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Five Games for Doomsday Ben Maddox
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4.8 • 58 Ratings
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Five games for Doomsday is a show in which people are thrust into a cabin in the woods but can only take five of their games with them. Which will they choose?
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5G4DnD-Temple of Elemental Evil Part 3-Welcome to Hommlet
In this episode our crew finally reach the village of Hommlet, Lady Blue and Zanoush try to charm some guards and Gunner helps Saar with a crisis of confidence, they speak to a villager about strange goings on but what will she tell them?
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5G4D News Flash-Black Beard w Volko Ruhnke
In this news flash Ben talks to war game designer Volko Ruhnke about his new game, The Hunt for Blackbeard from Fort Circle Games.
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VIllage Rails[SAMPLE]
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Ellie Dix
This week's guest is designer and consultant, Ellie Dix. We talk about games in the classroom, running a game consultancy and family games...but which games did she choose?
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Terraforming Mars
Railway Rivals
Patchwork
For Sale
Cryptid
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The Spielworxx Bulletin-The Spiel des Jahres Episode
In this episode Ben and Uli have a little row over the Spiel des Jahres, board gaming's biggest award. Also we talk about 'hobby' designers and how the globalisation of games has been a benefit to the industry.
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5G4D News-The Accessible Cook Book Episode
In this episode Ben talks to Casie Vogel about the Ticket to Ride Cookbook and Michael Heron about his book on accessibility in games. Also we give some patreon nicknames and answer your questions.
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Customer Reviews
5G4D can’t be beaten.
I’ve been listening to Ben since the earlier days of his previous podcasting venture, and over the years he has just gotten better and better. I don’t always agree with his opinions, but I never tire of his hard work and dedication to delivering excellent interviews and commentary. He and Steve have developed a comfortable rapport, and the show always delivers some laughs as well as really interesting content. Ben’s game reviews break away from the tired format of “sort of teach the game, just enough to bore you without actually telling you enough to play, what did we like/dislike, etc.” Instead, he puts a game into context with similar games, rants about thematic strengths or weaknesses, treats games as cultural and artistic products and discusses what they bring to our lives.
True, there’s a lot of swearing, so if that puts you off be forewarned, but for most of us, that’s “a feature, not a bug”.
Top of the heap
A great, talented; funny, sufficiently attractive person doing fantastic, smart, to the point interviews. I wish I was Ben Maddox.
Gaby
Host of Board Game Snobs
Good!
Really like the episodes where he interviews and gets the 5 games from people in the industry. The news shows are…mostly entertaining, somewhat meandering, but when I listen to them they are pretty notable for several intrusive and relatively long commercials. Kind of a big turnoff for me personally. I don’t begrudge the need to monetize the podcast at all, but I guess I’d rather just give on patreon than with mycommercial listening, the way most other boardgame podcasts do.