BGB Podcast #11 – Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
The king is dead! Long live the king! That’s right, Kalen’s out this week, and we’re stepping up the podcast with a fresh new sound. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Why is everything so heavy? Well, we all played Dominant Species together, and so we’re in a heavy sort of mood. There’s a very vocal subset of the community that’ll insist a game isn’t worth playing unless it’s mechanics are punching above a certain weight. But, surely there’s room in a collection for the light games, the easy games, the so-called gateway games? We hash it out, but before we get into Dominant Species and games of its ilk, we revisit Codenames, Pictomania, Clank! and take a first look at The 7th Continent.
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Timecodes:
01:37 – Codenames
02:28 – Clank!
08:52 – Pictomania
12:27 – Dominant Species
28:20 – The 7th Continent
37:37 – Heavy Games
Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.
You should try Dominant Species faster game play variant where you remove a couple dominance cards.
Noted! I’d be curious to try it again with that.
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