Sustainable Board Games with Andrew Navaro, Dorfromantik: The Board Game, Ancient Realm, Aeon's End: Legacy of Gravehold

What if we don’t make games that last forever is the question Andrew Navaro, head of Earthborne Games is asking us. His answer is Earthborne Rangers, a game that will perish, but not before it lands on our doorsteps.

On this episode of Talk Cardboard we interview Andrew about Earthborne Rangers and his vision for a more eco-responsible board game scene.

We’ve also got reviews for Spiel des Jahres winner Dorfromantik: The Board game that’s all about a chill time laying tiles, Ancient Realms - a little game that fits in your pocket from the designer of Sprawlopolis and Aeon’s End: Legacy of Gravehold - big legacy campaign deckbuilder that’s more ambitious than it is impressive.

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On to the timestamps:

5:16 Audience Correspondence: Obsession

13:59 Ancient Realm

28:02 Dorfromantik: The Board Game

39:53 Audience Correspondence: NPI Directed by

43:43 Sustainable Board Games with Andrew Navaro (Interview)

1:15:09 Aeon's End: Legacy of Gravehold

1:40:46 Audience Correspondence: Rulebook Assessment

Episode Twenty - My Cheese City

Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast description. In your average peas and potatoes board game podcast description, you’d normally have a list of games we’ll be talking about and maybe some words about them. For example, I could say: in this episode we’ll discuss Overboss, a tile laying city builder masquerading as a pixelated fantasy game, Cubitos, a psychedelic game about racing cubes on an alien cube planet, and My City - a Reiner Knizia polyamino tile-laying legacy game. Then there would be a sprinkle of a witticism, perhaps a meta joke. Sadly, at NPI we have run out of all creativity and instead of a good description of what things are all you’re getting is this brief sad note on what it isn’t. Hope you didn’t enjoy this. On to the timestamps.

• Overboss ( 02:48 )

• Cubitos ( 20:50 )

• My City ( 35:30 )

Review copies for Overboss and My City have been provided by their respective publishers.

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