Welcome to Off-Board, where I let board game designers talk about something other than board games. This episode, I'm joined by Daniel Newman, designer of numerous trick taking games and publisher via New Mill Games. We talk about the human stories at the heart of mecha fiction, the folklore of Japan, the shared DNA of comedy and horror, and much more!

Next time: designer and academic Greg Loring-Albright and I bust the format three episodes in by going a full hour (and more) on one album!

Thanks to www.classicals.de for its recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6