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Awarding Our Favorite Decisions in Games from 2025

Episode 246 - The 2025 Decidies The hosts continue their now TWO year tradition of awarding our bronze, silver, and gold medal decisions of the year.  Congrats to all the winners!   Timestamps 11:15- honorable mentions 24:45- Agent Avenue 29:15- Vantage 33:05- Bomb Busters 38:00- Waddle 41:05- …

Top Table Award 2025 (Saturday Review)

Another year has passed, and it's once more time to announce the winner of Tabletop Games Blog's highly sought-after and extremely prestigious Top Table Award of 2025. The top slot for this year will join the hall of fame alongside previous years' board games that made it to the number 1 spot on th…

Historical Humanity - the human element in modern historical board games (Topic Discussion)

I have long been fascinated by historical board games. I was never very good at history in school, but whenever I play a board game with a historical setting, I feel I learn something. Often, I feel compelled to find out more about the events that took place back then. No class in school ever evoke…

Overplayed and Underplayed Board Game Themes

Tired of yet another cozy mushroom harvest or another horde of shambling minis? We take a scalpel to today’s most overused board game themes—nature deluges, zombie burnout, Cthulhu overload, space saturation, and farm fatigue—and talk about why they once worked, why they’re stale now, and what coul…

Historical Games and Pax Renaissance with Andy Nealen

Episode 253- Historical Games and Pax Renaissance Pete is joined by Andy Nealen, an academic, game maker, and podcaster.  Together they explore what makes the historical war games so special but also so niche in the hobby.  Also, Pax Renaissance is in both of their top 10 games of all time, so the…

Molly Houses and Queer Georgian London with Marcus James

Send us Fan Mail Armchair Historians Show Notes Marcus James — Queer History of London / Molly Houses Episode Summary In this episode of Armchair Historians, Anne Marie Cannon talks with Marcus James, founder of Queer London Tours, about the hidden and deeply human history of queer London. Their co…

No Grindr in 1724, But Molly Houses Were Queer Heaven!

Three hundred years before dating apps, queer men in London found each other in Molly Houses - secret gathering places where they could drink, dance, find community, and be themselves in a world that wanted them dead.This episode tells the story of one of the most extraordinary figures in early que…

The Fug of Silent Approval

Welcome to “But, Why Vikings?”. Each episode your hosts Tim Clare, Ava Foxfort, and Iain McAllister will answer a variety of tabletop related questions sent in to them by listeners. From tabletop etiquette to historical mysteries there is no question too esoteric for this group of gaming agony aun…

Episode 12: Games That Inspire Post-Game Discussions, with Alex from Talking Shelf Space

Isn't it fascinating how certain games make you think while you're playing, and then after, plunges you into interesting discussions with the other players? In this episode, Alex from Talking Shelf Space joins Candice to highlight board games that inspire post-game discussions. ...and before that, …

Back in Time - the draw of history in board games (Topic Discussion)

I never enjoyed history at school. I understood why it mattered as a subject, but learning names, dates and events off by rote simply didn't work for me, no matter how hard I tried. Events were never taught in their chronological or geopolitical context. Things just didn't make sense to me. So it s…