Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to Episode 33 and this one is a super special episode for us. See around Mark's birthday in March each year is MacWagCon and we just play games starting at 7p on Friday and go absurdly late for the next couple days. When we finally wrap up late on Sunday, we're all exhausted. This year's con was the biggest yet and we had some incredible guests join in - including our guest on this particular episode! We had a really great time speaking with Marc Specter from our channel sponsor Grand Gamers Guild. We had a winding conversation discussing what it's like to be a small publisher, licensing and localizing games, editing rulebooks, and fighting off a collector's mentality with him. Jason had a turn at Why Did I Play That this week and somehow caught himself in the blast too. And then we got to talking about a lot of different games in Table Shelf and Trade. It's a longer one this week, we played a lot of games that weekend, but I do think it's a really enjoyable episode regardless. Once you've listened to it, hit us up at boardallthetimegaming@gmail.com and let us know what you think or if there is anything else you'd like to know from Marc!

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This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:54 - What's Been on the Table

00:09:07 - Topic of the Week: Grand Gamers Guild and Being a Small Publisher

00:27:33 - Grand Gamers Guild Sponsor

00:28:36 - Why Did I Play That: Quartz the Dice Game

00:42:39 - Table / Shelf / Trade

01:17:43 - Secret Door Sponsor

01:18:34 - Meeple Source Sponsor

01:19:37 - Victory Roll Sponsor

01:20:27 - Contact Info for BATT and Theater Geeks

01:21:39 - Outro

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1) We said it in the episode - but to reiterate, this was deep into a convention weekend and all the hosts were exhausted. Our voices were shot and Scott's was suffering even more than the rest. I've tried to minimize the excess noise from coughs and such, but thanks for the patience with that. Additionally my five year old was constantly running around and jumping above us - I've tried my best to reduce that noise as much as possible as well but I know there are moments it's just in there.

2) I've said this on previous episodes with industry guests, but I ended up cutting large pieces of very interesting conversation out to try and reach a relatively okay episode length. For instance, during Marc's segment on What's Been on the Table, we tangented off into about ten minutes on big boxes and storage solutions. It's good stuff, but didn't make sense to keep in that segment, hence why my piece of that segment seems to come out of nowhere. That content will show up in an odds and ends at some point.

3) Similar to the prior note, the rotating segment was cut for length. It'll show up in a future odds and ends.

4) Since the time of recording, Jason has played Off With Their Heads and enjoyed it. It'll likely get talked again in the future because that game really is great.

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We'd like to thank our sponsors as well:

Grand Gamers Guild! https://grandgamersguild.com. Use Discount Code BATT10 to make sure that we are supported AND you let them know that we sent you.

Secret Door Games! They can be found at https://www.secretdoorgames.org or 215 S. Main St, Elkhart Indiana 46514.

Meeple Source! https://meeplesource.com/?PARTNER=battg Be sure to keep that partner bit (?PARTNER=battg) on the end of any link on their site, and you'll get us our affiliate linking!

Victory Roll Cafe! https://victoryrollcafe.com or 711 W McKinley Ave, Mishawaka, IN 46545.

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We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music.