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DRAFT MECHANIC

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#72: The RPG Episode
#71: One Deck Dungeon
#70: Kitchen Rush
#69: Gaming on the Go
#68: Agra
#67: Expandapalooza
#66: Fog of Love
#65: 2017 In Review
#64: Queendomino
#63: Azul
#62: Six Tasty Games
#61: Downforce
#60: Fast Forward!
#59: Spooky Games
#58: The 7th Continent
#57: FBGL 2017
#56: Ex Libris
#55: Gen Con 50 Wrapup!
#54: The Hype List 2017
#54: The Hype List 2017
#53: Dice Forge / Pit Crew
#52: RAXXON / Century
#51: Sentient / Bärenpark
#50: Summer of Hot Games / Rococo
#49: Yamatai v. Five Tribes
#48: Near and Far
#47: Fields Of Green / Coldwater Crown
#46: Ethnos / Blood Rage
#45: Six-Player Games / Las Vegas
#44: Anachrony
#43: Coldwater Crown / Sagrada
 

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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.

 

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Mandatory ‘We saw @thedecemberists tonight and it was awesome’ pic. Also cool that they had @illimat at the merch booth! Maybe we should do some beer pairings...
Awesome night at @saludcerveceria for game night - ended up closing it down with this game of #Ethnos from @cmongames. Also got #Rising5 @greyfoxgames, #MonsterMatch @northstargames, #Matryoshka @whitegoblingames, #LasVegasBoulevard expansion to the table!
Game Night = Very Yes. @saludcerveceria
It’s #gamenight tonight! at @saludcerveceria! Come hang out and play some games! #charlotte #noda #nodaclt
Episode 72 is live on draftmechanic.net and your podcast player! We talk about home-brew RPGs, put D&D on tap, and play a one-shot RPG from James D’Amato. Plus: Kickstarter previews of @greencouchgames #Filler and Talon Strikes Studios’ #Vinyl! And more! Check it out! #bgg #boardgames #boardgame #boardgamegeek #eurogame #eurogames #analoggames #analoggaming #tabletop #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #juegosdemesa #gamenight #playmoregames #brettspiel
Just a heads up, episode 72 will be slightly delayed!
#MonsterMatch from @northstargames is an adorable lil speed game!
#GameNight in full swing at @goodroadcider! Come hang out!
#CrowsOverkill from @deepwatergames at @goodroadcider
My new favorite appendix #birbs @deepwatergames
Tonight! It’s #gamenight at @goodroadcider! See ya at 6!
Today, Jake has teamed up with Aaron from #BoardsAlive & Alex from @dukesofdice to release My Meeple and Me, an advice podcast for board gamers in homage of one of our favorite podcasting empires, the #mcelroys and their juggernaut #MBMBaM (My Brother, My Brother and Me). You can find it on ours & Boards Alive’s Podcast feeds. Thanks so much for listening, and don’t miss out on MBMBaM’s 400th episode tomorrow! Thank you, @justinmcelroy @griffinmcelroy @travismcelroy for being great boys http://draftmechanic.libsyn.com/podcast/my-meeple-and-me
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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 LOCAL 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!

ABOUT US

 

Jake

Danielle

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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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