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DRAFT MECHANIC

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First time listener? Maybe start with our 2018 year in review!

Latest Podcast Episodes
#107: Gen Con 2019 Recap
#107: Gen Con 2019 Recap
#106: The Gen Con 2019 Hype List
#106: The Gen Con 2019 Hype List
#105: Blue Lagoon
#105: Blue Lagoon
#104: 2018 Redux
#104: 2018 Redux
#103: Dust In The Wings / We're Doomed!
#103: Dust In The Wings / We're Doomed!
#102: PolyominUwe
#102: PolyominUwe
#101: Geekway to the West 2019
#100: Top 10 Games
#100: Top 10 Games
#99: Hero Realms
#99: Hero Realms
#98: Otys
#98: Otys
#97: Coimbra
#97: Coimbra
#96: Expandapalooza 2
#96: Expandapalooza 2
#95: Keyforge
#94: Wingspan
#93: The Quacks of Quedlinburg
#92: 2018 In Review
#91: City of Gears
#90: PAX Unplugged / Trellis
#90: PAX Unplugged / Trellis
#89: Pasaraya
#88: Gamers For Cures / Burnpile 2018
#87: Cryptid
#86: Legacy of Dragonholt
#85: Most Wanted
#84: Three Years / The Ultimate CarcaZone
#83: Space Base
#82: Randowriters
#81: Gen Con 2018 Recap
#80: The Hype List 2018
#79: DropMix
#78: Best of 2017 Redux
 

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Draft Mechanic is a proud member of Punchboard Media, a supportive network of board game media content creators committed to promoting games as a way to bring together families, friends, and board game enthusiasts across the globe, while advocating for openness, fairness, and inclusion in the community. Visit punchboardmedia.com to check out content from all our members: audio podcasts, written reviews, video content, how-to-plays and more!

Draft Mechanic is a proud member of Punchboard Media, a supportive network of board game media content creators committed to promoting games as a way to bring together families, friends, and board game enthusiasts across the globe, while advocating for openness, fairness, and inclusion in the community.

Visit punchboardmedia.com to check out content from all our members: audio podcasts, written reviews, video content, how-to-plays and more!

 

Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games! Check out greyfoxgames.com for more information on their games, including Deception: Murder in Hong Kong. Show them some love! Thanks again to GFG for their continued support.

 

@DRAFTMECHANIC

Brought out #Calico from @flatoutgames - great game for a quick game night at @armoredcowbrewing! This one comes to Kickstarter soon, follow @flatoutgames to keep track!
Showing some local love to @armoredcowbrewing - a new Charlotte brewery just down the road. They specialize in gluten-reduced beer!
We’re alive and so is #GameNight at @saludcerveceria! Playing Tokyo Highway and the upcoming #Calico from @flatoutgames!
What a #Gordgeous day at the OG! @nodabrewing #ncbeer #cltbeer
The #LiveStudioCat also likes to help on punching day. He organizes the game stacks.
The zen of conventions... punching day. Unpacking some @gen_con goodies. So many tokens!
The @gen_con 2019 recap episode is live now at draftmechanic.net and on your podcast player! Tune in for over two hours of convention talk! #bgg #boardgames #boardgame #boardgamegeek #eurogame #eurogames #analoggames #analoggaming #tabletop #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #juegosdemesa #gamenight #playmoregames #brettspiel
levelator is gonna earn its keep on this episode
Another @gen_con tradition: stopping at @taftsbrewingco on the way home for a beer & a cut of tri-tip sirloin. Mmmm.
Bye @gen_con! It’s been real!
Bottle share with Jeff Epner begins!
Our @gen_con dinner tradition is to go to @kumasindy. What’s yours?
Watching a play test of #SchedulingSimulator from @gatherroundgames - super neat real-time gameplay! Excited to see how this one progresses.
Played #Noctiluca from Z-Man - super interesting dice drafting game. Going to have to pick this one up!
There’s a #Keyforge vending machine at Gen Con.
Building impressive ocean towers in #MegacityOceania from @wearehubgames!
Late night day two recording sesh powered by @burialbeer shadowclock
 
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Slack is a chat service that runs on your web browser, phone, tablet, or I guess fridge if you have some fancy web-enabled fridge. Not sure. Our fridge is mainly for beer.

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If you're here, you're a DM listener and want to be more involved in the board games & craft beer community we're creating! That's awesome! Our Slack channel has discussion rooms for games, beer, kickstarter, TIME Stories, and more - plus, #TheTopic channel in which we discuss our per-episode "Final Round" topic as started in Episode 65.

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DRAFT MECHANIC EVENTS!

We host two monthly board game meetups in the Charlotte, NC area.

  • On the first Thursday of each month we are at GoodRoad CiderWorks, 117 Southside Drive, Charlotte NC.

  • On the third Tuesday of each month we are at Salud Cerveceria, 3306-B N. Davidson St., Charlotte NC.

Come out and join us for a night of board games and more! Click the images below to visit our Facebook events page for exact dates and start times, and to let us know you're coming!

Conventions!

Generally, we’ll be at:

Geekway to the West, St. Louis MO

Gen Con 2019, Indianapolis IN

MegaMooseCon, Richburg SC

PAX Unplugged, Philadelphia PA

ABOUT US

 

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Superpower of Choice

by The Liberation Jumpsuit

The Liberation Jumpsuit was a funky power pop band that existed in the Blacksburg, VA area in the 2000s. Led by my college friend and radio co-host, Drew, TLJ released three albums including the one featured here, Superpower of Choice. When we began the podcast, I looked around for great music to use beyond the standard loops and bumpers, but couldn't find anything that fit the feel we wanted. I happened to have Superpower of Choice in my car CD player the day before recording episode 3 and it clicked. A few messages to Drew later, we had our backing music.

I spoke with Drew about giving the album a second life on the website here and he was excited for the chance to get it back out there again. On the show, we (currently) use four tracks:

Main Theme / First Bump: Superpower of Choice
Second Bump: Prototypical
Third Bump: Fat Kid
Spoiler Episodes: Rinse/Repeat

We hope you enjoy this little slice of funky fun!

The Liberation Jumpsuit was:
Drew: Vocals, dancing
Dan: Guitars
Sam: More Guitars
Jeff: Bass and production
Ryan: Many drums

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