Draft Mechanic
Summary: Jake and Danielle talk about their latest board gaming experiences, delicious craft beer, and find any opportunity to join the two together.
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Hot on the heels of our 2017 redux, we’re finishing up our Near & Far campaign and talk about what we’ve learned over the 10-game story. No spoilers here, unless you’re worried about knowing it’s a great game! We’re putting Hasbro’s music mixing masterpiece DropMix on tap, and visiting Carcassonne’s “The Castle” standalone in the CarcaZone. Oh, and you see that right - Draft Mechanic shirts are REAL!
It’s the middle of the year! What better time to take a weathered look back at last year’s games? We’ve played more 2017 games, and the hype has died down from others, so it’s time to recalculate those lists and see how it’s shaken out! We’ve also got Circle the Wagons on tap, recent plays of Carcassonne: Amazonas and Tokyo Highway, some odd beer news from across the pond, and a pair of Kickstarters that couldn’t be more thematically distant. Sit back, relax, grab a pint and enjoy the show!
Today, we return to the heavier side of gaming today with Vinhos in our featured High Gravity review segment, and give the game of strategic winemaking our On Tap treatment. We take a look at the upcoming The Sea expansion for Bellwether Games’ Coldwater Crown, discuss recent plays of another Carcassonne spinoff (Over Hill and Dale) and classic titles Alhambra and Cleopatra. Plus, a Beer Primer on Hefeweizens & more!
In episode 76, we review Altiplano, the new bag-building, Alpaca-farming game from Renegade Games and share a pack of beers to pair it up with. We discuss Food Truck Champion, The Mind, and Carcassonne: The Discovery; also, there’s Kickstarters, news, a discussion on sour beer, plus our final round discussion about the difference between an interactive story and a game. Enjoy!
In today’s episode, we’re looking back at our trip to St Louis for Geekway to the West! This episode’s going to break free from the normal structure as we want to talk games, games and more games! We talk about games new, old and rare that we found in the incredibly deep Geekway games library and about the convention as a whole. We’ve also got Pot De Vin, a neat trick taking game we stumbled upon at the con, on tap for some beer pairings. Enjoy!
We’re back! Today’s episode features a Variants segment where we pit newcomer team word game Decrypto against the juggernaut of Codenames. We recap Tabletop Day with Dice Throne, Hive, Biblios & Wonderland. Decrypts on tap with five beer pairings, and for the beer segment today we discuss the winners and results from the 2018 World Beer Cup. We’ll be back on our regular schedule next Monday with our Geekway to the West recap. Enjoy!
Hello again! On today’s episode, we’re looking at Rising 5, the new app-enhanced deduction game featuring some stellar artwork from Vincent Dutrait. We have a Kickstarter preview of Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker from Board & Dice, and we look at the new Happy Planet games from North Star Games, Monster Match and Funky Chicken! Also: the Boulevard expansion for Las Vegas, a history of hard cider, and a final round where we discuss what games should be called ‘modern classics.’ Enjoy!
Welcome, adventurer, to Episode 72 of Draft Mechanic! Today, we’re diving into RPGs in a few segments: Danielle’s D&D group discusses their GM’s home-brew campaign, we played Millennial Apartment Hunters, put Dungeons & Dragons on tap, and the Final Round we talk about other home-brew RPGs. We have two Kickstarter previews today: Filler from Green Couch Games and Vinyl from Talon Strikes Studios. Dive in!
Not safe for work. This board gaming advice podcast is a joint project of Aaron from Boards Alive, Jake from Draft Mechanic and Alex from The Dukes of Dice. It's a loving homage to our favorite media empire, the McElroy brothers' "My Brother, My Brother and Me." You should go listen to their stuff. Thanks for listening, and we apologize for the excessive wiener jokes.
Dungeons! They’re everywhere these days, right? Always opportunities to delve for treasure, so what makes One Deck Dungeon unique? We’ll find out today in our Six-Pack review of this rogue-like, pocket sized dungeon delving card game. If temples are more your thing, we’ve got a preview of Mystery of the Temples (hitting Kickstarter this week!). And then there’s Hardback, a deck builder of letters, and Pitch Deck, a company pitching game of tropes. Adventurer, don’t fear going into this episode alo
Order up! Today’s episode of Draft Mechanic features our usual double-feature review & beer pairings for Artipia Games’ new real-time kitchen management co-op game, Kitchen Rush! We’ve got a slew of recent plays as well with a number of smaller games, and Danielle’s beer segment is on the Cicerone beer server certification program. In the Final Round, we discuss job simulator games that work as well as some that don’t. Get it while it’s hot!
Secure that seat belt low and tight across the hops, because it’s time to travel! Our feature today is a discussion about gaming on the go, both in terms of travel games and gaming apps. We’ve got the dexterity pick up & deliver game Island Hopper on tap, plus we talk about recent plays of The Palace of Mad King Ludwig & Ponzi Scheme. We hope you enjoy your flight today with Draft Mechanic!
Today on Draft Mechanic, we take a big deep-dive into the latest heavy euro release from Quined Games, Agra. This game’s a beast and we’re kicking off a new kind of review called “High Gravity” so we can feature big, complex games like this on the ‘cast. We’ve also got a look at some new Kickstarters, recent plays of 7 Ronin and Flee the Scene, plus a beer primer on beers in the Bock style and sub styles. Enjoy!
We’re back, and we brought expansions! In today’s expandable episode, we’re looking at expansions for Tash Kalar, Scythe & Terraforming Mars. And as our own personal expansion, we’re expanding our On Tap beer selections for Scythe and Terraforming Mars as well with a few beers to pair with the new content in these two list-topping games from 2016! Our Slack chimes in on the expansion conversation by sharing their Essential Expansions.
On today’s episode, we dig into the 2-player romantic comedy board game Fog of Love! We give it the usual Draft Mechanic double-feature with a six-pack review and on tap beer pairings. In recent plays, it’s the abstract tile-placement game Favelas, the Decemberists-inspired card game Illimat, and the cow-moooovin’ eurogame Great Western Trail. Danielle runs down the details about low-alcohol beer, and in the Final Round we asked the Slack about their 2018 gaming challenges!
