Game Mechanics - A Critical Tabletop Podcast

Global warming is having effects on the shipping chain, but are folks doing the warming taking notes? Magic the Gaythering explores this question. We continue to talk about the dangers of AI, scalpers, and other problems facing the tabletop industry (and the world in general). Is crowdfunding broken? Or is it working how consumers want it to? We talk about an interesting case from Plaidhat games. What actually makes for a successful crowdfunding campaign? On that subject, are premium KS components really worth it? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan makes good on his promise to talk about the best game ever of Magical Athlete. He has some slightly complicated feelings about Scoocher. We talk about trends in crowd funding for tabletop stuff and what it means for the industry. Also, we are going to Dragon Con! It'll be our first live show. Come see us! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan is currently obsessed with a video game and made up a new segment to talk about it! Planet Money’s game now has a name, but is it going to be what they discussed? We go through an article on board game contracts, and talk through our experiences with gaming contracts. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

The mechanics are back from Gen Con and they both played a TON of games! Logan played Drillers. Did it live up to the hype? Greg played 13 omens. Is Paizo really making a rules-lite RPG?? We talk about all the games we played recently and go over some news items as well! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg and Logan report directly from Gen Con. We talk about Dust, Wizard Community College, the still secret secrets of Warden Keane, and more. We also talked to lots of game creators. Listen to our conversations with Adam Španěl, and Felix Podlesny from CGE, Bernie Lin from Dead Alive Games, Cap'n Kroze from Solis Games, and Matt Lockwood from UVS Games. Gen Con was a blast! We'll have more game impressions from the show next time! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg and Logan are in the weird future-past where they are actually back from Gen Con today, but releasing an episode where they still haven’t gone. We talk about some stuff we’re excited to see / already have seen at Gen Con. Then, we get into the disappointing mess that is the Deathbringer TTRPG. We talk about the trap of nostalgia, the OSR, and why the things presented by Deathbringer are so problematic. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

It's Greg's turn to go through the games he's excited to check out at Gen Con. How many will migrate on over to Logan's list? Listen to find out. And if you'll be at Gen Con this week, send us a message on our Discord and let's hang out and play some games! See ya'll there! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan has done his homework and created a list of 20-something games he's excited about coming to Gen Con this year! We'll have Greg's list next week. Come listen to what games we had in common and listen as we preview the other games on the list. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan's Favorite show of the year featured some very weird board games. We go over just what make's Run so unnerving. We also have possibly the most bizarre list we've ever covered on Game Mechanics. This one takes us a while... Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

How do you host the perfect board game night? Logan shares some of his strategies, and how they may differ from the article the mechanics are looking at. If you're down to do something with just one other person, we go over some 2 player games! What the heck is a point salad? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg had a game night! We talk about what he got to the table. In the process, we get onto accessibility in games (and the web) and Logan shares some insight from his irl job. We get into some board game stats that surprise the mechanics. We'll talk about why! Finally, we have a board game list article that's... actually really good? Get 4 of our games in our Game Mechanics Summer Sale bundle! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We have another special guest! Justin Nauman of Tabletop Gaymers. But what is Tabletop Gaymers? Greg and Logan have seen the organization at cons for years, and the mechanics were very excited to learn more! Tabletop Gaymers are a non-profit organization run by volunteers. Check out their website to get involved! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan is back! From a vacation? We get into Squirrels on Magic the Gaythering, then, in Hasbro Watch, we examine the recent news for D&D and the WotC staff. We tell you about area control and action selection on Boardgame 101, and we check out some Lego board games! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Special guest Shelly Von Miller joins Greg to talk about TTRPGs, live plays, vinyl, musicals, and much more! Come for the super-size Magic the Gaythering into a Hasbro-watch, stay for the several many tangents. Find Shelly's stuff on linktree, or beacons. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg and Logan had game nights! Hear about their experiences, new games and new versions of old games! We talk about Dragon Ball Z for quite a while, too. We wrap up talking about legacy games. Are legacy game limits a negative? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan just got back from Frolicon! He played Dread, and hey, let’s classify Dread using our TTRPG classifying system! We revisit our Culver’s funeral. Plants Vs. Zombies is releasing a very... timely... board game? And it's not the only video game board game! There's some more weirdness with payment processors restricting what content is allowed to receive money. Then we induct a new outlet into our super squad. But will they be a hero or a villain?? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg and Logan BOTH had a game night over the weekend. We talk about the games we got to the table and what we thought. Was Logan right about Ants? Plus, Logan begged his husband to play a 2 player game and it happened! Then a visit to Magic the Gaythering for One Ring that doesn't look different enough than the other One Ring. You know, Post Malone's one. We then get into Amazon's really bad decision to use AI art for products on their site. Finally, we get into TTRPG categorization. This is lighting our brains ON FIRE! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We talk video games for a bit, then get to Blue Bunny’s perplexing venture into board games. Greg brings a segment of Magic the Gaythering! We also talk weird multi-kickstarters, have a Boardgame 101 segment, and more! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

The Mechanics talk about the Tiny Dice House, rentable in Logan's neck of the woods. Then, CMON, we were ROOTING FOR YOU! We discuss the bizarre decisions being made at the failing company. What's happening with Zombicide (previously a CMON game)? DC is getting a new TTRPG. What are your feelings about getting assigned jobs by Superman himself? We then move to the worst mechanics in games. What's your least favorite game? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

You are considered beautiful by almost everyone you meet. You're beautiful and perfect. Congratulations! We introduce a new segment; That's Kinda Like a Video Game! Logan goes over some video games that feel like tabletop experiences. This week - Vampire Crawlers. And also, a bunch of tangents, of course. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

There’s trouble in the gaming world. Some companies are losing money in a major way, others are moving away from US releases. And the mechanics talk about why AI is not the answer. Try chatting with Logan on our Discord instead! (Link below). We also speculate about the Game Changer at home game! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg just got back from Pax East. He shares a few thoughts, then we head into some interviews done on the floor at the event! Maybe through all of this, we'll find out what Pax East wants to be. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan didn't have Things in Rings, BUT he did want to play it. Hear what happened next! Then, we discuss game genres that we can't seem to get to the table. This is a cry for help, please play all the games with us. Then, Greg gets into his journey to Breakout Con! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

The Neopets TTRPG saga continues! Greg dishes the hot gos. We talk about why the apology sent from Geekify is suspicious, and what it might mean for Neopets and Kickstarters generally. Then we talk about the extremely cute Keith Herring Monopoly. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

International Board Game Day is just around the corner! We share some facts that claim to be fun. Then we talk about Logan's new board game obsession. Are board games good at teaching tough lessons? And what's new with CMON? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We have a special guest interview with Tim Gonzalez of Pirate Gonzalez games. We talk rogue likes and how those mechanics can lead to an interesting TTRPG.. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Support us on Patreon. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Episode 52 means it's been a year of Game Mechanics! We talk about anniversaries, your favorite stuff from the show, and more! Also, we have a Patreon now! We're excited to give you cool extras! Support us on Patreon Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We talk about some news, including AEG's firing of their COO after some pretty rough and silly statements. But has anyone considered how much time and food it takes for a baby to do math? Then we get into some wild Neopets news. Neopets is a high fantasy dungeon crawler... right? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

New segment alert! It's Hasbro Watch, and we ain't watchin' 'em because they're good stewards of their brands, we can tell ya that. We've got some earnings reports to talk through and just to put it here, listeners, try some other games besides D&D! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We start with a Magic: the GAYthering segment, brought by Logan?! Then we move on to ancient board games. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan is back from Tantrum Con in Charlotte. Let's talk about the games he played! Also, StartPlaying.games put out a very interesting tabletop study that we discuss. There's also some bad stuff happening over at The Dice Tower that we go through. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Magic has some hot new cards and some weird new food, some of which is appetizing. And we weren't the last people to talk about the best board games of 2025. We found one who was later than us! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Game theory is a way that billionaires and corporations view the world. But are the tenants of Game Theory good for us? What cost do we pay when the most powerful people in the world view life as a zero-sum game? We talk about that along with games against fascism, because that's what we need right now. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

There's a big shake-up at Leder games. What does it mean for the company and the people involved? Also, the original co-op trick-taking game, The Crew, has a new box coming out. But how will it stack up to the other entries in the space? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

A new Magic set means a new Magic the Gaythering! Then we review some studies looking to see if board games make you smarter. And we end the show with some more serious discussion of the situation in Greg's home state. Help Minnesota out here: https://www.ilcm.org/ https://www.threads.com/@jesthehuman/post/DTOjbpuEvl4?xmt=AQF0-1uqolyYaAsN-oxgEesCztuZF2YYrSZldzGhlZcn0CtbLWXU-4UcZfV6CQ1QPXiLnIkU&slof=1 Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We're looking back to 2025 to give our first annual Game Mechanics awards show! We've got lots of categories to hand out awards to. Come listen to the games we had great times with in 2025! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

It's the holiday season, so whoopadeedoo. So let's talk about all the 'opolies there are. Maybe even some better options for game night. This one's a bit unhinged, ya'll. Meet us at Charlie Brown's brick wall if you want to talk more (our Discord). Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

This week, we spend the whole episode talking to Chris and Jim, the creators of Terra Clash, an upcoming card game. We talk about the game creation process, play testing, eureka moments, and more! Check out Terra Clash here. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

It’s gifting time! We offer some tips for getting gifts your family and friends stuff that’ll make them smile! Then, Logan has some problems with an NPR podcast. Then, it's BACK to gift giving! Double-whammy! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Greg is on the scene at PAX Unplugged! Come listen in as he walks the floor and finds fun folks to interview about their games. What will their favorite game mechanics be? Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Logan is back from ChYOGA... but what the heck is ChYOGA? Then the mechanics talk about rulebooks and ways to make your rulebook better. The article we discuss in this episode is here. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

NEW SEGMENT ALERT: Board Games 101, this time we’re explaining Worker Placement, Tableau Builders, and a bunch of smaller words we tend to use often! Then we get into some anti-colonization games! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

We have a quick recap of actual Halloween now that it is over and discuss the dangers of PG movies in the 1980s. Tariff talk is back and America is just not that trustworthy when it comes to trading. But that's ok because Hollywood is looking to make some big moves and even bigger movies. Will they be good? Concentrate and ask again. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Spooky season has concluded, but we still need to report back about our spooky game nights! We talk about the Planet Money board game podcast series and what their process says about marketing for tabletop stuff. We take a trip to Magic the Gaythering corner for a wider conversation on what the heck brackets are! We loop back around to Planet Money and talk some weird math, too. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

It's still spooky season, so the mechanics are focusing up for the parties ahead. We talk about the upcoming year's competing themes, along with criticism and its interaction with fandoms. We discuss the process of making boardgames through exploring the very good article we mention here. Then, we move on to party games to bring some tabletop fun to your Samhain celebrations! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

On this SECOND SPOOKY EPISODE, we discuss giving appropriate warnings to players about horror subjects and how to go about it. Then, we jump into our favorite TTRPG systems for horror. One-shots or campaigns, we'll give you some guidance for your next terrifying tabletop experience! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

On this SPOOKY EPISODE, we discuss some of the final wishes of Greg and Logan. We move to an even spookier topic - several NEW Magic sets! And then we talk about spooky board games for this Halloween season! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

The mechanics explore a recent study on board games. Are you one of the 41% of millennials that experience joy while playing board games? Or are you potentially the elusive Gen X person that's ever experienced joy of any kind? Come Let us know in our Discord! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

The mechanics discuss some company woes and doomed Kickstarters. Then we move into recommending some good games that aren't super expensive, even in this weird moment. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.

Things are looking pretty dire for the tabletop industry right now. We talk about some companies that are in trouble, and more bad stuff on the horizon. Then, to lighten the mood a bit, the mechanics share some of their favorite games for autumn. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Join our Discord! Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.