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Segment Announcement
Every once in a while, between normal episodes, I am going to take over the feed for a review of a pirate themed game and at least one bit of music that has something to do with pirates.

Reviews
* Walk the Plank from Green Ronin reviewed by Donald

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Happy Jack’s Undrinkable Ale, by the Poxy Boggards
http://www.poxyboggards.com/
Donald
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If you there are any Pirate games you'd like me to cover, let me know. Heck, let the publisher know I'm doing this. I have a small stack of piratey games that I'd like to get reviewed, but I'd be willing to preempt the ones I have for some newer games or even just some pirate game chatter.

Also, let me know what you think about the mini episode. Did I ramble on too long? Did you need more details?

What did you think about the music?

-Donald
Giles Pritchard
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Great job Don, Yes, I am biased, but I think you did a great job and enjoyed the review and the music! My only suggestion would be to remove the loud 'beeep' at the end as I nearly dropped the plate I was washing (which could have been a potentially fatal experience - I dropped a plate last week and my wife nearly killed me, if I do it again I may never see dawn again ;) )

The review was excellent and the music was fun to listen to, in fact I might head over to CD Baby and see what the Poxy Boggards have to offer!

Thanks!

Cheers,

Giles.
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Do you think a trick taking mechanic is a good mechanic for a pirate theme?
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Excellent idea and excellent execution.

And I can never get enough of that Ren Fair music!

I'll be watching out for more pirates, on the air waves... :)
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Oh, I heard the Print and Play podcast mentioned on the Wandering Geek review show! It seems like everyone is talking about how cool you are.

And to think, I was exchanging emails with you "way back when".
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FNH1 wrote:
Excellent idea and excellent execution.

And I can never get enough of that Ren Fair music!

I'll be watching out for more pirates, on the air waves... :)


Oh, I've already contacted Marc, and he's submitted music for the next one. Marc runs several excellent podcasts over there!
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Walsfeo wrote:

Oh, I've already contacted Marc, and he's submitted music for the next one. Marc runs several excellent podcasts over there!


Hmmm... Marc Gunn... An exercise in making sure no one ever spells your name right.

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I actually do think the trick taking mechanic suits a pirate game, although it is an abstraction it can 'represent' some 'force' (the cards/tokens/whatever), being used to achieve a goal of some sort (the trick).

You can have various forces: Treachery, Brute Force, Booze etc, which are all 'suits'...and the goal being booty, or ships, or whatever.

So while it is certainly abstract - I do think it ties in reasonably well.

While you could easily have a trick taking game about Elephants managing equity accounts, a pirate theme does make more 'sense' when considering the nature of the mechanic.

Taking a trick in a game can be an aggressive process, it can be sneaky, it can be well planned and it can fluked, all thematic of a pirate-ish theme (many others as well of course).

Done well a trick taking pirate game would be great, I don;t think I have played any though :(

Hehehehe

Good discussion and review though Don! Thought provoking and interesting.

Cheers,

Giles.
 
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