Board Game Breakfast - Sequel Happy

Welcome to the 172nd episode of Board Game Breakfast!

SHOW NOTES
0:20 - Intro
1:45 - Board Game News
5:17 - Crowdfunding Round-up with Suzanne
10:38 - Head in the Clouds with Chaz Marler
13:38 - The Board Game Makeover
16:26- Dice Tower Productions
17:40 - Boardgaming with Colleagues
20:08 - Applied Mechanics
22:08 - I Teach, She Wins
25:02 - Tom Thinks (Sequel Happy)
28:40 - Solomode Games
30:37 - 3 Games
32:32 - What's on the Shelf
34:25 - Playing the News
36:29 - Snakes and Lattes
39:47 - Roll Playing
41:43 - Dead Last
43:41 - Closing Thoughts

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[eliumeldritch]

that was the best looking and formatted version of lunchtime to date. great job guys!

[EamonBurke]

Jan, from 3 Games, don't apologize for your English! Just have fun and be yourself.

[HainishMentat]

Totally agree with the Solomode point. There are even non-solo, co-op games that do this well (Codenames, Hanabi, etc). It's a very good idea for solo games that are just about beating your previous score.

[Beaverlovinguy]

I love your segment, Matthew. Keep up the great work!

[ryanroehrig]

Loved the segment from Snakes and Lattes! great question for Matt! Great stuff!

[salvatorearmata]

Great job on Boardgame Breakfast today everyone! All the new content providers did a fantastic job and I am looking forward to hearing more from them in upcoming episodes.

[sakuradraven]

I love all the new segments. 3 Games I liked your segment I look forward to seeing more. It is good to see different perspectives on games.

[gamera]

LOVED the Roll Play segment. Im more excited for future segments more than anything. looking forward to seeing more. 👍

[EamonBurke]

I always tell people, about Tabletop RPGs, that only one person has to know all the numbers and rules. If you can answer a hypothetical question, you can play a tabletop RPG.

Sometimes I'll even say something like "Imagine you're in a store and see something you really want, but can't afford. Then someone comes up and steals one and starts to walk out totally unnoticed. What do you do?"

After they answer I say "See, you're already playing, right now. That's all you need to know."

[Traumtheater]

Oh, just noticed 150.000 subscribers surpassed! Congratz! And Hi, new people :-)

[HainishMentat]

I LOVE the "I Teach, She Wins" segment!

[AJ-ncvr]

Glad Stephane is back. Missed you dude! Much love to Tracy and Mandi tho, just love you guys as a trio!

[adamcarter]

Wanted to chime in on the "Why people don't play RPGs" topic. I think it's fair to say that even a simple RPG is easily as complex as heavy euro games. I think one of the differences is in board games, the rules are usually fairly simple to teach, but the strategies might take time to figure out. Let's say it takes 30 minutes to teach someone how to play a complex euro (with frequent callbacks to the rule book as the game progresses). RPG aren't even in the same ballpark. You can't learn an RPG system in that amount of time. Some of the new innovations like Starter Boxes for D&D and other products designed to be your first game introduction achieve their simplicity by removing a lot of the work for players (but not the GM), but ultimately the difference is that RPG players are expected to learn the rules before the game, and come prepared to play. Not a bad thing in and of itself, just different expectations for different experiences.

I think the other false equivalency is comparing the rules of a euro to RPG system rules. I think the worst board game rulebooks I can recall slogging through are 30-40 pages? Player's Guides to RPGs are often well over 150 pages, and while you don't need to know ALL that material to play, you need to know all the stuff that impacts your character, and how to find it in a pinch.

I love RPGs. They give a feeling the board games will never quite replicate. I play mostly board games now because I can pull something new off the shelf, teach it, play it, and still have time to do that several more times in a single night. That experience is not dependent on getting the same group of people together, and not nearly as dependent on the quality of Gamemaster to have a good time.

[aweso]

Chaz, if tabletop roleplaying counts (which I believe you included one) my favorite webcomic is DM of the Rings, which imagines a world where Tolkien never wrote LotR but instead it was played out in a campaign of something similar to D&D. It's very entertaining, and done by a guy called Shamus Young, who also writes interesting articles about video games.

Then someone else came along and did Darths & Droids, a similar thing for Star Wars. That one is incredibly long and I believe ongoing, but is also very good.

Warning, both are done with screencaps from the movies, I think it works well but I know that might bother some people. But they do a great job of capturing some of the sillier parts about roleplaying, and some of the more extreme kinds of characters you run into, while also being pretty nice parodies of their respective original stories. I think I slightly prefer DM of the Rings, but that may just be because you can get through it in a reasonable amount of time.

[coreyredmon]

Is there going to be a Q&A with Tom and Jason anytime soon? I really liked that segment.

[lutentemedio]

Hey! I know that guy from the "I teach her, she wins" segment! :D

[hairbrainedgames]

The new segments have potential. I do miss some of the regulars of the past.

Glad to see Boardgame Makeover back, though. That, and Dead Last, are my cup of tea.

[gutshotgames]

Buck Rogers was my first hobby game purchase way back when I was in high school :)

[way]

Chaz, you missed Erf World. A comic about a guy who gets transported into a rpg/game. And it has a very strong plot and story line

[andrewlupp]

Love " I Teach Her, She Wins." ( and by the way also enjoy NIghtfall).