The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Before Dr. Reiner Knizia invented areas, everyone and everything was simultaneously co-located and yet distant all at the same time. It was primordial chaos. Movement was effectively impossible, as Xeno demonstrated; then Knizia did don his Bow-Tie of Delineation of Time and Space and constrained and liberated us all at once with his invention of areas. Games Played Last Week: 00:53 -Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate (Matthew Dunstan, WizKids, 2025) 11:40 -Keyflower (Sebastien Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012) 15:36 -I'm Out (Masato Uesugi, CMYK, 2025) 20:01 -No Thanks! (Thorsten Gimmler, CMYK, 2025) 25:18 -My Very First Games: Let's Be Veterinarians (Kristin Mückel, HABA, 2024) 27:30 -The Quest for El Dorado: The Golden Temples (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2019) 31:55 -Peloponnes (Bernd Eisenstein, Irongames, 2009) News (and why it doesn't matter): 37:48 Renegade reprint of Lords of Waterdeep (with expansion) 39:29 Renegade G.I. Joe Heroscape 43:06 Render unto us your questions! Ask us anything for Omnibus Questions 43:26 Feature Game: The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia, Office Dog, 2025) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices