Episode 48: Gen Con '24 Releases We're Most Excited to Play, with Grant Lyon

Comedian and game designer Grant Lyon joins Candice to discuss Gen Con '24 releases they're most excited to play.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:03:56 Curmudgeon
  • 00:04:46 I'm Kind of a Big Dill
  • 00:08:00 Candice's 10x10 Games (The Great Zimbabwe, Concordia, Gaia Project, Spirit Island, Root, War Chest, Paupers' Ladder, Too Many Bones, HUANG, Kreel Manor)
• 00:16:27 Fresh Plays
  • 00:16:58 River of Gold
  • 00:20:36 Too Many Bones: Unbreakable
    • 00:28:24 Champions of Midguard
  • 00:31:29 Evenfall
  • 00:37:50 Banners
    • 00:41:33 Dawn of Ulos
    • 00:47:28 Dungeon Degenerates: Hand of Doom
• 00:52:50 Gen Con '24 Releases We're Most Excited to Play
  • 00:54:11 Grant's Honorable Mentions (The Cat Mitt Game, Gateway Island, Jewels for the Emperor Penguin, Café Baras)
  • 00:59:17 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Rock Hard: 1977, Battle Dentale, Fateforge, Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition, Wilmot's Warehouse, Pirates of Maracaibo, Galactic Renaissance, Undaunted 2200: Callisto, Arcs)
  • 01:06:16 Nestlings
  • 01:08:38 Cities
  • 01:11:39 Reef Project
  • 01:15:22 Stalk Exchange
  • 01:17:04 Rock Hard: 1977
  • 01:20:45 Card Games! (Murray the A**hole Frog, Xylotar, Seers Catalog, The Gang, Lone Wolves)
  • 01:27:42 The Gang
  • 01:30:46 Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
  • 01:33:18 Arcs
  • 01:37:43 Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet
    • 01:39:25 War Chest: Night Fall & War of the Ring: The Card Game Fire and Swords
• 01:47:25 Sign-off

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