Board Game Podcast - The Dice Section

The Dice Section is a podcast about geeks and games.

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Magic: The Gathering Review

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Catchup 3: Southern Fried Gaming Expo Review

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Scythe Review

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Ex Libris Review

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Monday morning pick-me-up. @fantasyflightgames #tabletop #arkhamhorror #lcg #lovecraft (at Atomic Empire)

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Roll for the Galaxy

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Who can guess our next game with this zoomed-in shot alone? (at Atomic Empire)

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2017 Board Game Retrospective

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The Dice Section 40: Terraforming Mars

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The Dice Section 39: Fate of the Elder Gods

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We hit 100 likes on Facebook! To celebrate, @oldbie played with his dice. #dice #d20 #boardgames #tabletop #bgg #boardgamegeek #gamenight #instaBoardGamers

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. Hosts Michael Harrison, Dave Kirby, and Geoff Morochnick spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, probably more than is healthy, and then record their thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section.

This month, we give the ol' Consulting Detective biz a try and find out that it's not elementary, really. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases is the game, and the game... is afoot. Designed by Raymond Edwards, Suzanne Goldberg, and Gary Grady back in 1981, this hobby gaming classic won the Spiel des Jahres in '85, had an awesome FMV digital release on CD-ROM systems like the FM Towns and Sega CD, and is currently published by (who else) Asmodee through their Space Cowboys imprint.

So, how did we stack up against the world's greatest detective? It's a mystery! And the clues can be found... in the podcast.

Timestamps:

1:26 - All three of us have been playing Failbetter Games' Sunless Sea

20:26 - Our attempt at a Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective publishing history

32:07 - What even is Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective? In spoiler-free fashion, talk about the game and how it's played.

57:23 - We raise some concerns about the game, and give our verdict.

1:14:22 - SPOILER WARNING! We dig into specifics for cases 1-5.

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. Hosts Michael Harrison, Dave Kirby, and Geoff Morochnick spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, probably more than is healthy, and then record their thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section.

In this episode, the guys head back to prehistoric times with Stone Age from Hans Im Glück and Rio Grande Games. Theme aside (cavemen, huts, etc.), this game isn't exactly bleeding edge. Published nearly a decade ago when the hobby board game market was a very different place, somehow it escaped both Dave and Michael's attentions. Advantage: Geoff.

Stone Age was designed by Bernd Brunnhofer (a.k.a., Michael Tummelhofer) with art by Michael Menzel.

Lesson of the week? If this hut's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'.

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Also, big thanks to Minion Games and their worker placement game Manhattan Project: Energy Empire for sponsoring this week's show. Hit up their site to check out what Rahdo Runs Through calls the "number one engine builder of all time".

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Hey nerdos. @oldbie will be in Atlanta this weekend for the Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo, hanging out in the @geekdadblog Tabletop Experience. If you'll be there, hit him up to dish about games we've covered, and to play Dice Section favorites like Roll Player, New Bedford, Arkham Horror LCG, and Cosmic Encounter! #tabletop #games #family #familyfun #atlanta #atl #sfge2017

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The Dice Section 36: Roll Player

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For this episode, the guys played Keith Matejka's Roll Player into the double digits. This game, published by Thunderworks Games in the United States, with art by John Ariosa and Luis Francisco, is a dice-based game all about creating the perfect tabletop RPG character. Enjoy!

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The Dice Section 35: Sentinels of the Multiverse and Arkham Horror

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The Dice Section 34: Colt Express

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