The ProtoSynthesis interviews continue! Talking to more designers that had games at ProtoSynthesis. 1. Brandt Brinkerhoff - Oros 2. Dustin Dowdle - Septet 3. Riley Stock (ME!) - Solar Delivery 4. Daniel Woodstock - Terraform

In February the Board Game Designers Guild of Utah hosted their first ever online playtesting event, ProtoSynthesis. Over the next two episodes you'll get to hear about the designers games and learn from their experiences. 1. Putting together ProtoSynthesis with Dustin Dowdle. 2. Jeff Beck - Curiosity Shop 3. Skye Larsen - Fate and Fae 4. Ammon Anderson - Gnome Hollow 5. Matt LeGare - Untitled RPS Fighter

Due to moving and the holidays we can’t put out episodes! Ruh-roh! We will be back in January!

We talk about what video games and comicbooks we've been nerding out about for the week. 

We talk about the Far Cry video game series and realize it's hard to come up with a "Ridiculous Theme" for a game set in the Far Cry series.

We ask you all what you're nerding out about and read your answers. We talk about what we've been nerding out about as well as what Black Friday deals we're eyeing.

We talk about board games used in therapy with Dustin Dowdle.  Suicide Preventione Lifeline US: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/     Phone: 1-800-273-8255

We talk with Paige & Aaron Treglown of Thunder Finch Games about their upcoming Kickstarter game Faction Fighters! A 1v1 card battle game with fiercely cute creatures. The Kickstarter launches November 18, check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thunderfinchgames/faction-fighters-card-game

We nerd out about this and that, go on tangents about Marvel and DC, talk about games that don't make it to the table often enough, and make a couple of references that are callbacks to an episode that hasn't been posted yet (Episode 13).

We went over on our time for our Halloween episode, so we cut out our honorable mentions and put them in this here BONUS EPISODE! We list more of our favorite board and video games for Halloween.