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The Polyhedron Collider Cast The Polyhedron Collider Crew
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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Three British chaps talk about tabletop gaming of all kinds. Board games, card games, miniatures and more. Each episode we talk about what games we've been playing and our thoughts on them
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Live form UK Games Expo 2024
Recorded live at UK Games Expo 2024, the boys talk about the board games that have got their attention from this years show, as well as eclairs, sore losing, and our old mate Ron Dell.
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Games Mentioned
Ada's Dream
Terminus
Horror on the Orient Express
SETI
Courtisans
Shackleton Base
Coffee Rush
Chronicles of Light
Mutagen
Acropolis
Athena
Aethermon
Arkham Horror the RPG
Avalon
Keep on Questing
Ironwood
Galactic Cruise
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Episode 148 - The UK Games Expo 2024 Preview
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Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content
The UK Games Expo will be hitting the Birmingham NEC between Friday 31 May and Sunday 2 Jun 2024 and to say the boy from PHC are excited is an understatement. In this episode we go through the board games and table top roleplaying games that we are most excited to see, think about our annual miniature painting competition, and talk about the food we plan to eat!
Come see us live on Sunday in Piazza 4 - Dice room at 11am. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1418-polyhedron-collider-uk-games-expo-live-podcast/
Check out the full geeklist at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328923/most-anticipated-games-of-the-uk-games-expo-2024
Find out more about the UK Games Expo at https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/
Games Mentioned
00:13:00 Avalon: The Riven Veil
00:17:54 Ada’s Dream
00:21:04 Undaunted 2200: Callisto
00:26:08 Mutagen
00:28:55 Infinity and Warcrow Adventures
00:31:22 Celestial Affinity
00:35:38 Candela Obscura
00:38:48 Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game
00:48:37 Terminus
00:56:26 The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
00:57:29 Rebirth
01:02:10 Sid's Mystery House: Vrahode: Age of Prophecy, Shackleton Base, and SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
01:11:43 Yonder
01:13:50 The last picks: Courtisans, The Flames of Fafnir, and Sand.
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Episode 147 - Carpe Diem, Salton Sean, and Sea, Salt & Paper
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Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content
The boys from the Collider waste little time in the latest episode of the Collider Cast and get straight to business discussing the clever but hideously ugly Carpe Diem by Stefan Feld on which both Andy and Rory agree upon, for a change. Steve talks us through the deeply satisfying, if not mentally taxing and beautifully pastel Salton Sea from Devir Games. Sid and Rory chime in with their two cents of their experience of that and Sea, Salt and Paper that they'd enjoyed on a work day bunk at the Games Den.
The episode wraps with some burning questions from the bag bag, such as Bacon of Sausage Sarnie.
Games Mentioned
00:04:12 Carpe Diem
00:19:20 Salton Sea
00:46:32 Sea Salt & Paper
00:58:36 Questions
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Episode 146 - BGG Top 100, Apiary, and The Vale of Eternity
Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content
We are over a quarter of the way through the year, so that means Rory and Steve, are a quarter of the way through their BGG Top 100 challenge, so we look back at the current highlights and lowlights and of course talk about some of the best board games currently playable.
But its not all about looking back as we go into detail about card drafting game Vale of Eternity, a game that’s much deeper than it looks, and Apiary, a Euro-style game themed around bees in space. We then dip into the mailbag for chat about the themes we are fed up of.
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Games Mentioned
00:02:50 Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin
00:08:10 BGG Top 100
00:32:17 Vale of Eternity
00:43:54 Apiary
01:01:45 Questions
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Episode 145 - Airecon, Heat, Faraway, and Sidequest Nemesis
Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content
Join the PhC boys for Episode 145 as Andy discovers his lucky totem that allows him to make it to and from Airecon without his car breaking down. Steve accedentally creates what is sure to be the best fabric softener in the history of fabric softners. Sid invents a new word #Begrumble, and Rory awards himself the board game equivalent of the Victoria Cross for playing his least favourite game on the BGG Top 100.
They also discuss the highlights and the further highlights of Airecon, which unsurprisingly consists of food, beer, and board games (in that order), including: a chaotic and hilarious game of Heat from Days of Wonder, the light and delightful "revesres action-programming" Faraway from Catch Up Games/Hachette, and challenging, almost dinner-reservation-missing, Side Quest Nemesis from Board & Dice.
A quick dip into the mail bag reveals thier most hated "popular" game and an announcement that if you are not already following Polyhedron Collider onInstagram, now might be a good time to do so as there is an upcoming competion supported by show sponsor Kienda!
Games Mentioned
00:10:22 Heat: Pedal to the Metal
00:22:23 Faraway
00:31:54 Sidequest: Nemesis
01:03:55 Secret Identity
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Episode 144 - Kutna Hora Ark Nova and Blade Runner RPG
Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content
In this episode we tread the rain soaked streets of the Blade Runner RPG, blow up dissident planets in Star Wars Rebellion, and explore the best Dungeons & Dragons adventures. But this is not before we take an in depth look at the historical economic game Kutná Hora: The City of Silver from CGE and give an in depth look at zoo builder Ark Nova (aka Terraforming Zoos).
Games Mentioned
00:00:00 Star Wars: Rebellion
00:06:15 Brass: Birmingham
00:09:45 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
00:30:50 Ark Nova
00:56:27 Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game
01:09:43 RPG questions from the mailbag
✍️ Episode References
Blade Runner RPG
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/blade-runner/
Dungeon Magazine
https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine
Kienda
https://www.kiendagames.com/
Free League Publishing
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/
Twilight 2000
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/twilight-2000/
Call of Cthulhu
https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/
Cthulhu Pulp
https://www.chaosium.com/pulp-cthulhu/
Achtung! Cthulhu
https://www.modiphius.net/pages/achtung-cthulhu
Curse of Strahd (D&D Module)
https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/curse-strahd
The Whispering Cairn (Dungeon Magazine)
https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine
Clashes Sepulcher (Dungeon Magazine)
https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine
This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider
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Customer Reviews
Comedy & Games
I thought I was at my max capacity for board games Podcasts already when this podcast was recommended to me. DEAD WRONG! I put this podcaast off for a few months and I'm sorry I did because they are hilarious. It's not my first choice for getting the most info about the most games, but it's easily my first choice for humor and entertainment while also learnign about games. Great podcast, just not kid friendly, so listen in the car
Charming but inarticulate Brits
A couple of blokes discuss their feelings about board games, with a focus on feelings. Short on the kind of comparisons or descriptions of game content that might make their reviews more helpful.
For example, they say Gaia Project is similar to Clans of Caledonia, both of which they’ve reviewed, but they don’t actually compare them. They also describe CoC as an area control game (it isn’t) and least helpful of all, finish off reviews with “it didn’t quite tickle my fancy and I can’t put my finger on why.” Then why am I listening to you?!
Humor AND Discussion
These guys do a very nice job of discussing board and miniatures games, and they do it with a great sense of humor. It's one of those podcasts where you feel as if you're hanging out and listening to a group of your friends.