Rahdo Runs Through►►► Requests!
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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Hey everybody. I film a series of boardgame runthrough videos called Rahdo Runs Through and I run a yearly fundraising drive on Kickstarter to fund said series.
One of the main rewards I give to people who back me in these funderaisers is the ability to vote for (and at some backer levels directly choose) a portion of the games I would runthrough every month. So far the results have been very cool - the voters have been putting me through my paces with some really heavy games, and also some great obscure ones. Here's a thread devoted to the results so far: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/966204/directors-chair
The games that the voters choose from is found here in this geeklist. If you've got a game you'd really like to see the voters choose, add it here, and explain why you think it would be a good choice.
If you see something you like, be sure to  it!!! Every month, when the voters cast their ballots, the list they'll be voting from will come from this geeklist, composed of the games that have gotten the most thumbs from all of you!
Bear in mind, I'll exercise some editorial control over this geeklist. If you request something insanely expensive/impossibly rare, I probably will remove it. Also, if it doesn't support 2 players, I'll definitely delete it, because I simply cannot play the game to do a runthrough, as I *only* play 2p games.
Note, I also remove items from the list if I'm confident my wife Jen or I will NOT enjoy playing them. Here's a list games that have been removed (and the reasons why):
Too long, heavy, and/or fiddley:
1830, Android, Arkham Horror, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Firefly: The Game, Fury of Dracula, Here I Stand, High Frontier 3rd Edition, Incredible Expeditions, Indonesia, Leaving Earth, Marvel Heroes, Neuland, Poseidon, Roads & Boats, Shadows of Brimstone, Space Alert, Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails, through the ages 4th edition, Warhammer quest: Silver Tower
rahdo wrote: belial1134 wrote: Also, I thought I read this list's header was going to be updated on another thread? Or did I misread it and that was referring to another list being updated? i haven't updated it for awhile, but i really need to!
And so now I shall!
Too conflict-ey/cutthroat-ish:
1775, Abyss, Advanced Squad Leader, An Infamous Traffic, Arcadia Quest, Ares Project, argent the consortium, Argo, artificium, Asante, Ashes, Azul: Stained Glass, Barony, Battlecon Devastation of Endines, Battlelore 2nd edition, The Battle of Five Armies, belle of the ball, Bluemoon Legends, Boss Monster, Broom Service, Byzantium, Candamir: The First Settlers, Cardgame of Oz, Cavern Tavern, Civilization: New Dawn, Clash of Cultures, Clockwork Wars, Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas, Colt Express, Cry Havoc, The Convoy, Deadman's Doubloons, Dead of Winter, Dicemasters: Avengers vs Xmen, Dokmus, Dos Rios, Draco Magi, Dragon Caster, Dragon's Horde, Duel of Ages II, Dwar7s Fall, El Gaucho, Emergence Event, En Garde, Elements, Epic Card Game, Ethnos, Equinox, Feudum, Fog of War, Gaia, Game of Thrones the card game, Gosu 2, Greedy Greedy Goblins, Halfling Feast, Han, Harry Potter Miniatures Adventure Game, Haze Islands, Heartland, Hegemonic, Heldentaufe, Hoplomachus, Hyperborea, Imaginarium, Imhotep, Impulse, Inis, Jambo, Kahuna, Kingdoms, King's Champion, King's Road, Krosmaster: Arena, Liberte, Mage Wars, Maquis, March of ants, Massillia, Masters of Orion, Merchants & Marauders, Memoir '44, Metallum, Mexica, Mission Red Planet, Mythotopia, Navajo Wars, Naga Raja, New Dawn, Nexus Ops, Norsaga, Omen: A Reign of War, Onward to Venus, Pax Porfiriana, Petrichor, Polis: Fight for the Hegemony, Portal, Princess Bride: I Hate to Kill You, Race to the North Pole, Raptor, Reef Encounter, Rise of Tribes, Rise to Power, Romolo o Remo, Royals, Saboteur: Duel, santiago de cuba, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas, Seafall, Sentinel Tactics, Serenissima, sheep & thief, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Sid Meier's Civilization, Small World, Space Empires 4x, Starship Samurai, Star Trek Fleet Captains, Star Wars the Card Game, Star Wars Queens Gambit, Star Wars Imperial Assault, Star Wars Rebellion, Star Wars Xwing, Stephenson's Rocket, Strife: Shadows and Steam, Survive: Escape from Atlantis!, Terraforming Mars, thunder & lightning, tigris & euphrates, Tiny Epic Kingdoms, Twilight Squabble, Vanuatu, Vast, Villainous, Vivarium, War of the Ring, Wendake, Whelps to Wyrms, Witchcraft, World of Yoho, Yellow & Yangtze
Jen's not crazy about theme:
13 Days, 51st State, Baseball Highlights 2045, Blood Bowl, Camp Grizzly, Clockwork Kingdom, Colonialism, Command & Colors Ancients, Commissioned, Cultistorm, Darkness Sabotage, Dawn of the Zeds, Deep Madness, dojo kun, Doomtown, Eschaton, Kingsport: Festival, Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game, Lords & Ladies, Letters from Whitechapel, Level 7 [Omega Protocol], Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction, Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper, Mr Jack Pocket, Neuroshima Hex, New Bedford, New Era, star realms, Quartermaster General, saltlands, Seal Team Flix, Steam Torpedo, Scythe, Tally Ho, Thunder Alley, Twlight Struggle, Wir Sind Das Volk, Zombie Survival, Warfighter, Zombie State
Too abstract:
Arboretum, Fits, Hanamikoji, Haru Ichiban, Pastiche
Not a gameplay genre or style we enjoy:
circus train,
Coldwater Crown, Darklight: Memento Mori, defenders of the realm, Empires of the Void II, Exodus: Proxima Centauri, Fallout, haggis, Dungeons of Infinity, lords of xidit, jupiter rescue, merchants of venus, rhein river trade, Skull Tales, Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King, Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles: Shadows of the Past
Too light:
African Park, Archaeology the card game, Bakerspeed, Burger Joint, Castle Panic, Clown Standoff, Chrononauts, Dudab, DungeonQuest Revised Edition, Expedition: Famous Explorers, Fabulous Beasts, flick em up, Go Nuts for Donuts, Hengist, Jamaica, Machi Koro, My Little Scythe, North Winds, Perry Rhodan, Pina Pirata, Potion Explosion, Rattlebones, Stinky Business, Stop Thief, Takenoko, Ticket to Ride, Tokaido, Tsuro of the Seas
Less than ideal for 2:
Antarctica, Antidote, Approaching Dawn: Witching Hour, Asara, Automobile, Cable Car, Camel Up, Catan, Chai, Chicago Express, coutier, dominaire, Dwarves Inc, elfenroads, El Grande, Egizia, Empires, Fate of the Norns, Fief: France 1429, Gauntlet of Fools, Goldbrau, Grand Cru, Green Deal, The Hare & The Tortise, Imperial, I'm the Boss, Infection: Humanities Last Gasp, Isarabi, Istanbul: Letters & Seals, The Last Spike, Lost Valley, Manifest Destiny, motto, Orcs Orcs Orcs, Pandemic: Contagion, Peak Oil, Pirates of Nassau, Rattus, Red 7, Robin des Bois, Rockwell Expansion, Sail to India, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Siege of Sunfall, Sneaks & Snitches, Stephensons Rocket, Study in Emerald 2nd Ed, Tinner's Trail, Triora, Victorian masterminds, Wealth of Nations, Zooloretto
Simply Not interested in playing:
Agora, Castelli, Castle Panic, Castle Ravenloft, Dragonscroll, Fairy Land, Hanabi, Kairo, Linwood, Myth 2.0, Nemo's War, Poseidon's Kingdom, O Zoo le Mio, Star Trek panic, Star Wars Angriff der Klonkreiger, Tavarua
So how do these requests get used?
Here's how it works: there's 2 types of titles on this list: games I own, and games I don't own. Every month, I pick the top thumbed games from the "games I own" category and include them on voting ballots that my backers can use to choose which games I'll film every month. A few times a year, when my backers get to vote on what new games I'll buy, that list is comprised of the top thumbed games that I don't own from this list.
So if you really want to see something covered, list it here (if it's not already listed, and isn't one of the games above) and get it some thumbs!
Also, I want to give a HUGE shout out to BGG user
J. M. Lopez-Cepero "CP"
Spain
Seville
Andalucia
EU-friendly Kickstarters rule!
"The twilight there holds a serene beauty... You have seen it yourself as the sun sets on this world."
who made a nice little app for me to automatically count thumbs to save me the trouble of doing it by hand. Here's the link if anyone would like an at-a-glace view of where their favourite request is standing: http://thumbs.rahdo.com
Also, not for nothing, but I still choose the majority of games to be covered by Rahdo Runs Through, and this list will definitely influence me too when choosing games to film 
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Board Game: Hellas
[Average Rating:6.21 Overall Rank:2566]
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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This is a very neat, super compact tactical battle game, which is normally something Jen and I don't go for, but we really enjoy this one because of it's super fast play, and amazing fun "power of the gods" cards that can keep the action very unpredictable.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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This is a very heavily respected economic euro all about running competing factories, trying to keep production up, and waste creation down. Published in 2001, can be tricky to find. I was lucky to get a copy in a trade, and I would think folks considering whether they should get this would appreciate a runthrough
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A little amusement park building card game. I picked it up because I love tiny "look at what you can build with this 1 deck of cards" type games, and the art seems nice, and it was super cheap. Haven't played it yet, but would love to give it a go
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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This is apparently an excellent little game of bluffing and deduction, as one player tries to ferret out all the hidden vampires controlled by the other player. Really need to give this one a try, especially since it's from the designer of the most excellent CV!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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An asymmetrical "one player is the heroic party, and the other player is the dungeon owner" game of dungeon plundering. Haven't tried it yet, but the art cartoony art is very captivating, I find, and it seems to have a nice sense of humour to it.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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Another 2p Knizia game, this time revolving around a series of auctions to determine who is the most powerful family in Renaissance Italy.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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Another game from the co-designer of the awesome Seeland. Haven't played this myself yet, but it seems like a sweet little filler of a game where players are shopping for ingredients to make the best potions in a sort of "ring around the rosey" game mechanism... hope it makes it to the table soon, if the thumbs allow
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A lovely little dice game that's almost impossible to find, as only a couple hundred copies were every published. Players are traveling around tropical locations, on an expedition to take pictures of wildlife, all by rolling dice. Nice stuff, especially enjoy the fact that your progress is tracked by writing on the board itself with erasable pens.
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Board Game: Sobek
[Average Rating:6.71 Overall Rank:1546]
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A quick playing set collection card game with a lot of push your luck and brinksmanship that is a very entertaining filler with a nice ancient Egyptian theme
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A really interesting 3+ minimum fantasy euro where players have very asynchronous roles that are very synergistically intertwined… one player runs merchant shops that produce items that another player needs to raid dungeons, so he can get gold to buy items from the first player, etc. I love this kind of stuff, and I wish the game worked as well with 2 as it does with 3+!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A super silly & light game of push your luck, as you play a zombie trying to eat as many brains as possible before your luck runs out and you get blasted with a shotgun.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A very popular, bordering on classic 2 player card game… sort of like Battleline or Lost Cities, where each player plays cards to their side of a dividing line, but in this game, you have the choice to play your cards face down in secrecy, or face up for greater power, and is an excellent game of bluffing and strategy.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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This is sort of a reverse tower defence, where streams of bad guys aren't marching to destroy your tower at the center of the board, but are instead marching from the center of the boards to try to escape, while you players set up magical traps to stop them. A surprisingly cerebral game, and quite entertaining.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A kingdom building game that uses one of my favorite mechanisms: discarding cards to play other cards. So this might be a sort of medieval Race for the Galaxy, which could be cool, though I haven't tried it yet to be sure…
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A quick playing light dice game all about getting the right animals in your zoo to score the most points. Mostly harmless
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Board Game: Artus
[Average Rating:6.29 Overall Rank:3053]
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A very cool Kramer & Kiesling game of musical chairs, and the knights of the round table jostle to sit as close to King Arthur as possible, while the table itself is continually shifting position as it spins around.
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Board Game: PAX
[Average Rating:6.81 Overall Rank:2256]
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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From Bernd Eisenstein, the designer of Peleoponnes (one of my top 10 favs of all time) comes this very cool card game about players being members of Spartacus' rebellion against Rome. The cool thing is, if it looks like the revolt might not succeed, one player can jump sides and work for the Romans, which makes for some fun turncoat moments, and it's rare to find a traitor game that works well with only 2.
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Board Game: Mondo
[Average Rating:6.54 Overall Rank:1694]
Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A fun, frantic real-time tile laying game where players are trying to build the perfect island to house a variety of wildlife while avoiding volcanos. Sort of a light, gateway version of Galaxy Trucker.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A card game version of World Without End, which was a sequel of sorts to the very popular Pillars of the Earth, from the same designer. Never played it, but have been meaning to for quite awhile!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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Players are mad scientists managing resources and placing workers to complete their doomsday machines while also ensuring that they've got escape plans at the ready. Haven't tried it yet, but I really like the theme and am looking forward to it!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A fun, light gateway card game where players are playing cards that will either eat or be eaten by cards that other players are playing, replicating the natural food chain.
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A deck builder of creating trade routes to the far east. Looks gorgeous, but I haven't played as yet!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A sweet, simple gateway game of growing crops to feed animals and literally make them happy (when an animal is fed, you flip over the card representing his head to seem him go from sad to smiling). Incredibly charming, and we've used it to great effect with muggles (which is why we keep it around).
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A card driven fantasy world monster hunting treasure collectathon. Players have heroes & monsters cards in their hands, and play them both to various lands on their turns. When monsters are defeated, whichever player's heroes contributed the most gets the goods. Lots of special powers to mix things up, so might be neat, but haven't tried. However, it did get an expansion, so that's a good sign!
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Richard Ham
United States
Washington
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A lot of folks think this game is crap, and TBH, the first time we tried it, we though "hmm…", but playing a 2nd and 3rd time made the cleverness of the modular design come to the fore, and we discovered that we actually did enjoy this game which could be called Despicable Me, the card game
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