Episode 52 - Expansions, Part 1

The Ascent of Board Games

Hi folks! Are you enjoying our podcast? Do you want even MORE of our podcast? Good, because here's the first part of our Expansion episode, wherein we talk about the first, worst, and best game expansions in our experience. Discussions include:

• What was the first expansion? This thread on the Geek suggests that Frank's choice (and thus ours) may be wrong.
• Joe has trouble remembering the name of a spaceship that is also the name of the expansion the spaceship is in, which he's already said several times.
• Not only does Mike think this expansion is bad because it makes the game too hard, but it also "pushes the game over the shark." (We know what he means.)
• Mike believes that this BGG Top 100, Kennerspiel des Jahres-winning, multi-million-copy-selling game is "not good"...because its expansions are good? (We do NOT know what he means.)
• How do you like YOUR Spidicules?
• Sometimes the best expansion for a game is a completely separate game (we're looking at you, Noun Noun: Noun).
• We introduce The Kingdom Death-Middara Game Text Quantity Spectrum.

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