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Teaching New Gamers vs. Experienced Gamers – Ask The Bellhop

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Today on Ask The Bellhop I'm answering a question from a fellow Windsor gamer about teaching games to different types of gamers.

This is a direct follow up to a previous question we answered back in August. In How Do You Approach Teaching Board Games I talked about the way people learn, how you can use that to help teach games.
Sean Michael David Hamilton asks,
Teaching gamers a new game vs teaching mundanes a new game. That's always one people have some struggle with. [ READ MORE ]

A Look Back at Most Played and Best New Games of 2018

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First up, happy holidays to everyone reading this. I hope this season has been filled with games and gaming.

With 2018 coming to and end I thought this would be a good time to do a look back at the past year. The way the timing works out we will be recording our last podcast of the year on Boxing Day and that episode will release on New Years Day. So I thought this would make for a great discussion topic for that show.
I'm going to be looking at my most played games of 2018. I will follow that up with a list of some of the best new games of 2018 as well as my biggest surprise of 2018. [ READ MORE ]

Rapid Fire – Ep 21 Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

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 This is the 21st episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on December 12th, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesday’s at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 21 - Rapid Fire. We return to Gloomhaven before answering four of your questions. "How is ZhanGuo with two?", "Help printing large RPG maps", "Is Concordia the best?" and I choose between Coimbra, Marco Polo and Lorenzo. [ READ MORE ]

Cypher, Warhammer, Keyforge and Digital Deck Building – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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This past week I got in a surprising amount of gaming with everything going on for the holidays.

I got Cypher and Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game off my pile of shame with my Monday night group. Then my wife and I had a night out away from the kids and we got in some games of Star Realms and Ascension. We also got to try out the hot new Richard Garfield card game: Keyforge. [ READ MORE ]

Child’s Play Part 2 – Ep 20 Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

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 This is the 20th episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on December 12th, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesday’s at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep #20 - Child’s Play Part 2. We look at some great comments from fans, discuss Azul, Terra Mystica and Terraforming Mars and then talk about kids and gaming, with ideas and suggestions for your young ones. [ READ MORE ]

A Return to Gloomhaven – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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We finally got to play Gloomhaven again! Woot!

It had been over a month since we got to play the number one rated game in the world and it felt good to get to play Berk The Savvas Craigheart again.
Unfortunately Gloomhaven was the only game I got in last week. I guess if the only game I get to play every week is one as highly regarded as this, I'm happy. [ READ MORE ]

Two to Tango – Ep 19 Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

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 This is the 19th episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on December 12th, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesday’s at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep #19 - Two To Tango. We talk Games Workshop kids games, revisit Dominion and then give suggestions for two player games perfect for date night. [ READ MORE ]