Stephen and David,

First of all, thanks for including Khronos on your podcast and thanks for crediting (blaming?) me for "Eric Clapton's underwear".

You guys did an amazing job with the rules even though I have a few corrections. The rules are like a minefield but really do make sense once you get everything in order. Khronos is not a game for everyone but I think fans of Tigris & Euphrates might find a bit of a similar feel here (perhaps a 3D version of T&E). I would be happy to teach this game at the following conventions this year - Game Days and EuroQuest in Maryland, Origins and BuckeyeGameFest in Columbus, OH, and BGG Con in Dallas, TX.

The few corrections:

Law of Rippling - ONLY medium and large buildings ripple forward in time (in this section, you said buildings ripple forward but didn't mention the size attribute),

Scoring - In the Age of Might and the Age of Faith, the single highest value ("most prestigious") milititary and religious building, respectively, score within each domain (not the highest total value of those building types), and

Demolish action - Demolish can never happen in the Age of Reason since you cannot demolish a pre-printed building on the board and small buildings never ripple forward in time.  The Age of Reason will only have preprinted buildings and buildings that have rippled forward.

Thanks for another great episode!

Paul Marshall

ECU? Isn't that the "European Currency Unit" - which is what they were going to call the Euro before it became, well, the Euro? Perhaps the game designers thought it was a currency of the future ? Perhaps the Europeans decided to use Euro in preference to ECU because of Eric Clapton.

Interesting review of Khronos - this has been on my radar for some time, now, so it was really useful to hear a detailed breakdown.

My conclusion is that this would be a game I would really enjoy playing but that my local group would most likely hate. In fact I'd probably hate playing it with them as there are a fair few sufferers of Analysis Paralysis amongst my companions.

Still, it looks and sounds cool and surely must be tried at least once. Maybe at a convention sometime... until then I'll stick to Chrononauts which scatches a similar itch but with less complexity.

Great to hear Dr Who getting some love. Anyone, of my age, in the UK is likely to have endless nostalgia for this key component of Saturday evening television in the 1970s. I could real off endless trivia about the series until Sarah Jane comes home (which, incidentally, she has on children's television).

And, yes, Douglas Adams was an early scriptwriter and he later used key components, of the episodes he wrote (City of Death and Shada), in his first non Hitchhiker novel - "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency".

He had a movie script "Dr Who and the Krikketmen" which never made it to the big screen and eventually re-emerged as the novel "Life, the Universe and Everything".

Lots of crossing lines. When he was the Script Editor for Dr Who he was well known for allowing "Hitchhiker" In-Jokes to appear in the series. It can be a lot of fun trying to spot these. This tradition continued for many a year - even up to 2007 when an episode called "42" was broadcast (David Tennant being the Doctor at the time).

Doctor Who games were ten a penny when I were a lad. They were all, as I recall, fairly limited roll and move. Funny that in this episode you talk about media tie ins (aka Guards! Guards!).

Ah, the passage of time :-)

I thought initially you were talking about “Eric Clapton’s Under Where?”, a popular parlour game among the 60’s rock royalty in those giddy days when he was not yet on the wagon. If I remember right, the first player to successfully figure out which piece of furniture or party guest Eric had collapsed beneath won the right of trying to remind the others that they had been playing.

Thanks to Pike for filling in the Who/ Adams connections. Met the man once. HUGE. He seemed 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. He autographed my book but when he handed it back to me, I noticed that he hadn't included the customary "To etc..." and asked him if he could write “Gregory” somewhere. He calmly took the book back flipped to a random page and scribbled my name into the inner margin. It is one of the high honors of my life to have been insulted by the very best and his loss pained me at the time. Bill Hicks, John Lennon, Linda Smith all late 30’s, early 40s… I grow uncomfortably aware that I am approaching the point of outliving some of my heroes.  Which means I can smugly sit here in my rocker on the porch saying, “You kids needin’ yer dagnabbed computers to play Khronos. Why in my day we had Avalon Hill rulebooks an’ we worked out our Car Wars equations with a  slide rule… none of your high falutin’ European score tracks either; we used a pencil and paper. Left a li’l souvenir of the game you could press in yer diary.”

By the way, you do know that you’ve blown a hole in the time/ space continuum? This week’s Your Move was supposed to revolve around the seven original BBC television doctors. But that one slipped through the wormhole to NEXT episode and if I can’t stop it we’ll all be pulled through to the alternate reality where Steerpike and I do the show and you guys haunt the forums and nobody wants that. I’ll see what I can do; you stay here and get the tea ready. *click* VWORPVWORPVWORPVWORP.

 Ok so after many great game ideas from the Spiel I now need to add TV shows to the list.

I had nevered watched any of the Dr Who episodes and then after your discussing it on the show I decided to give it a try. With the help of Netflix online I have now watched several stories.

Pretty good show - some really nice storylines and as long as you imagine your way through some special effects it is a lot of fun

Thanks for the great TV advice

Scott