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!
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 118 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
#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 updat…
#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 i…
#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…
#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 th…
#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 t…
#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 pai…
#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 d…
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 …
#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 C…
Goonhammer Media Network
We're happy to announce that we're joining the Goonhammer Media Network.
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#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.
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#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 coachin…
#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 b…
#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 the…
#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…
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.
#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.
HeroQuest
Fiasco
Magic the Gathering Commander
L…
#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 be…
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 epis…
#60 - Adepticon 2022
Adepticon is back! Troy, Brice, and Ty share their time at the World's Premiere Wargaming Convention. Before that the guys cover everything they have been playing, hobbying, and consum…