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We’re Not Wizards Board Game Podcast

Richard Simpson

Welcome to We"re Not Wizards.We talk about Tabletop, Board Games, Card Games and sometimes TTRPGs and D and D.We chat about games we"ve been playing and what we think. We have a huge back catalogue of interviews with people from the tabletop industry. Sometimes there will be audio versions of reviews from our website. Mostly, we"re just trying to have fun. make bad jokes and try to entertain. If you like anything we do, remember to give us a rating, or comment on the episode and tell other people we

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68:49

S11 E568 - The Presence - Sam Gullman - Purple...

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2026/10/01

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/purplelantern/the-presence-blood-and-betrayal-reprintJoined by Sam Gullman from Purple Lantern Games to chat about horror, tension, presence puns and how to create a horror game out of card board. Spoilers for the Babadook and The Sixth Sense. Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let someone else know about

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132:19

S11 E567 Shurely Shome Mishtake, It's AIREGONE...

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2026/09/19

Join us for this glorious episode of We're Not Wizards for the number 567, where we chat about Airecon going and then what went down at Tabletop Scotland. Playing Spokes and demoing games and then what Luke has been playing and the use of Chat GPT when designing games. Seen Canary 0:00 Airecon 5:00 TTS 16:00 Spokes 26:00 Paul Demoing 32:00 demoing 37:00 Luke gaming 59:00 Avalon 01:00:00 Micropolis 1:17:00 Isle of Trains 1:26:00 Love Letter 01:39:00 Crab Rage, The Presence, Hunt for Black Beard,

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82:47

S11 E566 - Tabletop Scotland 2026 Preview - David...

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2026/08/15

Delighted once again to be joined by David and Gemma from Tabletop Scotland to chat about everything that will be happening at this years event. There was the usual carnage. https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/ for all the information that you need on this most excellent of events. Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let someone else know about our

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97:46

S11 E565 The Big Box Wonderous Creatures ad-Vantage

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2026/08/05

Luke and Richard are back to chat games, storage, Vantage, Wonderous Creatures and the Trials of Maya ridiculous efforts.. 0:00 Blackadder 05.10 Nephews 14:15 Wonderous Creatures 32:10 Vantage / Duel of Meloch 50:00 Box storage 1:00:00 Trials of Maya 01:05:00 New Angeles 01:25:00 Staying in podcast - Listen here 01:33:00 tyneside game expo game 01:34:00 Standard Tabletop V-Log https://www.youtube.com/@standardtabletop9295/videos 01:36:00 Outtro Our Links of Note If you would like to support

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117:23

S11 E564 - UKGE - The Eating Chips on a Bin Episode

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2026/06/27

Richard goes to UKGE for the first time and spends it spreading joy while demoing. Luke searches for the game of the show and ends up DNUP. They both had a really good time. Make sure to check out Bryan's app in the links below if you like your Lego Train sets. 8:00 Cold open 13:00 World Cup 23:00 UKGE 27:00 Garner Hotel Birmingham South East 34:00 More UKGE 46:00 Press Event Who? 49:00 Would He Go Back? 50:00 Demoing - Zenith, Space Lab, Strange World Above the Clouds 56:00 Tenby 59:00

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110:34

S11 E563 - Seppy Yoon May Have Reached The End of the...

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2026/05/15

Seppers is back to talk about End of The line after we chat about words meaning other things, King Charles, Mother Theresa, and then chat a little bit about Dungeon Crawler Carl, Energy Empires and Threaded. And we're laughing a lot. So maybe kick back and enjoy three friends mucking about and forgetting this is about board games. Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of

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S11 E562 Mark Swanson - Odd Bird Games - FLOCKERS!

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2026/05/05

Joining us today is former guest Mark Swanson, returning like a migrating Gueest to come honk to us all about his game all about Maverick's wingman from Top Gun. Or words to that effect. Its all about that Goose, no filler. So please check out the campaign below, and give it a look see and check out everything else Mark will have you playing from his Odd Bird website.. you lovely bunch of

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110:19

S11 E561 Airecon 2026 Report (Gluten & Dairy Free)

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2026/03/26

Richard is back from beyond the wall visiting the Harrowed Gate and its Gathering of Card boards and pieces. Lots to chat about, from teaching rules very badly, to fire alarms and daring escapes plus games, lots of games. 1:00 Gluten and Milk 5:15 Lion witch and the wardrobe 6.45 Airecon - The Cairn Hotel 20:45 RKHARD 24:00 Press Event 26:15 Star Wars Unlimited 30:00 Fart in the Clocktower 35:00 Food Trucks 40:00 Tag Team Tournament 43:00 Terry, Whisky, Cider, and badly teaching Cursed

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S11 E560 He-Man, Editing, Mark Cooke from Airecon

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2026/02/20

Mark Cooke is back to chat about Airecon 2026. Which is a big task to organise. Almost as big as how much we had to edit out of the episode. Links of Note https://www.airecon.co.uk/ Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let someone else know about our show, as recommendations are wonderful things. OUR LINKS OF NOTES

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S11 E559 Arydia, Manipulate and Vampires.

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2026/01/31

So the First Episode of Season 11 and our tenth year of recording and we're off to a cracking start to get the show taken off the air for good. We chat a lot of nonsense as per usual and then get into discussing games, the Leder split, and asking to review older games. Enjoy.30:00 Arydia 48:00 Manipulate 01:05:00 Reviewing Older Games 01:11:00 Galactic Cruise BGA 01:16:30 Vampire Masquerade : Vendetta 01:37:00 Leder Games Split / Corey Konieczka Our Links of Note If you would like to support us

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52:51

S10 Ep555 - The Quick October Round Up With Guards...

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2025/11/03

A short sharp shock of games and fun for your consideration and enjoyment. We chat about some game, oh yes we do. BEEES INNNN SPAAAAAAACE0:00 Guards of Traitors Toll https://greyfornow.com/collections/guards-of-traitors-toll 04:10 zero 200 hours https://greyfornow.com/collections/02-hundred-hours 09:20 Carnivales 10:00 Golden Demon Winner https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/n4tadgwz/golden-demon-2025-winners-at-spiel-essen-revealed/ 20:00 Airecon Telford 22:45 Strange World above

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00:11:16

S9 EP532 Monster Hunter World - Board Game Audio Review

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2024/09/06

This review was first published on the website, which you can find on https://www.werenotwizards.co.uk/monster-hunter-world-ancient-forest-steamforged-games-review/Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let someone else know about our show, as recommendations are wonderful things. OUR LINKS OF NOTES (⁠https://linktr.ee/werenotwizards⁠) ⁠RATE US ON

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01:32:30

My Feet Hurt - Hugs Please - UKGE Special

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2024/06/03

This was a struggle because Luke was very tired after getting back from UKGE, so naturally we chat about cannibalistic chocolate bars, Role playing Games, being Bob Mortimer, and mention in passing Mark Cooke, and UK Games Expo which was something that happened. Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let someone else know about our show, as

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01:29:35

TeeCeeGees - May The Force Of Disney Compel You

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2024/05/09

AKA The Boy who made me livid..Not everyone is here to let you down. Unless that person is Luke Prior, who aims to let you down from the moment you start recording. Join us as we plumb the depths of light entertainment and confuse the majority of our audience with a mixture of 80s BBC comedy shows and brand new card games. We're so cutting edge that we're talking Lorcana and Star Wars Unlimited MONTHS after it came out, but we also chat about the following nonsense. 2:00 Madonna 3:45 'ello

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01:11:31

Bernie & Brendan - Dead Alive Games - Cyber Pet Quest

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2024/04/30

Joined by Bernie Lin and Brendan Kendrick to chat about the folly that is the English language, why William Brown, and launching a series of games on crowdfunding and advertising on Meta, and continuing to get the word out on your games. There is chaos on this episode from the beginning. It was very fun to record.

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01:02:00

Yann Hilaire - Bored Game Ink - Fractal: Beyond The Void

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2024/04/22

Joined by Yann Hilaire from Bored Game Ink, we chat about the creative process involving music and creating corporate videos, before we discuss his highly successful crowdfunding campaigns which have raised close to $700k. Check out the link below for more information. Links of Note www.boredgameink.com Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice. Also, please let

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57:14

Christen Randall - The No-Girlfriend Rule

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2024/03/20

Joined by Christen Randall to chat about her experiences growing up with dyslexia, being a nerd, their process for writing and how in under two years they went from first draft to being a published author in both the US and UK with their first novel - The No-Girlfriend Rule.Links of Notes Website: https://www.bychristenrandall.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/bycrandall Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bycrandall/ TiKTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bycrandall Our Links of Note If you would

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01:20:15

Randy O'Connor - RandyOGames - Numbers & Gun It!

We’re Not Wizards Board Game Podcast ·

2024/03/11

Joined by Randy O'Connor to chat about the numbers behind his last Kickstart campaign, some chat about videogames, then we chat about his car chase game - Gun It, coming to Kickstarter TODAY. LINKS OF NOTE http://gunit.gg http://rollin.one http://www.randyo.net https://substack.com/@randyoconnor https://www.instagram.com/randyogames Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below. Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of

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