Shane Dayton
Deblockle was a game that instantly caught my attention when Phil described it, because games that fall under the “chess-like” category that actually deliver are pretty far and few between. While the description of “chess-like” can be thrown around. This is a simple strategy game that is easy to pick up, has a small amount …
The awesome thumbnail made by Braden for this video says it all: for just a few minutes of planning a day you can save an elf or dwarf from overused and cliched stereotypes and turn them into something new and exciting. While certain stereotypes make sense, are reassuring, or make for some good story telling …
The title of the third episode of Table for Two says it all: Heather tolerates Phil’s fanboying. You can tell from the beginning that Phil is really nerding out big time and Heather looks on with bemusement. It’s a promising start to what ends up being another great episode of the YouTube show “Table for …
Sagrada is an intriguing game that doesn’t follow the same type of rules that most dice games do. Each round has dice that go back and forth between players who are attempting to use a combination of certain numbers and colors to create “stained glass windows” out of their dice that fit the patterns they …
Deadly Days is considered a rogue-like video game, one that takes place not in the dungeon crawling fantasy realms of a Dungeons & Dragons type world but in the stylized pixelated world of a zombie apocalypse. There are few settings more appropriate for a recurring “shoot ’em up” map exploration like rogue-like games promise, and …
The first YouTube show ever put together by any of the Assorted Meeples. Artist extraordinaire and lone Mac fan of the group, Pheeeeiiillllll, aka Phil, tossed this out as an idea in early June and to be direct, we loved it. Phil and his lovely wife Heather are avid board game fans, have an awesomely …
It makes sense that if there was a single way to find a “minor” loophole to create a really unique and different build that Shane would find it. Realizing that a wizard not having armor proficiency was because of class traits, and that there was one race that had medium armor proficiency as a racial …
One of the reasons so many of us fall in love with tabletop roleplaying games whether Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Vampire, Werewolf, or one of the dozens upon dozens of other amazing systems out there is the stories. A really memorable campaign has moments that players will think about for years or even decades to …