Board All The Time

A podcast for anybody interested in the board gaming hobby and industry. Come for the thoughts on the games that are coming out and stay for the segment where we make each other play games we normally wouldn’t. A bi-weekly main episode with your hosts Mark, Scott, and Jason and lots of off week content otherwise.

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Episodes

Tuesday Oct 07, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Rolling in Wonderland! The new 2-4 player dice placement and set collection game from Bellows Intent and Borogove Games, this is mid-lightweight game where you'll be rolling a handful of dice and triggering all sorts of asymmetric abilities. Today we are going to be covering everything the game is about as well as touching on some of the changes you'll be seeing if you've gotten to play the game in a prior form. The game does come to us from designer Daniel Alves with art by Arthur Mask. Be sure to check the episode out, hit up their Kickstarter page, and then get in touch with us about what you think about Rolling in Wonderland! We love the guys over at Bellows are are psyched that they wanted to partner with us again on this. Spoiler alert, the whole BATT crew really enjoyed this so hopefully you will as well.
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:37 - How the Game Plays
00:08:05 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:09:33 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:12:49 - Replayability / Player Count 
00:16:55 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:22:30 - Kickstarter Details 
00:25:23 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) The Kickstarter Link! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bellowsintent/rolling-in-wonderland-0
2) Bellows Intent's Website: https://bellowsintent.com
3) Borogove Games' Website: https://borogovegames.com/games/riw
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Grand Gamers Guild! https://grandgamersguild.com - We love their games and are so stoked to be partnered with them. Check them out as well as their most recent Kickstarter project, Endangered: Australia. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/endangered-australia
Secret Door Games! https://www.secretdoorgames.org - They can be found at 215 S. Main St. in Elkhart, IN as well, Tuesday - Sunday opening each day at noon.
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Tuesday Oct 07, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this Kickstarter preview for Honor's End! The new 1-4 player co-op deckbuilding game from the mad scientists over at IV Studios, this is a beast of a game that has both an adventure mode as well as a full campaign. Today we are going to be specifically previewing that adventure mode and talking about how well the game plays at the 2-4 player ranges. Featuring wonderful art, you feel pulled into the world of Valoria here. Be sure to check the episode out, hit up their Kickstarter page, and then get in touch with us about what you think on Honor's End! There is a great opportunity right now (as of time of publishing) that you can still get in on the playtesting for the later chapters of the game, so we'll be putting a link to their Discord where the playtesting is occurring below as well.
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - How the Game Plays
00:09:30 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:13:34 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:19:25 - Replayability / Player Count 
00:23:32 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:37:37 - Recommendations
00:39:13 - Final Thoughts / Outro
--- Notes!
1) The Kickstarter Link! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivstudios/honors-end
2) IV Studio's Website: https://shop.iv.studio
3) IV's Discord: https://discord.gg/iv-games-611272410880016390
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Grand Gamers Guild! https://grandgamersguild.com - We love their games and are so stoked to be partnered with them. Check them out as well as their most recent Kickstarter project, Endangered: Australia. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/endangered-australia
Secret Door Games! https://www.secretdoorgames.org - They can be found at 215 S. Main St. in Elkhart, IN as well, Tuesday - Sunday opening each day at noon.
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Reviews: Squirrel Away

Tuesday Sep 23, 2025

Tuesday Sep 23, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for Squirrel Away! Squirrel Away is a 3-6 player bluffing game that was provided to us by the publisher Floodgate Games. It is designed by Clarence Simpson and is legitimately a wonderful game. If you like bluffing and raucous moments in party games, you've gotta look into this one. Check out the review to find out what we thought of it and let us know what you think after listening by emailing us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com!
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:50 - How the Game Plays
00:04:12 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:05:02 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:07:17 - Replayability / Player Count 
00:10:30 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:12:24 - Recommendations
00:13:49 - Final Thoughts 
00:15:46 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) No Notes! Other than I guess to say Hi Seppy! Thanks again for the game!
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Board All the Time Episode 25

Saturday Sep 20, 2025

Saturday Sep 20, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 25, another of our top ten lists with a special guest. This time was us getting Mark's good friend Austin onto the show to discuss the Top Ten Best Games We Don't Play Anymore. It's a fun topic for people who've played as many games for as long as we have to break down. We hope that you have as good of a time with us as we had recording it. This is also an episode where, yes, we are dedicating it entirely to older games but honestly it's to remind ourselves of good memories as well as maybe intrigue you in some games you may have never heard of or just haven't gotten to try. We played them all to where we're done with them, but that certainly doesn't mean that you wouldn't enjoy them. If you do try any of them out, let us know!
This is another moment of how long it's been since we recorded as well - this episode is coming out in September and I believe this was recorded back in May. The choices are all still valid, but the weird timeline jumps if you're listening to this back to back with Episode 24 is real. Regardless! Thanks for joining us on this final episode of Season One and we'll catch you on the start of Season Two on October 7th!
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro / How Do We Know Our Guest
00:02:24 - List Selection Criteria
00:04:26 - Scott's 10 (Ticket to Ride)
00:06:23 - Austin's 10 (Star Wars Rebellion)
00:07:28 - Mark's 10 (Modern Art)
00:09:52 - Scott's 9 (Mysterium)
00:11:40 - Austin's 9 (Ra)
00:12:53 - Mark's 9 (Dead Men Tell No Tales)
00:15:03 - Scott's 8 (Atmosfear)
00:16:57 - Austin's 8 (Power Grid)
00:19:31 - Mark's 8 (Formula D)
00:21:16 - Scott's 7 (Formula D(e))
00:22:09 - Austin's 7 (Manhattan Project)
00:23:03 - Mark's 7 (Space Base)
00:24:57 - Scott's 6 (HeroQuest)
00:26:41 - Austin's 6 (Anachrony)
00:29:24 - Mark's 6 (Firenze)
00:32:09 - Scott's 5 (X-Men: Under Siege)
00:33:22 - Austin's 5 (Blood Rage)
00:36:00 - Mark's 5 (Quantum)
00:38:23 - Scott's 4 (Marvel Legendary)
00:40:47 - Austin's 4 (Kingdom Builder)
00:43:07 - Mark's 4 (Tortuga 2199)
00:45:34 - Scott's 3 (Talisman)
00:50:12 - Austin's 3 (Rising Sun)
00:53:03 - Mark's 3 (Mafiozoo)
00:55:53 - Scott's 2 (Dead of Winter)
00:59:18 - Austin's 2 (Five Tribes)
01:01:46 - Mark's 2 (Heroclix)
01:04:24 - Scott's 1 (Clue Master Detective)
01:06:19 - Austin's 1 (Food Chain Magnate)
01:09:30 - Mark's 1 (Android: Netrunner)
01:13:00 - Contact Info 
01:13:51 - Outro
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Notes!
1) Pub Meeple is an EXCELLENT free resource for the board gaming community for those that want to rank their ... whatever grouping. It has an API integration to BGG to scrape their database and allow you to create a list to rank. It can be found at https://www.pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine. You can use it for things other than board games, but why would you want to?
2) Wish we had more to discuss about Manhattan Project, but Austin was the only one of the three of us to have played it. 
3) The semi abrupt transition from Scott to Austin's number six was due to the dog getting up and barking like mad for a minute or two. We completely lost track of where we were, so we just moved on it seems like!
4) Turns out that Scott and Mark just kinda had a therapy session about Talisman and seemingly invited Austin to it. There was another about ten minutes on the game that got cut out. Austin's reactions were just too good to remove.
5) If you haven't heard it yet, go listen to Austin's story about Roads and Boats in our most recent Odds and Ends Episode: The Channel Update Edition. It's genuinely funny to me.
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Reviews: FlipToons

Tuesday Sep 09, 2025

Tuesday Sep 09, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to this review for FlipToons! FlipToons was very kindly provided to us by ThunderWorks Games and is an autobattler for 1-4 players with a playtime of around 30 minutes. It's a game with few rules and an easy teach that might be great for your next game night. Check out the review to find out what we thought of it and let us know what you think after listening by emailing us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:23 - How the Game Plays
00:03:36 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:04:38 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:09:44 - Replayability / Player Count / Solo Mode
00:11:49 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:17:26 - Recommendations
00:19:33 - Final Thoughts 
00:23:47 - Secret Door Anniversary Sponsor
00:24:40 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) No Notes! Other than I guess to say Hi Jess! Thanks for the game again!
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Secret Door Games! They can be found at https://www.secretdoorgames.org or 215 S. Main St, Elkhart Indiana
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Friday Sep 05, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Thanks for the wait on this main episode to come out! August, even removing Gen Con from the equation, turned into (politely) a lot for the entire BATT crew. Between medical scares and surgeries, job changes, and all manner of other things it just became the month where we ended up needing to take the break. But we're stoked you're still with us and this episode is a lot of fun! We have some serious ups and downs on opinions through this one, so be sure to let us know how you feel about everything by emailing us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com! On with the show!
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:50 - What's Been on the Table
00:08:55 - Topic of the Week: Games We Care About in Themes We Don't
00:20:33 - Why Did I Play That: Nyet
00:36:16 - Table / Shelf / Trade
01:03:35 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party
01:16:14 - Contact Info  
01:17:04 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) Endless Winter did leave the collection. It made Scott happy, but it was worth it to track down a super hard to find grail game for Mark. 
2) Sorry for how clumsy the guys were in this episode. Way more mic knocking than we've had in ages. Gonna blame that on it being very late the night we recorded.
3) Mark picked up Wrath of Fire Mountain at Gen Con 2024 for what it's worth. It took like ten months to table the thing.
4) The Table / Shelf / Trade segment this week got abbreviated because each of the guys brought two games and while the first game from each was short enough, each of their second games went on for over 15 minutes. We left Mark's in because of a later part of the episode, you'll hear Scott's as a standalone review in short order during season 2, and Jason's will be released in a future episode.  
5) Since the time of recording, Mark has played Fractured Sky more in both multiplayer and solo. His opinions have not changed at all. 
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Secret Door Games! They can be found at https://www.secretdoorgames.org or 215 S. Main St, Elkhart Indiana
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Tuesday Sep 02, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the review for Endangered (Second Edition). This was provided to us by Grand Gamers Guild in support of their new Kickstarter campaign for Endangered: Australia, which goes live on September 2nd. Endangered is a co-op game for 1-4 players and takes about an hour per session to play through trying to save an endangered species in scenario based gameplay. Spoiler alert, we really enjoyed this one. Check out the Kickstarter campaign at the link below and thanks again to Grand Gamers for providing us the game!
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:13 - How the Game Plays
00:06:52 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:08:49 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:12:16 - Replayability / Player Count 
00:15:54 - Solo Mode
00:16:10 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:23:01 - Recommendations
00:25:36 - Final Thoughts 
00:28:48 - Endangered: Australia Kickstarter Details 
00:32:23 - Secret Door Anniversary Sponsor
00:33:20 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) The Kickstarter Campaign can be found at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/endangered-australia
2) The entire Endangered collection of games, promos, and scenarios can be found on Grand Gamers Guild's website at: https://grandgamersguild.com/collections/endangered-1
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Secret Door Games! They can be found at https://www.secretdoorgames.org or 215 S. Main St, Elkhart Indiana
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Friday Aug 08, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the final Odds and Ends episode of Season 1! You read that right. We're going to be giving a lot more detail a the beginning of the episode, but basically we're going to be taking a small break. The first few minutes of the episode cover this, but if you want to have a quick bite to read, here you go:
Through the month of August you'll still be getting new episodes (24 and 25), new reviews, everything you're used to. This is all content that we recorded prior to Gen Con and will be coming out on normal scheduling. We are, however, going mostly dark in September. This is to let us get more played, get some new content in the can without having to worry about anything, and making sure we're ready to go on all of our new ideas. You'll still get a couple of things (we have a Kickstarter we'll be supporting as well as the final episode of The Games That Made Us) to make sure you don't lose the feed, but the sheer amount of stuff we've been releasing like we have will slow to a trickle. 
On Tuesday October 7th, we'll be returning with "Season Two"! We've got some really cool plans set in place. First, Jason is now just a full time host with us. There may be the occasional episode without one of the three of us due to life getting in the way, but we expect fully to be a trio moving forward. He's been great on the show and he's helped us out enormously over the past few months with a variety of things. It just feels right to have him on. Next, we're going to be releasing a new subseries we're calling the "Expansion Packs". These are mostly going to be the off-week, non-review content where we'll be covering singular topics. The Mechanic's Shop may end up in here, New Player Journeys, as well as a super cool segment we're calling "Extra Roles." Extra Roles is going to be us having board gaming industry figures, from publishers, designers, and artists, to social media managers or playtest leads, or similar from our favourite companies coming on. This is a way for us to continue to be friends with the board gaming industry and just get more love for them out there. We've already had some really cool people say that they'd like to be on the show and we've been scheduling like mad. Our first episode of the season, Episode 26, will not only feature Jason but a designer/publisher that I'm VERY excited to have on. Some really cool stuff coming down that pipeline. You can also expect the first appearances of "Dusting Off" and some more segments in the Roleplaying Legends series to keep things spicy. 
Be sure to keep tuned into us until that point, but remember! Tuesday October 7th is the date for the new season!
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CONTENT WARNING: This episode is marked explicit because of the swearing in the blooper reel. If nothing else, you can see how tough it can be for us to maintain perfect professionalism while recording. It's honestly a lot less that it was in prior O&Es but because we try and maintain a clean rating overall, it's still worth putting the label on. 
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro 
00:00:38 - Channel Update
00:04:35 - Post-Jamey Tariff Intro
00:05:11 - Post-Jamey Tariff Comments
00:07:04 - Scott the Tanner Intro
00:07:27 - The Story of Scott the Tanner 
00:08:44 - Win, Lose, or Banana Intro
00:09:07 - The Story of Win, Lose or Banana
00:10:14 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions Intro
00:10:34 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions 
00:15:36 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions Intro
00:16:04 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions 
00:28:10 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions Intro
00:28:52 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions 
00:42:34 - Outro
00:43:13 - Blooper Reel
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Notes!
1) It's always a surprise to me when assembling all of this stuff, of how much it I don't think even works in these episodes. There are a surprising amount of bits that just don't even make the cut here. Hopefully you enjoy this episode, it was fun to go through all the scraps and see what was left to dust off and trim up for you all to hear. 
2) In the segment about the Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions, I said that I had already stated my number 12. If you don't remember what it was, then you'll just have to go listen to that episode again!
3) Tuesday! October 7th! Season Two! WOO WOO WOO!
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com
Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com 
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Reviews: Pillars of Fate

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Pillars of Fate. Pillars of Fate is the new 2 player only game in the Veiled Fate series of games from IV. This game is a lane battler that will have players placing cards within 3 lanes over the course of 3 rounds called ages. This game will be using all of the characters as introducted between Veiled Fate and it's Tribunal expansion and maintain the Scorpion/Feather structure that you may be used to from those games. While you do not have to have played the other two games in the series, having the familiarity of them and how they operate will make onboarding with this game much easier. A game of Pillars of Fate will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week. 
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:55 - How the Game Plays
00:08:07 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:09:35 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:12:44 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability
00:14:21 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:18:22 - Recommendations
00:20:31 - Final Thoughts 
00:21:57 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30. 
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com
Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com 
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

Reviews: Graft

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to our series of reviews for the brand new, small box IV Studios games. In this review we'll be taking a look at Graft, the new small box drafting and push your luck game from IV Studios set in the world of another of their games, the soon to be released Tend. While you can very much see the threads connecting the two games together if you've played them - essentially the card rows you'll be building in Graft are the manifest that you assemble by stamping in Tend - you certainly do not need to play one to know the other. Graft is the much, much lighter and shorter game for 3-5 players and will take you about 30 minutes per session. We were provided this copy by IV and as such this is a sponsored review of the deluxe edition of the game that will be available at Gen Con later this week. 
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This episode's segments:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:54 - How the Game Plays
00:07:22 - Learning Curve / Ease of Teach
00:09:29 - Artwork / Components / Iconography
00:12:43 - Solo Mode / Player Count / Replayability
00:15:08 - What's to Like, What's to Dislike 
00:18:13 - Recommendations
00:19:18 - Final Thoughts 
00:21:57 - Outro
--- Notes!
1) Once more, you can find IV Studios at Booth 2239 at Gen Con and the game will be releasing at $30. 
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You can email us at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com.
We can be found at www.boardallthetime.com and on Facebook at Board All The Time. 
We're on BlueSky now and loving it! At this point it really feels like BlueSky is for board gaming, so definitely check us out on there at https://bsky.app/profile/boardallthetime.bsky.social
If you would like to check out Mark's Top 100 list, it can be found at: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/347553/top-100-games-2024-edition
If you'd like to help support the show and assist with the hosting costs, you can do so with our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/boardallthetime
Our Discord server, which is still in Beta, can be joined at https://discord.gg/VbRWEpc6
We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:
Robin's Nerd Supply: www.robinsnerdsupply.com
Eco Owl Press: www.ecoowlpress.com 
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music. 

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