CheckPoint Gaming
CheckPoint Gaming is your go-to podcast for learning how to play board games, card games, and tabletop systems. Instead of giving quick overviews, we take a deep dive into the rules—consolidating, organizing, and explaining them in a way that’s easy for new players to grasp and useful for experienced gamers who want a clear rules refresher. Whether you’re learning Mahjong, Gaslands, or classics like Chess and Ticket to Ride, you’ll find everything you need to play with confidence.
Episodes
In this episode, we go over a few variants to the game of skat as well as touching upon how to engage in a skat tournament. With the variants that are found in this episode, we only listed a few of them so if you have others that you wish to share with us, we’d like to hear about them so that we can add them to a follow-up episode.
So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
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With Skat, it’s a trick-taking game, is part of the Ace-10 family, and trumps are used. It’s played between 3 players with a modified deck that consists of 32 cards instead of the standard 52. In this episode, we’ll be going over the mechanics of the game, scoring, and other related aspects of the game.
So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
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With Mad Dragon 2, it’s a childhood anger management game used to help children between the ages of 6 and 12 to learn techniques on how they can go about controlling their anger. And though it’s a childhood game, it’s to be used by teachers and therapists to help their young clientele master the needed skills to control moments of anger.
So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
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With Mario Kart Gaslands, it takes elements from both the video game franchise Mario Kart and mixes it with Gaslands Refuelled. Although the base mechanics of this game come from Gaslands, they have been modified so that they fall in line with the spirit of Mario Kart. This is also a fan variant of Gaslands that is themed after Mario Kart.
So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
Resource: https://www.scribd.com/document/533687335/Mario...
With Spades, it’s a trick-taking game, is part of the Whist family, and spades constitute the trump suit. In order for a player to win the game, they need to be the first to reach the agreed upon number of points which is done by the players announcing and completing contracts.So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradl...
With this episode, it addresses the optional rules and campaign mode for the game Eldritch Horror. So it has elements that can be added to base play as well as how to go about engaging in extended play for those who wish to do so. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Th...
With this episode, it goes over how to incorporate the 8 officially published expansions to the game Eldritch Horror as of the writing of this episode and consists of the Cities In Ruin, The Dreamlands, Forsaken Lore, Masks of Nyarlathotep, the Mountains of Madness, Signs of Carcosa, Strange Remnants, and Under the Pyramids. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P....
With this episode, it addresses how to go about playing the game Eldritch Horror. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming
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With this episode, it addresses the means of setting up the game to play Eldritch Horror as well as the basic mechanics of the game. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming
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With this episode, it is the first in our five-part series on how to go about playing Eldritch Horror. With Eldritch Horror, it is an H.P. Lovecraft inspired boardgame published by Fantasy Flight Games where the players travel the world in an attempt to prevent the cosmic horrors from destroying humanity. In this episode, we go over the game as a whole as well as what the game objects are. With that said, we hope you enjoy this epi...
With this episode, it goes over the primer lore for Stadium: A Sports Odyssey as obtained from the 1.0 rulebook, the Vixens expansion box, the Stadium website, Stadium's Patreon account, and direct connection with the games creator Dee. As official lore gets released, we'll be providing additional episodes going over said lore. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
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Writer - Bradley...
With this episode, it addresses how to go about engaging in tournament play for blackjack. This includes, but not limited to, the entry conditions, tournament progression, and win conditions. So basically, it just addresses what to expect as a participant during a tournament. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
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Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Tho...
With this episode, it addresses a few variants that we came across for the game of blackjack and includes specialty hands that can be made along with unique side bets the players are able to make. With that said, if you know any additional variants to blackjack, we’re interested in hearing them. If we get enough suggestions, along with an accompanying ruleset for said variants, we may do a follow-up episode on the...
With this episode, it addresses irregularities that can occur during a hand of blackjack. Besides addressing the matter, it addresses how to go about dealing with said irregularities. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
With this episode, it is the first in our four-part series on how to go about playing blackjack. In this episode, we go over the basic mechanics of the game which includes how to obtain cards, betting, splitting hands, and how to win the game. With that said, we hope you enjoy this episode and of course, happy gaming.Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Edi...
With this episode, it goes how to incorporate Bloodlines into a solo, two-player, and six-player game of Dune: Imperium. So instead of playing with three to five players, which is recommended, one, two, and six players are able to engage in gameplay although with some needed variants. With the one- and two-player versions of the game, additional House Hagal cards are added and take-on the role of the absent player(s). With the six-...
With this episode, it goes over the mini-expansion known as the Tech Module which allows players to incorporate the tech tiles mechanics without having to rely upon the rules and mechanics collected with that of the Rise of Ix expansion. This allows the mechanics surrounding tech tiles to be played without any of the other game elements that are connected with the Rise of Ix. And since it comes with the Bloodlines expansion, it inc...
With this episode, it is the initial episode on our series pertaining to that of Dune: Imperium – Bloodlines. It goes over the base play mechanics for Bloodlines as well as how to incorporate its elements into both the base game and Uprising. So with that said, we hope you enjoy this series.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
With this episode, it goes over a few variants that exist for the game of cribbage. So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming
Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes...
With this episode, it goes over the basics of cribbage which includes the components, the basic mechanics of the game, and scoring. So with that said, we hope you enjoy.
Credits
Writer - Bradley P. Thomas
Producer - Bradley P. Thomas
Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor
Editor - Bradley P. Thomas
https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming
Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance...
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