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Five Games for Doomsday Ben Maddox
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4.8 • 58 Ratings
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Five games for Doomsday is a show in which people are thrust into a cabin in the woods but can only take five of their games with them. Which will they choose?
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Trevor Benjamin
This week's guest is the designer of the Undaunted series and Mandala, Trevor Benjamin. We talk about growing up in Canada, the purpose of language and the process of game design...but which games did he choose?
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5G4D News-The Fire and Swords Episode
In this episode of the news we give new backers their exclusive nicknames and Ben speaks to Ian Brody abut the upcoming expansion for War of the Rings The Card Game, Fire and Swords.
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The Temple of Elemental Evil-Prologue 4-The Reason for my Revenge
In this final prologue episode for Temple of Elemental Evil, Zanoush Pedatra trains for the armed forces and gets in a pickle.
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Joel Toppen
My guest this week is war game designer and vassal implementer, Joel Toppen. We talk about faith, working in an Indian reservation and war gaming...but which games did he choose?
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War of the Ring
Commands and Colors: Napoleonics
Commands and Colours: Ancients
Fields of Fire
Great Battles of Alexander
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#Channel-How have you changed as a gamer
In this episode Ben and Steve talk about gamer development and if whinging is worse than A.P.
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Spielworxx Bulletin-Live from Leiria Con
In this special episode of the bulletin Ben and Uli are joined by Ignacy Trzewiczek and Jason Matthews to discuss all things conventions.
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Customer Reviews
5G4D can’t be beaten.
I’ve been listening to Ben since the earlier days of his previous podcasting venture, and over the years he has just gotten better and better. I don’t always agree with his opinions, but I never tire of his hard work and dedication to delivering excellent interviews and commentary. He and Steve have developed a comfortable rapport, and the show always delivers some laughs as well as really interesting content. Ben’s game reviews break away from the tired format of “sort of teach the game, just enough to bore you without actually telling you enough to play, what did we like/dislike, etc.” Instead, he puts a game into context with similar games, rants about thematic strengths or weaknesses, treats games as cultural and artistic products and discusses what they bring to our lives.
True, there’s a lot of swearing, so if that puts you off be forewarned, but for most of us, that’s “a feature, not a bug”.
Top of the heap
A great, talented; funny, sufficiently attractive person doing fantastic, smart, to the point interviews. I wish I was Ben Maddox.
Gaby
Host of Board Game Snobs
Good!
Really like the episodes where he interviews and gets the 5 games from people in the industry. The news shows are…mostly entertaining, somewhat meandering, but when I listen to them they are pretty notable for several intrusive and relatively long commercials. Kind of a big turnoff for me personally. I don’t begrudge the need to monetize the podcast at all, but I guess I’d rather just give on patreon than with mycommercial listening, the way most other boardgame podcasts do.