Fantasy and Some Flights: A Board Game and Book Podcast

We are continuing our series in Mechanics Exploration with Worker Placement! We cover all the classics and hopefully some new names. With a too-spicy bourbon and a sweet ale from the past we are excited to talk through this excellent genre! - Flights: 01:05 | Whats on our Table: 07:25 | Icebreaker: 19:17 | Discussion: 32:23 | Recommendations: 45:03 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e15-games-worker-placement-it-gets-the-meeple-going - - Reach out to us on: Our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/jHk4jEe Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

After several weeks off Fantasy, we return this episode with a big topic: Story Arcs. A well researched and developed topic, our conversation brings us across established models, treasured classics, and exciting new works. I also try my first mixed drink on the podcast and Nelson found a way to bring more math to beer! Our What's on our Minds section is long after such a long interlude so we hope you find a recommendation that excites you! - Flights: 00:39 | Whats on our Minds: 07:09 | Icebreaker: 20:04 | Discussion: 30:30 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e15-books-story-arcs-giving-shape-to-lists-of-events - - Reach out to us on: Our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/jHk4jEe Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

After covering Nelson's favorite genre in Episode 12 it is time to cover Dalton's favorite: COMBAT. Specifically in the form of Area Control and Dudes on a Map games. We talk through the politics of combat-heavy games and offer some excellent recommendations for this tricky genre. As always we sample some tasty drinks this episode and share our experience with a personal GenCon. We hope you enjoy! - Flights: 00:56 | Whats on our Table: 05:21 | Icebreaker: 20:16 | Discussion: 29:23 | Recommendations: 44:26 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e14-games-dude-you-re-on-my-map - - Reach out to us on: Our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/jHk4jEe Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

We are joined this episode by Charles Mruz, director of the recently released documentary, Gamemaster. In the episode we learn a bit about Charles and his journey developing this lovely work which follows the lives of 4 independent board game designers. Lucky for us, Charles is also a lover of beer and bourbon and brought a drink of his own to the episode! - Flights: 01:50 | Icebreaker: 07:41 | Gamemaster Discussion: 16:06 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e13-games-gamemaster-ft-charles-mruz - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

This episode's engine building theme poses some of the toughest discussions, questions, and choices of the podcast so far. With great drinks, a fascinating icebreaker, and some of the toughest recommendation decisions, this episode lived up to every bit of excitement that Nelson felt for the topic! - Flights: 00:41 | What's on our Table: 6:14 | Icebreaker: 18:40 | Engine Building Discussion: 29:43 | Recommendations: 47:55 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e12-games-builders-start-your-engines - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

The counterpart to the hero story: Villainy. We are excited to discuss what brings a villain to life in a story, a character that is often more complicated and intriguing than the hero themselves! Hear us discuss our drinks of choice, our recent adventures in the fantasy / sci-fi worlds, and a topic discussion on what makes our favorite villainous characters so captivating. - Flights: 00:37 | What's on our Mind: 6:53 | Icebreaker: 16:56 | Hero Discussion: 36:33 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e11-books-the-villains-3-voldy-palps-and-galby - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

Bourbon is one of the cornerstones of our podcast, and with this episode we begin truly exploring it for the first time. After covering our recent board-game-filled weekend, and answer a couple of user submitted icebreaker questions, we talk through where to start, how to taste, the definitions and origins of different whiskeys, and taste our way through the 5 major whiskey countries. We hope you grab a whiskey of your own and taste along with us! - Flights: 00:00 | What's on our Minds: 1:28 | Icebreaker: 4:21 | Discussion: 21:27 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e10-booze-whiskey-tasting-and-the-kentucky-chew - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

Cooperative games are easily some of our favorites to talk about as this is our favorite genre of game! In this extra-length episode we taste some booze, take listener-submitted icebreaker questions, talk through the traits and benefits of cooperative games, and offer recommendations of varied complexity to meet your needs. We hope you enjoy what has certainly been one of our favorite episodes to produce! - Flights: 1:02 | What's on our Table: 8:47 | Icebreaker: 17:26 | Discussion: 22:57 | Recommendations: 58:17 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e9-games-co-ops-cool-kids-compete-collaboratively - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

The Hero Story is prevalent in fantasy and sci-fi, resonating deep in our hearts with stories of courage, endurance, peril, and triumph. We are excited to explore this topic, drawing on our favorite stories and love of heroes to break down what it means to be a hero, our favorite moments of heroism, and the heroes that are closest to our hearts. - Flights: 00:59 | What's on our Mind: 10:03 | Icebreaker: 20:41 | Hero Discussion: 27:41 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e8-books-heroes-of-fantasy-and-sci-fi - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

Welcome to Deckbuilding, the first in our series of Mechanics Exploration! In this episode we tackle explaining, analyzing, and recommending games that take advantage of Deckbuilding as a primary Mechanic. Several of our favorite games utilize Deckbuilding, so we are have been looking forward to this episode for a while! Let's get started with what we have to drink. - Flights: 00:57 | What's on our Mind: 03:58 | Icebreaker: 18:02 | Deckbuilding Discussion: 23:17 | Recommendations 47:46 - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e7-games-deckbuilding - - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

We've been looking forward to researching and discussing this week's topic - Narration Styles. How is a story told? How do we, as readers, interface with the story and grow to love the characters? We are exploring this topic over some choice beverages and looking forward to sharing our thoughts! - Our Show Notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e6-books-narration-the-telling-of-a-story - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

Wait, it's not a Thursday, but we do have a bonus episode for you all, Happy Easter! This is our first "play along" episode! We will start by explaining how to play a famous Roll & Write game, Welcome To, then playing the game together with you. We suggest downloading the "Welcome To" app from App Store or Google Play Store, which functions as the score sheet for the game, grabbing your favorite beverage, and playing along with us! We start to explain how to play the game at 5:30, but if you already know the rules you can jump ahead to 34:55 and start playing! Our show notes can be found https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e5-5-play-along-welcome-to! This has the city plans as well as Dalton and Nelson's board they completed so you can compare how you did! We will give a shout out to whoever gets the highest score! Reach out to us and let us know your scores: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com, Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos, Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

This game would top both of our lists if we allowed ourselves to compare Gloomhaven to "normal" board games, but it is far too special for that. In this episode we will tell you all about the masterpiece that is Gloomhaven and walk you through the starting 6 classes to give you a feel for how the game plays when you first start out! - Flights: 01:23 | What's on our Mind: 03:20 | Icebreaker: 10:48 | Topic: 16:09 | Mindthief 28:54 | Brute 40:24 | Tinkerer 49:59 | Spellweaver 59:45 | Scoundrel 1:09:40 | Cragheart 1:21:09 | Discussion / Strategy Talk 1:28:27 - Our show notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e5-games-gloomhaven-starting-classes! - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!

Wanted to share a quick bonus episode on our favorite games outside of our top 5 games!

Flights: 00:35 | What's on our Mind: 01:56 | Icebreaker: 04:51 | Topic: 09:33 - Today we are discussing one of our favorite topics - the Magic of Fantasy! Specifically, the systems employed to inject whimsy and wonder in to a story to generate interest and connection for the reader. Our conversation will walk through the Hard and Soft Magic systems, describing the characteristics and benefits of both and leading to some recommendations to expand your library. - Our show notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e4-books-experiencing-the-magic-of-fantasy! - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com, - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos, - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Cheers, and enjoy!

In this episode Dalton and Nelson dive into the new, more descriptive, way to give boardgames a rating. There are three different components to this MEC system: Mechanics, Experience, and Components. Follow the silliness that occurs when we try to fill out a spectrum of games, from good to bad in each of these categories! - Our show notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e3-the-spectrum-of-games-the-mec-system! - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com, - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos, - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy

For our second episode we're here to share our top five book choices! You're in for a range of Fantasy and SciFi novels, with a surprise splash of Historical Fiction. No spoilers (unless you have not read Harry Potter books 3 and 4, which are referenced in a couple discussions), so don't be afraid if you hear a title you haven't read! We're hoping to give you a feel for the novels we love, the series that have shaped our personal narratives, and the writers who fill our minds with fantasy. - Our show notes can be found here: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e2-an-intro-to-fantasy-and-some-flights-our-top-5-books! - Reach out to us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com, - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos, - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy

In this episode Dalton and Nelson talk about their new podcast: Fantasy and Some Flights! They enjoy a couple of beverages and discuss their top 5 board games. We are looking forward to the journey with you all! Our show notes are located at: https://www.fantasyandsomeflights.com/post/e1-an-intro-to-fantasy-and-some-flights-top-5-board-games - And you can contact us on: Our website: www.fantasyandsomeflights.com, - Our Instagram: Fantasyandsomeflights for some cool pictures and videos, - Our Twitter @AndSomeFlights! - Hope you all enjoy!