Episode 190: RPG Sidequest: Old Gods of Appalachia!

Baseball Card GM Website! Join King Scott and Just Patrick for an adventure to the ballpark! Today's sidequest features Baseball Card GM, a tabletop dice game that turns your baseball cards into game pieces! We give it the 8-bit breakdown, then chat with the designers. Make key decisions and craft your lineup to come out on top in Baseball Card GM! Chat more about it in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Another grand adventure commences! Join King Scott and Just Patrick for another episode of gaming goodness.  We have all kinds of updates in the banter, including a couple of crowdfunding games that went absolutely wild! Recent plays include Digging for Dinos, Brass Birmingham, Excalibur, and Exchaton. The 8-bit breakdown goes to Wondrous Creatures, followed by a look back on last year's review game: Votes for Women. Finally, we've completed ten more feature reviews, which means its time to determine our top 5 from them! Click here and get yourself a bag of Aspen Coffee Co excellence! As always, the shenanigans continue in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Click here to nominate Level Up for Best Podcast! Welcome to the very first sidequest with a focus on a role playing game!   Join Explorer Josh and Navigator Lana as they talk about their time with Old Gods of Appalachia! Want to get in on the next one-shot RPG session with the hosts of the show?  Join the Discord! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Click here to go to the BGG Golden Geek Nomination page! Today's episode focuses heavily on Capstone Games!  Join Just Patrick, Navigator Lana, and Dung Merchant Will as they banter about Capstone hitting their tables, including in our feature review of Aquaria! As lucky timing would have it, our lookback is another Capstone game: Beyond the Horizon. We chat a bit about what we'd like to get to the table from Capstone but haven't, then round things off with a Capstone focused trivia game. Want to get in on the banter?  Ask a question? Share a pic of your favorite game? DO IT IN THE DISCORD!   www.levelupgamepodcast.com  

Adventurers.... we are backlogged.  One episode every two weeks only allows for so much game talk. We put together a special sidequest today to catch up on the games we have been wanting to get into an episode. As always, shenanigans continue in our DISCORD! and of course, you can now "watch" episodes on YOUTUBE!

Listen to this episode on our youtube channel! Join Navigator Lana, Just Patrick, and King Scott for today's episode which kicks off talking about some upcoming games and news that WAIT WHAT'S THIS!? Explorer Josh joins the party! Recent Plays include Pan Am, Res Arcana, Wandering Galaxies, and upcoming kickstarter: Mint Mechs from Galen's Games! The 8-bit breakdown goes to Aquatica, then we look back at Moon Colony Bloodbath. Finally, we've selected some excellent questions and have a roundtable of answers. Got a question you'd like to ask?  JOIN THE DISCORD!

Set out for adventure with King Scott and Just Patrick! Today's episode includes some upcoming projects and a quick recap of GAMA, followed by the 8-bit breakdown of Movers & Shakers! We look back on Super Snipers, then chat a bit about some of the games we are stuffing in our bags for the next Level Up Meetup! Want to plan a game in advance for the meetup?  Maybe share what awesome dish you're bringing with you?  Yep! There's a forum for it in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook      Instagram       X        BGG Guild

An adventure filled with games! Join King Scott and Just Patrick for board game banter.  Recent plays include Fruit Fight, Proving Ground, Scurry Up and Ghosts Galore. The 8-bit breakdown goes to an updated version of a classic game: Innovation Ultimate! We look back at Finspan, then Explorer Josh tells tales of a hidden gem he discovered at Tantrum Con. Finally, its off to solo land to break down the solo mode of Sanctuary. As always, we encourage adventurers to chat and game with us by joining OUR DISCORD. www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Aspen Coffee Link! Adventure awaits! Today the party consists of King Scott, Just Patrick, Navigator Lana, and Dung Merchant Will Brown, who for some reason gets his full name after his title.... We have some great banter, followed by a TON of recent plays, including Duel for Cardia, Nanolith, Dirt & Glory, Bombastic, Viticulture & Pondscape! Todays 8-bit Breakdown goes to Ham Helsing, a cooperative board game set in the universe of the graphic novel. We look back on both Video Game Champion and Middle Ages, before wrapping things up with TWO GAMES ENTER, ONE GAME LEAVES! As always, we'd love to have you join in on the fun in our DISCORD!

Not a top 5, not a top ten.... Today the gang gets together to go over FORTY TWO of the very best board games of 2025! We chat about all of em, and include each of our picks for our favorite game of the year, as well as some games we're looking forward to in 2026! Want to share your thoughts? JOIN THE DISCORD! BGG Compilation of content creator top lists www.levelupgamepodcast.com