ep 16: Dice Chucking in the Darkness

FromLimited Play Time

Start listening View podcast show

ep 16: Dice Chucking in the Darkness

FromLimited Play Time

ratings:

Length:

29 minutes

Released:

Jul 8, 2018

Format:

Podcast episode

Description

This week we're leaving the light in favor of the dark side with Massive Darkness, a fully co-op dungeon crawl from CMON. We discuss the virtues of loot and dice rolling as well as the two branches of HeroQuest's family tree.

Released:

Jul 8, 2018

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

We're a board game podcast that discusses one board game at a time that we've had limited play time with.

Skip carousel

Limited Play Time: A Deck Building Adventure!: This week we're talking about the only deck builder we can agree we like, Clank! Or as it's actually named, Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure. Kyle also talks a little about some of the differences between the newer version of the game, Clank! In! Space! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
Limited Play Time Episode 1: Cthulhu Wars: Our first episode of Limited Play Time has us talking about our experiences with Cthulhu Wars, a massive area control board game by Sandy Peterson set in a Lovecraftian Earth! Get in touch with your inner Shoggoth and join us! by Limited Play Time
27 min listen
Limited Play Time: Putting a Boat in Your Fjord: We discuss Blood Rage, which is an area control, miniatures, card-drafting, death-chasing viking game! by Limited Play Time
27 min listen
ep 15: Mechs, Tigers, and Farmers, Oh My!: This week we're discussing Scythe! The 2016 action selection, worker placement, area control, mech warfare, hero adventuring, power wagering engine builder from Stonemaier Games! It's got hexes, wood, AND plastic. So much to discuss and not enough time! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
Limited Play Time: The 3 Lanes of the High Seas!: We discuss our two play times of Rum & Bones: Second Tide. It's a pirate themed, MOBA-inspired, miniatures game! Put your favorite Pirate movie soundtrack on in the background for maximum enjoyment! by Limited Play Time
25 min listen
Limited Play Time: Cultist Killing Carousel. With Tentacles!: In this episode we discuss Fate of the Elder Gods, another Cthulhu game. This one's a worker placement game with a few unique twists thrown in. How many Cthulhu games will we discuss before the end of this podcast/the end of time? Only Nyarlothotep knows. by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 34: Nemo Sinks All Your Battleship: This week we’re talking about Nemo’s War, the solo-adventure game that can (sort of) be played cooperatively! Climb into this auditory submarine as we explore the depths and 20,000 leagues of breadth of this gorgeous piece of cardboard and wood! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
Limited Play Time: Beetlejuice Island: We discuss Spirit Island, the co-op, colonist-scaring game from Fabled Nexus! by Limited Play Time
30 min listen
Limited Play Time: Spewing Red All Over Your Friends: We talk about our time with the original Fireball Island from 1986 PLUS we added an extended section about Kyle's impressions of the new remake of Fireball Island currently up on Kickstarter! by Limited Play Time
48 min listen
Limited Play Time: Rats vs Babies: This week we're discussing Rattus, a game about spreading The Black Plague and babies around Europe while competing at who can keep the most babies alive, and Kingdomino, a small kingdom building game in which no babies are harmed. by Limited Play Time
27 min listen
Limited Play Time: The Spiciest Conversion Game: We review our limited time with Scoville, a game about growing, harvesting, and trading/cooking peppers! by Limited Play Time
20 min listen
ep 76: Unmatched Merry Men: The GenCon 2019 train keeps a rollin’ on today’s episode where we talk about Unmatched, the new game from Restoration and Mondo Games! It’s a deck driven, miniature skirmish game with such a light rule set that you could teach it during an elevator ride! But is it fun? Join us on this journey through time and fiction and find out! by Limited Play Time
23 min listen
ep 31: Let's Feast for Odin!: Clear some space at the table because we’ve got a FEAST of a game! We’re talking about A Feast for Odin, a massive game from Uwe Roserberg that has all the mechanics you’ve been looking for: Tetris in a house, sending Vikings off to strip mountains of their natural resources, sending pieces of a dinner table away on a Viking boat, and more! Get your stomach ready! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 17: The Lore of Broken Battle Dice: This week we're looking at Battlelore: Second Edition, a fantasy themed light wargame! Kyle goes super deep (much deeper than anyone probably wants) and Jason stays in the kiddie pool! by Limited Play Time
30 min listen
Limited Play Time: Behind the Lemonade Curve: We discuss our plays of Food Chain Magnate, a fairly heavy game from Splotter! They have an otter as a logo, so they're clearly the cutest board game publisher in the world. by Limited Play Time
20 min listen
Limited Play Time: The Splendor of Toilet Games: We discuss the best ways and places to play Splendor and the reason why it fails to be at all educational. by Limited Play Time
24 min listen
ep 28: Breaches and Browncoats: Two games, for the price of one! Which, until we have a way to monetize, is ZERO! We’re discussing the miniatures skirmish game set in the Firefly universe, Firefly Adventures: Brigands and Browncoats! Then, because we just can’t stop the bullet train, we’re going to ALSO talk about our time with Aeon’s End: War Eternal! It’s a deck building adventure! Wait… That could be confusing. by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 30: Top Ten Halloween Games: Happy Halloween! It’s October so we’ve decided that our Top Ten list for the 30th episode will be All Hallows Eve themed! Open your candy bag and let us pour in our Top Ten picks for Halloween gaming! by Limited Play Time
31 min listen
Limited Play Time: Top Ten Games of ALL TIME: It's our tenth episode, so we're celebrating by starting a tradition of doing Top Ten lists on our Tenth episodes! We're starting by doing our top ten games of all time because we thought it could help give people an idea of our gaming tastes. And because it's what we want to do. So, without further ado, our Top Ten Games of All Time! by Limited Play Time
52 min listen
ep 39: I Present To You, The Big Book of MADNESS!: This week we go deep into a discussion about whether or not The Big Book of Madness is or is not a Cthulhu game! Or at least, we mention for a second before delving into how the game actually plays and whether or not it’s fun. Maybe we focused on the wrong discussion. Jury’s out. by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 23: Cthulhu's Favored Cultist: This week we're discussing our impressions of Evil High Priest, a new game from Peterson Games. We took on the roles of leaders of cults trying to competitively raise Great Old Ones from the Elder places, and whoever does the most summoning goes home with a Ribbon of MADNESS! by Limited Play Time
24 min listen
ep 20: Top 10 Joys of GenCon 2018!: We're hoping to encourage you all to join us at the next GenCon by telling you what's so wonderful about the convention! Bad Game Demo's made the cut! by Limited Play Time
33 min listen
Limited Play Time: Nicole Kidman and the 7 Sins: This week we're looking at The Others! Not the Nicole Kidman horror film, the CMON horror board game! It's a 1vsAll-scenario-based-evil-fest! So get ready to test your FAITH in our podcast and we'll tell you what we think of it, and how it compares to other games with similar playstyles! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
Limited Play Time: Witch Hunting Your Friends' Friends: It's a game about witch hunting, but it uses worker placement rather than hidden roles, like you might assume. by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 19: The Castles of Burgundoom!: This week we're talking about the medium-weight Eurogame, The Castles of Burgundy! We also discuss our perception of what constitutes "a Euro" and which one of us is the bigger Euro-Fan! Mechanics! by Limited Play Time
30 min listen
ep 46: Housekeeping!: Limited Play Time apologizes for several things and revisits a couple more. Plus, a news bit! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 40: Top 10 Games Played in 2018: It’s the holiday season, and we’re here to join you and your loved ones by the fire while we talk about the BEST games that were new to us in 2018! This episode is PERFECT for your drive to Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve because it’s EXTRA long! It’s the 40th episode, so we’re suspending the usual 30-minute time limit to give ourselves a holiday treat with nearly an hour of board game discussion! by Limited Play Time
53 min listen
ep 22: Insert Coim to Play: We discuss the new Eurogame, Coimbra! Wonderful colors, game design, and rules rules rules! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
ep 60: Gettin' Digital: This week we break from reviews and time constraints and have relaxed discussion about what we like and don't like about digital adaptations of board games! What works, what doesn't, and when can we expect digital Spirit Island?! by Limited Play Time
35 min listen
ep 36: The Geometry of God Games: This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about Orbis, a new tile-laying, kingdom building, god-game from Space Cowboys! Can choosing hexagonal tiles and building them into a pyramid make you feel LIKE A GOD? Listen and find out! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen

More Episodes from Limited Play Time

Skip carousel

ep 138: Crowdfunding Catharsis: This week we’re taking a break from our typical review format to try a topical, conversational style instead. We’re discussing crowdfunding like Kickstarter and how it’s changed and affected the board game community over the years. Let’s think together! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 137: Atlantis Sinki... Atlantis Rising: Atlantis Rising is the name of the game we’re talking about this week. Can we stop it from sinking? Will it ever actually rise? If so, does it then become a mythic floating air city? Also, is the game any good? Hark, an episode! by Limited Play Time
26 min listen
ep 136: Marvel Dice Throne, Akropolis, & Wormholes!: This week we’re covering Kyle’s impressions of Marvel Dice Throne and checking in with Jason after he’s played a couple more games of Akropolis and Wormholes. 3 games in one episode! What even is the podcast anymore?! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
ep 135: Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings: Today we’re bringing you the State of the Imperium Address! We’re discussing the Twilight Imperium expansion Prophecy of Kings, our overall feelings about Twilight Imperium in 2022, and also a few more thoughts about the new Twilight Imperium-themed Roll and Write game, Twilight Inscription. Open comms and prepare to transmit! by Limited Play Time
33 min listen
ep 134: GenCon 2022 Extravaganza: GenCon was last week and we’re finally here to do a debrief! In this episode we talk about the following games: Mini Rogue, Unmatched, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Kingdom Death: Monster, Guild of Merchant Explorers, Mall Hero: Paranormal Activity, Kill Team: Kill Zone Live, Atlantis Rising, Oath, Critical, Akropolis, Wormholes, Killer Queen, Tabletop Escape Room: To The Aid of Santa, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Blood on the Clocktower, Twilight Inscription, The Crew, and A Battle Through History. by Limited Play Time
88 min listen
ep 133: GenCon Preview 2022: It’s our special GenCon 2022 preview episode! Jason and I have combed the Board Game Geek preview page and pulled out several games that caught our eye, so have a listen and find out if any of them are worth your attention and time at the show! Games discussed during this show include: Warhammer, Castles By the Sea, Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Twilight Inscription, My Father’s Work, Dice Hunters of Therion, Akropolis, CoraQuest, Wormholes, Planet Unknown, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Spaceship Unity, A Battle Through History, Evergreen, Maui, Forgotten Depths, Terracotta Army, and Distant Suns. by Limited Play Time
47 min listen
ep 132: It's a Wonderful World vs Fantastic Factories: It’s our very first LPT Cage Match! In one corner, weighing in at 2.30 out of 5, we have It’s a Wonderful World! And in the other corner, weighing 2.16 out of 5, we have Fantastic Factories! Surely, one game is a better game than the other, right? RIGHT??? by Limited Play Time
38 min listen
ep 131: Destinies: This week we’re looking at Destinies, published by Lucky Duck Games! Is it Joan of Arc with exploration? Is it 7th Continent with QR codes? Maybe! We don’t really discuss those exact points, so decide for yourself! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 130: Grail Games: It’s a special list episode! Today we’re talking about our top 10 (between both Jason and Kyle) “Grail Games,” meaning board games that are difficult to acquire but still desirable. Specifically, the ones we don’t already own but would like to, if it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. by Limited Play Time
51 min listen
ep 129: Photosynthesis: This week we’re talking about Photosynthesis. The board game, not the process you learned about in biology. It’s all about growing trees, harvesting tress, and a Pac-Man-looking Sun that feeds instead of eats! by Limited Play Time
22 min listen
ep 128: Ankh: Gods of Egypt: Behold the glory of Ra! Or whoever the alligator guy is. Dog heads! Cat heads! It’s time for Egypt! Ankh: Gods of Egypt, in fact! Brought to you buy CMON and Eric M. Lang as the third of a trilogy of area control games! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 127: Button Shy Games: This week we’re looking at a record-breaking FOUR games, all from publisher Button Shy Games! We’re talking about Agropolis, Liberation, Antinomy, and Hórreos! They’re little, they’re short, and they’re affordable! A welcome change from most of the other types of games we usually talk about! by Limited Play Time
35 min listen
ep 126: War of the Ring: Second Edition: Put on your robe and wizard hat because this week we’re finally reviewing Jason’s favorite game of all time, War of the Ring: Second Edition! The Eye of Sauron gazes upon us while we discuss how the game plays, who might enjoy it, and who might want to throw it into the crater of Mt. Doom! by Limited Play Time
31 min listen
ep 125: Lost Ruins of Arnak: This week on Limited Play Time we’re taking a look at one of the hottest game of the last couple… few? Couple-few years? I’ve lost track due to pandemic-time. But anyway, we’re talking about Lost Ruins of Arnak! It worker placements, it deck builds, it resource managments, it research tracks! What CAN’T it do?! I guess… I guess we don’t really go into that. by Limited Play Time
25 min listen
ep 124: Middara-UMAO: This week we’re being transported to the high-fantasy, leather jacket-wearing, gun toting, demon-infested World of Middara! It’s anime, it’s dungeon crawling, it’s narrative, narrative, narrative! All the best things, right? Listen on, and find out! by Limited Play Time
27 min listen
ep 123: The Night Cage: No, this is not our Nicolas Cage tangent episode, though that would have been fun. We’re talking about the BOARD GAME, The Night Cage! We played it at GenCon and talked briefly about it on a GenCon episode, but now we’re back to do a SLIGHTLY deeper dive into the dark, mysterious hole we have to crawl out of with nothing but a candle stick and some hope. by Limited Play Time
24 min listen
ep 122: LPT Gift Guide: It’s the holiday season, and you’re frantically looking for ideas for your game-loving family and friends! Calm down! Put down the knife! LPT is here to help with suggestions for the best possible gifts for every type of gamer! That we thought of! Now drink some hard nog and take a nap! by Limited Play Time
61 min listen
ep 121: Surprises!: This week we’re flipping the script on our previous episode and talking about our 10 greatest surprises in board gaming! These are the games that had the widest gulf between expectations and pleasant outcomes! It’s like a second helping of Limited Play Time top 10 lists during this festive Thanksgiving week! by Limited Play Time
41 min listen
ep 120: Disappointments: We intended to do a recording of us playing an actual game that would’ve been actually entertaining, however we’re disappointed to say we don’t think it was going to work out. So instead we’re bringing more disappointments! Our top 10 disappointments in board gaming! Some of these are good games, really! Just a swing and a miss or two that took the wind out of our sails. by Limited Play Time
53 min listen
ep 119: Cosmic Frog: This week we’re travelling into THE COSMOS as we become 2-mile high frogs with a hunger that only planets can satisfy! How did we not realize these were frog-Galactuses before? Anyway, this week we’re covering the one-of-a-kind board game, Cosmic Frog! by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 118: The Hunger: It’s SPOoooooKY October, so we’re incidentally bringing you The Hunger, a game about vampires racing to bring flowers back to their castle! And maybe a few human blood-bags too. We super didn’t plan this for Halloween, but we’ll enjoy the horror themed appropriateness anyway. Get your deck building boots on because you’ll need ‘em to get through all the snow, swamps, hills, and graveyards in your way. By building a dope card deck. by Limited Play Time
26 min listen
ep 117: Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy: Our galaxy has been reborn, again! This week we’re reviewing Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, the second edition of the very popular Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy! Put on your space suit and charge your warp cores, it’s an epic 4x space opera for the ultimate prize… Victory points! by Limited Play Time
29 min listen
ep 116: GenCon 2021 Day 3: It’s our GenCon wrap-up episode as we’re combining all of the RPG and board games we played on days 3 and 4 together in one episode! Games discussed in this episode include: Cosmic Frog by Deviant Weasel Games, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Factory 42 by Dragon Dawn Productions, Kemet: Blood and Sand by Matagot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Change is Constant by IDW Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail by Burnt Island Games, and Furnace by Hobby World and Arcane Wonders! by Limited Play Time
39 min listen
ep 115: GenCon 2021 Day 2: We’re still alive on GenCon 2021 Day 2. We’ve been surviving on pizza, donuts, and immune boosters and we’re ready to talk (a little) about The Night Cage by Smirk & Laughter Games, Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, and Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game by Genius Games! by Limited Play Time
17 min listen
ep 114: GenCon 2021 Day 1: It’s day 1 of GenCon 2021 and we’re masked, vaccinated, and ready to throw dice at zombies, vampires, and whatever else this convention can throw at us! We’re starting by discussing Skytear and Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall! by Limited Play Time
17 min listen
ep 113: Bloodborne the Board Game: This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about how much of our souls we’ve lost to Bloodborne the Board Game, another game by CMON. Is it the next big thing in dungeon crawling co-operative games? Maybe, but probably not. by Limited Play Time
28 min listen
ep 112: Cthulhu: Death May Die: What do YOU want to do with $110 this weekend? The answer MIGHT be “play Cthulhu: Death May Die!” But you’ll never know unless you listen to this review of the game! Set your sanity marker to 0 because we might drive you crazy with ANOTHER Cthulhu game! by Limited Play Time
31 min listen
ep 111: Marvel United: This week we’re talking about our experience with Marvel United, the co-op Marvel Superheroes game from Spin Masters and CMON! It’s an EXPANSIVE game system with a LOT of content, and there’s currently an X-Men version in Later Funding mode, so give us a listen and see if you think it might be for you! by Limited Play Time
27 min listen
ep 110: Top Ten Games of All Time 2021 Edition: This week we’re going back and REVISING our personal Top Ten lists! Thing change, and they definitely have since 2018! It’s an extra-long episode with extra-many games to discuss, so get comfy and buckle-in. Games discussed in this episode include: Root, Hive, For Sale, Unmatched, Marvel Champions, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Gloomhaven, The Castles of Burgundy, Power Grid, Kingdom Death: Monster, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, Spirit Island, Memoir ‘44, Too Many Bones, Cthulhu Wars, Magic the Gathering, and War of the Ring. by Limited Play Time
66 min listen
ep 109: Suburbia: This week we’re taking a look at another game from Bezier Games, Suburbia! Are you a fan of Sim City? Cities in general? Hexagons? Then Suburbia has something for you! We take a look at the game in general but also how it compares to its sibling game, The Castles of Mad King Ludwig. by Limited Play Time
30 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

ep 16: Dice Chucking in the Darkness

ep 16: Dice Chucking in the Darkness

Description

Titles in the series (100)

More Episodes from Limited Play Time