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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 & SwordsAdopting Misfit Dice with Neal Hoffman from FanRoll Dice - Boards & Swords #234
Another video game becomes a board game, Guild Ball is coming back - for free? And is Hasbro selling D&D? We talk about all of these news stories along with…
Boards & SwordsThe World of Darkness with Kevin Schluter from Renegade Game Studios - Boards & Swords #233
Chick-fil-a wants to make board games? Funko is done with board games, and the number one game on Board Game Geek is getting a sequel (shocker!)? We talk about…
Boards & SwordsMagical RPG Artifacts with Paul Shapiro from Beadle & Grimm's - Boards & Swords #232
Ready to immerse your RPG players in your game world? We've got Jon Ciccolini & Paul Shapiro from Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse to talk about all the…
Boards & SwordsAlone Against the Static with Brian Holland from Chaosium - Boards & Swords #231
What D&D books are coming out next year? Another much loved board game is getting a roll and write version, and you can now get your Geralt on in Unmatched…
Boards & SwordsWhat the heck is Newsh? With Jason Craze from Monument Hobbies - Boards & Swords #230
A couple of Kickstarters, Asmodee picks a terrible time to do layoffs, and a Magic/Clue crossover that sounds....good? Plus we've got Jason Craze from Monument…
Boards & SwordsBoldly Rolling with Jim Johnson from Star Trek Adventures - Boards & Swords #229
Saw and Diablo are getting board games, AI wants to teach you board games, and Murder Mystery magic cards?? Plus, we have Jim Johnson on the show, project…
Boards & SwordsToys R Us Returns, Mr. Beast plays Dune Imperium with Ian from Floodgate Games - Boards & Swords #228
Never would have thought I'd hear "MrBeast" and "Dune Imperium" in the same sentence. Or that I'd hear about Toys R Us returning, or that a TCG website would…
Boards & SwordsGame Toppers 4.0 Kickstarter Preview (Premium Game Mats!) with Burky - Boards & Swords 227
An RPG maker is suing Netflix? Could you handle 24 people playing Twilight Inscription at one time? And what’s this about combining Barbie with Warhammer 40k?…
Boards & SwordsAffordable Dice For All Minis Games with Steven from Baron of Dice - Boards & Swords 226
Rhino Hero to Rhino Zero…money? You’ll never guess, but Terraforming Mars has used AI art before, and Weta Workshop is wetting our appetites for some new 40k…
Boards & SwordsNova Open 2023 with Adam and Vince from Snarling Badger Studios - Boards & Swords 225
We are live at Nova Open 2023! Will Chris get the chance to insta-kill Philip AGAIN in D&D? Want a eco-friendly card game with more “bark” in it? Plus, we talk…
Boards & SwordsCyberpunk RED Combat Zone with Dan from Monster Fight Club - Boards & Swords 224
Castle Assault gets popular for the wrong reasons, get dice everyday for a month, and a new card game based on a show based on a card game? We talk about this…
Boards & SwordsGen Con 2023 Recap: Over 70,000 Nerds Trying To Get Lorcana - Boards & Swords 223
Chris is back from Gen Con, and Shawn and him did a lot and saw a lot of things. Also, $300,000 worth of magic cards stolen, people were crazy for Lorcana, and…
Boards & SwordsWorms: The Board Game with Ronnie Renton from Mantic Games - Boards & Swords 222
They actually made a way for you to play as the Blob in the Arkham Horror LCG, a popular Call of Cthulhu adventure is getting turned into a board game, and…
Boards & SwordsDice Theme Park, Tiny Epic Gloomhaven, Um Actually the Board Game - Boards & Swords 221
One of these days I will stop putting Lord of the Rings MTG stories in the news…I’m sorry but today is not that day. Also: a tabletop minis game set in a…
Boards & SwordsCocaine Bear: The RPG, Warhammer 40k 10th edition, Dragonlance 5e - Boards & Swords 220
The one ring is found, Cocaine Bear: the RPG, and defend Waffle House from Zombies! Also, you know we are going to talk about 10th edition Warhammer 40K and we…
Boards & SwordsToo Many Marvel Games to Count with Brian Ibbott from The Morning Stream - Boards & Swords 219
A couple of games being brought back from the dead, one that might be dead in the water, and Worms the Board Game? Then we talk to Brian Ibbott from The…
Boards & SwordsMetal Gear Solid Returns, Ticket to Ride Legacy, Historical Wargames - Boards & Swords 218
Are movies based on tabletop games the next trend? (I hope not). Ticket to ride is hoping on the legacy train (hehe), and the Metal Gear Solid game is back!…
Boards & SwordsA New Star Wars TCG, BattleTech in Target with Mike from Nova Open - Boards & Swords 217
Nerf gun RPGs, Doctor Who & Magic, and of course: a new Warhammer 40k box set!! Then, we get our Nova on as we talk with Mike from the Nova Open Committee as…
Boards & SwordsVegas, Pinkertons, Dungeon Murder with Scott Johnson from Frogpants Studio - Boards & Swords 216
Wizards went too far…again…., a lot of nerds got together in a mall and set a world record, and we’re in Vegas baby! See what crazy antics we got into, plus…
Boards & SwordsDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves with Wayne from Adventure Away - Boards & Swords 215
A titan is gone, Funko got more IPs, and you wont believe our last news story. Then, get ready to hear about your next vacation as Wayne from Adventure Away…
Boards & SwordsAdepticon News, Sequels to Descent and Clank Legacy Incoming - Boards & Swords 214
I mean, there’s April Fool’s jokes and sequels to various board games coming out, but we all know the real news lately: Warhammer 40K tenth edition is coming!…
Boards & SwordsSpelljammer 5e, Magic Hot Pockets, Catan: Soccer - Boards & Swords 213
Hot Pockets & Magic? Sounds like a bad afternoon in the bathroom. Plus, soccer is coming to Catan? We must have played too much spelljammer and fell into an…
Boards & SwordsTwilight Inscription, News-A-Palooza - Boards & Swords 212
We took an episode off, but the news never sleeps! So there’s a ton of news, from new board game versions of Sea of Thieves and Apex Legends to Lord of the…
Boards & SwordsOath, D&D Causing Every Other RPG to Sell Out - Boards & Swords 211
Paizo sold out of all their Pathfinder stock? There’s a sequel to Scythe coming? And, something something something new D&D adventure. Also, talk about the…
Boards & SwordsTons of Terrain with Rich from ROK Minis - Boards & Swords 210
We could do another whole episode on the D&D OGL drama, but we provide some updates and then talk to Rich from rokminis.com about what's it like taking gaming…
Boards & SwordsDark Souls & Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Games, Necromunda - Boards & Swords 209
Welcome to 2023! Time to spend all that holiday cash and buy more games! So what are we doing this year? Also, D&D might be getting greedy with its licensing…
Boards & SwordsWarhammer 40k: The TV Show? Pax Unplugged 2022 - Boards & Swords 208
It’s the last podcast of 2022! And what a podcast to close the year out on: a Warhammer 40k show coming from Henry Cavill, new board game and RPG…
Boards & SwordsResident Evil 3 the Board Game, Gloomhaven the RPG, a Terraforming Mars Movie? - Boards & Swords 207
Gloomhaven is going to make a RPG? There’s a Co-op version of Carcassonne coming? Chris went to Pax Unplugged and only played 1 game? Also, there was this…
Boards & SwordsOrk-tober, Hasbro Getting Greedy, More DALL-E Board Game Covers - Boards & Swords #206
You got your transformers in my magic! Hasbro is getting too greedy? Say it isn’t so! Plus, we take the DALL-E 2 AI image generator for a spin again, trying to…
Boards & SwordsWarcrow Adventures, Fort: Cats & Dogs Expansion, Endless Winter- Boards & Swords #205
Philip is on his way back from the House of Mouse, so Shaun steps into the cohost chair! We’ve got stolen board game ideas, lots of miniatures kickstarters…
Boards & SwordsDungeon Fighter Second Edition, Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Pathfinder in D&D5e? - Boards & Swords #204
Paizo is making an adventure for D&D? You got your Clone Wars in my Pandemic! Plus we have more spelljammer to talk about and Chris wrote a campaign for…
Boards & SwordsBlock and Key, Carcassonne 20th Anniversary Edition, Disney: The CCG - Boards & Swords #203
Disney is making a CCG? You can play your dead characters in a new RPG? Plus, Chris went to Nova Open, so Philip has to look at some Out of Context Comments on…
Boards & SwordsOne D&D, Embracer Group Owns Lord of the Rings?, More Gen Con Talk! - Boards & Swords #202
We're back in the studio, time to get started on the next 200 episodes. Chris did a lot of Gen Con talk recently, but what all did he actually do there?
Boards & SwordsGen Con 2022 (feat. Eric Yurko, Edge Studios, Colorway Game Labs, Dire Wolf) - Boards & Swords #201
Another on location episode! Next time we’ll be back in studio but in this episode Chris is on the floor at Gen Con 2022 talking with a bunch of folks about…
Boards & SwordsLIVE from High Tide Games - Boards & Swords #200
We’ve been doing this for 200 episodes! So we are live on location at High Tide Games in Southern Maryland so real people can groan at our bad jokes. Also…
Boards & SwordsReturn to Dark Tower, Vampire Rivals Expansions, Capstone+? - Boards & Swords #199
Would you do a subscription to a board game company? How about play Legend of the Five Rings in D&D? We’ve got all that plus we both got a chance to play…
Boards & SwordsBattleTech, Necromunda, Origins 2022 (Special Guest Ken from Geek-Craft!) - Boards & Swords #198
Apparently Backerkit is making its own Kickstarter like platform? Also Magic the Gathering is 30 years old? In more recent news, Origins Game Fair was a few…
Boards & SwordsBittersweet, Frameworks Miniatures, This Game Does Not Exist? - Boards & Swords #197
Lots of announcements in the board game space: awards! Expansions! Conventions! Chris bought more Warhammer! (That last one was probably the most obvious one)…
Boards & SwordsA Final Fantasy TCG? Pirate Pathfinder Board Game, Out of Context Comments - Boards & Swords #196
A better look at that Runescape board game, Embracer Group buys up more IPs, did you know there’s a Final Fantasy TCG? All this plus we take a look at some out…
Boards & SwordsSpelljammer 5e, Co-Op Viticulture, Digital Gaming 2 Years Later? - Boards & Swords #195
Spelljammer is coming to D&D5e! Also, Hasbro might be using D&D system for other properties, go figure! It’s also been two years since Digital Gaming was…
Boards & SwordsSpace Dwarves in 40K, Spider-Ham, Games with Books Written About Them - Boards & Swords #194
We get scholarly in this episode as we talk about books! Specifically, what board games have fiction books written in their world? Plus, plenty of april fool’s…
Boards & SwordsMad Max Warhammer, Firefighter RPG, Best Games for On The Go - Boards & Swords #193
Philip is recovering from Vegas, so Chris got Shaun from the former “All the Bits” podcast to come on the show and talk about a few games that are great to…
Boards & SwordsPokemon Fraud, Star Wars Villainous, What should game developers do more of? - Boards & Swords #192
Board Game publishers: What should they be doing more of? Chris & Philip talk about what kinds of things they think publishers should do more of, and take a…