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Ignoble
Dragon's Demize - January 16, 2018 19:21 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello everyone, and welcome back to Dragon’s Demize. For our first official review of 2018, we’re tackling Ignoble, a trick-taking card game where each card has unique abilities! Ignoble isn’t officially out yet, and we were honored to receive one of only 50 printed copies from the folks at DotS...
Forward into 2018
Dragon's Demize - January 08, 2018 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHappy 2018, everyone! We hope your holiday season was filled with all the games you could ask for. Now that we’ve entered the new year, we’ve decided on a few resolutions to help make this year the best one ever for Dragon’s Demize. On today’s podcast, Greg and Jakub talk about their vision for ...
Games with Few Components
Dragon's Demize - December 25, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMerry Christmas listeners! We hope you’re having a joyous holiday season. Many of you are probably with friends and/or family now, which is the perfect chance to play some games. But what if you don’t have any games? Fear not! We here at Dragon’s Demize have come up with a list of fantastic game...
A Look Back at 2017
Dragon's Demize - December 21, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! It’s been a pretty great year for us here at Dragon’s Demize. We’ve had a chance to play some amazing games and have a lot of laughs. We’ve preserved through some tense moments. And sometimes, we’ve just walloped each other. On today’s special episode, Greg and Jakub take a look...
Small Box Gift Guide
Dragon's Demize - December 11, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! It’s time for Round 2 of the Dragon’s Demize 2017 Gift-Giving Extravaganza! In this episode, we’re focusing on smaller games, games you might put in someone’s stocking. Since the pool is a bit smaller for thee, we also take the opportunity to expand our lists of expansions. All ...
Big Box Gift Guide
Dragon's Demize - December 04, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSeason’s greetings listeners! It’s holiday season again, and of course that means that many of us our buying gifts for our loved ones (or ourselves). Just like last year, Dragon’s Demize has created a list of games from 2017 that we recommend. We did follow some fairly specific rules this year: ...
PAX Unplugged
Dragon's Demize - November 27, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHey everyone! We’re back with another episode of Dragon’s Demize. This time, we talk to our friend Pedro about his time at the PAX Unplugged board game convention. Three days jam-packed with board games and RPGS sounds like our kind of weekend. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to make it ourselves...
Between Two Cities
Dragon's Demize - November 20, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJakub and Greg talk about building two cities at the same time! Join us for another great review on Dragon’s Demize! The post Between Two Cities appeared first on Dragon's Demize.
Alien Artifacts
Dragon's Demize - November 13, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners, and welcome back to Dragon’s Demize. On this week’s episode, we review Alien Artifacts, the new “4X-style” game from Portal Games. Alien Artifacts pits 2-5 players against one another as they attempt to maximize the value of galactic resources and build the strongest civilizatio...
Designer Signatures
Dragon's Demize - November 06, 2017 11:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back to Dragon’s Demize, dear listeners! On today’s episode, Greg and Jakub talk about some of their favorite game designers. Specifically, we discuss how some designers have signature mechanics that they return to again and again, and what implications that has for game design. It’s a f...
Twilight Imperium 3
Dragon's Demize - October 30, 2017 10:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! On what might be one of our most ambitious episodes yet, Greg and special guest Marty take on Twilight Imperium 3. Together, they take a look at the mechanics, gameplay, and tense interaction that define this legendary game. From command counters to trade goods, they do their be...
Tournament
Dragon's Demize - October 24, 2017 00:11 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHellooooo listeners! For this very special episode of Dragon’s Demize, Greg is joined by Thomas DiSalvo, one of the actors from the new movie Tournament. In the movie, a group of unlikely friends meet to battle in a trading-card tournament, only to have an outsider come in and shake things up at...
Tips for GMs
Dragon's Demize - October 17, 2017 00:11 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello hello listeners. This week on Dragon’s Demize, we’re a man down while Jakub is on a business trip. Greg and their good friend Pedro try to pick up the slack and talk about their tips for GMs. It’s always tough trying to balance the demands of being a GM, and we hope that our […] The post ...
Battle Gnomes!
Dragon's Demize - October 10, 2017 00:10 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! Welcome back to Dragon’s Demize, where this week we’re taking a look at Battle Gnomes! Battle Gnomes! is a card-based combat game for 2-6 players. Each player controls a yard full of gnomes, battling for supremacy of the neighborhood. You can equip your gnomes with better gear a...
Building Tension in Survival Co-op
Dragon's Demize - October 03, 2017 02:43 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners, and welcome to another episode of Dragon’s Demize. This week on the podcast, we’re trying out a new segment called Topic of the Week. In this inaugural run, we talk about some of the ways survival co-op games build tension, from attempting to overwhelm the players to introducing...
Vye
Dragon's Demize - September 26, 2017 02:44 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello again listeners! On our latest episode, we review Vye. This card based territory control game is another game that has a very simple concept but very deep gameply. The artwork on this game is also phenominal, and the language independence as well as the small size makes it an ideal for tra...
WashingCon 3 – Women in Gaming: Designers, Retailers, and Beyond
Dragon's Demize - September 24, 2017 10:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMore WashingCon goodness! Today, we’re bringing you audio from the Women in Gaming panel. This panel was moderated by Leslie Phillips and covered some important and impactful topics. From the challenges that women and non-binary people face when navigating gaming communities, to finding support ...
WashingCon 3 – War Games: Design and Evolution
Dragon's Demize - September 24, 2017 10:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHey listeners! More great content from this year’s WashingCon coming at you. This time, we’ve got audio from the War Games panel, moderated by our friend Marty. Panelists include: Jason Matthews, designer of such games as Twilight Struggle and 1960: The Making of the President; Jerry Taylor, des...
WashingCon 3 – The Future of Game Design
Dragon's Demize - September 24, 2017 10:30 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDrumroll please! It’s time for the showstopper, the final panel of the convention, the ever popular Future of Game Design! We had some amazing panelists and perspectives this year, and we were super honored to be a part of it. Come check out these designers’ take on recent developments in the ga...
Washingcon 3
Dragon's Demize - September 23, 2017 02:46 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello everyone, we’re back! We apologize for the delay, but hope to make it up to you with a very special episode: our full recap of WashingCon 3. It was a fantastic convention this year, like every year, and we have so much to cover. We start off with our impressions of the con as […] The post...
Tides of Time and Madness
Dragon's Demize - September 05, 2017 02:47 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello again listeners! It’s good to be back. On our latest episode, we review Tides of Time and Tides of Madness. These card drafting, set collection games are easy to play but hard to master. With extremely simple core mechanics and very few components, both are excellent candidates for travel ...
Takenoko
Dragon's Demize - August 13, 2017 00:10 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back to Dragon’s Demize, everyone! Today on the podcast, we review Takenoko, a fun, simple action selection game. Players take turns performing various actions in a bamboo garden. These can include adding new tiles to the garden, growing new bamboo by moving the gardener, and eating bamb...
Machi Koro
Dragon's Demize - August 06, 2017 02:49 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHey listeners! Welcome back to Dragon’s Demize for another exciting episode. Today we’re reviewing Machi Koro, a delightful game about building the best city. In Machi Koro, players roll dice to generate coins from buildings in their city. Buildings can generate under a variety of circumstances,...
Race vs. Roll for the Galaxy
Dragon's Demize - July 29, 2017 00:10 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! We’ve got something a little different for you today: two reviews for the price of one! We take a look at Race for the Galaxy and its re-imagining Roll for the Galaxy. While both center on action selection and engine building, we’re comparing the particular aspects of card drawi...
Eldritch Horror
Dragon's Demize - July 22, 2017 02:53 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back, listeners, to another episode of Dragon’s Demize. This week, we review the Lovecraftian behemoth Eldritch Horror. Edritch Horror is a cooperative game for 1-8 players. Players take on the role of investigators, and travel around the world attempting to prevent the awaking of a part...
Terraforming Mars
Dragon's Demize - July 18, 2017 02:54 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHey hey listeners. Welcome back to Dragon’s Demize. This week, Greg and Jakub are excited to be reviewing Terraforming Mars, the engine-building strategy game about, you guessed it, Terraforming Mars. Players compete to earn the most points by playing cards from their hand and by raising one of ...
Tiny Epic Galaxies
Dragon's Demize - July 01, 2017 02:57 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners! Thank you for joining us on this week’s podcast, where we review Tiny Epic Galaxies, and its new expansion Beyond the Black. Tiny Epic Galaxies is an action management game in which players compete to build the greatest galactic empire ever seen. They do so by sending ships arou...
Nevermore
Dragon's Demize - June 24, 2017 00:10 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHello listeners, and happy Friday! This week on Dragon’s Demize, we took a stab at Nevermore, a card-drafting game inspired (loosely) by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In Nevermore, players use five different suits of cards to perform various actions, including attacking, regaining health, and ea...
T.I.M.E. Stories
Dragon's Demize - June 17, 2017 03:02 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back listeners! This week we have another exciting episode of Dragon’s Demize for you! We review T.I.M.E. Stories, a fully cooperative, mystery solving board game. Each game takes place in a different setting, ranging from contemporary America to ancient Egypt to an alternate fantasy tim...
A Distant Plain
Dragon's Demize - June 11, 2017 03:03 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back, listeners, to another exciting episode of Dragon’s Demize. This week, we review A Distant Plain, a complex strategic wargame based on the War in Afghanistan. As you might expect from such a fraught topic, the game features lots of asymmetry in its design and your allies one turn ma...
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