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Surprisingly Easy Board Games: Heavy games that are easy to teach and learn, Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 106

September 15, 2020 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Surprisingly Easy Board Games - Heavy games that are easy to teach and learn. A follow up to our topic from a few weeks back where we talked about surprisingly complex games. Today we are looking at the flip side of the coin with surprisingly easy games. Once we get to The Game Room we will be looking at Trade & Intrigue, the second expansion for Orleans featuring four optional modules and Flick Wars a dexterity based strategy wargame, plus, of course, we end off with our usual week in review.

Episode 106 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded September 9th, 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. [ READ MORE ]

15 Surprisingly Easy Board Games, Heavy Games that are Easier to Learn and Play than Expected

September 13, 2020 by Moe T. 2 Comments

Some board games can seem intimidating, with a thick rulebook, lots of components, or too many things to learn all at once. Sometimes though a boardgame will surprise you by looking complicated when in reality it isn't.

That's what I'm going to be tackling in this article, board games that are much easier than expected. I'm talking about games that are quicker to learn, simpler to play or overall surprising in how approachable they are compared to what their first impression might be. [ READ MORE ]

Scaling the Game – How game complexity scales with experience – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 102

August 18, 2020 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Scaling the Game - In this week's Ask The Bellhop segment we discuss how game complexity scales with experience. We get into detailed reviews of Telestrations Upside Drawn, a team-based version of the classic party game, and The Pip System Corebook, a universal roleplaying system great for new players and for gaming with kids. Also initial thoughts on Roll for Lasers and Breakdancing Meeple, as well as a return to Talisman Batman Super-Villains Edition in our week in review.

Episode 102 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded August 12th 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. [ READ MORE ]

Treasure Hunt – Tips for Finding Rare, Out-of-Print Games – Episode 56 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

September 3, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the 56th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on August 28th, 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 56 - Treasure Hunt - tips for finding rare, hard to find and out-of-print games. Also our Extra Life Warmup Wrap up including a first look at the Teotihuacan expansion. [ READ MORE ]

Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period, Tower of Madness, Gentes, Dead Man’s Cabal, and more for Extra Life! – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

August 27, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This past weekend was the Extra Life Tabletop Appreciation Weekend and I helped run an event here in Windsor at The CG Realm.

At the event, we gamed for 12 hours and I got in lots of plays. I got in some more plays of Tower of Madness, we played some Dead Man's Cabal, I got to try Teotihuacan with the Late Preclassic Period expansion, I showed off Gentes Deluxified, I set up a crazy Pitchcar track and, of course, we played some Go Cuckoo.

The night before this big event Sean was in town and we live streamed some three-player Sorcerer. [ READ MORE ]

Queen City Conquest 2019, Our Thoughts on this Buffalo, NY Game Convention – Episode 50 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

July 23, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the 50th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on July 17th, 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 50 - QCC Wrap Up. A look back at Queen City Conquest 2019. We discuss the con and all of the games Deanna and I played. [ READ MORE ]

A Day by Day Look at the Gaming Convention: Queen City Conquest 2019

July 18, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Last weekend Deanna and I had the pleasure of attending Queen City Conquest (QCC), a tabletop game convention in Amherst NY (a suburb of Buffalo).

This year QCC was at a new time, July 12th - 14th and was held at a new venu: Daemen College. Due to these changes it felt like a brand new con, despite being around since 2012. This year was pretty much a reboot of Queen City Conquest.

In this post, I'm going to try to recap some of the highlights of our time at QCC. [ READ MORE ]

Moving Day AMA – Childhood favourites, Con Budgeting, Board Games for Console Gamers and Lots More! – Episode 47 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

July 2, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the 47th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on June 26th, 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 47 - Moving Day AMA. This episode we are spending the entire Ask the Bellhop segment answering questions from The Lobby our live chatroom on Twitch. [ READ MORE ]

Gentes Deluxified, Teotihuacan, Legendary Forests, and More Tiny Towns – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

June 10, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

Today I'm going to take a look at and give a short review of four board games. These games are: Teotihuacan, Legendary Forests, Gentes: Deluxified Edition and Tiny Towns.

Between home games and a game night at the FLGS and a rare Sunday night two player game session with my wife, it was a busy week for me gaming. There was one other game I got to play, a review copy of a deck-builder, but I can't talk about that yet. [ READ MORE ]

East Meets West – Discussing the Euro vs. American Board Game Debate – Episode 44 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

June 4, 2019 by Moe T. Leave a Comment

This is the 44th episode of Tabletop Bellhop Live, an edited version of our live show recorded on May 29th, 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 44 - East Meets West - defining and discussing the board game terms Eurogame and Ameritrash. Also an initial impression of Teotihuacan and some more plays of Xia, Strasbourg, and digital Roll for the Galaxy. [ READ MORE ]