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This is the feed where you can get all the great podcasts found over at the Boards & Swords website (http://boardsandswords.com). There's the main Boards & Swords podcast, where four friends have fun talking about board games and finding a game they all like, and The Dirtbags of Holding, a RPG actual play podcast showing off the wrong way to play several different roleplaying games.
Episodes
- CMON is an NFTease, Monster Vault 2 Review, the Best Way to Deal with a TPK - Boards & Swords #284
Boards & Swords #284 covers CMON's NFT investment, a review of Monster Vault 2, and new D&D barbarian character options. The episode also includes news about a lawsuit involving Chaz Marler and the Brass: Pittsburgh board game Kickstarter.
- Don't Be Suspicious with Alex from Hootenanny Games - Boards & Swords #283
Alex Kimerling from Hootenanny Games discusses their board game Sneaky Scallywags on Boards & Swords #283. The episode reviews BackerKit's Mega Dungeon Month crowdfunding initiative, Fantasy Flight Games ceasing production of Descent: Lege…
- Just The Tips, Warhammer 11th Edition Annoucements, Ask A Dirtbag GM - Boards & Swords #282
Boards & Swords #282 discusses Warhammer 11th Edition announcements, the Cyberpunk TCG, and features an "Ask A Dirtbag GM" segment. The episode also covers news on Pokémon-inspired D&D books, a reskinned Star Wars board game, and Awaken Re…
- Our Excessive Baggage, Gates of Krystalia Interview - Boards & Swords #281
In episode 281 of Boards & Swords, the hosts discuss the cancellation of the Neopets TTRPG, allegations surrounding Game Night Picks, and the upcoming Gundam Assemble miniatures game. They also interview Alberto & Andrea from the Gates of…
- Royally Learning The History of Tarot Cards with Grant Howitt - Boards & Swords #280
The Boards & Swords podcast episode #280 features a discussion on the history of Tarot cards, an interview with Grant Howitt about his game Royal Blood, and industry news. Topics include a former Alderac COO
- Looking at 2025 and forward to 2026 (FREE Bonus Bits!)
Looking at 2025 and forward to 2026 (FREE Bonus Bits!) Some free (but delayed) bonus bits talking about last year and what we want to do this upcoming year!
- De-mist-ifying Airbrushing with Ulianov from Spraygunner - Boards & Swords #279
De-mist-ifying Airbrushing with Ulianov from Spraygunner - Boards & Swords #279 Where won’t they put a Pokemon vending machine next? Also, Female custodes are coming along with new Starcraft minis. Plus, we’ve got Ulianov from the website…
- New Year, New Studio, New....sapalooza. Also, 2025 Pax Unplugged Recap - Boards & Swords 278
New Year, New Studio, New....sapalooza. Also, 2025 Pax Unplugged Recap - Boards & Swords 278 I just love it when CEO’s bless us with their “wisdom”, Warcrow is about to get more mechanical, and a Total War is coming to 40k. Plus, we never…
- A Christmas Haunting with Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios - Boards & Swords #277
A Christmas Haunting with Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios - Boards & Swords #277 Halloween might be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still get our horror gaming in! This week, we’ve got Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios ( https…
- Crowning Toys 'R Us As The Rightful Spirit of Christmas - Boards & Swords #276
Crowning Toys 'R Us As The Rightful Spirit of Christmas - Boards & Swords #276 What world am I living in? Munchkin second edition? Catan sponsoring basketball? The Dice Tower saying something inappropriate? Actually, that last one tracks.…
- Left Holding our Bags with Erin Zipperle from Rollacrit - Boards & Swords 275
Left Holding our Bags with Erin Zipperle from Rollacrit - Boards & Swords 275 Remember the ThinkGeek Bag of Holding? Meet the crew that brought it back! (Surprise, its actually some of the same people!) Also, more info on the Starcraft min…
- Stomping Around in Power Armor with Drew from One Inch Heroes - Boards & Swords #274
Stomping Around in Power Armor with Drew from One Inch Heroes - Boards & Swords #274 What’s it like to get paid to paint someone else’s models? Or to dress up as your favorite characters? Get your magnifying glass out, because we have Drew…
- Stamping Out Our Units with Brent from Goblin Hobbies - Boards & Swords #273
Stamping Out Our Units with Brent from Goblin Hobbies - Boards & Swords #273 If you’ve ever used waterslide decals on minis, you know they kinda suck. Brent from Goblin Hobbies ( https://goblinhobbies.com/) is here to show us a better way!…
- Getting Sage Stoned with Ted Wysocki from TNT Laser Works - Boards & Swords #272
Getting Sage Stoned with Ted Wysocki from TNT Laser Works - Boards & Swords #272 I’m trying to hang on to the magic of Nova Open as long as possible, so we’ve got Ted Wysocki from TNT Laser Works (also the Nova Open RPG lead) on to talk ab…
- Nova Open 2025 Live Show with Mike Sibilia & Kyron Haines - Boards & Swords 271
Nova Open 2025 Live Show with Mike Sibilia & Kyron Haines - Boards & Swords 271 I’m still breathing as I type this, so you can tell it’s been a busy Nova Open! We held our first live show in over 2 years! Mike & Kyron from the Nova Open st…
- Totally Not Using Another Episode To Talk About Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #270
Totally Not Using Another Episode To Talk About Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #270 I promise we’ll get back to interviews next time ( Nova Open LIVE show btw!!), but for now we’ve finally got more news out of Gen Con to talk about, along…
- Sitting Around Wondering What Happened at Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #269
Sitting Around Wondering What Happened at Gen Con 2025 - Boards & Swords #269 This is awkward…normally I’m the one with stories from Gen Con, now I’m scouring online looking for them myself. We’ve got some news stories and social media to…
- What's Eric Looking Forward To At Gen Con 2025 with Eric Yurko - Boards & Swords #268
Ready to throw down in some UNO at the casino? How about learning sign language in a TTRPG? A bit D&D heavy with the news this week, but Eric Yurko is here from What’s Eric Playing ( https://whatsericplaying.com/ ) to balance us out and ta…
- A News-apalooza With As Much Sense As A $165 MTG Event - Boards & Swords #267
A News-apalooza With As Much Sense As A $165 MTG Event - Boards & Swords #267 No guest this week, just a lot of news to talk about. Like what games does CMON have left? And why is Asmodee hiring their crowdfunding “expert”? Even I can read…
- Dirtying Down our Miniatures with Mark Henry from Goblin's Hut - Boards & Swords #266
Dirtying Down our Miniatures with Mark Henry from Goblin's Hut - Boards & Swords #266 CMON has a “Setting Sun” with several of its games, Gundam minis are (surprise) really well put together, and a board game about dating D&D monsters? Als…
- Getting Stabbed in the Back with Will Schoonover from Steve Jackson Games - Boards & Swords #265
Getting Stabbed in the Back with Will Schoonover from Steve Jackson Games - Boards & Swords #265 Come on and SLAM, and welcome to the Jam that is POGs! Meanwhile, I’ve got new rulebooks to buy, some books maybe I shouldn’t buy, and Will Sc…
- Digitally Sending Our Characters To Die with Shane from Foundry VTT - Boards & Swords #264
Digitally Sending Our Characters To Die with Shane from Foundry VTT - Boards & Swords #264 Apparently the internet is wrong and people wont quit playing Magic from Universes Beyond? Just switch over to Altered, where you can have print on…
- How Do You Do, Fellow News Peoples with Rowan Zeoli from Rascal News - Boards & Swords #263
How Do You Do, Fellow News Peoples with Rowan Zeoli from Rascal News - Boards & Swords #263 Someone at Hasbro should stop letting their CEO talk. Also, there’s a lot of crappy news out so I decided to talk about some new games announced re…
- The Adepticon Episode We Gave Up On (Free Bonus Bits)
The Adepticon Episode We Gave Up On (Free Bonus Bits) Remember how I said the adepticon news would be in a separate episode, and then it never came out? That's because a storm knocked out my internet, and the week got so busy we never got…
- The Cutest Apocalypse Ever with Justus & Eric from Doomlings - Boards & Swords #262
The Cutest Apocalypse Ever with Justus & Eric from Doomlings - Boards & Swords #262 Chris Perkins isn’t at Wizards of the Coast anymore? I might not have to put decals on my minis anymore? I’m just a glass cage of emotions right now. In th…
- Stewing On Our Abyssal Fate with Tom Lommel from Evil Hat - Boards & Swords #261
Stewing On Our Abyssal Fate with Tom Lommel from Evil Hat - Boards & Swords #261 Gamestop has decided crypto is the right investment, Stonemaier is investing in Disc Golf, and Battletech is going…Gothic? We’ve also got on Tom Lommel from E…
- Illuminating Our Poor Dice Rolls with Jean Simonet from Pixels - Boards & Swords #260
Illuminating Our Poor Dice Rolls with Jean Simonet from Pixels - Boards & Swords #260 Would you pay $87K for a pokemon shaped cheeto? What about buy a board game based on The Sims or Helldivers 2? Speaking of electronic gaming, we’ve also…
- Our Powers Combined with Breeze Grigas from Zephyr Workshop - Boards & Swords #259
Our Powers Combined with Breeze Grigas from Zephyr Workshop - Boards & Swords #259 Remember Decipher? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also, that D&D Mr. Potato Head is creepy and Breeze Grigas is here from Zephyr Workshop to talk about his game…
- Designing a Mass-ive Effect in Gaming with Calvin Wong Tze Loon - Boards & Swords #258
Designing a Mass-ive Effect in Gaming with Calvin Wong Tze Loon - Boards & Swords #258 Thank you for being a friend…of the emperor? FFG makes their games more manageable for stores, and Kickstarter makes things more manageable for your wal…
- An "Infinity" Of Possibilities With Bostria From Corvus Belli - Boards & Swords #257
An "Infinity" Of Possibilities With Bostria From Corvus Belli - Boards & Swords #257 Wingspan’s second sequel smells kind of fishy…ubereats now serving Pokemon cards, and you can’t make enough noise for the next Warhammer army… Plus, Bostr…
- Looting New Games Out Of The New Year With Loot Studios - Boards & Swords #256
Looting New Games Out Of The New Year With Loot Studios - Boards & Swords #256 Not exactly an abundance of news stories this early in the year, but that’s okay, because there’s one Minis game that will probably stomp all over the rest… Plu…
- Seeking Wrath and Glory with Chris Colston from Cubicle 7 - Boards & Swords #255
Seeking Wrath and Glory with Chris Colston from Cubicle 7 - Boards & Swords #255 Wrath and Gloooooria……in exterminius deo? We get into the Christmas spirit talking with Chris Colston about the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG “Wrath and Glory…
- Pax Unplugged 2024 Recap: Tons of Virtual RPG Tools At A "Unplugged" Con? - Boards & Swords #254
Pax Unplugged 2024 Recap: Tons of Virtual RPG Tools At A "Unplugged" Con? - Boards & Swords #254 Unlike my electric car, I like my Pax’es “Unplugged”. Both of us went this year, so what did we see & do? Also, Wyrmwood is still a crappy com…
- Linking Together Our RPGs with Mark Della-Croce from Lore Link - Boards & Swords #253
Linking Together Our RPGs with Mark Della-Croce from Lore Link - Boards & Swords #253 Hopefully it wont be “Lore”-ded over me, but we’re talking about a new website to keep track of your tabletop roleplaying games: Lore Link (https://lorel…
- Snapping Together Fun with Scott Pease from Snap Ships Tactics - Boards & Swords #252
Snapping Together Fun with Scott Pease from Snap Ships Tactics - Boards & Swords #252 I feel like I should write something snap-py here, because we’ve got Scott Pease from Snap Ship Tactics here. Want to play an X-Wing style game with ship…
- Making Our Own D&D with Wolfgang Baur from Kobold Press - Boards & Swords #251
Making Our Own D&D with Wolfgang Baur from Kobold Press - Boards & Swords #251 Torn between playing D&D and not supporting a company that’s constantly in the news for its bad business ideas? We’ve got Wolfgang Baur on from Kobold Press to…
- Halo: Flashpoint, Heroes of Barcadia and A News-a-palooza! - Boards & Swords #250
Halo: Flashpoint, Heroes of Barcadia and A News-a-palooza! - Boards & Swords #250 It was mentioned briefly last time, but that MTG Commander Committee fired itself? Between that, Essen, Warhammer Day, there’s a ton of News to go around and…
- Coloring Minis Without Paint with Sam Nolton from Eldritch Foundry - Boards & Swords #249
Coloring Minis Without Paint with Sam Nolton from Eldritch Foundry - Boards & Swords #249 Chris & Philip A Lord of the Rings trick taking game? A Gundam TCG - has someone been listening to our bonus bits?? Regardless, we’ve got Sam Nolton…
- Mystically Charting The Great Sea with Whistler from the Rapscallion RPG - Boards & Swords #248
Mystically Charting The Great Sea with Whistler from the Rapscallion RPG - Boards & Swords #248 Hasbro doesn’t know when to read the room, Netflix is “gathering” a new animated show, and Slimer is coming to Magic the Gathering. Plus, we’ve…
- Nova Open 2024 Recap: Was Games Workshop Even Trying? - Boards & Swords #247
Nova Open 2024 Recap: Was Games Workshop Even Trying? - Boards & Swords #247 Chris went to the GW reveal and all he got was COVID-19! There was also this little con called Nova Open 2024 happening too. Also, there’s too many Cyberpunk game…
- Gen Con 2024 Recap: Me And 71,000 Of My Best Friends - Boards & Swords #246
Gen Con 2024 Recap: Me And 71,000 Of My Best Friends - Boards & Swords #246 What were the ups & downs of Gen Con? Pretty standard, but I doubt you really want to hear about Chris’ elevator rides. Instead, we go through the highlights of Ge…
- Why Are We Like This with Carol Mertz from Exploding Kittens - Boards & Swords #245
Why Are We Like This with Carol Mertz from Exploding Kittens - Boards & Swords #245 Wizards of the Coast now has a video game centric CEO - I’m sure that will fix all of their problems . Also, play D&D in a Victorian era, and the Mistborn…
- Exceeding Our Level Cap with D. Brad Talton, Jr. from Level 99 Games - Boards & Swords #244
Exceeding Our Level Cap with D. Brad Talton, Jr. from Level 99 Games - Boards & Swords #244 Are we past the COVID boom of Board Games? People say Magic is dying, yet the sales numbers claim otherwise, and if apocalypses are your thing, we’…
- No More X-Wing! What's Up With 40K, Free RPG Day 2024 Review - Boards & Swords #243
No More X-Wing! What's Up With 40K, Free RPG Day 2024 Review - Boards & Swords #243 X-Wing flies off into the sunset, we get a look at the new books for D&D, and apparently you all are buying a lot of toys. No guest this week, so we take a…
- Freelancers, White Plume Mountain, Dirtbags Invitational 2024 (Free Bonus Bits!)
Freelancers, White Plume Mountain, Dirtbags Invitational 2024 (Free Bonus Bits!) We had a lot of stuff to talk about at the end of Episode 242 of Boards & Swords, and we decided to keep streaming live and make our "Bonus Bits" free to non-…
- Cutting Through The Shrink Wrap with Andrew Fischer from Earthborne Games - Boards & Swords #242
Cutting Through The Shrink Wrap with Andrew Fischer from Earthborne Games - Boards & Swords #242 Privateer Press sold the Warmachine IP? Adepticon is changing cities? And there’s a Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG coming? Plus, Andrew Fischer from E…
- Root-ing Out Character Arcs with Patrick Leder from Leder Games - Boards & Swords #241
Root-ing Out Character Arcs with Patrick Leder from Leder Games - Boards & Swords #241 There’s a game on Kickstarter called “Toothead”? Warhammer is coming after your wallet more, and someone’s wallet is $3 million lighter after buying a m…
- Building Dungeons with Keith Matejka from Thunderworks Games - Boards & Swords #240
Building Dungeons with Keith Matejka from Thunderworks Games - Boards & Swords #240 Now you can buy Asmodee instead of them buying things? Or, use Roll20 in your discord server? Or play the tabletop game of the video game of a tabletop gam…
- Envying These Painting Accessories with Kit Peteranecz from Game Envy - Boards & Swords #239
Envying These Painting Accessories with Kit Peteranecz from Game Envy - Boards & Swords #239 Now your epic political fantasy games can be tiny, the Monopoly movie we all saw coming is actually happening, and of course there's a DC version…
- Gloom-having a Good RPG with Danielle Lauzon from Cephalofair Games - Boards & Swords #238
Gloom-having a Good RPG with Danielle Lauzon from Cephalofair Games - Boards & Swords #238 Apparently there were a lot of minis sold in 2023...I had no idea *cough* bought tons of 40k tenth edition stuff *cough*. Also, someone saw a famili…