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Episode 90: Roberta Taylor - Canadian Board Game Scene - Top 5 games we don’t get played nearly enough

13 Mar 2026 · 1 h 10 min · Episode 90

Roberta Taylor joins me to talk about her games and the Canadian board game scene. We discuss games we wish we could get to the table more often. And we are looking forward to more warmth to our days and meeting up with friends to game.

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:15 Getting to know Roberta Taylor

00:05:25 Exploring the Canadian Board Game Scene

• Eric M. Lang • Sen-Foong Lim • Daryl Andrews • Christopher Chung • Luke Parnell - Kerf Cut Games • Bryan Bell • (Please note that not all of the designers were mentioned but added them so people can look them up)

00:06:03 Canadian Publishers

• KTBG / Burnt Island Games • Hot Banana Games • First Fish Games • Off the Page Games • Roxley • Inside up Games • Scorpion Masqué

00:09:23 Canadian Conventions

• Terminal City Tabletop Con • Breakout Con • Toon con • FallCon • GOBfest

00:16:14 Female presenting Canadian Designers

• Erica Bouyouris

Helaina Cappel

• Marie Wong and Pauline Kong • Stephanie Kwok • Alara Cameron • Shannon McDowell

00:19:16 Canadian Content Creators

• Mandi Hutchinson - Salt and Sass Games Podcast • Foster the Meeple • Watch it played • Kovray

00:29:10 5 games we don't get played nearly enough

00:29:58 Wicked and Wise

00:31:38 SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

00:34:04 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends

00:36:48 Endeavor Deep Sea

00:40:33 Targi

00:42:46 The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

00:45:29 Smug Owls

00:47:42 Nostalgic Comfort Games - Takenoko and Lords of Waterdeep

00:51:06 Paperback

00:53:53 Creature Comforts and Cascadia

00:59:06 Moment of Positivity

01:04:09 Where can you find Roberta?

01:08:26 Outro

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Links in the notes 20

• https://www.ericmlang.com/
• https://linktr.ee/senfoonglim
• https://bsky.app/profile/kerfcutgames.bsky.social
• https://www.kidstablebg.com/
• https://www.burntislandgames.com/
• https://hotbananagame.com/en-us
• https://www.firstfishgames.com/
• https://offthepagegames.com/
• https://roxley.com/
• https://insideupgames.com/
• https://www.scorpionmasque.com/en/our-games
• https://terminalcitycon.ca/
• https://breakoutcon.com/
• https://toon-con.com/
• https://www.fallcon.com/
• https://www.gobfest.ca/
• https://www.shannonmcdowell.ca/
• https://www.youtube.com/c/saltandsassgames
• https://fosterthemeeple.ca/
• https://www.youtube.com/@watchitplayed