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10 For 50, Great tabletop games for under $50 – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 72nd episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on December 18th, 2019. 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.

10 for 50, great tabletop games for under $50. We've got a list of 35 great games you can get right now for under $50. Also a review of Tower of Madness, then in our week in review some Rhino Hero, more Carpe Diem and a not so great experience with Horrified. Finally a bit of talk about the new PC game Paranoia Happiness is Mandatory. [ READ MORE ]

The Best Two Player Cooperative Games – Ask The Bellhop

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Cooperative games are becoming more popular and are actually pretty common now a days. What is hard to find is a great two-player cooperative game. Even harder to find is a cooperative game that is two-player only.

Ryan Peach writes:
“Looking for a good 2 player co-op. Specifically 2 player only. As a blind meeple asking this question I'd mentally discounted [many games] I play with sighted assistance. A game where the second player does something different but still interesting and where both parties can talk to each other would do.” [ READ MORE ]

The Path to Mastery – Tips for becoming a Solid Game Master – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 68th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on November 20th, 2019. 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.

The Path to Mastery - Tips for starting off and becoming a solid GM. Also a review of Horrified from Ravensburger and some initial thoughts on Pulsar 2849 from CGE. [ READ MORE ]

License to Thrill – What Makes for a Great Licenced Board Game? – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 67th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on November 13th, 2019. 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.

License to Thrill - What makes for a great licenced board game. Also, a review of the hot new Minecraft board game, Builders and Biomes and a look at the Universal Monsters themed board game: Horrified. [ READ MORE ]

Battle Classic Universal Monsters in Horrified the Cooperative Board Game – Review

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Horrified is a new cooperative horror themed board game. In it, one to five players are battling the classic Universal Studios Monsters including Frankenstein's Monster, his bride, The Wolf Man, Dracula, the Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and/or the Invisible Man.

Horrified plays differently depending on which monsters you face and features a sliding difficulty scale, making it accessible to a variety of gaming groups and experience levels. [ READ MORE ]

What Makes for a Good Licensed Board Game and 14 of the Best Licenced Board Games – Ask The Bellhop

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Today I will be talking about what makes for a good licenced board game, by which I mean games based on popular media or intellectual properties. This topic stems from a question from Danielle Thomas who asked a related question during one of our AMA live show.

Danielle asked: “There are a lot of boardgames that come out linked to popular media. ie. movies. What is the best and the worst you've played?” [ READ MORE ]

For The Kids – Windsor Extra Life 2019 – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 66th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on November 6th, 2019. 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.

For The Kids - Windsor Extra Life 2019. How did our Extra Life weekend go and what games got played? Also a review of Cthulhu Death May Die the hot new game from CMON. [ READ MORE ]

Two new Games from Ravensburger: Horrified, and Minecraft Builders & Biomes – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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Due to the big Extra Life event last weekend, there wasn't a lot of gaming going over the past few days. The only games I played this week are two new games from Ravensburger. Minecraft Builders & Biomes and Horrified.

I played both of these games with the Tabletop Bellhop team on the Monday after Extra Life, before Sean had to head home to Hamilton.
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The Results and The Games of Windsor Extra Life 2019

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This past weekend gamers around the world took part in a charity gaming marathon called Extra Life. This huge gaming event raises money for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Here in Windsor, the entire Bellhop Team spent the entire weekend volunteering and taking part in our local Extra Life event held at The CG Realm.
Games were played, baked goods were sold, auctions happened and we raised a lot of money for a great cause. [ READ MORE ]