Pull the Trigger, discussing board game end game triggers. A follow up to last week where we talked about game end mechanics, we talk about various end game triggers and which are our favourites. This is followed by reviews of Drop It from Kosmos and Thrones of Valeria from Daily
Underused Board Game Themes Tonight we’ve got a question that has us sharing our top 10 underused themes in board games. After that we’re reviewing a game with the unique theme of door knockers, Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena from Grand Gamers Guild. Then we finish up with our week
Why? “Why” is perhaps the most important question of all. Why do people play board games? That’s the question I’m going to try to tackle today, based on one of the best Ask The Bellhop questions we’ve ever received. Mojtaba Zarepour simply asks: Why do you play boardgames? Yes, the
Welcome to the fourth episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, where we answer a question about custom inserts. This is an edited version of our live show first recorded on August 16th, 2018. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00PM ET on Twitch. Games mentioned on
Andrew D, over on the Misdirected Mark #Slackroom4Life asks, How do you approach getting heavier games to the table in terms of teaching people how to play? Get them to watch a how to play video before they come, do the first playthrough as a teaching session, do a big info
Jayden W. asks, Are custom inserts worth it? For instance, my group has been playing a fair bit of Rising Sun with all the goodies (like 4 boxes worth of unpacking), and it takes about 10 minutes to set up and nearly 20 or 30 minutes to put away properly.
I have a love/hate relationship with social deduction games. This relationship tends to lean towards the hate side. Most of the social deduction games out there I am not a fan of. I find them too fragile, easily broken by the wrong group of players, or that one gamer that
Aeryn Lynne asks, I’ve heard that Catan is awesome to play (though I couldn’t even tell you the basic premise of the game). Every time I happen to check it out at our local shop there are new editions popping up. Most recent one I’ve seen is for Game of
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