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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this month's episode, we discuss the 2016 area control, worker placement, engine building game 'Scythe.'

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this month's episode, we discuss the 2017 worker placement game 'Ex Libris.'

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this month's episode, we discuss the 2014 dice-rolling, tableau-building game Roll for the Galaxy.

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this month's episode, we discuss the 2016 tile placement/hand management game Terraforming Mars.

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this month's episode, we discuss the 2017 area control/worker placement game Fate of the Elder Gods.

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This month, we give the ol' Consulting Detective biz a try and find out that it's not elementary, really. "Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders and Other Cases" is the game, and the game... is afoot.

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In this episode, the guys head back to prehistoric times with Bernd Brunnhofer's Stone Age. If this hut's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'.

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If you like tabletop games and you're looking for an in-depth review of the latest and greatest offerings, you'll love the Dice Section podcast. We spend a whole month playing a single game over and over again, and then record our thoughts on how it held up. It's not a shallow overview... it's a deep and gory Dice Section. In this episode, the guys min-max and munchkin their way through Keith Matejka's Roll Player.

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The Dice Section answers the age-old question: is this a board game that we can't live without, or should we excise it from our gaming closet to make room for better options? In this episode, the guys revisit cooperative card games, which they have, as a rule, despised, and give 'Sentinels of the Multiverse' and the 'Arkham Horror' LCG a chance.

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In this episode of 'The Dice Section', we hitch a ride on the Colt Express, the 3D movement programming game that won the Spiel des Jahres in 2015 and finally made its way into Michael's stocking for Christmas 2016.

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This episode of The Dice Section, we ask: would you rather visit a mansion haunted by eldritch monsters, or a castle commissioned by an insane Bavarian monarch? It's a tough choice. We'll help you decide.

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The Dice Section is a podcast about tabletop games and what makes them great. In the latest episode, we revisit to 'New Bedford' because it's our new favorite worker-placin', city-buildin', whale-huntin' game. Then we talk about the winner of 2015's Tabletop Deathmatch competition, 'Bad Detectives', a tile placement game about terrible cops solving a murder in the worst possible way.

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In this episode of 'The Dice Section' podcast, we interview Marc Specter of Grand Gamers Guild and discuss their first game, 'Unreal Estate,' now on Kickstarter, as well as the challenges of work-life balance, breaking into the games industry, and the origins of a board game geek.

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The Dice Section is a podcast about tabletop games and what makes them great. This episode, we take a look at 'New Bedford', 'Sheriff of Nottingham', and 'Shadowrun: Crossfire.'

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In this episode, our first after a long summer vacation, we discuss those moments in role-playing games—video and tabletop—that made us stop and think. As young players, the idea of character dilemmas and a satisfying story were the stuff of gaming legend. Now that we're all growed up, we realize that it can happen, but it takes a special group and a GM willing to let go of a little control.

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Haircuts. Boxing. Sword and sorcery and dungeon crawls, including a revolutionary occurrence in our 5th Edition 'Dungeons & Dragons' campaign and a review of the new 'Temple of Elemental Evil' board game from Wizards of the Coast and WizKids. We reminisce about childhood games like 'Hero Quest' and 'Dragon Strike', and (spoiler alert) decide that we could all do a lot worse than 'Temple of Elemental Evil' as an introduction to the dungeon crawl genre.

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In this episode, Dave and Michael talk about social games like 'Apples to Apples', 'The Resistance', and 'Dead of Winter'. Michael also attended Unpub Mini event in Durham, NC, and has a report on the prototype games he played there.

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In this episode, Dave and Mike check out the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game and talk about race cars, spring break, and having a sense of humor about Kickstarter.

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This week on the podcast, we talk about the perennial geek favorite: the dungeon crawl. Why does the lure of loot always get us back down into those dark, dank catacombs? What makes the perfect dungeon crawl experience, and why do so many games fall just short of what we're hoping for? We play Wrath of Ashardalon, one of the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System games, and talk about everything from Descent: Journeys in The Dark to Diablo III.

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In the latest episode of the GeekDad gaming podcast The Dice Section, Dave and Mike take a spin around the karting course with Daniel Solis and his new game 'A La Kart.' They also wax nostalgic about 'Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past,' which just may be the best video game ever made.

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