2014 ENnie Awards: Vote Now!
Our friends at 13th Age are deservedly up for some big awards this year. We’d never ask you to mindlessly vote for Friends of the Hole*, but you should go make your voice heard at the 2014 ENnie Awards...
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Episode 4 – Interview with Rob Heinsoo of 13th Age in Glorantha
Rob and Paul interview game designer (and old friend) Rob Heinsoo about his delightful tabletop RPG 13th Age and his Kickstarter drive to create a Glorantha expansion (that’s RuneQuest’s setting for...
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Episode 8 – Tabletop games for Thanksgiving
We get timely and talk about the time-honored tradition of playing family-friendly* tabletop games while immobilized by overconsumption. We look at a few golden classics and a few that could interest...
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Episode 13 –“I love all shitty vampire things!”
We are back from our long holiday break / sick leave, with a hilariously delayed episode we recorded just before Xmas, in which we reveal a bunch of gift-related spoilers. The episode is now extremely...
View ArticleMad Men’s Rich Sommer Is a Tabletop Gamer!
This interview is a few years old, but I found it delightful that Rich Sommer is obsessed with board games. (I was also excited to find out that he went to school in my hometown of Cleveland, and I...
View ArticleEpisode 15 – All Roads Lead to Azeroth
This episode is a nerd trope buffet, featuring: Mini-reviews of a couple of lovely mobile apps A hopeless stab at defining the word “game” Social justice worriers Gratuitous WoW references 1d4+1 kobold...
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Slash: Romance Without Boundaries!
This past week I had the pleasure of playing Slash: Romance Without Boundaries with members of the cast of Slash: Burlesque Romance Without Boundaries, including the professor of nerdlesque herself, Jo...
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Episode 17 – Slash: Fanfic Meets Apples to Apples
Slash: Romance without Boundaries Mary had the great good fortune to play Slash: Romance without Boundaries, a new card game that applies the glorious tradition of fanfic to a play format reminiscent...
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Rob Heinsoo’s new zombie is hilarious
Last Friday, Friend of the Hole and 13th Age designer Rob Heinsoo posted one of the funniest monster write-ups I’ve ever seen–and I read through quite a few old April Fools’ editions of Dragon back in...
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Rob made a pro DM’s chest hurt
Photo credit: Rob HeinsooPaul and Rob playtested 13th Age in Glorantha last week and had a great time. Rob’s a big fan of the setting, and jumped at the chance to play a trickster. He decided to go...
View ArticleParty Game Night at Raygun Lounge: Recap
Last Friday night’s inaugural Party Game Night at Raygun Lounge was a delight. Paul is suffering from mummy rot, but he still managed to drag his non-infectious carcass up the hill to hang out for a...
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Episode 32 – That Sounds Like an App!
Alienware Steam Machine We’re back! We fell down the SummerHole for a few weeks, but we’re recording again and should be back in the groove for a good long time. This week we gab about three fun-sized...
View ArticleThis Giant Has Two Heads
Mary and I played our first Magic tournament over the weekend–a Magic Origins prerelease hosted by Green Lake Games and using the beloved Two-Headed Giant format. Team play is terrific for less...
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7 Wonders / Castle Panic: Wizard’s Tower – Episode 38
Build it up and tear it down. We eased up on the nerd a little this week and talked about a pair of tabletop games that can be fun for your less nerdy friends or kids. Paul and Rob adore 7 Wonders and...
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Ascension giga-drubbing
Rob and I much love the deck-building game Ascension, as we have documented previously. Other fans of the game might like these screenshots from some transcendent multiplayer ridiculousness perpetrated...
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Episode 40 – Interview with Jonathan Tweet
Grandmother Fish We spoke with author and game designer Jonathan Tweet about his new book Grandmother Fish, which tells the story of evolution for pre-K kids. We also delved into his storied history as...
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Episode 41 – PAX Recap
[Tap]: Search your library for any number of nerd creatures and place them on the battlefield.We’ve overcome our exhaustion and tech troubles to post our recap of this year’s PAX Prime. There was a lot...
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Episode 46 – Interview with Wade Rockett
Wade Rockett eating lunch with an old friend Do you want to get your game noticed–and, more importantly, purchased? We talked with game promoter extraordinaire Wade Rockett, who offered some fantastic...
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Episode 58 – Zombicide: Black Plague and Merged!
Surrounded! Hopeless! How did this happen? Zombicide is the shambling, reanimated elephant in the room; it raised 11 zillion dollars on Kickstarter but, as far as Rob and Paul are concerned, it’s only...
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Episode 66 – Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Inside, and Thunder Alley
Plenty of nerd for everyone! Hey, it’s a Nerdhole sampler! We talk about a cool, short book by Kai Ashante Wilson, the sweet new video game by the folks behind Limbo, and a board game that briefly made...
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PAX West 2016 Day One: We have to call it “PAX West” now.
We’re back at PAX, which has finally succumbed to the reality of large, successful organizations and renamed itself “PAX West.” We’re super-psyched for the success of our favorite nerd show, but it was...
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Episode 70 – Interview with Jonathan Tweet
Grandmother Fish We got another chance to interview Friend of the Hole and rockstar game designer Jonathan Tweet, whose magnificent book Grandmother Fish comes out today in his new deal with Macmillan....
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