The delightful Frances Wiley shows us how to review our way to intimate characters arcs with Yap. Two years after my first taste of the action, I return to Stalingrad and tangle with Pavlov's House for a whole week. Two banging Public Enemy remixes. Play it loud.

We interview Phil Yates about Angels One Six, a reimagining of what a WW2 dogfighting minis game can be. Copywriter Nate Tyler documents four generations of play around his family's table. We tack on some "back in the day" Golden-Era hip hop cuts for good measure.

A guided tour of an amazing vintage Fantasy Flight Games collection from Noisy Andrew and deeper thoughts on Cartographers, the hit flip-and-write I tried a couple episodes ago. In between we’re doing musical interludes with Mantronix and the Freestylers, including the funk and hip hop lineage of their 2004 track, “Punks,” from the Raw as Fuck LP.

Space Hulk: Death Angel is on the table. I have three days to turn my friend into a proper Space Marine from Warhammer 40,000.

This summer the famous Ghost in the Shell cyberpunk franchise becomes a playable TTRPG. Last summer the tumultuous streets of Chicago in 1968 also became playable. I talk to the designers of both.

Some queen tells a gnome they have to map a bunch of real estate she just acquired. Hear about my first sit with this widely loved pencil-and-paper terrain-maxxxing puzzle. Also: A look back at Citadels (Fantasy Flight Games) and a new Thunderbolt Apache Leader session.

175 years of Comanche history is on the table in a complicated fight against the inevitable; the Fantasy Flight retrospective continues with a look back at Eric Lang’s towering masterpiece, Chaos in the Old World…plus I wanted to know how a publisher that specializes mostly in tabletop miniature wargames teamed up with The British Library to make a cooperative family game about remixing fairy tales for points and laughs. One of the designers hopped on the line and told us.

Tearing it up in the Demon Wastes with your fellow Metal Queens, tarot learns some new tricks, nightmares continue in the Dwelling solo journaling RPG, and Keith Murray shows us how to lead off a posse cut properly.

Binge-learning Final Girl: A Knock at the Door, challenging The Moms in Scrabble, recounting more Fantasy Flight glory with Kenny. Plus my favorite Latifah remix by the Ultimatum team.

Kenny Katayama of the Shelf Stable podcast talks his Living Card Game favorites from Fantasy Flight Game's golden age.