Table Talk 013: A Chat about Gateway GamesTaylor and Alice discuss games that got them into the hobby and what makes something a “gateway game” anyway. Games mentioned (so many!):Agueda https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...

An experimental podcast with only one voice about games getting reskinned. What are your favorite reimplementations? What makes them better than the original? Or, alternatively, worse? Games mentioned in this episode:<...

After a hiatus of embarrassing length because of a disastrous attempt to record an actual play podcast of the infuriating and deeply beige game De Vulgari Eloquentia, we return triumphantly for our first double-digit show! Taylor and Alice talk...

Was GenCon 2023 a dumpster fire? Or just a smoldering waste paper basket? Listen on, friends, as Taylor and Alice wax poetical!Games mentioned:Disney Lorcana

Taylor G and Alice C talk with RPG superstar designer Cezar Capable about design, feelings, colonization, and, apparently, zombie cows.  Cryptid: https://boardgamege...

This week, Alice and Taylor have some strong feelings about house rules for board games.  Games referenced in this episode:Curious Cargo

It took us a while to get our meeply asses in gear, but we (Alice, Bailey, David, Taylor, and Victoria) finally managed to get together in one (virtual) place and pay tribute to Klaus Teuber, designer of

What makes a game replayable a few times? Many times in a row? Something you long to play again? Taylor and Alice give you the definitive answer. Caverna Agricola Frosthaven Shifting Stones ...

Taylor and Alice chat with friend and DWP contributor Bailey D about how she finds off-beat and less popular games. And they’re coming to you live (recorded) from the Edge House’s annual 24-Hour Board Game Marathon fundraiser. Want to support t...

When you go on vacation, how do you take your game collection? Obviously, you need to take them, you’ll need to play them. But what about all those boxes and bits? What games are good for various situations? Don’t worry, Taylor and Alice have y...

In the grand tradition of annual “best of” lists, Taylor and Alice offer you a list of the best games for extremely specific people. All of which are actually good.Games Mentioned:Fairy Trails

Taylor and Alice talk about why they love/hate games about feelings in this meandering and contemplative third episode. What is your experience of games about feelings? Do you tolerate them? Try to get all your friends and family to play them w...

Table Talk 002: A Chat about First Plays When you play a game for the first time, what do you look for? How do you play well? What makes a first play fun? Or, for that matter, a second or 50th? Featured in ...

Welcome to our conversation, featuring unprofessional bag crinkling and table-smacking! Games talked about in this podcast:Century: Spice Road...

In this episode David starts out by looking at what we get out of competing vs cooperating in tabletop games......and then things take an unexpected turn.All music copyright 2022 by David Weiss.Check out David's writing ...

If game design is an artform--and I believe it is--then it deserves an aesthetic framework and a language to discuss it and its potential. Hence FORMAT. To discover what FORMAT stands for, in all senses, have a listen to Episode 3.<...

If a game is "a machine for telling stories that end with players winning and/or losing", what are its components? And what energy drives it? That's what we're discussing this month. (Which is also a way of saying that new episodes will be drop...

Welcome back to The Game Changers. In the first episode, David catches you up on his 2021 and then plunges in to the first Big Question of Season Two: just what is a game?

Yes, that's right. It's taken over a year, but Season Two of The Game Changers is coming!

In the epic finale to Season One, David looks back on what he learned by trying to tell the story of Modern Tabletop, and looks forward to Season Two.Check out David's writing at The Daily Work...

Wingspan's status as Tabletop most recent Game Changer stems less from its design than its designer. Elizabeth Hargrave's choice of theme, and her outspoken involvement in Tabletop culture, portends a sea-change in the artform's attitudes and n...

Who could have ever predicted a game about birds would become the monster hit of 2019? Our final Game Changer is Wingspan, and in Part 1 we look at how Elizabeth Hargrave came to design it.Check out David's writing at

In this episode we look at four of the most prominent Teutonic designers and their major works: two Germans (Feld; Cramer) and two Austrians (Pfister and Warsch). While Pfister is expanding the narrative vocabulary of the Euro, it is Warsch who...

A new wave of European designers crashed ashore in the 2010's who had grown up playing first-gen Euros and therefore hungered for something more complex. In Part One, we look at various national "styles" that became embodied by talented designe...

Isaac Childres had only one published game under his belt when he began dreaming about an open-world RPG-style game. He never intended to produce the biggest Tabletop game (in all senses) of all time: Gloomhaven.Check out David's...