Dicebreaker Podcast

The Dicebreaker team gather together to chat about the latest board games and tabletop RPGs, what they've been playing, and more!

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Episode 40 - CANONICALLY RIDE-IN DALEK
It’s a new year, but the same ol’ tangents as Matt, Wheels and Meehan look back on what we played over the holidays and ahead to the first tabletop releases of 2021. We get traditional with chess and hnefatafl, before popping to Middle-earth in...
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Episode 39 - GAMES OF THE YEAR 2020
In a special episode to finish up 2020, the whole Dicebreaker team - Matt, Johnny, Lolies, Wheels and Meehan - gather together to run through the board games and RPGs we’ve enjoyed most this year. We give some thoughts on our individual picks for...
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Episode 38 - THE NEWS URINAL
Matt, Lolies and Meehan grab a final slice of (metaphorical) Christmas cake before we ring in the end of 2020. We consider Chris Pine’s casting in the D&D movie, the fourth - and potentially final - Root expansion, the new Cthulhu Wars: Duel,...
88 min
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Episode 37 - THIRST IS UNIVERSAL (with Chase Ca...
Writer and journalist Chase Carter joins Matt, Lolies, Meehan and Wheels for a packed pod! The team’s been playing MTG, Rangers of Shadow Deep, Qwinto, Gloomhaven and more - to various degrees of success. We also check in with the new War of the...
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Episode 36 - BIRDY BOILER (with Emma Partlow!)
We’re joined by special guest Emma Partlow to chat the latest with Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer 40,000! Meanwhile, Matt gazes at Mausritter, Meehan plays a lot of Root and Wheels kills Hitler. We also talk the new Quest...
97 min
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Episode 35 - CHARLES DARWIN NOISES
Matt, Lolies and Meehan climb out of the primordial soup to bring you this week’s roundup of tabletop news and chatter. We discuss our time with Love Letter, Evolution and The Shores of Tripoli, before taking a look at not-actually-Viking dice game...
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Episode 34 - LOVE LETTER EXPANDED UNIVERSE
Matt plays mahjong with cat people, Wheels sinks his fangs into Fury of Dracula and Thousand Year Old Vampire, Lolies invests in Love Letter lore, and Meehan explores Parks. That’s before we dive into the latest news, including X-Wing’s move to a...
95 min
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Episode 33 - SMIRKIN GHERKIN
Matt, Johnny, Wheels and Meehan crack open a jar of tabletop news and fish out this week’s crunchiest headlines for a bite. There’s new Warhammer on the way, a Terminator RPG, marble-hacking Kickstarter Crack the Code and mutiny aboard the high...
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Episode 32 - HAUNTED KAZOO
Matt, Lolies and Meehan sound the news kazoo as we catch up with the latest information on the D&D TV series, the return of Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, the next game from the makers of Too Many Bones and the already cancelled quidditch...
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Episode 31 - BEDFORDSHIRE CLANGER
Meehan, Johnny and Wheels serve up delicious sweet and savoury tabletop news in a neatly divided podcast crust. There’s the crew’s thoughts on the full reveal - and whopping price tag - of Descent: Legends of the Dark, whether we’d slip our feet...
90 min
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Episode 30 - DRUNK ART
Matt, Lolies and Meehan are back in the booth for another hour-and-a-bit of nattering about board games, RPGs and anything else that crosses our minds. This week, we chat about the return of Dungeonbreaker, our thoughts on the latest attempt to make a...
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Episode 29 - DICEBREAK-ASMR
Matt, Johnny and Lolies question this year’s Origins Awards winners, lament the cancellation of PAX Unplugged, look ahead to this winter’s upcoming releases and discuss the latest record-breaking Pokémon card sale. We also attempt to come up with...
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Episode 28 - BOARD GAMES: THE MUSICAL
Matt, Lolies and Meehan escape being eaten at Dinosaur World to talk about their time playing the upcoming Dinosaur Island follow-up. There’s also details on the new Power Rangers, GI Joe, My Little Pony and Transformers RPGs and the next game from...
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Episode 27 - A GROUNDHOG IS NOT A CHIPMUNK
It’s just Matt and Meehan in this week, but there’s just as much chatter as ever as we catch up about the Last of Us board game, ambitious Viking epic Trudvang Legends’ delay, the first Twilight Imperium and Android comics, Groundhog Day: The...
98 min
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Episode 26 - PHRESH WITH A PH
This episode is sponsored by Voodoo Ranger. Matt, Johnny, Lolies and Meehan crawl their way through dungeons galore to take a look at the return of board game classic HeroQuest and the next game from Dark Souls studio Steamforged, Bardsung. The team...
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Episode 25 - FLOP THE RIGHT WAY
This episode is sponsored by Voodoo Ranger and My Journey to Catan. While Johnny’s away, the rest of the Dicebreaker crew will play! Well, when we find time for games between PAX/EGX and all this news, that is. We do manage to squeeze in our...
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Episode 24 - WAITING FOR KIEFER
This episode is sponsored by Voodoo Ranger and My Journey to Catan. Matt, Meehan and Wheels dodge flying plastic poos to bring you their thoughts on this week’s tabletop news, from Magic: The Gathering’s first D&D set to interesting RPGs on...
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Episode 23 - HOT GAMMON DADDY DOT COM
This week’s episode is sponsored by Voodoo Ranger. Matt, Johnny, Meehan and Wheels access the mainframe of the Dicebreaker supercomputer to crack open this week’s case of board game and RPG news. There’s Blood Rage 2! Warhammer action figures!...
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Episode 22 - TWILIGHT IMPERIUM, MR. WAYNE
This week’s episode is sponsored by Voodoo Ranger. Matt is joined by Lolies and Wheels for another weekly dose of board game and TRPG chat. After celebrating birthdays aplenty, we discuss what we’ve been playing this week, take a look at the newly...
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Episode 21 - GRIMDARK RATATOUILLE
Matt, Johnny, Wheels and Meehan gather around for this week’s dose of board game and RPG talk. We chat about our time playing Sherlock Holmes, Lasers and Feelings, Infinity, and rummy (yes, that rummy), before delving into our thoughts on upcoming...
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Episode 20 - STARSKETBALL
Matt, Lolies, Johnny and Meehan take refuge from the searing heat outside with some cool conversation about the new Blood Bowl, the end of Guild Ball, Warhammer, Infinity, Camel Up, the return of Ashes and much more. Plus, our picks for beach-ready...
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Episode 19 - ENNIE-MENTARY, MY DEAR WIBBLES
Matt is joined by consulting detective Wheels and street urchin Meehan to talk about Wheels’ crime-solving with Sherlock Holmes, Meehan’s beef with the gods in D&D world Theros, and Matt’s Cold War spying in Pandemic Legacy: Season 0. (With...
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Episode 18 - THORTS ABOUT FORT
Matt, Lolies, Johnny and Meehan gather for a slightly shorter episode this week, but still manage to cram in the week’s bevy of board games news - including the new Twilight Imperium expansion, X-Men game, Warhammer 40,000 app and re-release of...
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Episode 17 - DADDY LIKE FANTA FRUIT TWIST
Matt, Johnny and Meehan crack open a fizzing can of refreshing tabletop discussion with our thoughts on Fort’s pizza economy, Pandemic Legacy: Season 0’s [REDACTED] and [EMBARGOED], and this summer’s best (only?) party game involving Irn Bru,...
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Episode 16 - ATMOSFEAR GHOST HAMSTER
This episode is sponsored by The Ultimate Deskmat 2 Kickstarter: -- It’s embargo a-go-go for Matt, Johnny, Lolies and Meehan this week as we talk carefully around our time with the hotly-anticipated Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 and Fort. We also...
98 min