The Gaming Moguls

Jake and Mark are back with an episode that looks into what it takes to ease people into the next level of heavy game. We also discuss some of our favorite transitional games to help gamers take the …

It’s a PLUS-SIZED EPISODE with fan favorite Craig Taylor! Ow. Ow! STOP PUNCHING ME! It’s all the games with the sharp elbows where the interaction is direct, it’s painful.. and it’s mean. Are we stil…

Jake and Mark ponder as to which games would we keep if we had to winnow our collection down to 15 games.. as if we were off to a desert island.. with just our games. Well, maybe some canned SPAM too…

Mark and Jake are back with another Gaming Moguls podcast. As students of the game, they deep dive on their thoughts and tricks for teaching board games effectively. As ever, there is a lengthy chat …

Jake and Mark return to have some mid-summer musings about their gaming adventures during the month of June. They talk about the games they played – including what seems like a bumper crop of 18xx ga…

In this plus-sized episode, we stretch out for two main topics. The first main topic is a deep-dive into system games. What’s a system game? A game that has a lot of extra content or variants based o…

No doubt about it – expansions are red hot and some games have a LOT of expansions available! The problem is that we don’t often play games enough for it to matter.. and that’s for the really good on…

In Episode 39, Jake and Mark talk about some of the ways they keep their gaming habits going during the great quarantine of 2020. They deep dive on their two favorite tools – Tabletop Simulator and B…

This is the 4th and last in our series examining the 4 quadrants of the Mogul Scale. This time we are looking at the heaviweight champions – and talking about what makes a heavy game! We also discu…

It’s time to attack the “simple rules/deep gameplay” quadrant. Are these the purest games or are they too chess-y?

Jake and Mark have a lengthy discussion about these games and point out some fav…

In this episode, Jake and Mark examine the most controversial area of the Mogul Scale – the high rules, low decision space quadrant. Is it where Ameritrash lives? Or.. role playing? Or is it just …

Simple rules and straightforward strategy? Not just the land of the party games and fillers.. hear Jake and Mark discuss these great lightweight but not entry-level games. We tell what characterize…

It’s been a great 2019 of gaming – Mark and Jake reflect on their year of gaming and call out some high points and low points of the year. No proper New Year episode would be complete without some g…

This episode, Jake and Mark welcome the third Mogul to the microphone – Dennis! They discuss the games they played over the holidays and their thoughts on them. They ponder the idea of a “Bag of th…

It’s been a year! 32 Episodes later the Gaming Moguls are still at it. We reflect on a few of our favorite moments from the past year. We spend most of the episodes discussing the games we played …

It seems like a lot of games are starting to bubble-wrap the play experience leading to low interaction and no in-game meanness. Mark and Jake have a long discussion about their thoughts about mean …

The Millennial Mogul gets his day in the sun to discuss his favorite games as of Fall 2019. Jake breaks down each of his top twenty and why he loves each of them. We thought Mark’s and Jake’s lists…

Who’s a fanboi? As Jake and Mark approach the one year anniversary of the Gaming Moguls, they revisit their top 20 using the PubMeeple.com ranking engine. This time, it’s Mark’s top 20 – as it turn…

“I thought that game was pretty tactical” – we’ve heard it a bunch so we muse on what implications a game being partly or mostly tactical has on player perception and playtime. Is it an invective? …

We’re back after an awesome MogusCon ’19 and excited to talk about our experience hosting our first listener con. We realize that “Interactivity” (the buzzword du jour) isn’t as well understood as w…