131 Devon Dice Podcast Topic Tapas #3 Rules, holidays and more CLANK!

Devon Dice Presents

Episode 131

Welcome to Episode 131 of the Devon Dice Podcast, where we serve up a delightful mix of gaming and pop culture chat in our third installment of Topic Tapas! Joel, is your host, and he is by Nick, our Spiel des Jahres Analyst Extraordinaire, and Sam, putting the “Yo” back in “polyomino”. In this episode, we’ll dive into the games we’ve been playing—Pioneer Rails, Darwin’s Journey, and Terraforming Mars with some exciting custom twists. We’ll also share some rules we got hilariously wrong, chat about holiday board gaming, and explore the non-gaming things we’re currently obsessed with!

Topic 1: Played games

• Joel: Pioneer Rails
• Sam: Darwin’s Journey
• Nick: Terraforming Mars with Prelude 2, custom Milestones & Awards, and on the fan-maps Vastitas Borealis and Amazonis Planitia big-map

Topic 2: Rules we played incorrectly for ages before…when, where and how

• Joel: Clank! Crystal Caves
• Nick: Borrowing one of Chris M’s: Century: Spice Road
• Sam: Jamaica
• Discord: join in here https://discord.gg/ma7Z4Jvv2z
  • BoardGameJimmy: Terraforming Mars
  • Craigdavid1987: Valeria card kingdoms

Topic 3: Holiday aBoard Games

• Joel: Tails from Cyprus board gaming

Topic 4: Non-Gaming Things We’re Currently Into

Joel

• Deadpool and Wolverine – at the ol’ cinema
• Clank Digital

Nick

• Wyatt Earp & The Cowboy War on Netflix
• The D-Con Chamber – Star Trek actors, Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, interview other Star Trek cast and crew from all the varieties of Star Trek
• Star Trek Prodigy Season 2

Sam

• Alien: Romulus
• Replaying Dredge
• Bought a Steam Deck – Lewis was right.

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