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The D6 Generation

D6G Pip 87: Windward Detailed Review

The D6 Generation

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4.8613 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Flying age of sail ships on a gas giant hunting massive floating mammals? Man the longboats and sign me up! The D6 Generation takes a detailed look at a board game with some very unique movement mechanics: Windward.

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0:00.0

This is a D6 generation PIP.

0:13.3

Yeah, one of those dots on the side of it.

0:15.6

It's a six-sided die.

0:16.9

Yeah, a pip, you know, a short bit, a little something.

0:20.7

Yeah, about anything gaming related.

0:22.3

Sometimes featuring Craig, sometimes featuring us.

0:25.8

We'll see what's coming up today. Hey everyone, welcome back to another D6G PIP.

0:45.0

I'm excited to be back today.

0:46.6

And, you know, I have a series of Pips I now want to do based on all the cool hotness I got at GenCon 2021.

0:52.7

I really couldn't worry to record this one for you.

0:55.9

You know, as I mentioned in the Gen Con sort of summary episode, I did a couple weeks ago.

1:01.1

Obviously got a lot of great energy back from going to Gen Con. It was so wonderful to meet so many

1:05.0

great people. But it was also great to sort of chat with game designers, play some new games,

1:09.8

and of course, add some new games to my

1:12.0

collection. And spoke about Drop Dungeon already last time. And, you know, Drop Dungeon,

1:19.5

what's interesting about Drop Dungeon is it's the kind of game. So when I go to a convention like

1:23.9

Gen Con, I always, you know, a couple things go through my brain as I start

1:27.7

thinking about what am I going to buy to add to my board games? Because that's going to happen.

1:31.7

I mean, it doesn't really go. It goes without saying I'm going to buy stuff. The real question is

1:34.7

how much am I going to buy what I'm going to get. So, of course, I'm usually pretty aware of some of the

1:40.8

hotness coming out. Those are always on my radar. And I'll always usually

1:44.2

pick up one or two games that I know are by designers and publishers that are just going to be

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