Tue, 24 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (Dave Arnott) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     David Arnott @Arnott Bringing our Davecember to a fitting close, I welcome back Dave Arnott. He was the guy on my podcast earlier this fall when the idea of Davecember was born. He's been on plenty of my episodes before, but now we get to talk more about him. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_Arnott.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 6:09pm PDT

Sun, 22 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember (with DaveO) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     Dave OConnor @daveo1234 We're winding down now. DaveO is one of the remaining Davids that's still local to me. Local enough. He's near San Diego, I'm near LA, but that's close enough to have seen each other off & on over the years. We met around 20 years ago at a SoCal Games Day, I think. Now he's my roommate at Dice Tower West game convention, and a co-conspirator to bring old favorites to the table at a convention. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_DaveO.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 2:54pm PDT

Sat, 21 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with deacondavid) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     David Reed @deacondavid David Reed claims to be our oldest Dave in the collection, but we're all reasonably close. Something about the audience for this podcast, I guess. Happy to have this generation. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_deacondavid.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 12:50pm PDT

Thu, 19 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with loofish) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     David @loofish The next David comes to us from a different part of North Carolina, and explains how the recent hurricane robbed them of power...but gave them a chance to play more analog games with kids. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_loofish.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 8:41pm PDT

Tue, 17 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with David Harding) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.   David Harding @huffa2 Another designer joins us, and he's in the game publishing world, too. David Harding of Elevenses, One Zero One, Matcha and Grail Games. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_David_Harding.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 9:27pm PDT

Sun, 15 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with David Corbin) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.       David Corbin joins us next, doubling our count of North Carolina based Davids...but he's not our last. He comes offering David's Aphorism, as well as David's Dictum. Heady stuff... -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_David_Corbin.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 5:21pm PDT

Sat, 14 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (David Thompson) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     David Thompson @Skirmish_Tactics Next is David Thompson, best known as the co-designer of the Undaunted series, War Chest, Resist, Sniper Elite, and as the sole designer for his Valiant Defense series (e.g. Pavlov's House) plus others. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_David_Thompson.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 6:48pm PDT

Thu, 12 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (Davebo) I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. David G. @davebo First up is David Gullett, aka Davebo. He's got a thing for data, whether it's good or not. -Mark Direct download: BGTG_235D_-_Davecember_2024_Davebo.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 8:41pm PDT

Sun, 1 December 2024 Boardgames To Go 234 - BGGcon 2024 (with Greg Pettit) Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. @Gregarius As he's done many times, my friend Greg Pettit joins me for a mega-episode discussing all the games we played at BGGcon. Greg's an every-timer to BGGcon, while I went to the first one (2005), then a decade until my next in 2014 (first year I was an empty-nester), and sort of every-other-year since then. Looking back, I see I also went in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, and now 2024. I enjoy myself every time I go, but it's difficult to swing it every year. When you listen to this episode, you may find it helpful to follow along with our geeklist. That way you can track what games we've talked about, which are coming next, and what are 5-star ratings are. I've also inserted the game boxes here in the order discussed, which will also appear in the shownotes. The "Newest of the New" Games              A Bunch of Two-Player Games        Mostly Trick-Taking Games, or at least Card Games...but not always even that!          The "Leftovers" I Couldn't Otherwise Categorize          Old Favorites     -Mark Direct download: BGTG_234_-_BGGcon_2024_with_Greg_Pettit.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am PDT