About this episode
The episode provides a hot take review of Emberleaf and discusses various board games and related topics.
In Episode 304 we give our hot take review on Emberleaf covering the mechanisms, the production, and our overall feelings of the game. We discuss a poll on anthropomorphic animals in board games and also discuss some games that have been on our tables including Dune: War for Arrakis and Blueprints and Chris discusses his excitement about finally receiving (after 8 years) his crowdfunded Dawn of Madness. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:22 Poll Time: Anthromorphic Animals? 09:11 Emberleaf Description 11:30 Gameplay and Mechanisms 31:27 Production and Theme 39:44 Final Thoughts 47:48 Dawn of Madness 50:56 Dune: War for Arrakis 1:04:27 Blueprints 1:11:25 Listener Shoutout If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakes Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.social Join our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205 Join our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd
People in this episode
Host: Board Game Hot Takes
Topics covered
- board game review
- game mechanisms
- production quality
- anthropomorphic animals
- crowdfunded games
Keywords
- Emberleaf
- Dune: War for Arrakis
- Blueprints
- Dawn of Madness
- board games
- game review
- anthropomorphic animals
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Emberleaf, Dune: War for Arrakis, Blueprints, Dawn of Madness
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