BGS salutes board game designers Marceline Leiman, J. Carmichael, and our hip hop North Star: Professor Mike Jordan. Drink of the Week (4:33) It takes a dark beer to break a dark mood. Notes on Bristol Brewing Company’s Winter Warlock, a stout from Goat Patch Brewing Company, and two Golden City Brewery beers — Coconut Chaos Porter and Core Sample …

This isn’t any goddamn game. (Preview Photo: PokerPhotoArchive.com) Drink of the Week (1:59) I tried a couple Fine and Dandies at The Hive, Trinidad’s newest spot. Game of the Week (5:00) My neighbor Jeremy Lanosga did not lose his appetite for risk or competition after the fall that left him partially paralyzed. He tells us how he ended up at the …

Bonus points if you know what ATCQ line I’m referencing in the cold intro, it’s Golden Era 101. Drink of the Week (1:37) Bow before the Ruthless Megatron Bloody Mary. Game of the Week (5:11) I get super wound up talking about my favorite and least favorite things about board gaming. Track of the Week (23:24) ”Inventor, staying on point like a splin…

Breakup Gaming Society salutes Daybreak co-designer Matteo Menapace, who deserves an apology and an invitation back to the event from the sniveling milquetoasts who run Spiel des Jahres. Drink of the Week (3:10) Farmer’s Punch, as seen on Outdoor Test Kitchen. Here’s the recipe: ►Watermelon 1-inch cubes - X3 ►Simple Syrup - 3/4 oz ► Vodka - 2 oz ►C…

Drink of the Week (2:27) Michelob Ultra. I can explain. Games of the Season in Review (4:17) • Vale of Eternity • Wingspan • Cascadia • Cockroach Poker Track of the Week (23:46) ”Trick Dice,” eLZhi & Oh No. A muscular 2023 artistic victory lap from a Detroit legend.Av Breakup Gaming Society

Drink of the Week (2:12) I crushed most of a fifth of Milagro Reposado and called my friend who worked in a foundry in Saginaw, MI in the ‘70s. It was educational. He let me record it. Game of the Week (11:09) Our winner—and entertaining runners-up—from our Boardgames and Debauchery story contest. Hear all the stories. Track of the Week (21:55) DJ …

Drink of the Week (1:42) My summer officially began when I tried my first Bulldog at The Market Bar. Game of the Week (4:33) Final Girl: Madness in the Dark thrilled and demoralized me. Track of the Week (21:55) We’re full of tequila and we’re going to light the place up with ILL Bill, Mr. Hyde, Gortex and Necro.…

Drink of the Week (2:18) Pairing Larceny Bourbon with Avery Brewing Co.’s Stampede Colorado Gold Lager. Game of the Week (7:10) Will Dustrunner — the second game I’ve acquired from Grey Gnome Games’ Tin Series — steal any table time from Tin Helm? Let’s find out. Track of the Week (14:49) ”Practice,” by J-Live, from DJ Jazzy Jeff’s The Return of th…

Drink of the Week (2:35) It’s the Battle of the $28 American Whiskies as two decrepit Southerners square off in a death match to win my praise. Game of the Week (7:21) Win a copy of fellow Trinidadian Dustin Hyman’s Gutter Punks and Breakup Gaming Society’s “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends” in our new story contest. The hitc…

I persist in my attempts to teach you how to party. Drink of the Week (2:35) The Fetid Haze, built around Pikes Peak Hill Shine and one of the five recipes in Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends. Game of the Week (8:53) Staring back into the charred and radioactive eye sockets of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. I still love …

Be the death of the party with “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends,” a booklet with four original shots and one cocktail recipe, all poured on the show. Drink of the Week (1:45) Had to drink home remedy tea because I got real sick the same week the cocktail booklet came back from the printer. I blame you. Game of the Week (6:13…

Celebrating the end of the holidays, a.k.a. America’s Triple Crown of Suicidal Ideation. Drink of the Week (2:48) Does an arbol chile, a stick of cinnamon, and several days of solitary confinement do the same magic for Jim Beam that it did for Tin Cup Whiskey? Let’s find out. Game of the Week (5:33) Chronicling my ongoing attempts to learn Thunderb…

After I happily reported all the Mr. Beast cookie displays had been pulled from the Trinidad Safeway, they put one back out. I’m so pissed. Drink of the Week (2:35) Zero complaints from me or my pals upon knocking a big dent in a fifth of Bird Dog’s 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon. Game of the Week (5:37) Bohnanza, the bean farming game, still hits …

Hogs will be cranked in celebration of a heroic Colorado Congressman. Drink of the Week (3:28) I used Tin Cup as a base for infusing my own l’il jar of cinnamon whiskey. I’m never going back to off-the-shelf cinnamon whiskey and neither should you. Game of the Week (7:07) Remembering board games with my intense Pappy, beginning with Stratego as a b…

My friends at Trap Queen(TM) tease their new product, Flav-R-Stompt Fish Dinners. Drink of the Week (3:27) I drank two bottles of Yellowstone Bourbon this summer and I loved them. Game of the Week (7:56) Ever had a casual game group where one player practices it on their downtime and shows up at your table in beast mode? That’s what happened with o…

I got in trouble with my sponsor, Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders, for omitting their theme song, so this week I sang it for them. Drink of the Week (3:13) I’m on a little dryout, but we’ll have lots of things to say about Yellowstone Bourbon next episode. Game of the Week (5:15) The story so far of Achille Kickx, the character I made for the GM-les…

We’d like to thank our latest sponsor: Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders. Drink of the Week (3:14) China down at the Market Bar on Commercial St. put me up on game with her Cantarito recipe. I remember only fragments of the rest. Game of the Week (6:21) Playing a stripped-down version of Trivial Pursuit by phone with Augustus Crimes in the wee, bleary…

Drink of the Week (3:45) Chilled Stoli w/lime and Chocolate Cake Shots Game of the Week/Tracks of the Week (7:37) Bumpers and listener call-ins from our first sloppy playthrough of Bannerless Games’ VOID 1680 AM. (You can find all 12 songs from our four sets here.6Av Nate Warren

Hey, there are still “thank you” gifties available as part of my June fundraising drive. Drink of the Week (2:49) The simple charms of the Banquet Beer and Dulce Vida tequila. Game of the Week (6:06) I’ve now played Sagrada in solo mode hundreds of times. Here’s why I like it. Track of the Week (10:29) The Lord Finesse tracks will continue until mo…

At the racetrack, God Complex Bacon Breakfast Toaster surprises everyone with a strong finish at the rail. Drink of the Week (2:14) A perfectly fine cinnamon whiskey that I’m not buying again. Game of the Week (7:17) Bullshit I’m not playing anymore: Cards Against Humanity, Uno, Talisman, Mysterium. Track of the Week (14:41) I simply cannot get thr…

It’s my show, I can fart on the cold intro if I want. Drink of the Week (3:23) Riding out the last of the cold months by pairing a rotating cast of stouts — Guinness, Murphy’s, Dragon’s Milk — with a Jim Beam Devil’s Cut back. Game of the Week (6:54) Meet a hot-tempered former undertaker with wooden teeth, a wayward ranch hand who knows a lot about…

Reunited with a lost buddy over the holidays in kind of a bleak hotel. We’re joined for a game of Cockroach Poker by a bunch of kids in the lobby. Later in the episode: rock with me to a Lord Finesse track and then a reading of a poem by Layla Benitez-James.Av Nate Warren

Don’t try to give yourself a Zoroastrian funeral before you’ve thought everything out. Trust me. Drink of the Week (3:44) Shook up a few glasses of mezcal with an orange/clove mixer. It turned out pretty good. Game of the Week (8:30) If tabletop roleplaying games hinge on imagination, then you should be able to imagine yourself playing something be…

Things get spicy when one of the ladies from the HOA makes the mistake of getting involved in the Boomer condo orgy scene. Drink of the Week (3:12) Bud Light Cheladas. I can drink these walking right down the middle of the road where I live and nobody cares. Game of the Week (5:26) I decided that Richard Garfield’s King of Tokyo monster dicebrawlin…

We welcome a new sponsor: KRALM. Drink of the Week (2:41) The Bull Shot: if it was good enough for Malcom McDowell, it’s good enough for you. Game of the Week (4:37) Nathan Lund of Chubby Behemoth graciously helps me dip a toe into Party Meeple’s 60 Second Cocktail game. Track of the Week (8:16) Professor Mike of KABF 88.3 FM’s “The Old School New …

An ad for Brendan Costello of @UnChefed, the man who started it all. Drink of the Week (5:16) Looking back at four drinks invented for this show that will fuck up your life. Game of the Week (8:43) Listen to the mission notes from the latest four of my hair-raising missions in A Couple of Drakes’ magnificent solo RPG, Dead Belt. Track of the Week (…

A promo appears: give a listen to my pals at Talking SMAC (the nerd one, not the sports one). Drink of the Week (6:15) We unveil a Breakup Gaming Society cocktail original — Inoculation Against Predictability — created in tribute to Tzeentch and designed by my stromie, Skrrt Vonnegut. Game(s) of the Week (12:07) A sad thing brought us together, but…

Wipe off your feet and kick it up with @familiarwilsons, a podcsting couple that you’ll like knowing. Drink of the Week (4:46) The short version is that Noble Oak (Double Oak Bourbon) is very good. Game(s) of the Week (5:45) I just got a gang of small games in the mail from @fightinabox, @Long_Tail_Games, and @partymeeple — let’s take a look! Track…

Meet Sugar Coated Murder, another swell member of my podcasting family. Drink of the Week (2:40) Left Hand Milk Stout with Jim Beam Devil’s Cut back, neat. Game of the Week (5:45) Two episodes back, we interviewed Sean Lee, creator of Cytress. Now we try to play it. Track of the Week (15:12) Public Enemy thrills this old guy by including surviving …

“Thank you, I will check it out,” and other lies. Drink of the Week (2:43) Trying to hear what my mouth is telling me about Corralejo Extra Añejo tequila. Game of the Week (5:28) Before he left this earth, a friend of mine on Twitter launched a massive retro JRPG on Steam called The Great War of Jorth. May you fight long and well. Track of the Week…

A bleak look at the near future of AI and an intro to @OfftopiaCult, which is not a cult, but rather another member of my podcasting family. Drink of the Week (4:19) You got me, Tincup American Whiskey. Your merchandising strategy beat me. Publicly taking my L. Game of the Week (5:38) We get futuristic and crunchy with Sean Lee, the bright and pass…

Meet some more members of my podcasting family, Justin & Carter, during my intro, in which various drinking injuries are reckoned with. Drink of the Week (4:48) A guy who talks about board games so much shouldn’t be so averse to reading instructions, so here is Attempt #2 at Axe and the Oak’s Spicy Moonshine Margarita Game of the Week (8:27) A paea…

Herein: • Dropped in an ad for Fuck My Work Life (@fmwlpod), which was so compelling that I told my boss to eat my ass • I try my hand at making the Spicy Moonshine Margarita, a recipe using Axe and the Oak’s Pikes Peak Hill Shine instead of tequila • Game of the Week: unearthing the insane narrative system I built to keep me glued to Neuroshima He…

50th Episode. If a piece of crap like me can do it, so can you. • Showing some love for @DecayinWtb, the most recent addition to my irreplaceable podcast family • I drink some Suerte Añejo tequila, which is very good • Game of the Week: notes from my early experiences with @GreyGnomeGames’ charming solo dungeon crawler, Tin Helm • @avoidthehanoid a…

Ooookay, lot going on here: • Promo for my new fave podcast discovery, @thecultworthy, who is a nice person and doesn’t deserve to be juxtaposed with the horseshit that follows • Widow Jane bourbon review. Bourbon is excellent. Review segment is…*rubs temples slowly* • Cap’n Cato and I talk about what makes Z-Man Games’ Merchants & Marauders such a…

Brendan Costello of the excellent @UnChefed podcast adroitly manages my volatile tangents. He also walks us through how to make the Moneygun Hot Toddy, I bend his ear about a card game set during the Battle of Hastings, and he displays his excellent hip hop palate by adding People Under the Stairs to our Track of the Week list. Permalink…

I say goodbye to my ex-wife and my post-divorce romance, both with a heavy heart. When all else fails, I paint miniatures to pass the terrible hours and, at the end, Kardinal Offishal is there to give a lift. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Dow Jones, the man who made our theme music, comes through and tells us a story about being on tour with Digital Underground in Colorado. The JK divines the vortex of despair hiding inside Plaid Hat Games’ Battlelands. Corzo Reposado is grabbed at random and enjoyed at length. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Benjamin Schmauss, who contributed designs to the wild-looking Stationfall heist game, describes how his group in London played two simultaneous games of The Resistance: Avalon while drinking. Rum is discussed. I play an old Kool G. Rap song. rhPfC8l0qMzXeEraP8Mc PermalinkAv Nate Warren

The Colonel heads to Denver, where Max Vitesse pours us his fave cocktail and NFTBag joins in for a round of Dominion, the daddy-of-em-all deckbuilding game. We touch upon various Moms and celebrate the perfection of “Brother Czarquis.” PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Chief Rocka connects with the jovial cast of Drunk Theory, a Greenville-based podcast about getting liquored up and talking conspiracy theories. We all mix up a vodka Rock & Roll drink that Kelli picked out, then she and I square up vs. Kara and Ryan to sing our guts out during the party game, Encore. Funkdoobiest gets us open to the ill pornograph…

Reflecting on why I fell so deeply in love with Warhammer 40,000: Conquest. The oracle of Gtronic guides us to the spirit realm to confer with Big Ruck. And a few choice thoughts at the end for my Congressman. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Montclair the Magic Pig, aka artist Al Vigil, pays farewell to Trinidad by cracking a Banquet Beer and playing The Grizzled (a cooperative card game about WWI) with your host. Happy trails, pal! PermalinkAv Nate Warren

The JK discusses aspects of his I Ching practice after having done more than 10,000 readings. Inquisitor Cinnamon Apple Cheesedick tries to relate by making strained board game analogies. Also discussed: Beanie Siegel, nostalgia as prelude to fascism, and why boxing is an unwatchable tragedy. Permalink…

We drink reposado with The Olds, learn about a new game from my cousin, Justin, then I pick an awesome Golden Era hip hop track. You need more than this? PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Allfather, Allmama learn more in one game of Splendor than I’ve apparently learned in three years. Why do people say Catan is a better gateway game than this? I mix a fruity summer vodka drink and play some bangin’ shit from Tricky. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Allfather, Allmama and Lily (that’s the dog) show up on a slow afternoon: Allfather brings the show’s first bottle of Scotch in for Drink of the Week, then shows us Farkle, perhaps the most wholesome way to act out family grudges while inebriated. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

The Allfather shows up and we drink all the Jameson. Then, a detailed account of our Blood Angels’ foray into Space Hulk: Death Angel. Brother Leon’s autocannon goes BRRRRRRRRR. The air is heady with victory, so we then have a long, embarrassing white guy argument about Biggie and Tupac. PermalinkAv Nate Warren

Juan Alberto Delaroca (aka Juando Calrissean aka El Rey de la Playa) of Far Quarter Gravel shows us how his vision of Trinidad gravel biking dovetails with local history I knew almost nothing about. Then we just get housed on White Russians and play my dead grandparents’ copy of Trivial Pursuit. Permalink…

Our guerrilla recording style proves incompatible with yet another shitty hotel. Xian is reunited with their stolen lighters, HP leads us in some drinking stories and we try to play the new trick-taking card game, Anasazi. Druncle bugs out on a track from Your Old Droog. PermalinkAv Nate Warren