Beer'd Gamers

Welcome to this week’s episode of Beer’d Gamers!  We take a step into the Dungeons and Dragons universe today, specifically into the depths of Castle Ravenloft, which, ironically enough, is also the name of the game!  Castle Ravenloft can be played solo or as a multiplayer adventure and comes with a book that sets up more than 30 different encounters for players, each one with its own storyline.  Players work together to solve the ...

Hello and welcome to Beer’d Gamers!  We’re still a podcast, we still play board games, and we still do it while trying to drink as many beers as we can.  My name is Nelson, and with my today are my fellow Beer’d Gamers, Teej and Schnell!  This week we’re playing Settlers of Catan, or just Catan, depending on when you started playing and what version you have.

Catan is the godfather of all worker placement games, and what we in the ...

This week we’ve got Robert along for one more!  We’re challenging everyone’s logical thinking and tile-laying skills with the classic board game Carcassonne.  Carcassonne pits four players against each other in a race to score points based on the tiles that they lay.  Roads can be built, villages and cloisters erected, and farming fields claimed for points.  Once the last tile is played, players count up their scores and a winner i...

Hello, and welcome to the dungeon, baby!  Wake up, because it’s time to play Munchkin, Steampunk edition! Munchkin is a multiplayer card game where the players take on the roles of heroes attempting to enter a dungeon and defeat the minions, monsters, and more that lurk within.  With the Steampunk expansion, we also get cool things like gears, goggles, and more to improve our stats and help in our fight against evil.

This week in b...

Hey, Hey!  We’re back in action with a special guest this week!  Join us in welcoming Robert to the fold!  Robert is a good friend of Teej’s, and he’s with us filling in for Junior, who’s currently on hiatus with a case of The Marriage.  As Ben gets ready to marry the designer of our logo, Katie, Robert was kind enough to fill in and play games with us!

This week we’re playing Magic Commander Anthology 2, the most recent release of...

Hey, hey! We’re back!  This week we’re back with our first full-game playthrough in a while, and we thank you for sticking around while our schedules have been a complete nightmare.  This week we’ve got Teej, Schnell, and Nelson (Junior is on hiatus until after his wedding next month) playing a very fun game called Ex Libris.  Ex Libris is a resource management game, but rather than sheep, food, bricks, etc., we’re trying to collec...

This week we take on another game from the Tiny Epic series as we play Tiny Epic Kingdoms.  Tiny Epic Kingdoms sees players taking on the role of a faction of characters that have different abilities based on their race.  Players race to see who can raid and pillage, build buildings, harvest resources, gain knowledge, and more, before their opponents can.

Tiny Epic Kingdoms has an MSRP of roughly $16 depending on the seller, and is...

We’re back this week with part 3 of our Mice and Mystics playthrough.  Our previous playthroughs are available for download if you haven’t been following along or are new to the show.  This week in beer we’ve got Junior going with his namesake hop and drinking Brewer’s Pale Ale from Anchor Brewing Company, Teej goes back to the “leftovers” and has Fight Milk from Odd Side Ales, Nelson goes across the lake and has Two Hearted Ale by...

Holy shit, we’re back!!!  It’s been a long time since we’ve all been in the same room together, and apparently a long time since Teej and his sister got along.  More on that in the episode intro…

This week we are playing Boss Monster, a card-based dungeon-builder that was released during the 8-bit art style craze.  In this game, players take on the role of the Dungeon Boss, designing a dungeon that will do enough damage to heroes v...

So we've got something a little different this week.  We've been talking about different ideas for setting up a patron page and what kind of content we could offer people who become patrons to help us out with things like beer money, web hosting, etc., and one of the ideas was the Schnell could read rulebooks, which would help us and our listeners with games new and old.

This week we're rolling out our first few "Schnell Reads the ...

So we've got something a little different this week.  We've been talking about different ideas for setting up a patron page and what kind of content we could offer people who become patrons to help us out with things like beer money, web hosting, etc., and one of the ideas was the Schnell could read rulebooks, which would help us and our listeners with games new and old.

This week we're rolling out our first few "Schnell Reads the ...

So we've got something a little different this week.  We've been talking about different ideas for setting up a patron page and what kind of content we could offer people who become patrons to help us out with things like beer money, web hosting, etc., and one of the ideas was the Schnell could read rulebooks, which would help us and our listeners with games new and old.

This week we're rolling out our first few "Schnell Reads the ...

We’re coming at you this week with part 2 of the discussion between Nelson and Schnell because mother nature and life just haven’t allowed us all to be together in over a month now.  We’ll get back to our regular programming as soon as we can, but until then, part 2 of our discussion focuses mostly on game expansions and whether they are good or bad, and how we go about learning new games and teaching games to new players.

This wee...

We may not run silent; we may not run deep.  However, this week we’re coming at you with They Come Unseen, a game for 2-5 players (recommended at 4) that sees a team of submarines working to blow up a team of destroyers’ naval bases.  Two players play behind a screen, much like the DM in Dungeons & Dragons, while the other team plays out in the open.  Resources like fuel and weapons must be monitored, consumed, and replenished, and...

That winter storm Evelyn was a real bitch, huh?  We think so, too, which is why this week we have a special episode for you guys.  Due to the pounding Wisconsin took from the storm, our regularly scheduled recording session was postponed, so Nelson and Schnell decided to hook up their mics, jump on Discord and complain about shitty weather and what we dislike about games.  But don’t worry, we also talk about things we like, too.  W...

We’re back with Chapter 2 of our serial playthrough of Mice and Mystics!  Have you ever met a spider you just couldn’t kill no matter how hard you tried?  So did we.  We probably cut about 45 minutes of frustration during out attempt to kill just one in this playthrough.  Check it out to see if we were successful!

This week in brews we’ve got Nelson repping the Blue Ribbon and drinking Pabst’s American Pale Ale, Teej downs what is ...

Vampires, cats, dragons, and wizards, oh my!  This week we’re back with another episode of our favorite CCG, Magic: The Gathering.  We have a ton of fun playing Commander format Magic when we all get together, so we thought it would be fun to showcase the latest precon decks in the Commander series, Commander 17.

Commander 17 focused on tribal decks, so each of these decks fit that theme.  The new Eminence ability was also introduc...

Get ready for an aural experience like you’ve never had before.  Let you ears be seduced by the velvety smootness of Schnell’s voice as he narrates the hell out of this week’s prologue.  Oh, what’s what?  Why do we have a prologue?  Because this week we bring you the first episode in the first game we are playing serial-style!  This week we’re playing Mice and Mystics, a co-op RPG that’s based on its own original story.  We’ll be b...