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hot topics, and much, much more. Hey guys, welcome to episode 72.
I am PJ. Gareth's not with us today
because I am on location in Nashville, TN.
We are here at Tennessee Game Days and I am with the Tabletop
Duo. It's Adam from Tabletop Vibes.
What's up guys? And Jerry from Tabletop
Worldwide. How's it going?
So we're just going to hang out and talk about our experience
this weekend. We still have one more today to
go. We've got to finish up today
before we head home and just talk about everything.
Every games we've been playing, what we've seen, what were the
highlights? And yeah, so I think I want to
start with we, we talked a little bit about this this
morning over breakfast. It's like kind of our favorite
game, right? I figured Brown, Robin, real
quick, our favorite game of this weekend so far, with the caveat
that you may play something really awesome today.
That's. True.
That you can, like, Message us and we'll post it on another
podcast. Adam, why don't you start us
off? Yeah, I got to play well,
actually with Jerry I, we played like some mafia game that.
Was like. That was like this car drive.
Oh, and with you. Yeah, I.
Haven't had a lot of sleep. Yeah, we played this Mafia card
game where like you each take a a family member of the Mafia
gangster family and it's literally in the game like
there's there's no real rules about what you can trade or
barter or buy off people for. Not organized chaos.
Yeah, offing them. And I thought it was.
I thought it was a lot of fun because it was complete chaos.
It was good. I dubbed myself the Honest
Mobster. Right.
Because, you know, what do you look for in a mobster besides
honesty? Yeah.
And I was running laundering game on point.
And I was managing a corporate, a corporate conglomerate just
trying to make money and like. PJ was managing a huge
conglomerate, but he's not about money.
That's only about family. He told us early on he didn't
care anything about money as he gained more and more and more
money. If the if the saying is the rich
just keep getting richer, that was PJ.
Yeah, Yep. But unfortunately we did not get
to finish right. We didn't.
It's it's 4 rounds. It's actually a decently long
game. It is, yeah.
For what it is also we did it, no?
More well in in fairness to the game that we we did a lot of,
you know, side brokering and we kind of extended it on our own a
little bit. We did with what we were doing
and that's what makes the game really right, yeah.
Absolutely. And to be for our listeners, the
name of the game is La Costra, Nostra, Nostra, Cosa Nostra,
Cosa, Cosa Nostra. I probably said that wrong.
So I'm going to say it multiple times.
You guys can check it out, right?
So the whole point is that you're supposed to be a gangster
and. Cosa Nostra.
Cosa Nostra, So I'm playing the game, I I know it's gangsters, I
get it. So we also played with Dom,
right from bromide enthusiasts, and he explained the game to us.
I heard everything, he said. I understood that.
But my gamer brain was OK. I must play cards to make money.
I will build it. I did not play as a gangster in
the beginning. I just was like.
Discard a card that's. It.
I think I went down the opposite track because I was trying to
role play so much that I wasn't really paying attention to my
cards. I'm like hey.
Come on, I need. To use this guy over here, come
on. Jerry is the most honest,
dishonest mob ever. Look, I you know, I I may be out
to get you, but at least I'm going to let you know.
No. Absolutely.
It was good though it. Was fun.
I learned a valuable lesson when you're playing a game with
Jerry, oh, don't call his bluff because he's not bluffing.
Or just give him the grade. For the shake time, Jerry would
be able to play a bluffing game again.
Now you you released my secret. That's it.
Jerry was shaking down every one
of us and his kids, but he was honestly doing it, so it made it
OK. And all the while, Dom was just
sitting there, quietly. He.
Didn't need us. Played his own game and took the
lead that. Was.
I think that was a lot of fun. That was.
It was very cool, like a. Cool guy though.
Yeah. It's really great to sit down
and play a game with him. He.
Just. And he just moved to Nashville.
So he did. It was it was really good to see
him at this event. Yeah.
But we also learned that, you know, sometimes the quiet guy is
playing the long, long game and that's the one you really need
to look out for, yes. He took us all out at the end.
That's right. That's right.
Went down on a on a spree of destruction.
Quietly through. This while she was smiles.
And all of a sudden the hammer comes down.
The Dom smile. Oh yeah.
Oh, don't trust the Dom smile. So, OK, so that's Cosa Nostra.
Jerry, what was your favorite game of the weekend so far?
So you know we talked about this like you said over breakfast and
I kind of have a a hedge to answer.
So Saturday somehow unintentionally ended up being
Ivy games day right. We played three different games
from Ivy. We we we hadn't been done you
know coming into the day intending to do that.
But kind of. So I I think I probably had the
most fun playing Mythic Mischief.
It's a good one. But I think I as an overall
game, Fractured Sky that. Was.
Was probably the best for me. And then of course, you know,
getting to play Veiled is it. Failed.
Failed fate. Yeah, 99 people.
At the end of the day, what, what a, what a great way to cap
off, You know a a really excellent day of gaming.
Now, while I I cautioned our listeners that if you're playing
a game with Jerry, don't call his bluff.
I will say this if you have an opportunity to play a game and
be on teams with Jerry. Do it?
Do it How? Many times.
Did you? Twice.
I think every game where it was a team.
I had Jerry and we are undefeated.
That's right. Yeah.
I don't know. And you carry in veil fate.
You carried me. I think you won't give you this.
I don't know. I.
I said, I know you were having a heart attack at 1:00.
Point So for those that don't that aren't familiar with the
game, you don't actually know who your teammate is in this
game, right? Everybody is given a color and
so they're, you know, they're two people with the same color.
And as part of the game, you know, in addition to achieving
what the game wants you to achieve, you also try to figure
out who your teammate is. You know, in the hopes that you
can end up working together. Then you know it.
Helps. It helps.
So. Or you could or you could be my
demigod, just fail hardcore. I got to try the new expansion
expansion from IB Studios for Veil Fate and one of them is
called Eriden and he he doesn't have a piece or a token, he just
uses God powers to mess up everything and mess with all the
players. You.
Weren't good at doing that. It was.
And he has to call. That's the call at the end of
the game. All five people and their exact
colors. Well, so let me tell you how
awesome I did. I got 0 for eight 'cause I was
the 9th player so. You did almost have me.
Though I did, I actually had Jerry, you said.
You almost had me. And in the 35 seconds before the
game ended, I crossed it off and I put purple and then I was
wrong. So.
So this is, this is we got to play at Ivy Studios.
We played Veiled Fate with the coming expansion released on
Kickstarter the 12th of March. I know they've been posting a
lot on their socials, so be on the lookout for that.
I I think we all agree that that was probably the best game
experience. I don't know that it was the
best game we played so far, but it was definitely the best
experience, yeah. For the people, nine people, I
mean, it was long, but it was just a blast.
Everybody just having a great time, yeah.
We were talking about how it was, you know, kind of amazing
how it felt sometimes like a party game, but it was still
crunchy, right? So it's not like your typical
party game. It's like you're playing a
crunchy game in a party environment.
Right, right. Because it was, it's a heavy
game. It's yeah, yeah, it's very
serious. But at the same time, like they
mastered Ivy Studios, like mastered the blending of those
two environments. And the keyword there for the
whole entire time we played was. Smoked, smoked, Smoked, right?
So yeah. So there's an ad in the game.
You could discard 2 fake cards from your hand to smite the
infinitive form to smite another a demigod.
You don't know who the demigods are, right?
And they're all color-coded. They have names.
Most of us did not learn the names.
We're like blue Carl. It was not Carl, but it's crawl
or. Something, yeah, But no, There
was someone at the table who, like, was paying attention.
To and I was. Like can you just name a color?
We had like a player, yeah, that showed the colors and names
together, 'cause he'd say we're moving, you know, whatever the
guy's name wasn't we who? Yeah.
And Speaking of player aids, player aids are designed to.
Aid. The player.
Which is our next segue into PJS Awesome purchase.
Oh. Which was excavate earth.
Oh, yes, yeah. Which is it?
Was cool. It's it's a great game but the
player aids were a failure were just.
They were not aiding anybody. They did not aid anyone.
I think they confused just the people.
Like, I think people walked by and you could just tell they
just felt confused. They looked at our faces and
they were like, we gotta move on, yeah.
Well, in the playgrounds, you know the the the graphics were
very small. They weren't easy to interpret.
And then PJ noticed that when you flip the flavor 8 over, the
entire black was blank, so you could have like.
Used all. Space.
Yeah, you could have used all that room.
And it's a black card. Yeah, it's dark with little tiny
iconography and random really, really, really small color
something. So this is Excavation Earth, but
the game is yeah. So we are playing as alien
merchants and excavators, mercenary archaeologists, as it
were. And we're arriving to a future
earth where humanity's gone and they're excavating human
artifacts to sell them on the market or the black market.
Yes, very. We think that's human, but
apparently that's galactic black market.
It spans multiverses, yes. And so that's.
So you're going to dig sites on this beautiful board?
Which is? The map of the globe and you're
digging up artifacts and then you gotta, you know, really?
Really cool artifacts like fair license plates.
License. Yeah, skulls.
With horns, Skulls with. Horns.
But my favorite to be fair is the costume for the Gorn lizard
from the original Star Trek. Like that's that is that is deep
nerd them. Thank you someone for playing
that. That's right.
That was that was deep. Nerd them beautiful game, played
well, had the expansion, but we did not play it.
The rules were fiddly. A lot of weird wording.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
So Jerry and I were talking this morning before recording and we
were just we were ruminating. Here's a good word let.
Me write this one down. We were.
We were ruminating about how kind of exhausting yesterday
was. We were trying to figure out why
was it 'cause we we go to Conn's all the time and we think that
we expended a lot of energy trying to interpret the rules
and just a player aid that failed.
I'm not gonna lie. Mentally draining.
I don't think I've ever read so much in my life so and and PJ
got me to teach which hyper focused me supposedly.
Yeah. So I didn't know that I had that
much influence on you that I could like, make you sit down
and teach my game that I just purchased.
Yeah, that was an epic moment for me.
That's the other fun thing. So we actually were browsing
Tennessee game days 'cause everybody brings their games to
sell, right? And PJ saw this game and beat me
to the punch and I helped him. And then you guys really didn't
have to fist fight on the floor like that.
Yeah, I know. That was, I know.
Battle Royale. And then we were like, we went
even crazy and were like, well, let's open this game that all of
us don't know how to play and let's learn it right now.
And we did. We came, we saw, kicked this.
Yeah, we played. It was good.
Who? Who won?
Did I win that? I won that?
See. I think it was.
It was so 53570. Right.
I had 156, and if you would have sold your artifact, you would
have won 51, but you didn't because something happened.
That's OK. So that's the fundamental issue
too. Be wary if you're thinking about
purchasing this game the way that the actors are.
You always discard a card to take an action very similar to
Nemesis. You want to take an action
you've got to discard. A card which it's in theory,
it's very simple. But you've got to keep an eye on
your cards somehow, somewheres. I think you played an extra.
Card. What happened?
Is the travel card. Discard an action card, Discard
a travel card. I think the difference and the
same backs. Oh yeah, I think that's.
Where I I think in that I lost the card.
I so my my caution. I think you would both agree my
caution to new game designers when designing a game if you're
going to have multiple decks of cards have different backs to
indicate. If this is the same back, switch
the color up right. Because the action cards and the
travel cards, which were very important and very different,
played different roles, had the same back and so it was easy to
just get confused. And we also were talking about
how, you know, in the end, we spent so long trying to learn
this game and it ended up being a pretty straightforward, simple
game. Yes, but the rule book was like
a monster, right? So another note maybe to take
away is don't overcomplicate the rule book trying to, you know,
outline every possible potential scenario that could have
absolutely just tell us how to play the game.
We spent, we'll figure, spent the hour of reading the rule
book. Yeah.
We didn't know what a region was until the last page.
And it has to do with everything.
And we're like, wait, we score in the region.
And when you're in this region, you can dig in the region and
this region does a region and we're like.
What's a region? What's a region?
Yeah, that should be the title of this podcast.
What's a region? What's a region?
Episode 72 What's a region? So what else do we play?
That was pretty good? What?
Do we play after that but before the?
Oh, the the, the dinosaur game. Oh yeah, Holotype, right?
It's solid player worker placement.
Well, I'll take this one. Real quick, I have seen this
game a bunch of times. My buddy owns it.
Your buddy we've. Set it up multiple times and
never and never played it. But I'm going to say it, it's
solid and it's a good game, but it's a little longer.
It's super repetitive. Super.
Like there's nothing that really changes up anything.
Yeah, and it it just goes on. I mean, there are long to be
such a repetitive thing. Like it's not like you have
various rounds and. Well, OK, well, when you get to
round four it changes up and this it's the same game all the
way through. So they could cut off about what
maybe at least. OK, I was going to say a fourth,
but OK, half half works and it would still be the same game and
not feel nearly as very cumbersome and repetitive.
But for those of you who are interested, so it's holotype,
and it is. It's about we're all working in
a museum, in different departments.
We're paleontologists. We start with two workers.
We have a paleontologist and assistant.
Once we publish in our journal 3 Holotypes, we unlock our grad
student. Yep.
And that's the hierarchy of players, similar to Viticulture,
where you can bump other workers as you place them out to do your
actions. It really feels like it would be
for those of the for those of us.
And then we know there are a lot of you out there who are school
teachers, use board games. I think this is an excellent
it's a game, great game to teach you know, following rules, how
worker placement, how you know one action effects another.
That's that's really it really seems to be more geared.
Towards that, yeah. And then you kind of
accidentally learn about dinosaurs.
Which is right? Because that's that's the way,
you know, I feel like you're gonna reach more students in a
in a classroom environment. It's not about shoving the the
education in their face exactly, but shoving the game in their
face and they go, oh, I didn't know that a Triceratops did this
or yeah, whatever, right? I mean, I think we did that.
Yeah, exactly. It's like all of a sudden I'm
like, oh, this is a Geno type Jurassic aged dinosaur that's 21
meters long. Whatever.
Like, OK, and it was a carnivore.
And I'm like. Who knew?
Yep, right. And that all that information is
actually on the card. So it is, and not in a bad way.
Actually, the cards put together very well.
And very geared towards that education, and I really like
that. So that was that was definitely
like a solid and it was really good.
It was a very good reset from excavating earth.
We excavated earth and then we found dinosaurs.
So we stayed excavating the theme of Saturday realized.
We spent the entire, entire day. Excavating.
So Friday was all IB Studios and Saturday was almost exclusively
excavating. Yes.
Yeah. Until we became gangsters, yeah.
And then? They were starting to put people
in the ground, right? Yeah, transition from dinosaur
to. I want to, I want to talk about
Fractured Sky for a minute by Ivy Studios.
This game was amazing. Beautiful, beautiful design.
No, I'm coming to you. I'm coming to you right now,
Adam. So we played in, we played the
copy in the the base copy from the play to win library.
But Adam? Adam has the deluxe copy in the
back of his car and all he talked about was how we could be
playing. He is.
Itching to play that? Well, I so I ended up getting it
and purchasing it right before I came to Tennessee game days and
I drove down with PJ or he did with I.
Whatever. But we drove together and I was
like, I'm going to bring it because I want, I really want to
learn it. This is the time.
And then they're going to start. They started, actually.
It's kind of like, I want to jump in.
I'm like, but or we could deluxify this so that the whole
game, they're like passing that Starfall.
I'm like, you know, we could have a metal.
Starfall Yeah, that's good. And I lost by turn order.
Oh yeah, that's right. Because I preferred PJ on one
move. So the tiebreaker in the game
for almost every situation, not just the in score, is the turn
order. So whoever comes first in the
turn order wins the tiebreaker. Whatever.
Read that first. Next time, yes.
So who would have thought the the final, you know, win lose
scenario would come down to the the turn order in the game?
I think, I think the lesson that Adam learned is do not be
compassionate. Apparently I don't work because
when you're compassionate. You lose 100%, but I want you to
have that star fell. Yeah, I just wanted one point.
I I wasn't going to win, but I just wanted to score this one
thing I was. Working and my exact words were
you can have it, but it's probably going to cost me the.
Game and it cost you the game which?
I had done every single round except for that round.
TJ did it one turn faster and that's how I lost you.
So yeah, essentially in Fractured Sky, there's an
octopus, right? That's what it is in the front
of the. Box.
Yes, and he wants his star fell back.
I don't. It's something like that.
I don't know. But it's really cool.
The game is beautiful and it's a good time.
You're putting out your starships to conquer like little
areas and gain resources, and you're bidding bluffing game.
Yep, yeah, Building markets and building.
BJ Build markets, man. BJ was the market.
Building. I think that's where I got my
influence for Cosa Nostra. Only playing for actors, Sky.
I was like, oh, I need to build markets for resources.
We're all building starships against Starfile, and PJ is
like, I'll take 400 resources please.
I have all the wood and stone to build towers but it.
Was it was? I have no points, but I've all
the I have counted the market. I think at one point I was like,
you do know this is about not who has the most resources, but
who has the most starfile and you're like, I'll get there.
I just didn't get this. Cast.
It's kind of like you didn't care about money in the games.
You didn't care. About Starfall family, it's not
resources, that's right. And influence.
We've just had a blast. This has been a blast.
Oh. It really is.
Let's talk about the Let's talk about the gamers and the
players, the people we've met. Yeah, right.
So Nashville Nashville's like this.
Not Mecca, but it's got a blossoming gaming community.
Oh boy, I. Mean, there's a lot of people
that come to Tennessee game days.
For what? For what it is.
Yeah. You know, it's a lot of people.
Let's say about 1000. We were talking about 1000 under
1000 people. I'd probably say under under
1000, but that's not really accounting for coming and going.
That's true. That's true.
Oh, I just under. But then there's the locals,
right? I think the locals are are
actually a lot of the this locals I feel like.
Yeah. So huge gaming.
Community. So who did?
Who do we meet? We met TJ from TJ plays the mask
people. Yep, the mask Meeple.
Yep, the random meeple. Random meeple Maxi meeple maxi
meeple Came in from San Diego to see him.
Ameri. Trash talk, Yeah.
I finally got to meet her. Yeah.
I've been down here I think three Times Now.
And so I finally got to meet Josh and and.
May, yeah. And their son was in player 3.
It was awesome and we got to meet Dom, who is now a local.
Yeah, that's right. Right, Dom.
Just recently moved here. What a cool guy.
Steven Nashville. Nashville boy game guy, yeah.
Salem. I mean Steven.
I got his name wrong. So.
I I have to tell the story. No, you have to.
You have to tell it. And I want to.
Hear it. So.
So we're playing this big, you know, nine person game of veiled
fate, right? Yep.
And he keeps you know I'm right across the table from this is
Nashville boarding guy for that's you know his his his
handle I guess that's good And he keeps you know looking across
the table and saying hey Jeff oh good move Jeff how you doing
Jeff you know but but my name is is Jerry so.
And. So so I.
Got a big table? Right, right.
So I so I, you know, kind of corrected him the first time,
But I think he had turned away from me, so he didn't hear me.
So I thought, well, I'll try to be slick because I don't want to
be like a jerk, like, hey man, get my name right.
So I pulled my Tennessee Game Days badge out, which had my
name in big, bold letters, and I just kind of slightly put it on
the table in front of me thinking, OK, well, you know,
maybe he'll still got called Jeff the rest of the night.
And then he yeah, Jeff guy, so nice.
I'm like, I don't think it's Jeff and he goes, no it is.
And I'm like, no, it's Jerry. And he's like, it's Jeff.
And I'm like, bro, I'm telling you, it's Jerry.
So I text PJ come fucking night and I'm like, yo, worldwide, is
it Jeff or Jerry? And he sends in the morning,
it's Jerry. I'm like, come on dude.
So, so I think we can avoid all this confusion if you would just
embrace the name worldwide just just let us call you worldwide
and. But they might end up getting
called, you know, Mars wide or something.
It's like, you know, it's saying you.
Know Worldwide, Mr. Worldwide. Mr. Worldwide, Yes.
I got to say, it's nice to be with vibes worldwide, right?
Yeah. This is, this has been a great
experience and hanging out with the two of you has been
fantastic. I want to talk really quickly.
Unfortunately, this was just like this was a two player game
that Jerry and I get to play was sale.
Oh, yeah. That was like, so it was our
first night. You were staying with Steven.
And so Jerry and I were here and we went and grabbed some dinner
and we came back and we're like, hanging out in the lobby of the
hotel and it's like, you brought sale.
I did really good game. Yeah.
Again, though, we learned 2 valuable lessons, right?
We're. Learning a lot of valuable
lessons this weekend. Rule books.
OK, so this was the exact
opposite of the problem with excavation Earth, right?
So the rule book for sale it it doesn't quite give you enough
for you. To.
You know immediately Grok, what's going on in the game,
right? Right.
So. So the rule book is like maybe 2
pages, 3 pages of a smaller size, you know, maybe 4 by 4, ^2
and it. And we poured over that rule
book like it was a 50 page rule because you still couldn't
figure out exactly what was going on.
But the player aid was awesome. It was good.
Because it. Aided the player.
Yes, yes, I love it. It's like so good.
So I think the problem is movement, right?
Because like, it's a trick taking game.
When you win a trick, you move the ship towards you.
Well, first of all, we had the board line.
We had the board lined up wrong. Yeah, supposed to put the.
Board. You're supposed to put the board
long ways between the two players, and we had it kind of.
Long ways on our. Side going along the side.
So I was like, why would I ever want to?
Why would I ever want to win the trick?
Because the the ship's going to move backwards.
Right. But now it made sense.
You know, it helps when you actually, you know, set up
things correctly. That's often that often helps
the game. I found I.
Own that game, do you and I deluxified it and I have never
played it. Deluxified.
Doesn't it have like a cracking in it?
It does have a cracking in it. Yep, there is a crack.
Yeah, so I upgraded. It's like wooden pieces or
whatever. Oh, OK.
And got all the. I never played it though because
I like the rule. I started trying to figure it
out. Yeah, so.
So you see what we mean? Yeah, it's not exactly.
And I'm like trying to see where the rest of the rules are.
The Art of Writing a Rule Book I don't.
Think I can't do it? No, I couldn't.
I don't think it could be it's. Easy for me to go to sales, but
I I don't know that I could do any better of a job.
But yeah, and it's somehow. Got to be a happy medium between
too much and too. Little.
Absolutely. And everyone knows it and you
can't say it enough. It's like there is a fine art to
it and it's I think about Lord Chesterton who once said I'm
sorry I wrote you a 40 page letter.
I didn't have time to write you a one page letter because
writing concisely is extremely difficult and we as gamers
recognize that as long as the designers are willing to forgive
us. For.
Breaking the rules, right? Right.
So when we were playing Sale, you're not supposed to talk
during the game when you're playing your tricks and we get,
we talk. We talked to it turn by turn.
And in fairness, we were still, you know, trying to learn.
Exactly how it works, so we. Thought, well, let's let's, you
know, let's bend this rule a little bit, just until we get
comfortable with the game. Yeah.
So and and by the way, I want to throw this in here.
I feel like we've done a lot of criticizing of of rule books and
games. We had a great weekend and all
of these games we played there wasn't really a dud.
No among you. And it's taught us a lot of life
lessons. Yeah, yeah.
Working together, compassion, That's.
Right. The Ragin Cajun Gamer.
God. Oh.
Let's. Touch on that.
Man, I do not want to talk about this story.
But we won't. But all I have to.
Say is. You could tell it.
You could tell It's better when you tell the story.
You could tell PJ is the loving, sultry voice gamer host that you
hear Compassionate to All ends. That's right.
And then he dropped Jerry, AKA
Jeff Jeff. Jerry forgot his badge at the at
the hotel for Tennessee game days.
So PJ is like, now go back. They won't.
They won't care. So, Jerry.
They will never, Jerry. Goes ask for your ID.
Yeah, Jerry goes all the way back and then he needs it.
So he texts PJ and PJ just feels awful and he's next to standing
next to me and he's. I just feel so, so bad.
And I put my hand on the shoulder and I'm pretty sure he
thought, I said it's going to be OK And I said you should be.
And then we got I'm. Really, really embarrassed by my
behavior. I love every moment.
I completely out of character. He took the swing people and I
have never been so proud and I was like, this is the PGI I was
waiting for, for the five and a half hour drive that we took
together and now his dual personality on air is the Raging
Cajun. That's.
Gamer. That's the alter egos.
Jeff. Jeff.
We had a lot of fun picking on all the weekend.
That guy. And then of course, the raging
Cajun gamer. Yeah.
I stay constant guys. You stay constant.
You did. You did so.
Well, there's nothing to bring out with you.
You just always put it out there Anyway, It's.
Always pretty full force. That's right, you are full.
Force I do help. Spread the.
Body, spread the body, throw the pot.
That's I got Jerry going a little bit.
I was like, oh, I did hit the button.
I'm like if you want to. OK, that's a.
Very. But I but I did get the I I did
get to give it back 'cause he off my worker in the game
datefully took out one of my guys when PJ was making 21,000.
It. Has been a blast.
Guys, so we're back to Coastal no show, OK?
Yeah, well, it all comes it comes to that, doesn't it?
Really does so real quick, tell us about.
So Friday night you were at Steve's house?
Yeah, we. We played Marvel Zombies for.
My first time playing Marvel Zombies.
Like all decked out. Yeah, so Steven Nashville board
game guy. He does not go small.
He gets all the miniatures are painted.
There's scenery. We had lanterns in our like,
like posts and a fountain and trees and shrubs.
And then he even went goes further in the game, like you
can break down a door if you're going into another room, but the
doors literally split up apart and they show that they're
broken. Oh wow, that's.
And I was like, I'm never going to pie this game.
I'm never getting now. Ruined for this game.
I'm never getting the same experience, so I got to play as
Wolverine of. Course.
Of course. You know, docile Wolverine.
That's right. And we were playing against the
Sentinels and we played a hard mode and there was Wolverine.
No, there's much people there's, but all we played is all X-Men,
X-Men versus Sentinels. And it was, it's awesome.
It's a good time. It's a lot of, hey, I'm going
to, I think I was going to take this move.
Maybe if you do this and then I do this, there's a lot of like
programming set up to like take it out.
But the game is basically it's simple.
It's just the strategy behind trying to not die scenario.
I'm getting overwhelmed, but it was a good time.
So it sounds like it's cooperative.
Yeah 'cause I'm not playing. It's either.
If one person in the team of your party dies, everyone's
done. Oh, OK.
OK. And obviously people home for
this to like whatever they want to do, but the standard rule is
one person part of the party dies, the game's done, and the
scenario is lost. Oh.
Can you mix teams? Like can you have an Avenger?
Wings men team up you. Can have Doctor Doom, Spider Man
and Xavier working together. OK.
Versus like we had, I was Wolverine and Old Man Logan.
Wolverine came out as a zombie. Oh, so I was like.
Well, that must have been fun for you.
Hey Bub, let's do this. And he was like.
But we won. We wanted the the big baddie
that we had. We had to kill 3 seasonals and
Nimrod, this is another like bad guy that came out on the end and
that dude was just kicking all of our butts for a long time.
And at the end there's just tons and tons of zombies, him
standing there and Wolverine just hacking off.
Yes, it's a good time. Yeah, sounds like it.
So, well, I guess closing out final remarks, Jerry.
Annie. Oh, hell on the spine fell.
Yeah, yeah, I I, I think I might actually start making Tennessee
Game Days an annual, an annual trek.
There's a, it's a great convention.
There's a ton of people here. The Nashville area has so many
great gamers and and and content creators and it's only about a
four hour drive away from where I'm in Atlanta, had a great time
with you guys hanging out, playing a lot of great games.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Definitely. Just a great experience overall.
Great, so got a play to. There's a play to win here.
Yeah, like a lot of games. There's a game library.
Yeah, it's Substantial game library as well.
There were some good options in there and just really good
people. I mean, I don't really know what
else to say. But yeah, everybody was like,
you can literally walk up to any table.
Hey, you wanna jump in? Hey, you wanna know about the
game? You're like.
Sure, yeah. And you were going to take some
complete strangers, play Nemesis, right?
Oh yeah, we lost you. And then we see, we see PJ and
he, we're like, he's playing Nemesis.
And then all of a sudden PJ looks up.
He's like, I got to go have a great, have a great game guys,
and he's out, yeah. That's it.
So that was a really good story. I totally forgot about.
Josh is like waving me from across the room.
And so, and this is a merit trash talk's husband, I run over
like they need a teacher for Nemesis.
Anyone listen to the show knows that like Nemesis is Gareth and
I is number two behind Obsession.
So I fit Obsession into episode 72.
Gareth. You're welcome.
I I think would you guys agree that if can't make it for like a
Gen. or Origins, we need to get him here.
Yeah, that would be awesome, man.
Yeah, it's it's fun. So yeah.
Definitely would be a good time. Absolutely, Yeah.
This. Has been a blast.
It's getting to see you, especially you 2 because I I've
come now. I think it's my third year, but
I come out to see Nashville, so I Stephen, AKA Nashville.
The state is fine too. I've got to come up with a name
for Stephen that's almost Stephen, but.
Not but not. Like we'll.
We'll figure it out, we're. Gonna work on that I think.
I think it's been a good time. It's been it's always a good
time, so. So Gareth, sorry you weren't
here, but when you come to the States, we'll if we don't get
you to Gencom, we'll get you here to Tennessee Game Days.
And with that, I just want to say thank you guys for joining
me today and sharing our experience this weekend.
I appreciate. It thanks.
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