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Head to Head Games
by Beth and Jeanne Wake
Married hosts Beth and Jeanne play lots of games, often together, but rarely agree about what makes a game fun, enjoyable, or successful. This podcast features their analysis of board games, video games, and tabletop games from the perspectives of a talented hardcore gamer and a game creator with a Master's degree in arts and games.Theme song is "Where Is It" by Jon Worthy Music.
Episodes
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12b. Geist: The Sin-Eaters One-Shot
Beth GMs an introduction one-shot for Jeanne, intended to be a potential intro session for a larger campaign. Beth uses basic events to introduce the main narrative beats of a game of Geist and provide Jeanne with a quick introduction to the game's magic system. Jeanne adjusts to the rules and...
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12. Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Beth presents Geist: The Sin-Eaters, a 2009 game and 2020 remaster of a tabletop game about ghosts by White Wolf Gaming Studio. Beth and Jeanne describe the rules of the game in conversation and then analyze the gameplay of a one-shot of the game. They agree that the game is complicated and that...
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11. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Jeanne presents Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (2022), a squad combat game by Fatshark Studios based on the properties of Games Workshop, describing its class system and the role of lore in the game. Beth discusses her takes on the game as a newcomer to the series and a veteran of the genre.…
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10. Banished
Beth presents Banished (by Shining Rock Studios, 2014) and describes its blend of resource management, town building, and survival, as well as what kinds of decisions the player has to make. Jeanne describes her experience as a beginner Banished player, and Beth talks about what makes Banished...
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9: Sheriff of Nottingham
Jeanne presents Sheriff of Nottingham (by Sérgio Halaban, André Zatz, and Arcane Wonders) and discusses its strategic elements, and Beth describes what the social dynamics are in this simple bluffing game. Our discussion of what type of game Sheriff of Nottingham really is leads us to question...
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8. Tak
Beth and Jeanne discuss the board game Tak, a simple game conceived of by writer Patrick Rothfuss and designed by James Ernest with CheapAss Games. We describe the elegant rules and strategies together, with Beth focusing on the book's context, the atmosphere of the game, and observations from...
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7. Palworld
Jeanne leads us in telling us about Palworld by Pocket Pair games, the strenghths and weaknesses of its broad gameplay, and the legal controversy surrounding it. Beth evaluates what about the game is enjoyable and not from the perspective of a casual player of this type of game. We together...
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6b. Don't Rest Your Head One-Shot
Beth GMs a one-shot of Don't Rest Your Head (by Fred Hicks and Evil Hat Productions) for Jeanne to introduce her to the game. Beth uses content from the rulebook and extrapolated from the rulebook to give Jeanne a normal Don't Rest Your Head experience with canon NPCs and a simple and quick…
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6. Don't Rest Your Head
We discuss Don't Rest Your Head, a tabletop roleplaying game by Fred Hicks and Evil Hat Productions set in a nightmarish dream realm which has simple rules based on betting against the Game Master's rolls with your own rolls as a player. Beth describes the rules and GMing of a game as well as the...
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5. Codenames
We discuss the board game Codenames by Vlaada Chvátil, a game that both of us played separately before meeting and have enjoyed playing together. Jeanne provides an in-depth discussion of the rules of the game and the ways that the formal, implied, and real-life variant rules affect strategy, as...
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4. Cyberpunk 2077
We discuss the open world RPG Cyberpunk 2077, made by CD Projekt Red, which has fascinated both of us. Beth provides an overview of the game, its strengths, and its flaws; Jeanne talks about the game's production history and her expertise in the game. Together, we talk about what makes Cyberpunk...
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3. Helldivers II
We talk about Helldivers II, the highly successfully and reimagined sequel made by Arrowhead Games, which is Jeanne's fixation. Together, Beth and Jeanne provide an overview of what the game is and what makes it unique among shooters, and Jeanne gives in-depth insights into the workings of the…
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2. Dungeons & Dragons
We discuss the mother of all tabletop roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons (originally created by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, now owned by Wizards of the Coast). Beth provides a conceptual overview of tabletop RPGs at large and what makes D&D unique as well as insight into different playstyles...
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1: Ticket to Ride
Meet your hosts, Beth and Jeanne! In this episode, we discuss the board game Ticket to Ride by Days of Wonder (creator Alan R. Moon). Jeanne provides an in-depth look at the way the game works, strategies to win, and commentary on what keeps the game fresh. We describe our experiences with the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Married hosts Beth and Jeanne play lots of games, often together, but rarely agree about what makes a game fun, enjoyable, or successful. This podcast features their analysis of board games, video games, and tabletop games from the perspectives of a talented hardcore gamer and a game creator with a Master's degree in arts and games.Theme song is "Where Is It" by Jon Worthy Music.
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Beth and Jeanne Wake
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Married hosts Beth and Jeanne play lots of games, often together, but rarely agree about what makes a game fun, enjoyable, or successful. This podcast features their analysis of board games, video games, and tabletop games from the perspectives of a talented hardcore gamer and a game creator with a...
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