Player One | Player Two: The Board Gaming Duo - Episode 24: 2019 in Review

Episode 24: 2019 in Review

01/21/20 • 54 min

Player One | Player Two: The Board Gaming Duo

We wrap up our inaugural year of the Player One | Player Two podcast a little late (hey, at least it's still January!), and talk about the 2019 games we played. Some hot hot heat, some IPs, and at least one game about trains. We also manage to squeeze in a pair of tangents on area control and Stefan Feld.
What were our favorite games of 2019? Odds are we may have already spent some time talking about them. And what were yours? Maybe we've got some overlap. Well, perhaps...
Theme & End Credit Music by Javier Suárez (Jahzzar)
http://www.betterwithmusic.com/
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Episode 23: PAX Unplugged 2019

Hobby gaming is, at its heart, a social hobby. We have lamented before that playing as two players makes it seem like you are living in a bubble–which is why we started this podcast, after all. That being said, we were very excited to get out of our little bubble by finally partaking in our first convention experience when we visited the locally hosted PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia.
We demoed games, we learned the importance of reading schedules, we ate delicious Indian food, and we left with a hot dice drafting game in our complimentary reusable Cool Stuff Inc tote.
So how was it? How was PAX as a convention? Perhaps more importantly for us: How was PAX as a first convention?
https://unplugged.paxsite.com/
Theme & End Credit Music by Javier Suárez (Jahzzar)
http://www.betterwithmusic.com/
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Episode 25: Should I Stay or Should I Go

All right, so this may be the Player One | Player Two Podcast, but that doesn’t mean we’re happy being locked out of 3+ player games. With that in mind, we realize that some “Two Player Variants” are messier than others.

Dummy players, AI decks, or even Bot Systems are all versions of variants that allow a 3+ player game to be played by two players. In addition to the main course game here, we’ll also spend a few minutes discussing two other games’ variants we’ve experienced recently that have gotten a 3+ player game onto our exclusively two player table–with varying results.

Escape Plan (2019) on Board Game Geek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/142379/escape-plan

Theme & End Credit Music by Javier Suárez (Jahzzar)
http://www.betterwithmusic.com/

Check out our blog!
http://playeroneplayertwo.tumblr.com