Category Archives: Conventions

Games, Booze and the Art of … Episode 15

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Its a threesome! Josh, Ty, and Troy are in the BoD Brewhaus discussing Gamehole Con, Ty’s trip to Tulsa and they list their favorite games.

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** Listener Beware! ** GBatAo sometimes contains explicit language and themes. It’s not safe for work, children or the easily offended.

GBatAo theme music is by FADEBACK

 

Links to things we talked about (sometimes called “show notes”):

Gamehole Con

Team Covenant Store, Tulsa

Dead Of Winter

Star Realms

Five Tribes

 

 

Noise from the Basement Episode 2 – Gen Con 2014

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Better late than never Ty and Troy get together in the B.o.D. to share their highlights of this year’s GenCon and discuss some books they are reading.

We ended up recording this in about four parts due to my issues with Garageband on the iPad so the conversation jumps around a little bit.

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Interesting Links:

Space Hulk

Thunder Road

Dead Of Winter

Star Realms

National Novel Writing Month

Extra Life

Jo Walton’s Patrick Rothfuss re-read

21 Days to A Novel by Micheal Stackpole

30 Years of D&D – Pat Rothfuss Blog

Books we talked about:

Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who

The Slow Regard of Silent Things  

Half a King 

Wool by Hugh Howey

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Rogues by George R.R. Martin

Cibola Burns by James S.A. Corey

Daemon 

Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez

Wild West Exodus: The Jesse James Archives – Honor Among Outlaws by Craig Gallant

the Road to Gen Con (the RPG)

On August 13, members of the Basement of Death crew departed in three overland vehicles from Milwaukee and one aircraft from Seattle.  The destination Indianapolis and Gen Con 2014.  This is their story…

 

More Gen Con 2014 coverage coming soon.

Games, Booze and the Art of… Episode 10!

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We made it to episode 10 and its XXL!  Josh, Ty, Troy and John test out the new beer taps in the BoD Brewhaus. Along the way they talk about everything that was Adepticon, the new games Wild West Exodus and Aetherium and Josh’s newest family addition.

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** Listener Beware! ** GBatAo sometimes contains explicit language and themes. It’s not safe for work, children or the easily offended.

GBatAo theme music is by FADEBACK

Be sure to check out our sponsor Fat Kid Revolution

 

Links to things we talked about (sometimes called “show notes”):

 Adepticon

Aetherium

Wild West Exodus

 

 

 

Games, Booze and the Art of… Episode 5

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Josh and Ty are join by Troy and Eric to talk about Gamehole con, Firefly, and Sinead O’Connor.

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Gamehole Con website

** Listener Beware! ** GBatAo contains explicit language and themes. Its not safe for work, children or the easily offended.

Be sure to check out our sponsor Fat Kid Revolution

GBatAo theme music is by FADEBACK

Games, Booze and the Art of… Episode 4

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The GenCon wrap up episode.  Josh and Ty are join by Troy and John to discuss and review all that was GenCon 2013.

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Photos and Links:

Photos of the Star Wars exhibit at the Indiana State Museum

Photos from GenCon

The tiles we used for Space Hulk are from Creative Gamescapes

GBatAo contains explicit language and themes. Its usually not safe for work, children or the easily offended but this episode is fairly tame.

Be sure to check out our sponsor Fat Kid Revolution

GBatAo theme music is by FADEBACK