Category: Michael Chamberlain

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Dr. Hrubec

Dr. Hrubec is a party game from The Czech Board Company that was released at Spiel 2014. One of the cool things about this organisation is that they get together with designer in the Czech Republic and when they find a game they think it’s worthy, then they gather the funds and publish it. In…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Splendor

Splendor is described as a fast and addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. An with good reason, it is very, very addictive, though not sure about the fast bit… people with paralysis analysis might find this one slowing them down a bit. However the game is totally awesome and fantastic even on a first…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Fleet and expansions!

This is no secret: Michael Chamberlain takes this game to bed just like you take a teddy bear. Seriously. He *loves* this game more than I can tell. Funnily enough, this is a game that plenty of people dismissed before it even funded in Kickstarter because of the theme: you have to create your fishing…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: 12 Realms with Alexander Argyropoulos

Recently we reviewed 12 Realms in the Boardgame Review room and somehow we managed to dislike it. A combination of expectations not being met, mechanics we didn’t like, length of time we didn’t expect… It didn’t sit down well with us. And yet a lot of people love it, so we thought we might have…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Lewis & Clarke

This podcast episode is a good one. Mainly because the game is a very, very good one. Seriously good. Lewis & Clark is the product of French designer Cedrick Chaboussit, who presented the game to Ludonaute and they didn’t waste a second in getting the game out there. With lovely artwork, terrific components and a…
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