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RPG Artifacts and Mementos – Physical items left over long after the game is done. Along with this discussion we’ve got reviews of Sanctum and the Exotica Expansion for Eminent Domain. We wrap up with some Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion and talk about the board game arena version of Quoridor, a classic abstract game.
Episode 105 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded August 30th 2020. Join us Wednesdays at 8 PM Eastern at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop.
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RPG Artifacts and Momentos – A discussion of the physical items that are left over long after the game is done. We’ve also got reviews of Sanctum and the Exotica Expansion for Eminent Domain. We wrap up with some Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion and talk about the board game arena version of Quoridor, a classic abstract game.
Episode 105 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded August 30th, 2020. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch.
If you’d like to watch the (slightly less edited) video version of this recording you can jump to the bottom of the post.
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—Ask The Bellhop— [00:19:37]
Tonight we’ve got a topic from the fine folk at the Misdirected Mark Gaming Podcast, an excellent RPG round table podcast that offers a wide range of advice for people running and playing games.
Back on episode 358 of Misdirected Mark, the crew talked all about Game Generated RPG Artifacts, a.k.a. physical things that are created through game play. Due to some debate that came up in the chatroom, they challenged us to cover this topic ourselves and that’s what we are doing today.
Links:
Episode 358 of Misdirected Mark Podcast
Hydro Hacker Operatives – Ashcan Edition
Amber Diceless Roleplaying
Mekton
Eric Quigley – Artist
Runaway Hirelings
The maps of Dyson Logos
The Quiet Year
Iron Edda Accelerated
Dresden Files RPG
Feng Shui
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Ed
Gaming Paper
Forged In the Dark games
Risk Legacy
Pandemic Legacy
Gloomhaven
EXIT The Game Series
From our Chatroom:
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—The Game Room: Sanctum— [01:27:07]
A review of Sanctum a board game version of hack and slash video games like Diablo
Sanctum Written Review
Sanctum Unboxing
Buy Sanctum
—The Game Room: Eminent Domain: Exotica— [01:49:56]
A look at the Exotica expansion for the deck-building card game Eminent Domain.
Written Review of Exotica
Eminent Domain Exotica Unboxing
Buy a copy of Eminent Domain
Buy a copy of the Exotica Expansion
—The Bellhop’s Tabletop— [02:05:12]
Cool gaming stuff we’ve been involved in over the last week:
Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
Quoridor on BGA
Buy Quoridor
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