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Black Games Matter – Great Games from Black Game Designers – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Ep 94

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 Episode 94 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded June 3rd 2020. 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.

Black Games Matter - Talking about some of the best tabletop games from Black game designers including a review of the kid-friendly RPG Mermaid Adventures. Also a first look at 878 Vikings as well as Black Box, Clans of Caledonia on BGA, Fox in the Forest, and Codenames Duet. In addition, I talk about my experiences at my first online gaming convention, Renegade Con: Virtual. [ READ MORE ]

RPG Review – Mermaid Adventures a Great RPG for Kids from Third Eye Games

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Finding the right role-playing game to get your kids into roleplaying can be hard. The first RPG I introduced my kids to was Mermaid Adventures by Eloy Lasanta and Third Eye Games.

Mermaid Adventures is a traditional roleplaying game set in an undersea world that is presented in a way that is, and featuring mechanics that are, easily accessible to kids and new gamers alike. [ READ MORE ]

Spring Fling AMA – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Ep 89

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 This is the 89th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on April 29th 2020. 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.

Spring Fling AMA - Topics include: easy games for toddlers, games to play over Discord, newish games we want to try, favourite dexterity games, gaming gifts we didn’t appreciate, Kickstarters we lost enthusiasm for, best Cthulhu games, a pile of shame update, the first upgrade we would make for our shows, and more. Also a review of The Fox in the Forest Duet followed by some online gaming, date night gaming and another Renegade #WorldWidePlayDay event. [ READ MORE ]

The Next Generation – Gaming With Kids – Episode 39 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 39th episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on April 24th, 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays 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 39 - The Next Generation. Raising our future gamers. Teaching kids how to be the best gamers they can be. Gloomhaven has a retirement, a review of Builder of Blankenburg, Fields and Flocks Expansion, Stuffed Fables and the DC Deck-Building Game Multiverse Box. [ 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 ]

Some of the Best Kids Board Games and how to get Kids to Play Them – Ask the Bellhop

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Way back in July, when this whole thing was just getting off the ground, we answered a question about what are the best cooperative kids board games.

Today I'm tackling a follow-up question to that original blog post and our second podcast episode ever.
Duran Barnett asks, "What about doing an episode on introducing kids to gaming? Or maybe a direct sequel tackling non-co-op games for kids?" [ READ MORE ]

Under the hood – Episode 9 – Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

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This is the ninth episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on September 26th, 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.

This episode we talk about Mermaid Adventures, Terra Mystica, and Gloomhaven before we deep dive into game mechanics. [ READ MORE ]

Can you hear me now? – Episode 8 – Tabletop Bellhop Podcast

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

This week: Emmet O’brian asks, “What are some apps or techniques for playing music/sound while GMing?”
We expand on this to talk about using audio to enhance any tabletop game, not just RPGs.  Before we talk about music & sound at the game table, we do our usual look back at the last week. We talk Rockerboys & Vending Machines, Mermaid Adventures, Tales of Equestria (the My Little Pony RPG), Disney Villainous, CV, CV Gossip, Terraforming Mars, and the Bellhop shares his first experience with Gloomhaven. [ READ MORE ]

Tabletop Gaming Weekly – Sept 24 – #WhatDidYouPlayMondays

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I love #WhatDidYouPlayMondays. This was started over at Geeky Goodies. Every week people jump online and share what games they played last week. Since launching this blog I've been trying to take part every week. I wanted to do a bit more than just give a list of games. I can do that on Twitter. Here I can do so much more. So every week I will be talking about all of the games that hit the table in the previous week.

I've been playing more games on Board Game Arena. This week we added Terra Mystica to the regular rotation of 7 Wonders and Race for the Galaxy. Out in the real world, we got in not one but two games of Gloomhaven. I finally got Sean (my podcast co-host) to play Terraforming Mars and the kids "forced" me to run Mermaid Adventures for them. [ READ MORE ]