E-25: Dudebros Strilke Back with Goals and Local Shatterpoint Recaps
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The hosts are back, setting goals they'll never hit, and complaining about games they never play. They talk about a local Portland Shatterpoint event where 2Legs won the lottery, and SirAche breaks up with Bartlow over Obi-wan. SirAche and Pooz get to start preparing for Adepticon!
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E-24: Member Berries, Recalling Shatterpoint Funtimes
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Our Hosts are back after the new year, telling of memorable stories and Shatterpoint adventures across time.
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Announcement: Break Update - Where's the Cream Fillin'?
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Announcement: Pooz has had a forced break, as the DeathStar has tested its fully functional power against the Alderan of life. We will all be back, but have to take a forced break until we can get back to the rebellion again.
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E-23: Host are Straight B*tchin (about gaming)
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Join the three men in a boat as they visit the salty shores of gaming fatigue, media overload, and unmet expectations. Pooz comes out of the tunnel from grinding prep, SirAche gets salty about being media underwhelmed, and 2Legs is grumpy, but he doesn't know why.
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E-22: Obi Wan Can Cause Cancer
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Our hosts spend too much time complaining about the ways in which General Obi Wan has affected their lives. Too much, and not enough therapy was had.
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E-21: Dia de los Bartlos, Shatterpoint CritCon Recap
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Special, Halloween Episode with Bartlow and Pooz, where they recap their adventure to Portland to play in the CritCon Shatterpoint event. Much talk of what was brought, how much fun was had, and how to irritate Obi players as much as sand irritates Anakin.
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E-20: Shatterpoint Learn to Play, and Learn to Love to Play
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Join our full cast again for discussion of local Cons where new players refresh their energy and fuel their fun tanks. The crew discusses learning how to turn the page on your game mastery and keeping focus on fun before the "meta".
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E-19: Shatterpoint Win Conditions & List Building, 2-less Legs, and Wookie Hygiene
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Join the spicey, new, and lanky hosts as they discuss how to evaluate if your shatterpoint list has any win conditions, or if its meant for the drain on the Melenium Falcon.
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E-18: Shatterpoint Strategy vs Tactics
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Join our hosts as they stumble through discussing strategy and goals of a shatterpoint game, and how they use and abuse tactics during gameplay.
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E-17: Inside the Mind of a Pun Artist, Shatterpoint List Building
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Join our hosts 2Legs, Pooz, and SirAche as they interview the beautiful mind of Bartlow the Punny. He share exploits of bounty hunter lists, his distaste for straight forward lists, and a knack for getting emotionally abused by 5 year olds.
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2Legs and Pooz dive deep into the psychology of tabletop gaming! This episode explores why we play games in the first place, what draws us to tabletop (vs video games), and how we choose our factions and models. The dynamic duo discusses their gaming journeys from War Machine to Shatterpoint, debates the merits of different dice systems, and reveals their personal motivations for miniature gaming. Expect philosophical musings on the nature of play as practice, confessions about painting courage versus detail obsession, and plenty of tangents about everything from Polish trains to Critical Role's innovative dice mechanics. Plus: the eternal struggle of finding time for games as a grown-up, husband capital expenditure, and why 2Legs wishes he could stick with one game forever.
Key Moments
2:25 - Painting Dollies: Grand Inquisitor, red armor, and base coating the 13th Custodies
12:46 - Take your Kid to Work List: Luke and Vader refinement
27:27 - Why Do We Play Games?: Motivations for tabletop gaming versus other hobbies
35:18 - Pooz's Play is Practice: Always so serious
41:35 - Social Gaming vs Digital: How tabletop communities self-select for better social experiences
57:47 - Army Size Preferences: Skirmish games versus big army battles, time constraints shape choices
1:07:30 - The Rule of Cool: How aesthetic choices drive faction selection, but is only the start of models that stick
1:29:15 - Dice System Deep Dive: Comparing War Machine's 2d6, Judgment's capped 3-dice, and Shatterpoint's combat trees
1:37:55 - Wait, what RPGS? WTF are we talking about now?!
Highlights
- Pooz shares perspectives on play as practice for real-life, leading to an impromptu therapy session for 2Legs
- Pooz comparing his painting style to “vibe monkey" energy while envying detail-oriented painters
- Judgment is the all time favorite game of the crew, both feeling like it was "the one that got away"
- Epic bathroom coordination strategies during tournaments play because alternating activation games never let you leave
- Husband capital as a finite resource requiring careful budgeting for game nights