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Styles and Types of Board games, What categories of boardgames are there? – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Ep 121

February 9, 2021 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Styles and Types of Board Games - A follow up to our discussion on Engine Building from last week. In addition to Engine Building, what other types of board games are there? Featured reviews: Fairy Season from Good Games Publishing and Harry Potter House Cup Competition from The Op. Week in review: Featuring more Fairy Season, first thoughts on Junk Orbit and Sean continues to learn Masks: A New Generation.

Episode 121 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded February 3rd, 2021. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to individual segments from this show on YouTube. [ READ MORE ]

16 of The Best Engine Building Board Games (And What is An Engine Builder Anyway?)

January 31, 2021 by Moe T. 2 Comments

This past week on our podcast we tackled a question about engine building games.

Fan of the show Roger Meloche was starting to think that all board games are in some way engine building games and we discussed why we don't think this is the case. We also listed off what we think are some of the best engine building board games. [ READ MORE ]

The Giant List of Tabletop Game Mechanics

July 13, 2020 by Moe T. 1 Comment

When talking games a number of board game terms come up that can be confusing to people. A lot of these are board game mechanics that people may not be familiar with. Today I'm going to try to define some of the most common board game mechanics based on a question we received during our first live show.

NecroDaddy80 on Twitch asks,

What game mechanics do you prefer?

There are a ton of different game mechanics, and for someone new to gaming, all these terms can be confusing. So I think it's worth taking some time to talk about the wide variety of mechanics out there as well as discussing those that I enjoy the best. [ READ MORE ]