(upbeat music) Hello and welcome to Game the Game. I’m your host Becca Scott and I wanna show you a really cool game today, but first let me show you how to play it. Yee-haw! (whip) We’re herding cattle and loading them trains. That’s right, it’s Great Western Trail from Plan B Games. My nose made a weird sound in that one (nasal). (upbeat music) GWT pits two to four players in a cattle count and competition to be the
Read more– I was about 14 when I realized that I was a capital G Gamer. After a childhood spent playing the usual roll your dice and move your pawn games, I thought that tabletop games were stupid things for kids, not nearly as interesting as the facemeltingly amazing graphics and storytelling in video games like Altered Beast. It only took a couple of weekends for me to learn that tabletop games were not stupid, and they were not just for
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(upbeat quirky music) Hey, friends. Welcome to Game The Game. I’m your host, Becca Scott. And every week on this show, we bring you a cool new tabletop game. This week, we have Court of the Dead: Mourner’s Call. And I have some amazing guests, including the game’s creator. Right here, we have Tom Gilliland. Hi, how you doing? You promised me a mustache twirl. (Becca laughs) Right next to Tom, we have Sam de Leve. They are the co-creator,
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(upbeat music) Oh hey there. I hope you’re having a great day, and I hope it will be made better because your watching Game the Game. I’m your host Becca Scott, and I’m about to show you the game Root. But first, let me show you how to play. We’re building roots in the trees, and crafting boots for the vagabonds. That’s right, it’s Root from Leader Games. (upbeat music) This asymmetrical game of adventure and warfare pits two to
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– Many of us are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood. But, for those of you who haven’t been watching Dr. Who this season, here’s a brief primer. He and his band of Merry Men, including Friar Tuck and Little John lived in Sherwood Forest, where they’d rob from the rich, and give what they stole to the poor. No one ever talks about their operating expenses, which is weird to me. Anyway, a lot of the rich people
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– In our modern lives, we often race from one thing to the next, never stopping to take a breath, have a good meal, enjoy the company of strangers, or sit in a hot spring with a monkey. Today on TableTop, J. August Richards, Chris Kluwe, and Jason Wishnov are here to travel with me to a quieter time, when the journey was even more important than the destination. We will all be travelers going from Kyoto to Edo, along
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(upbeat music) Hey friends, welcome to Game the Game. I’m your host Becca Scott and I am so excited for today’s episode, we’re gonna play Betrayal Legacy. Now first things first, I gotta show you how to play. We’re losing our sanity and betraying our companions, that’s right, it’s Betrayal Legacy from Avalon Hill. (upbeat music) This updated version of the popular haunted house hunt pits three to five players as generational family members exploring a haunted estate over the
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