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Neil and Henry discuss the boardgames they have played over the last few weeks, including the brilliant Deep Sea Adventure, Villagers, Love Letter and others... and there is a winner in Better than Minecraft, but how long will it last for...?

Neil and Henry run through recent games, pulling some old games off the shelf including King of Tokyo.Henry explores For the King in depth in "Better than Minecraft" and we have some laughs along the way as Henry knows nothing about any pop culture pre-2015.We namecheck a few early supporters and friends and look forward some more to Essen 2020.

Neil and Henry discuss their Christmas games - received and played including the Minecraft boardgame, Altiplano and Letter Jam and latest plans for Essen and other gaming conventions in 2020

Neil and Henry start to find their feet podcasting.  Some old games are revived from off of the games shelf, welook ahead to Christmas wish lists, revisit Overcooked on PS4 and share some of our initial plans for Essen Spiel 2020

Neil and Henry sit down to record a game of Magic The GatheringAs you know, Henry and I have just started exploring Magic The Gathering.  I am often asked if the game is complicated; it's not.I recorded this to give you an idea of how the game flows and aslo as an experiment to see how the recording works, what editing style suits it best and to se eif the content is useful.Be sure to let me know using neil@neildenny.com

Trailer episode (episode one) where we introduce Road to Essen, a regular podcast from a father and son who love to play board games, card games and video games with - and against - each other.In this trailer we introduce ourselves and explain our plans to travel to Spiel Essen boardgame conference in 2020.Each week we will share news, the games we have tried that week and the plans we are putting into place to give you ideas about what to play and where to stay.