in “Quick Fire” fashion. Some we liked, some we didn’t, and one was a surprising disappointment. I used Craiyon to generate the cover by typing the phrase, “Ark Nova is not our jam.” Feel free to jump over there and let an AI generate your nightmares. 

Here’s to more games in the future. Beware the spiders in your house Crocs, and don’t let the bastards get you down.

Apologies for a lack of designers/publishers in the notes.
12:22 Founders of Teotihuacan
19:30 Breaking Away
21:08 Longshot: The Dice Game
22:30 Furnace
25:35 Museum: Pictura
31:00 Vagrantsong
38:45 Games that interest us at Gen Con 2022
52:05 Regicide
58:30 Smartphone Inc.
01:06:45 Dice Realms
01:12:49 Planet Unknown
01:23:19 Foundations of Rome
01:39:00 Ark Nova

We’re back, and more Tarnished than ever. In this episode, that is longer than the Odyssey, we regale you with tales from House Crocs to Dune Stories, and then get into the games that have found their way into our silly lives. We follow that with an Off-Brand segment all about Elden Ring. Retrieve those runes and shake off the heebie-jeebies from whatever that “guard dog” was. Ain’t no party like a tower party, but BYOP(Palantir). 

Games We’ve Been Playing:
38:08 Res Arcana (Thomas Lehmann, Sand Castle Games)
44:53 Merchants of the Dark Road (Brian Suhre, Elf Creek Games)
01:10:52 Bloodborne: The Board Game (Eric Lang, Michael Shinall, CMON)

Featured Game:
01:38:10 Return to Dark Tower (Rob Davian, Isaac Childres, Tim Burrell-Saward, Noah Cohen, Justin D. Jacobson, Brian Neff, Restoration Games)

Off-Brand:
2:17:50 We journey to the Lands Between in Elden Ring!

New “season”. New intro tune. Same off-the-cuff board game conversation. 
As usual, we start chatting about some of the latest stuff that we have been diggin’, including the new Big Thief record, Pokémon Legends Arceus, the Batman Calzone, and Ted Lasso, and then we dive into the games. 

Crowdfunding Roundup:
24:20 Bloc by Bloc: Uprising
26:47 Tindaya
28:55 Earth

Games We’ve Been Playing:
32:25 Trails (Henry Audubon, Keymaster Games)
36:10 Caper: Europe (Unai Rubio, Keymaster Games)
42:12 For Science! (R. Eric Reuss, Grey Fox Games)
51:05 Project L (Michal Mikes, Jan Soukal, Adam Spanel, Boardcubator)
55:06 Bunny Kingdom (Richard Garfield, Iello)
56:20 Beyond the Sun (Dennis K. Chan, Rio Grande Games)
58:59 Jump Drive (Tom Lehmann, Rio Grande Games)
58:59 Race for the Galaxy (Tom Lehmann, Rio Grande Games)
1:08:50 Res Arcana (Tom Lehmann, Sand Castle Games)
1:17:23 Factory Funner (Corne van Moorsel, BoardGameTables.com)

Featured Game:
1:26:05 Meadow (Klemens Kalicki, Rebel Studios)

Post Credits Discussion That Was Teased In The Introduction But Then Totally Forgotten About:
1:45:45 Our favorite boardgame art.