Episode 199: Origins 2026 Recap!

Join Explorer Josh and Navigator Lana as the discuss Monster of the Week! Want to join us for a one-shot RPG session? Just join our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

The adventure continues!  Today King Scott and Navigator Lana share tales of GenCon 2026! Game talk includes Greylune, Elementary, Digging for Dinos and the DC Brave and the Bold bag-building game! The 8-bit breakdown goes to newly re-published Container, then we look back on Vantage! Get in on the game talk in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Welcome Adventurers! Today King Scott and Just Patrick have a ton of game talk for you, including recent plays of Star Trek Captain's Chair, Yro, Pirates of the High Teas, and Qwirkle! The 8-bit breakdown goes to Unstoppable, but we had the privilege of a review copy of the Dungeon Crawler Carl version of the game! We've got a double look back at Elden Ring and Tales of the Arthurian Knights before capping off the episode with some of the games we're looking forward to at GenCon 2026! Be one of the cool kids and JOIN THE DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

King Scott and Just Patrick revisit their top ten board games of all time. Two hundred episodes in, we want to express our gratitude to all of the publishers, contributors, listeners, and friends who have joined the adventure with us.  Here's to another 200! We invite feedback and shenanigans in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Join King Scott, Just Patrick, Navigator Lana, and Explorer Josh as we tell tales of adventure at Origins 2026! We share some of the events and meetups we took part in, plus we chat about a game that WAS on our radar, as well as a game we discovered that previously WAS NOT on our radar! Need some extra XP?  Earn it in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Welcome yet again adventurers! King Scott makes a glorious return and tells tales of UKGE! We talk recent plays then get on with the 8-bit breakdown of King of Tokyo Godzilla!  This old gem has been updated with the IP it always wanted, plus a new mechanism or two.  We look back on Great Western Trail: El Paso, then finish things off with talk of one of the very best game days we've had in a long time! Share your thoughts, pics, and more in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Welcome adventurers! Join Explorer Josh for a review of Last Arc: Tactics Analog, a JRPG system! Interested in joining a one-shot RPG with Explorer Josh, Navigator Lana, and the rest of the gang?  Sign up for a game in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Its Just Patrick and Navigator Lana today talking a ton of games! We start with some recap of our Level Up Meetup at Ruckus Cafe. While the King was at UKGE, we had plenty on the table, including recent plays of Questline, Omens & Last Light. Today's review game is Cozy Stickerville: a legacy game packed with over 800 stickers in the box! We look back on Mistwind, then finish things off chatting about Origins 2026. Share your thoughts, memes, dad jokes, and more in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com  

Take two!  If you had to re-download the episode, its because we fixed the audio overlap in the intro.  I blame Wilford! The party convenes once again to tell tales of adventure! Today's episode starts with talk of upcoming gaming goodness, followed by several recent plays, such as Dungeon Universalis, 3-2-1 Countdown, Catan 3D and more! Our review game today is one that just finished late pledge and will be available to order again soon.  Dicequest tasks players with assembling a party to undertake quests and defeat boss monsters! We look back on Halo, then finish up with chatting about the Golden Geek Awards! As always, join the banter in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

You are a Beacon; an immortal guardian of humanity.  Light courses through you, granting you incredible power, and the ability to fight back the darkness that besets humanity from all sides. In volume two of our RPG sidequest episodes, Explorer Josh and Navigator Lana chat about Light! Want to join the next one-shot RPG with the hosts?  Sign up in our DISCORD!   www.levelupgamepodcast.com