Playin' & Slayin'
A podcast from the Basement of Death featuring news, anecdotal experiences, and raucous reviews of life in the adventurous wilderness of Hobby gaming!
Episodes
111 episodes
#78 | Adepticon 2024 | Space Hulk
The Thunderhawk has landed, and the guys have returned home from Adepticon, the world's largest miniature-gaming convention. Troy, Ty, and Josh are sharing their experiences and highlights from the event. Troy provides a detailed recap of the S...
#77 | Adepticon Preview | Space Hulk
Ty and Josh find Troy between Space Hulk prep hobby sessions to discuss Adepticon 2024 and a brief preview of their schedules, events, and hobby plans. During games played, there is a brief review of the cozy tile placement game Dorfromantik, a...
#76 | Midwinter Gaming Convention | 2024 Look Ahead
Happy New Year! In this episode, our hosts share their excitement about some gaming-related things that they are looking forward to in 2024. But before that, Ty, Troy, and Josh take you on a journey through their adventures at the Midwinter Gam...
#75 | Holy Havoc | Weekender | 2023 Favorites
In this episode, Brice and Ty recount their time at the consistently outstanding Holy Havoc event in November. The four also discuss all the games played at the recent Weekender, including Nemesis, Dwellings of Eldervale, Eclipse, Blades ...
#74 | GameholeCon | Dragonfall | True Dungeon
In this episode, the guys share their experiences at BriceCon 2, Dragonfall, and Gamehole Con. With lots of games played and quite a bit of hobby accomplished, they provide their updates. Troy talks about the state of competitive 40...
#73 LitRPG | GenCon 2023 | Dungeon Crawler Carl
All four of your favorite hosts are together again. In this episode, the group talks about what they have been playing, Troy’s Gen Con weekend, and other topics. The main discussion is all about the LitRPG genre and a spoiler-free d...
#72 Carl Tuttle Interview
Playin' and Slayin' is generally all about MSU, but this episode the guys welcome an Independent Character to the show. Guest Carl Tuttle of the Independent Characters Podcast joins Ty, Troy, and Josh to talk about his gaming origin story...
#71 T & T Banter
Troy and Ty catch up on everything they are playing, building, buying, reading, and watching. Ty then asks Troy some hard-hitting gaming questions. There is also a video version of the podcast
#70 Seraphon Battletomb Review with Brendan Melnick
A Battletomb Review?! We are joined by AoS Mistro himself, Brendan Melnick, for our first-ever battletomb review on Playin and Slayin. Brendan walks us through the new Seraphon book to help us plan our Charity Army list. B...
#69 ADEPTICON 2023
It's Adepticon 2023! The guys recount their experiences at the world's largest wargaming convention, including Space Hulk, the AoS champs and team tournaments, buying $300 worth of paint, and the pants incident!There is also a ...
#68 The Weekender
We talk about games played at our recent Weekender event, and all the hobby that we did in prep for that event as well as the upcoming Adepticon. We also head into the BoD library to discuss everything we've been reading and watching, and...
Random Encounter #3 | Holy Wars
Brice and Ty share some hobby banter and talk about their experiences at Holy Wars. Holy Wars is a narrative Age of Sigmar event near Chicago organized by Steve Herner @HolyHammerHern where all proceeds go to supporting Hesed House. ...
#67 Hobby Charity Army
We kick off 2023 by sharing our plans for creating an army for charity as our group hobby challenge. The episode starts off with our normal chat about what we've been playing (Marvel Champions, Wingspan, and more), hobbying (3 color chall...
Goonhammer Media Network
We're happy to announce that we're joining the Goonhammer Media Network.There is also a video version of the podcast https://youtu.be/r...
#66 Favorites of 2022
Happy New Year! The entire Playin' and Slayin' gang is here to review their favorite gaming items and moments of 2022. There is also a video version of the podcast https://youtu.be/...
#65 Raf Cordero Returns
Raf Cordero returns to the podcast to share his adventures at the GW Chicago Open in his first AoS tournament. We also chat about a variety of other gaming topics, including MtG coaching. Get comfortable; it's a long one!Find more from ...
#64 Marvel Champions
It's a threesome with Ty, Troy, and Josh. In this episode, they review and discuss a game that's been hitting the table a lot lately, Marvel Champions. In the normal Playin & Slayin banter Ty shares his favorite new DM aid, the ...
#63 - Gen Con & NashCon 2022
It's a full house as all four hosts gather to share their experiences at two recent events, Gen Con 2022 and the NashCon AoS tournament. They also provide the usual banter on what they have been playing, buying, and building. A hobby cha...
#62 - Teras Cassidy of Geek Nation Tours
We are thrilled to be joined by the head geek himself Teras Cassidy. Ty, Josh and Troy chat with Teras about his gaming origin story, the past and present of Geek Nation Tours, and his amazing home gaming studio. Be sure to check ou...
Random Encounter #2
Brice and Josh are both off on vacation but that didn't stop Ty and Troy from chatting about everything they have been playing, slaying, and purchasing. Meph's Rantathon III ...
#61B - Playin and Slayin - Red Toads and Wizard Wands | The Weekender | Fiasco | MCP
Live from the Playin' & Slayin' Weekender, Ty, Brice, Josh, and Troy share everything they've been doing on their weekend gaming adventure. HeroQuestFiascoMagic the Gathering CommanderLost Ruins of ArnakMarvel C...
#61A - Playin' and Slayin' - The Two of Us - Terrain Challenge - Clank
Down a couple of crew members, Troy and Ty forge on. They review the terrain pieces that everyone did for the hobby challenge for this month. As well as discuss everything they have been building, buying, and playing in the last month.&nb...
Random Encounter #1
Welcome to Random Encounter #1. These will be shorter than our normal episodes and feature our discussion of current news or releases and possibly a game review or two. This first episode we touch on the news about D&D Beyond, Explodi...