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In this episode Bruce has finally thawed out in Texas and although he lost power several times he is thankful because board games don't require power so he was able to get in even more gaming. Together Bruce and Josh talk about what they have been playing recently as well as some of what they have backed or are excited about on Kickstarter. Enjoy! Specific Games Discussed: Root (Leder Games)Sleeping Gods (Red Raven Games)Merlin (Queen Games)Canvas (Road To Infamy) Kickstarters and coming soon things Darwin's Journey (Thundergryph)Maquis 2nd Edition (Side Room Games)Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (Stronghold Games)Radlands (Roxley)Clinic 2nd & 3rd Extensions (AV Studio)CoraQuest (Dan & Cora Hughes)Crafting Arzium (Zoom Out Media)Meeples & Monsters (AEG)War Chest: Seige Expansion (AEG)Red Rising (Stonemaier Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 53 Thawed Out 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impacts. We're going to be talking about a whole bunch of kick starters and gains. You've been playing reselling now that we've been thought out here in texas a stay tuned. Welcome back to another episode of board game impact. Of course my name is bruce. And i'm joined by. This is josh. Josh and so we are recording I just want to give a quick caveat before we get started so the episode that came out last week. This is yeah. It's only been a week. And that is because texas froze over for a week and so thank you for understanding this kind of like weird schedule just one put that out there because literally there's rolling quote unquote rolling blackouts across the state and for many people. It wasn't rolling and there's still power and things like that and so if you're listening to this and the state of texas we just want to say and you're still having some ongoing things or friends who are just wanted to say like. Hey i hope all that gets worked out fast and that you are safe and that we are here with you and this is one of those times. That josh is getting put out there. Very thankful to be aboard gamer. Because when the power went out for hours on end i was able to get in some games and just opened up the blinds in the snow. The snow reflected the the sun pretty well so we can get some games so actually have more games than i was planning to even be able to talk about things going on. That's good right. Glad you found found some ways to entertain while you were there definitely elizabeth and i were thinking about you a lot over the last weekend of course Sitting all of our thoughts and well wishes to all of our listeners and everyone Down there in texas I know that that is a struggle I can only imagine what some folks have been going through so Yeah glad here that you Are doing well. I'm glad to hear that that caitlin is doing well and Hope hope everyone else out. There is also making through in this Very very strange times very much and by strange like you can't be like you're right on the money because literally four days ago it was negative one. And it's now seventy so it is just crazy. What's been nice this out there. I'm on a couple email threads with fellow geeks. Who board game geek. Things and it's been really nice having people like reach out and see this community come together and so if you're like okay. What the heck is this podcast about. This is your first time. We are so this is a board game related podcast. And so what does she do. We both work in higher education. And so what we do. Is we break down our gaming experiences through our educational lenses for the benefit of you and your gaming group and so if that sounds like something of interest makes to hit subscribe and we put out these episodes every other week with the obvious exception of texas freezes over so with that be...

In this episode Bruce & Josh take a deep dive into Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf Studios. This coveted intellectual property along with the unique combination of deck building by the creators of CLANK! and worker placement make this game an interesting one to play. Listen in to this complete deep dive into our experiences for your benefit. To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:08 - 00:05:03 In this episode of board game impact the spice must flow as we talk about dune imperium. Welcome back to another episode of impact. As always i am bruce. I'm jordan. Joined by and this is josh. Well josh they say that fears the mind killer but so far getting started is thrown me off. I think it's just because we're very excited about this game and talk about it. Because i know you and i both had some anticipation with it. But before we get into that if this is your first episode of board game impact what you're here for is we look at games through educational lenses. We both work fulltime and higher education and we apply those lenses to unpack games and gaming experiences for you and your benefit so by listening to this is gonna be a deep dive into dune. Imperium and so Josh what do you want to say to kick us off a little bit. Yeah bruce. I was very excited about this game. I definitely had my acquisition disorder All a buzz So love the dune franchise Barracks cited to see this movie. When it finally comes out please. Yes at some point But you know. I fell in love. I actually came late to the dune party. I kinda picked up the books. Probably about two or three years ago And just absolutely fell in love because it's a phenomenal especially the first book The the main book dune For listeners who aren't really aware dune imperium is set in the dune universe series of novels by frank. Herbert sifi Political intrigue drama type series. That is absolutely fantastic So very very excited to play this really excited to talk about it and and get some thoughts. Yeah and so Dean premium is made by designed by paldon and it was put out by dire wolf who you might know for doing some pretty great things over with some digital app adaptations so they did the digital adaptations of route but also this is the team that brought clank together. So there's a little bit deck building in this. Some really cool things and josh was saying a little bit about his position -ality so like our lenses that are getting applied to this. I was later to the dune thing too. I honestly picked up a copy. Abdoun my local like half price books for like five bucks two years ago. Because i'm like. I need to read this. And then when i found out the movie was coming out and was like blown away by the trailer owes like i need to read this and so i read the book and then a month before the movie is supposed to come out. Movie comes out next year. So i'm a little caught up now but honestly back in the day josh before i ever really knew. What dune was things like that. I was really into the real time strategy games and like command and conquer right or red alert. But i also really like dune. Two thousand which was based on the dune universe and these different houses vying for control. Did you ever play that. I did not. It's pretty cool. It's exactly like command and conquer and things like that. Where you have your factions. You build the buildings and then you're trying to go out which later evolved into things like starcraft which took the world by storm but yeah these things were first starcraft. Just put that out. There did not never never played any of that. Okay look that up yeah. It's pretty cool. The graphics today's standard. Not that great. But if you like the lower of dune sand worms. I knew what a sand worm was new kinds of stuff back. Then and so.

In this episode Bruce and Josh talk about several games they have been playing lately, all of which have been in the BGG hotness at respective times. Find out what we thought about them and what we they brought out in ourselves and fellow gamers! Specific Games Discussed: Tapestry + Plans & Ploys (Stonemaier)A War of Whispers (2nd Ed) (Starling Games)Dwellings of Eldervale (Breaking Games)Beyond the Sun (Rio Grande) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI....Coming Soon)

This episode is a celebration! We recorded it LIVE at the conclusion of an online game day where we raised awareness and funds for Tabletop Alliance. What better way to live up how we end every episode with "go make a positive impact on the world." Bruce and Josh are joined in the beginning by some others who participated in the game day, then there is some reflection on the day as well as the past 49 episodes, and then some excitement that is to come despite everything going on in the world at the time. We are so humbled and cannot believe we are at 50 episodes, and cannot wait to do 50 more! To learn more about Tabletop Alliance Visit TabletopAlliance.org To donate to the nonprofit text "Tabletop" to 44-321 (standard message/data rates may apply) Giveaway Link: https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Giveaway CODE: “ALLIANCE”  ------------------------ Show Notes To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game Impact Like the Facebook Page: Board Game Impact Instagram: @boardgameimpact Email: [email protected] Transcript (Generated by AI) Episode 50 Celebrating 50 Episodes while Making a Positive Impact 00:00:09 - 00:05:07 Hello and welcome to the fiftieth episode. We're celebrating in this episode so we actually being recorded live so stay tuned for all the excitement and why we're doing this live. Hello and welcome to the fiftieth episode of board game impact. How crazy is that. So my name of course is bruce brown as always. I am joined by josh. So josh and i are not the only ones here. We're going to introduce a couple more people real fast but first of all if this is your first episode board game backed make sure to hit that. Subscribe button because what we're doing is we're applying our educational lenses. Both josh and i work fulltime and higher education. We apply those educational lenses to the gaming experiences. Mma games we're playing for your benefit and your game groups benefit so make sure to hit subscribe like on all the things and speaking of liking all the things i like the next people and the other people we had today on this stream because this is lie. This was a live recording that we're doing On the board game impact facebook page. So let's introduce a couple people who have been with us out of ours not everyone who is with us. This is just those who could be here right now but first of all fox you've been on the entire time introduce yourself. Hi i'm fox I play board games with bruce. And i used to play board games. Josh play board games. Josh today is great. And i'm also the financial officer of tabletop alliance and so we've been streaming all day. Four tabletop top lions. We're gonna talk all about that but justin how introduce yourself justed. Would we're friends and we'd like to play games together. Laid with all these people for a long time. It was a good day of playing games and it was absolutely great. Dan playing games. And i know you on the august dream. We did as well. So welcome back for another live episode recording conrad whereby you why is connor. They same same deal. All we play board games prime members or previous members of the twelve game or group out here in college station and gaming as well. So conrad this is. You are the conrad who i often refer to in the episodes for always whooping my tale showing me how to break games. I never always figure it out myself. Well you humble me all the time. So thank you for that So is also people we have on the stream today just to give them a little credit because there are so wonderful for sending a couple of hours with today but we had lucia on playing some games with us as well as And that was just so kind of taking y'all time out of today to play games to raise awareness for this great caused so real quick josh one or two you explain what the heck we've been doing for the last seven hours. Yeah absolutely so.

Let's kick 2021 off right by having a different and special episode to showcase how both Bruce and Josh are working to make a positive impact on the world, the quote they end ever episode with! In this special episode Bruce & Josh talk about Tabletop Alliance a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization they created which works with educators and community leaders to enhance their work through the incorporation of games! Learn more about Tabletop Alliance & Donate - https://tabletopalliance.org/ RSVP for the January 9th Game Day - https://fb.me/e/1QfqHXZOO Giveaway - https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Secret Code - "ALLIANCE" Special Thanks to: FoxDeborahDianaMatthew P(All Aboard Games)Scott B (Attorney)Michael “Futiles” To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcript (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

Tis the season and Bruce & Josh talk about their holiday wishlists. In addition Bruce and Josh share some reflections on 2020 to be thankful for and well wishes for the start of the new year. Specific Games Discussed: Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition (WizKids)Twilight Imperium 4th Edition: Prophecy of Kings ExpansionWarhammer 40K Battlezone Manufactorum Sanctum Administratus (Games Workshop)Memoir 44 (Days of Wonder)Animal Adventures: Dungeons & Doggies Volume 1Star Wars Unlock (Space Cowboys)Maracaibo (Games Up)Tapestry Plans & Ploys Expansion (Stonemaier)Warhammer Warcry (Games Workshop)Yokohama (TMG)Tawantinsuyu (Board and Dice) Contest - https://gleam.io/yNVv8/kicking-off-2021-30-mm-giveaway Secret Giveaway code "ALLIANCE" To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @brucedpbgmail-comEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:18 - 00:05:01 hello and welcome to another episode of board game impact as always. This is bruce. And i'm joined by ho ho ho. This is josh and we hope that no matter where you're listening to this from that you are able to celebrate the holidays. Whichever those are we just happened to have this music for this but no matter what holiday you choose to celebrate. Or don't we're just so thankful to get to have these winter seasons together and spend time together and just come together as friends and family and all this time and we had two thousand twenty has been a heck of a year so coming together whether virtually things like that. It's really important so we encourage you to do this. And that's why we're gonna do this episode so josh. What are we doing for this episode. Well bruce for this episode. We're gonna talk about what are the games. We are hoping. Make it under our tree this year. Exactly so for us. Josh do both and our families both do celebrate christmas but regardless it's really just the spirit of giving and so that's why we thought this would be cool just here what things we're looking forward to but in this different vein of light and so i think it's important to start us off not with what we want. But how do we ask for it. And by the way real quick if this is your first episode of ward game impact first. It's a very different than normal. The second of all what. We are biweekly. Podcast on gaming and joshua both work fulltime in higher education and we apply those educational lenses to our gaming experiences to break them down for the benefit of union game group. That sounds like something of interest to you like. Make sure to subscribe. And if you wanna learn more about us and see like behind the scenes stuff you can also head over to board game. Impact dot com to learn that or check out the patriots patriot. Patriots dot com. Such him back but with that being said josh. How the heck do we even tell people about what we want for the holidays or birthday. Whatever what do you do so this is really challenging for me. And i thinks probably something. That's challenging for a lot of gamers out there especially if you are interested in things revolve around gaming and you have family that may not really understand or be involved in the hobby So one thing that that my family does. And it's just become our thing. Is we have each of us have an amazon wishlist that is shared with the rest of the family that we can ask things to as we go generally personally i would prefer to send people other places you can find places games cheaper. It different online retailers It's nice to support. Local game stores all those types of things but we just find because my family is a little bread out that it is just a little bit easier to just have that amazon wishlist. If people want to go looking other places and find a deal or support local businesses in their areas. They are welcome to do that. But that gives everybody kind of a starting point at least...

In this episode Bruce & Josh crash through 14 different games/expansions that they have acquired during the Pandemic up to that point while talking through some considerations around managing impulses and seeking true satisfaction rather than short term joy. Specific Games Discussed: Pendulum (Stonemaier Games)Tapestry + Plans & Ploys Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Azul: Summer Pavilion (Next Move)StartUps (Oink Games)Blitzkrieg (Plastic Soldier Company)Tekhenu (Board & Dice)Memoir '44 Easter Front Expansion (Rio Grande Games)Scythe: Wind Gambit Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Wingspan: Oceania Expansion (Stonemaier Games)Racoon Tycoon (Forbidden Games)Warhammer 40K [Tau Army and Terrain] (Games Workshop)Clans of Caledonia (Karma Games)Dune Imperium (Dire Wolf Digital) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) Episode 47 Pandemic Aquisitions 00:00:09 - 00:05:14 In this episode of board game impact. Bruce and josh are going to crash course through their pandemic acquisitions once. They got him what they got in. Believe it or not they're going to cover twenty fourteen different games including expansions efan. Welcome to another episode of board game impact. As always i am. Bruce and i'm joined by. This is josh and for those of you who are new to the show. Josh and i both work fulltime in education and we apply our educational lenses to the games and experiences that were having in this great hobby for you and your gaming groups benefits if that sounds like of interest to you make sure to click subscribe on all the things so we can get this content all the time so josh it's been twenty twenty and if you're listening to this this in the future hope things are great in the future. But in the meantime we're going into the now. Holiday season of twenty twenty cases are on the rise in the united states. But we're not getting into all of that. We are going to get into is. What have we been buying throughout these last couple of months and i also have some research pulled up on our buying habits and what can be going on there during these kinds of things but we're gonna be talking about games you've acquired and also more importantly what led us to getting them and the reasons behind why we're getting them and so if you're interested in content like that wanna points you over to our youtube channel. We recently just posted another video. This one's on loss aversion particularly in clans of caledonia. So how games and other situations can make you not want to take certain actions based on the potential losses. The you might be losing things on the board or resources etc so go. Check that out over on you. Youtube pitch but josh. What are you interested in about today in this topic. Yeah so i mean we've got. I think we've both been doing a little bit of. Yeah i guess therapy shopping by the looks of it as well as just some general You know getting some new things in and playing around with them. And so i think it's really interesting to talk to you especially with With you because i i've been able just by the nature of Where where i live and the the case rates of where i've been living Things are getting a little bit worse right now. But i've been able to be playing some games in person and so My purchases have been hitting the table pretty quickly for the most part But i find it very interesting kind of change that i've seen in in your purchasing habits and so i think that's something that i'm really interested to kind of explore a little bit here. Yeah i think that's going to be cool to talk about to and you're right You have been able to get things to the table so one of the things we talk about often is position in things right. We are both married We both with our spouses. And that's all that are there.

This episode is something new for Bruce & Josh as it is conversation around a singular topic and its interactions within the gaming experience. This episode is all a researched conversation about the sunk cost fallacy which refers to people having a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in time, effort, or money has been made (Arkes & Blumer, 1985). Inspired by Bruce's recent videos on the YouTube page and a recent play of For Sale by Josh in which he felt the pressure to keep bidding money to stay for a property card enabled this conversation and we hope you enjoy. We are toying with having one of our 2 episodes a month being themed like this, let us know your thoughts! Specific Games Discussed: For Sale (Eagle Gryphon Games)Modern Art (CMON)Warhammer 40k (Games Workshop)Gloomhaven (Cepalofair Games)Wingspan (Stonemaier Games) Book: The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: Board Game ImpactLike the Facebook Page: Board Game ImpactInstagram: @boardgameimpactEmail: [email protected] Audio Transcription (Generated by AI...Coming Soon)

In this episode Bruce was inspired by the design of the Dune Imperium pre-order and conversation from the epistemology video/podcast episode to shed more light on aspects of aesthetic value. This premiered first on the Board Game Impact YouTube page, but the content transfers well to the audio format. The reason for this different kind of episode is because of the life happenings that occurred for Bruce which he discusses at the intro, and thanks you for understanding. We hope you get excited for this different type of content over on the YouTube page and would love to hear from you about your thoughts/ideas! Specific Game Discussed: Dune Imperium (Dire Wolf Digital) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boardgameimpactSubscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlAGoFLfsg2PYfl0SvthTQ/Subscribe to the podcast: https://boardgameimpact.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boardgameimpactInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgameimpact/Email: boardgameimpact [at] gmail [dot] com Audio Transcription (Generated by AI) 00:00:12 - 00:05:10 How everybody in this episode. Bruce is going to talk about the dune imperium preorder and aesthetic value stay tuned. Well how do you everybody. This is bruce with board game impact. It's just me today if you listen to last week's episode then you know kind of what's up but if this is your first episode. Welcome this one's going to be a little different than normal podcast episodes but that being said what we do over here. Impact is josh. I both work fulltime in higher education. I also teach some classes of the university. And i'm getting peachy and so what we're doing. Is we apply our educational lenses to the game experiences and games we playing and the game content we are consuming too then analyze it for your benefit and present that back to you for you and your gaming group so hopefully you can make informed choices about your experiences in the hobby and so with that being said this twenty twenty s been just weird for everybody. Let's just put it that way. And if you're listening to this in the future this is coming out at the beginning of november and we're still in the midst of the pandemic and also now all the election stuff so yes just look back on this with a grain of salt. And so what's going on to is as i talked about last week's intro i. We've josh and i both had some things. I was sick for a while. As well as i just had a family member pass in these last two weeks so i've been pulled away for family things which made scheduling regular episodes with a little difficult. And i thank you for understanding that. But that being said i have also had moments of inspiration and it's been this one of these cathartic releases of doing these things to do something uplifting while also attending all these family things which you can imagine having these spurts of emotion and feelings both that being said last week so it talked about What's called the what is knowledge and it was a crash course based on some conversations. I encourage you to go. Listen to that one. But as i mentioned i was going to be doing is this one is all about the dune imperium preorder and this actually stems from conversations in the youtube comments for that last episode so the youtube video for the last episode actually came first and then there was some conversation. Hey lean into this thing on value a little bit more. We'd like that. And i have many more ideas of different types of content of essentially combining my phd work. As well as the sport game content and trying to mash that up and present that back of cure some lessons and so. I've got some really cool things. I'm working on but to be one hundred percent transparent. The feedback for these videos has been nothing but the most reward one of the most rewarding things i've done don't get me wrong. I absolutely love recording. This podcast with josh.

This episode is a little different, as Bruce will share there has been some life things that popped up which threw off recording schedule. This being said, Bruce was able to make some new content and post it to the Board Game Impact YouTube Channel. In this episode Bruce shares what has been going on, the inspiration for the video, and the introduces the audio of the video content which has been very popular on the YouTube Channel. This is not the norm for the channel, but Bruce felt this is still a great way to get you some podcast content while acknowledging that there has been some life that has come up...alas the narrative of 2020. Thanks for understanding, and we hope you enjoy! Specific Game Discussed: Tell Stones (Riot Games) To learn more about Board Game Impact you can: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boardgameimpact Subscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlAGoFLfsg2PYfl0SvthTQ/Subscribe to the podcast: https://boardgameimpact.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boardgameimpact Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgameimpact/ Email: boardgameimpact [at] gmail [dot] com Audio Transcript (Generated by AI) 00:00:11 - 00:05:05 In today's episode of boardgame impact Bruce is off talk about bias in reviewing. So stay tuned. Howdy everybody. It's Bruce with board game impact and in this episode. It's going to be a little different. It's just me and that's wonderful. But Josh is sorely missed of course and so this is your first time tuning into board game impact where podcast in which we are bringing our educational ends is both Josh and I work full time in higher education. I also teach a couple of classes adjoining my PhD and so what we do is we take those educational lenses and apply them to the games and gaming experiences that we're playing and getting to enjoy some time and apply that to your benefit and your gaming groups benefit so you can make informed choices. And so that sounds like something of interest to you make sure to hit subscribe but that being said today is going to be a little different in that if you are listening to this live you might be wondering. Hey, I I think we're a week behind where was the content and but if you're listening to us in the future dead there was a week Gap and so what's going on in being fully transparent with everybody is Josh had his wedding anniversary and then we were supposed to record but then I actually got a pretty sick -4 That Russell looking forward to our semesters ending so we have even more freedom but that being said in these like different times and not really knowing when families going to need different things. There's a couple of moments in which I got pretty just inspired by some conversations. I was seeing online and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to do something different that I haven't done before off and that was combined the kind of work and kind of lenses. I know that sounds interesting based on the intro just did but really take like let's go to the library and let's look stuff up and let's scripts something out and let's do an educational lesson from like my teaching side of things something. I hadn't really considered before cuz there's no content that looks like that and I did it and I put it out there to the world and immediately. I got some really good feedback and I'm not going to go through like what inspired it because you're going to hear that in a second job. Is what this episode is today, is it is that first video? So this one's going to be on what's called epistemology. So what is knowledge and unpacking that as well as a little bit about value off. But the reason I did this I will tell you that and I'm going to talk about it more in the upcoming minutes here in a second. But what happened was I was in a conversation over on the secret cabal guilt cuz Josh and I both listen to the secret cabal. We love their content and there was this interesting conversation about honestly a ...