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Boards & Swords
Bad jokes. Good folks. Games. Every other week, Chris & Philip talk about their experiences playing different games (both board games and video games). If you enjoy hearing people talk about the fun they have playing various games instead of why X game is better than Y game, this is the show for you. Plus, they've got the latest board games news , the worst jokes, and the best guests occasionally.
Episodes
Boards & SwordsThey Really Want 80,000 People At Gen Con? Book of Blades Review - Boards & Swords #291
That's....a lot of people. And I'm talking about the 74,000 that were at Gen Con this year, not the 80,000 the convention wants to get to. Also, if you loved…
Boards & SwordsWill This Be The Best Dungeons & Dragons Expansion Ever? - Boards & Swords #290
All sorts of new stuff coming to D&D5.5, a board game version of Satisfactory, and a new version of Vampire the Masquerade? Plus, Wil Wheaton is doing a new…
Boards & SwordsBecause We Needed An Excuse To Be Lazy with Mike Shea - Boards & Swords #289
Remember last episode when we talked about the new Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter campaign? Well, now you can hear it from the man himself! Mike Shea joins us to…
Boards & SwordsSew Ewe Want To Be A Game Master - Boards & Swords #288
Wingspan will soon fit in your pocket, Spirit Island is getting a new publisher, and the Lazy Gamemaster has a brand new kickstarter campaign! Speaking of…
Boards & SwordsApparently People Are Zombicide Themselves To Get The New Version - Boards & Swords #287
One of the pillars of 40K has passed away, Asmodee is making buckets from CMONs failures, and apparently D&D is a big deal? Who knew!?! Also, we've got some…
Boards & SwordsGetting a Hand-le On Our Quests With Marc-André and Martin Lavoie - Boards & Swords #286
Hasbro's CEO apparently has a lot of thoughts about D&D and how you should be playing the game. (Methinks maybe he should keep his mouth shut....). Also…
Boards & SwordsCapitalism Be Capitalizing, D&D Drops Like Its Hot - Boards & Swords #285
We've got ad managers denying Satanic board games, D&D flying into outer space, and *possibly* a Dragon Ball Z board game coming to fruition finally. What a…
Boards & SwordsCMON is an NFTease, Monster Vault 2 Review, the Best Way to Deal with a TPK - Boards & Swords #284
CMON apparently has enough money for NFTs, we get convinced to give Brass: Pittsburgh a try, and Philip finds his new favorite barbarian options in D&D! Also…
Boards & SwordsDon't Be Suspicious with Alex from Hootenanny Games - Boards & Swords #283
BackerKit has a huge selection of great RPG campaigns this month, speaking of crowdfunding, CMON might be back? And also, time to get dangerous in your D&D…
Boards & SwordsJust The Tips, Warhammer 11th Edition Annoucements, Ask A Dirtbag GM - Boards & Swords #282
Lots of great announcements at Adepticon - you know, like that BattleTech new lineup of products? That’s what has the internet abuzz, definitely not the 11th…
Boards & SwordsOur Excessive Baggage, Gates of Krystalia Interview - Boards & Swords #281
Gundam Assemble details are here! Drama in the board game sphere appears to heat up, and the Neopets TTRPG gets cancelled! Plus, we've got an interview with…
Boards & SwordsRoyally Learning The History of Tarot Cards with Grant Howitt - Boards & Swords #280
AEG guy learns his actions have consequences, Hasbro trying to mess with D&D again, and goodbye Star Wars Shatterpoint? We barely knew thee. Also! We’ve got an…
Boards & SwordsLooking at 2025 and forward to 2026 (FREE Bonus Bits!)
Looking at 2025 and forward to 2026 (FREE Bonus Bits!) Some free (but delayed) bonus bits talking about last year and what we want to do this upcoming year!
Boards & SwordsDe-mist-ifying Airbrushing with Ulianov from Spraygunner - Boards & Swords #279
Where won’t they put a Pokemon vending machine next? Also, Female custodes are coming along with new Starcraft minis. Plus, we’ve got Ulianov from the website…
Boards & SwordsNew Year, New Studio, New....sapalooza. Also, 2025 Pax Unplugged Recap - Boards & Swords 278
I just love it when CEO’s bless us with their “wisdom”, Warcrow is about to get more mechanical, and a Total War is coming to 40k. Plus, we never talked about…
Boards & SwordsA Christmas Haunting with Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios - Boards & Swords #277
Halloween might be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still get our horror gaming in! This week, we’ve got Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios…
Boards & SwordsCrowning Toys 'R Us As The Rightful Spirit of Christmas - Boards & Swords #276
What world am I living in? Munchkin second edition? Catan sponsoring basketball? The Dice Tower saying something inappropriate? Actually, that last one tracks…
Boards & SwordsLeft Holding our Bags with Erin Zipperle from Rollacrit - Boards & Swords 275
Remember the ThinkGeek Bag of Holding? Meet the crew that brought it back! (Surprise, its actually some of the same people!) Also, more info on the Starcraft…
Boards & SwordsStomping Around in Power Armor with Drew from One Inch Heroes - Boards & Swords #274
What’s it like to get paid to paint someone else’s models? Or to dress up as your favorite characters? Get your magnifying glass out, because we have Drew from…
Boards & SwordsStamping Out Our Units with Brent from Goblin Hobbies - Boards & Swords #273
If you’ve ever used waterslide decals on minis, you know they kinda suck. Brent from Goblin Hobbies (https://goblinhobbies.com/) is here to show us a better…
Boards & SwordsGetting Sage Stoned with Ted Wysocki from TNT Laser Works - Boards & Swords #272
I’m trying to hang on to the magic of Nova Open as long as possible, so we’ve got Ted Wysocki from TNT Laser Works (also the Nova Open RPG lead) on to talk…
Boards & SwordsNova Open 2025 Live Show with Mike Sibilia & Kyron Haines - Boards & Swords 271
I’m still breathing as I type this, so you can tell it’s been a busy Nova Open! We held our first live show in over 2 years! Mike & Kyron from the Nova Open…
Boards & SwordsTotally Not Using Another Episode To Talk About Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #270
I promise we’ll get back to interviews next time (Nova Open LIVE show btw!!), but for now we’ve finally got more news out of Gen Con to talk about, along with…
Boards & SwordsSitting Around Wondering What Happened at Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #269
This is awkward…normally I’m the one with stories from Gen Con, now I’m scouring online looking for them myself. We’ve got some news stories and social media…
Boards & SwordsWhat's Eric Looking Forward To At Gen Con 2025 with Eric Yurko - Boards & Swords #268
Ready to throw down in some UNO at the casino? How about learning sign language in a TTRPG? A bit D&D heavy with the news this week, but Eric Yurko is here…
Boards & SwordsA News-apalooza With As Much Sense As A $165 MTG Event - Boards & Swords #267
No guest this week, just a lot of news to talk about. Like what games does CMON have left? And why is Asmodee hiring their crowdfunding “expert”? Even I can…
Boards & SwordsDirtying Down our Miniatures with Mark Henry from Goblin's Hut - Boards & Swords #266
CMON has a “Setting Sun” with several of its games, Gundam minis are (surprise) really well put together, and a board game about dating D&D monsters? Also…
Boards & SwordsGetting Stabbed in the Back with Will Schoonover from Steve Jackson Games - Boards & Swords #265
Come on and SLAM, and welcome to the Jam that is POGs! Meanwhile, I’ve got new rulebooks to buy, some books maybe I shouldn’t buy, and Will Schoonover is here…
Boards & SwordsDigitally Sending Our Characters To Die with Shane from Foundry VTT - Boards & Swords #264
Apparently the internet is wrong and people wont quit playing Magic from Universes Beyond? Just switch over to Altered, where you can have print on demand…
Boards & SwordsHow Do You Do, Fellow News Peoples with Rowan Zeoli from Rascal News - Boards & Swords #263
Someone at Hasbro should stop letting their CEO talk. Also, there’s a lot of crappy news out so I decided to talk about some new games announced recently…
Boards & SwordsThe Adepticon Episode We Gave Up On (Free Bonus Bits)
The Adepticon Episode We Gave Up On (Free Bonus Bits) Remember how I said the adepticon news would be in a separate episode, and then it never came out? That's…
Boards & SwordsThe Cutest Apocalypse Ever with Justus & Eric from Doomlings - Boards & Swords #262
Chris Perkins isn’t at Wizards of the Coast anymore? I might not have to put decals on my minis anymore? I’m just a glass cage of emotions right now. In the…
Boards & SwordsStewing On Our Abyssal Fate with Tom Lommel from Evil Hat - Boards & Swords #261
Gamestop has decided crypto is the right investment, Stonemaier is investing in Disc Golf, and Battletech is going…Gothic? We’ve also got on Tom Lommel from…
Boards & SwordsIlluminating Our Poor Dice Rolls with Jean Simonet from Pixels - Boards & Swords #260
Would you pay $87K for a pokemon shaped cheeto? What about buy a board game based on The Sims or Helldivers 2? Speaking of electronic gaming, we’ve also got…
Boards & SwordsOur Powers Combined with Breeze Grigas from Zephyr Workshop - Boards & Swords #259
Remember Decipher? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also, that D&D Mr. Potato Head is creepy and Breeze Grigas is here from Zephyr Workshop to talk about his games…
Boards & SwordsDesigning a Mass-ive Effect in Gaming with Calvin Wong Tze Loon - Boards & Swords #258
Thank you for being a friend…of the emperor? FFG makes their games more manageable for stores, and Kickstarter makes things more manageable for your wallet…
Boards & SwordsAn "Infinity" Of Possibilities With Bostria From Corvus Belli - Boards & Swords #257
Wingspan’s second sequel smells kind of fishy…ubereats now serving Pokemon cards, and you can’t make enough noise for the next Warhammer army… Plus, Bostria…
Boards & SwordsLooting New Games Out Of The New Year With Loot Studios - Boards & Swords #256
Not exactly an abundance of news stories this early in the year, but that’s okay, because there’s one Minis game that will probably stomp all over the rest……
Boards & SwordsSeeking Wrath and Glory with Chris Colston from Cubicle 7 - Boards & Swords #255
Wrath and Gloooooria……in exterminius deo? We get into the Christmas spirit talking with Chris Colston about the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG “Wrath and…
Boards & SwordsPax Unplugged 2024 Recap: Tons of Virtual RPG Tools At A "Unplugged" Con? - Boards & Swords #254
Unlike my electric car, I like my Pax’es “Unplugged”. Both of us went this year, so what did we see & do? Also, Wyrmwood is still a crappy company, somehow…
Boards & SwordsLinking Together Our RPGs with Mark Della-Croce from Lore Link - Boards & Swords #253
Hopefully it wont be “Lore”-ded over me, but we’re talking about a new website to keep track of your tabletop roleplaying games: Lore Link…
Boards & SwordsSnapping Together Fun with Scott Pease from Snap Ships Tactics - Boards & Swords #252
I feel like I should write something snap-py here, because we’ve got Scott Pease from Snap Ship Tactics here. Want to play an X-Wing style game with ships you…
Boards & SwordsMaking Our Own D&D with Wolfgang Baur from Kobold Press - Boards & Swords #251
Torn between playing D&D and not supporting a company that’s constantly in the news for its bad business ideas? We’ve got Wolfgang Baur on from Kobold Press to…
Boards & SwordsHalo: Flashpoint, Heroes of Barcadia and A News-a-palooza! - Boards & Swords #250
It was mentioned briefly last time, but that MTG Commander Committee fired itself? Between that, Essen, Warhammer Day, there’s a ton of News to go around and…
Boards & SwordsColoring Minis Without Paint with Sam Nolton from Eldritch Foundry - Boards & Swords #249
A Lord of the Rings trick taking game? A Gundam TCG - has someone been listening to our bonus bits?? Regardless, we’ve got Sam Nolton here from Eldritch…
Boards & SwordsMystically Charting The Great Sea with Whistler from the Rapscallion RPG - Boards & Swords #248
Hasbro doesn’t know when to read the room, Netflix is “gathering” a new animated show, and Slimer is coming to Magic the Gathering. Plus, we’ve got Whistler…
Boards & SwordsNova Open 2024 Recap: Was Games Workshop Even Trying? - Boards & Swords #247
Chris went to the GW reveal and all he got was COVID-19! There was also this little con called Nova Open 2024 happening too. Also, there’s too many Cyberpunk…
Boards & SwordsGen Con 2024 Recap: Me And 71,000 Of My Best Friends - Boards & Swords #246
What were the ups & downs of Gen Con? Pretty standard, but I doubt you really want to hear about Chris’ elevator rides. Instead, we go through the highlights…
Boards & SwordsWhy Are We Like This with Carol Mertz from Exploding Kittens - Boards & Swords #245
Wizards of the Coast now has a video game centric CEO - I’m sure that will fix all of their problems . Also, play D&D in a Victorian era, and the Mistborn book…
Boards & SwordsExceeding Our Level Cap with D. Brad Talton, Jr. from Level 99 Games - Boards & Swords #244
Are we past the COVID boom of Board Games? People say Magic is dying, yet the sales numbers claim otherwise, and if apocalypses are your thing, we’ve got a…
Boards & SwordsNo More X-Wing! What's Up With 40K, Free RPG Day 2024 Review - Boards & Swords #243
X-Wing flies off into the sunset, we get a look at the new books for D&D, and apparently you all are buying a lot of toys. No guest this week, so we take a…
Boards & SwordsFreelancers, White Plume Mountain, Dirtbags Invitational 2024 (Free Bonus Bits!)
We had a lot of stuff to talk about at the end of Episode 242 of Boards & Swords, and we decided to keep streaming live and make our "Bonus Bits" free to…
Boards & SwordsCutting Through The Shrink Wrap with Andrew Fischer from Earthborne Games - Boards & Swords #242
Privateer Press sold the Warmachine IP? Adepticon is changing cities? And there’s a Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG coming? Plus, Andrew Fischer from Earthborne Games…
Boards & SwordsRoot-ing Out Character Arcs with Patrick Leder from Leder Games - Boards & Swords #241
There’s a game on Kickstarter called “Toothead”? Warhammer is coming after your wallet more, and someone’s wallet is $3 million lighter after buying a magic…
Boards & SwordsBuilding Dungeons with Keith Matejka from Thunderworks Games - Boards & Swords #240
Now you can buy Asmodee instead of them buying things? Or, use Roll20 in your discord server? Or play the tabletop game of the video game of a tabletop game?…
Boards & SwordsEnvying These Painting Accessories with Kit Peteranecz from Game Envy - Boards & Swords #239
Now your epic political fantasy games can be tiny, the Monopoly movie we all saw coming is actually happening, and of course there's a DC version of Marvel…
Boards & SwordsGloom-having a Good RPG with Danielle Lauzon from Cephalofair Games - Boards & Swords #238
Apparently there were a lot of minis sold in 2023...I had no idea *cough* bought tons of 40k tenth edition stuff *cough*. Also, someone saw a familiar looking…
Boards & SwordsI Need a Weapon for Halo: Flashpoint with Ronnie Renton from Mantic Games - Boards & Swords #237
I Need a Weapon for Halo: Flashpoint with Ronnie Renton from Mantic Games - Boards & Swords #237 What's that? Sorry I can't hear you over the sound of the Halo…
Boards & SwordsJumping into Star Wars Unlimited with Xander Tabler from FFG - Boards & Swords #236
Want to pretend to clean your Warhammer 40k minis? Yeah, I didn't realize people wanted that either. Plus, some good news about the former Prospero Hall studio…
Boards & SwordsCrafting A Bra Full of Sawdust with Gabby Carder - Boards & Swords #235
CMON is no longer doing Kickstarters, use IKEA instructions in a new rpg, and apparently crossover sets make MTG loads of cash. Also, Gabby from Bra Full of…