Episode 20: Board Games That Use Dice in Clever Ways, with Paul Grogan

Paul Grogan from Gaming Rules! joins Candice to discuss board games that use dice in clever ways.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:01:28 BGG Podcast Update
• 00:04:55 Fresh Plays
  • 00:05:08 Princes of Florence
  • 00:10:24 Hamlet: The Village Building Game
  • 00:18:14 Arkham Horror LCG - Edge of the Earth campaign
  • 00:22:43 Skymines (reimplementation of Mombasa)
• 00:36:02 Board Games That Use Dice in Clever Ways
  • 00:37:09 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Scholars of the South Tigris, Woodcraft, Nokosu Dice, Quantum, Nautilion, Roll Player)
  • 01:00:48 Paul's Honourable Mentions (Castles of Burgundy, Merlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Pulsar 2849, Alien Frontiers, Lorenzo Il Magnifico, Red Cathedral, Grand Austria Hotel, Sagrada, Blueprints, Dice Forge,  Rise of Tribes)
  • 00:43:17 Star Wars RPG
  • 00:47:57 Dice Realms
  • 00:51:34 Crystal Palace
  • 00:54:59 Coimbra
  • 01:01:22 Ganz schön clever 
  • 01:05:48 Tiletum
  • 01:12:11 Teotihuacan, Tekhenu
    • 01:14:01 Praetor
  • 01:16:01 Troyes
    • 01:22:17 Black Angel
  • 01:23:38 Under Falling Skies
  • 01:35:34 Too Many Bones
• 01:42:30 Sign-off

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