Category Archives: Conventions
#20 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Gen Con 51 Prepisode
It’s time for the annual Gen Con Prepisode! The guys preview some of the new games they will be looking to check out at this year’s Gen Con and provide some tips and tricks to navigating the best four days of gaming with 60,000 other people. But that’s not all. This episode Ty also recaps his adventures playing AoS at Midwest Meltdown.
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Our theme music is by FADEBACK
Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)
- Galaxy Trucker
- Flamme Rouge – Peloton
- Adeptus Titanicus
- ABCs of D&D, 123s of D&D
- #DrakeGate18 Twitter Thread
Gen Con 2018 Things to Check out
- Transformers CCG
- Warhammer 40,000: Heroes of Black Reach
- Robotech: Attack on the SDF-1
- Kick-Ass: The Board Game
- Forbidden Sky
- My Little Scythe
- Wrath & Glory
- The Witcher RPG
- Warhammer 4e RPG
- Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition
- Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Core Book
- Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
- Reef
- Kingdomino: Age of Giants
- Scythe: Rise of Fenris
- Tiny Epic Zombies
- Kitchen Rush
- The Big Score
- Neon Gods
- Kids on Bikes
- Outbreak Undead 2E
- Terraforming Mars: Prelude
- Chronicles of Crime –
- Clank!: The Mummy’s Curse –
- Blue Lagoon
- Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger
- Pantone: The Game
- Pandemic: 10th Anniversary
- Oxna Bears All/Aetherium Rhommox
Gen Con Featured Artist – Alayna Danner
Sun King Brewery – Everlasting Gamer
Upcoming Events
GenCon Aug 2-5
FlatCon October 12-14, 2018, Interstate Center, Bloomington, IL
RockCon Oct 19-21
Dragonfall – Oct 19-21 Elmhurst, Ill
Essen Oct 25-28
Holy Havoc – Nov 2-4th
GameholeCon Nov 8-11
#18 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Origins and Lords of Waterdeep
Ty returns from the Origins Game Fair and tells us all about it. This episode also premiers the “Resurrection Review” where the guys pull an old game off the shelf and see how it holds up. The game they review this time is Lords of Waterdeep.
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Our theme music is by FADEBACK
Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)
The Ashen Herald
Alayna Danner webstore
Interview with Alayna in Episode 13
Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
Dicey Peaks
Frontline No Komrades
Origins
Warhammer 40k Wrath & Glory RPG
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG
The Little Gamemaster
Getaway Driver
Upcoming Events
Midwest Meltdown – July 21-22
GenCon Aug 2-5
RockCon Oct 19-21
Dragonfall – Oct 19-21 Elmhurst, Ill
Essen Oct 25-28
Holy Havoc – Nov 2-4th
GameholeCon Nov 8-11
Adepticon Space Hulk and Zombicide:BP Event Rules
I finally got around to posting the rules and maps from this year Space Hulk and Zombicide Black Plague Adepticon events.
#14 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Adepticon 2018 in Review
It’s the Playin’ and Slayin’ review of the best four and a half days of miniature gaming in the world. Ty, Josh and Troy recount the end of the Hobby Road to Adepticon, the games they played and stuff they bought, the highs and lows of tournament play and all the amazingness that is Adepticon 2018.
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Our theme music is by FADEBACK
Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)
- Adepticon
- Crystal Brush
- Blood Art Studios
- CK Studios
- Dave Taylor – ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES
- Dinosaur Island: Back from Extinction
- Harry Potter Miniature game from Knight Models
- Batman from Monolith
- Pacific Rim: Extinction
- The Lost Islands – 3D printable Terrain for RPG and Wargames
- Zombicide in Space coming in April
- Humble Bundle – Black Library
- The Order of Vampire Hunters
- SAGA
- Gaslands Tokens – Death Ray Designs
- Aetherium
Upcoming Events
Brew City Brawl AoS GT 4/28-29
Nexus Game Fair 5/31-6/3
GenCon 8/2-5
#12 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Anvil Eight Games Adepticon Preview
Will from Anvil Eight Games is in the studio! The guys preview Adepticon, the greatest four days of miniature gaming, and what Anvil Eight Games has planned for their “home ice”. In the Play It or Slay It review Will tries to convince us why we should all be playing SAGA, the Heroic Age Miniature Skirmish game.
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Our theme music is by FADEBACK
Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)
- Dark Lord
- Magic Arena BETA
- SAGA
- Massive Darkness
- Smooth-On – Smooth Cast 300
- Shadeglass – Reflections on Shadespire
- Printable Scenery
- Aetherium
- Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star and Xia: Missions and Powers
- Nemesis
- Edge of Darkness on Kickstarter Feb 20th https://www.alderac.com/edge-of-darkness
- Little Dungeon Master
- Harry Potter Miniature
BoD Library
- Emperor’s Blades – Brian Staveley
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Javelin Rain (Reawakening Trilogy #2) – Myke Cole
- Armored Saint – Myke Cole
- Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6) – James S.A. Corey
- The Warmaster – Dan Abnett
- Devastation of Baal – Guy Haley
- The Board is Set – Gav Thorpe
- Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose – Joe Biden
Upcoming Events
Adepticon
Brew City Brawl AoS GT
Nexus Game Fair
GenCon Aug 2-5
#9 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Gaming Cornucopia
Happy Thanksgiving! After battling through various delays the triumphant trio returns. This episode we talk about our time at GameholeCon, Ty’s trip to PAX Unplugged and all the gaming that has gone on along the way. We then tackle a cornucopia of gaming topics in the main segment and finish up with a ‘Play It or Slay It’ review of Century: Spice Road.
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Our theme music is by FADEBACK
Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)
GameholeCon
Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King’s Quest
Myke Cole, Peter Brett, and Pat Rothfuss
Defenders of the Realm – Richard Launius
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31
True Dungeon: Dancing Among Stones
Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire
51st State
Changling: The Dreaming
Tiny Epic Quest
HobbyZone Modular Workshop System USA
Xanathar’s guide to everything
Battle of Britain
More Alayna Magic Cards
Space Marine Heroes
Century: Spice Road
D&D in the mainstream news
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons
- https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16666344/dungeons-and-dragons-twitch-roleplay-rpgs-critical-role-streaming-gaming
- https://www.wired.com/story/its-a-living-meet-one-of-new-yorks-best-professional-dandd-dungeon-masters/
