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D6G Ep 111: Spartacus Detailed Review & GenCon Highlights

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4.8613 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2012

⏱️ 215 minutes

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Summary

Raef "Hollywood" Granger is back in the third chair! Raef joins Craig and Russ to discuss their GenCon 2012 highlights. What games caught their fancy and why? Later the three take a detailed look at the board game Spartacus from Gale Force 9. Can brand new designers from a publisher who's never produced a board game before make a great licensed game? Join us and find out. All that and our other not-too-horrible segments including:  - Total Fan Girl - Do You Ever Notice   - When you wish upon a game - & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: .   The following fine organizations help make this show possible:  , on behalf of friendly, professional gaming stores everywhere. , latest gaming news, great stores, & more!      ==Quick Reference== The News:   1 hr 11 min GenCon 2012 Highlights:  1 hr 16 min Total Fan Girl: 2 hr 10 min When you wish upon a game: 2 hr 16 min  Spartacus Review: 2 hr 20 min     Links Discussed in the show: Craig's Blog: Russ's Blog:  Total Fan Girl Blog:  Pulp Gamer Network:

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0:00.0

This is the D6 generation with your hosts Craig D-Lant.

0:16.2

If you're getting any conversation, it's not charity.

0:19.7

Russ Wakeland, you put me on a boat with freaking dragons attacking me and whatnot?

0:24.2

Now we're talking.

0:25.8

And Rafe, uh, Hollywood Granger.

0:30.4

Now that's Jimmy Django right there.

0:32.9

With contributions from Total Fan Girl.

0:36.8

Vampires do not sparkle.

0:38.6

And our loyal listener.

0:40.4

One game is very like another to the D6G reviews it, brother.

0:44.8

Welcome to another edition of Rapid Fire, the roundtable discussion of all things gaming.

0:48.5

Coming out to the speed of Valencia hurled with all the training and ferocity of Vellatees.

0:52.5

Today's edition is brought to you by wooden wars.

0:55.2

Floor-top battles with fine wooden soldiers.

0:57.5

You get to crawl around on the floor and toss rubber balls at them.

1:00.8

Bringing war back to the floor, search for wooden wars on Kickstarter,

1:04.3

or go to www. scullencrown.com.

1:08.8

I'm Geekley McNardigan, your host today, as always, our panelists are Russ

1:12.2

Rabinus Wakeland and Rafe Gannicus Granger. Let's begin. Issue number one, Spartacus was a leader of

1:19.4

the slaves in the third servile war, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Little is known

1:24.5

about Spartacus, beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are somewhat contradictory and may not always be reliable.

1:30.6

All sources agree that he was a former gladiator and an accomplished military leader.

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