Jason Waeber and Elijah Moreland of The Albino and the Bear podcast join TJ and Jason for this episode of Seven Questions. Their discussion ranges from those elusive formulae that designers seek to those elusive out of print games that collectors seek to those gaming life goals that you all know you have.
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Seven Questions Episode 7: Gaming General Knowledge with Geoff Engelstein and Kaarin Engelmann
In this episode, Jason is joined by Geoff Engelstein, designer of games such as the upcoming titles The Fog of War and The Dragon and Flagon and co-host of Ludology, Kaarin Engelmann, designer of one of Jason's favorite games (Rise and Fall), assistant convention director and webmaster for the World Boardgaming Championships, and recurring panelist Tom Jones. The panel talks about gaming general knowledge such as "What is a wargame?" and "What is a Euro?" (even "what the heck is a waro?"). The trivia game is a little more brutal than normal, with a penalty for a "predictably wrong" answer.
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Seven Questions Episode 6: Fog of War
Panelists: J.R. Tracy, blogger and essayist recently published in the anthology Zones of Control. Tom Grant, Host of I've Been Diced Tom Jones (TJ), Recurring Panelist This episode deals with the problem of modeling fog of war and what systems do it well. Discussion also includes friction. The trivia is related to fog of war.
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Seven Questions Episode 5: The GMT COIN Series
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Seven Questions Episode 4: Vlaada Chvatil and the Czech Republic
Panelists: Tom Grant of I've Been Diced Tom Jones, recurring panelist Chad Mekash, frequent podcast and BGG contributor The trivia is about the Czech Republic, which the panelist know more about than they expect! The gaming conversation is about one of our favorite designers, Vlaada Chvatil. The panel talks about what makes Vlaada unique and his more influential designs. They also talk briefly about his more obscure designs, discovering that there are some that they hope to play (Bunny Bunny Moose Moose, anyone?).
Seven Questions is a monthly podcast by Jason White, formerly of the Point 2 Point podcast and currently a recurring panelist on the I've Been Diced podcast. The guests will discuss board gaming topics while also competing in a trivia contest on a related (sometimes tangentially) topic.
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