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Podcast #70: Trading Shady Trees

Who's feeling cosy? In this final, festive podcast of 2017 Matt and Quinns tuck themselves beneath the Christmas tree before cutting it down for victory points.
That was an oblique reference to the first game the pair discuss, the noble <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218603/photosynthesis">Photosynthesis</a>. The boys then get far too excited about cubes and the possibilities thereof in the absurd game <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202426/sidereal-confluence-trading-and-negotiation-elysia">Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant</a>. They then discuss <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224597/warhammer-underworlds-shadespire">Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire</a>, the new Games Workshop board game showcasing beefy people hitting one another with hammers.
Finally, we read out a heartwarming love letter to the <a href="https://discussions.shutupandsitdown.com/c/talk-about-games/play-by-forum-games">Play By Forum section of the SU&amp;SD forum</a>, and read out our last ever Folk Game of the Month, with a little discussion about depictions of mental health in fiction. Best wishes to everyone who has trouble at this time of year. 
 
<a href="https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=podcastle&amp;tag=photosynthesis">Photosynthesis</a>, <a href="https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=podcastle&amp;tag=sidereal-confluence-trading-and-negotiation-in-the-elysium-quadrant">Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysium Quadrant</a>, <a href="https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=podcastle&amp;tag=warhammer-underworlds-shadespire">Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire</a>