Everyday Meeple is a show about board games. That simple and that vague. Each week Steve and Mitch talk about the hobby they love. Sometimes they talk about the games they’ve been playing or the art and mechanics that bring those games to life. Some conversations drift through the history of board games or focus on a particular designer. If you love board games or are just getting interested you are bound to find something in their conversations. Everyday Meeple is the show where everyday pe ...
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Welcome back. Or maybe just welcome. On this episode, Steve and Mitch talk about rulebooks. Really they just scratch the surface because that is a really huge topic. Too big to ramble about the whole of it in an hour.On a side note, the Kathryn that Steve and I mention on the show is @ kathrynedowell on Instagram. Besides being an avid gamer and an…
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We are back with another conversation about board game things. This time we talk a bit about Yahtzee and Yahtzee related things. Mitch does a horrible job explaining how to play Elder Sign and Las Vegas and Steve goes down a rabbit hole about Dead Heads and Cosmic Whimps.Por Everyday Meeple
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In this episode, the conversation is about video games and how they intersect with board games. Mostly we focus on how the video game industry often creates a board game from successful game IPs and, well, what we think about that. Some games that come up are Undermining and Super Motherload, Mechs vs Minions, Doom, Descent, Dark Souls, Slay the Sp…
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Last week we were talking about the game Pictures that recently won the Spiel des Jahres award and Mitch just wanted to say a few more things. We also talk about some new games announced just recently at Gen Con including 2 new Animal Upon Animal versions coming from Haba, Dragomino from Blue Orange Games, a new Descent coming from Fantasy Flight G…
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Steve's back! And we catch up talking briefly about the Kennerspiele winner the Crew and trick-taking games, I keep giving the outdoor game list a hard time - during which we call K2, K-9 (sorry about that). I talk about Archaeology by Phil Walker-Harding and Broom Service the Card Game by Andreas Pelikan, Alexander Pfister. It's a good time.I ment…
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Dave is back and we ramble on about Wingspan and Survive! Escape from Atlantis among other nonsense.
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This weeks episode marks the return of Dave, one of the original hosts of Everyday Meeple. In Dave's first CHMA hosted episode, we talk about Tides of Time / Madness, Biblios, and a bit about Magic the Gathering. We also talk a bit about Thomas Lehmans Race for the Galaxy universe that includes RftG as well as Jump Drive, Roll for the Galaxy and th…
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With Steve taking a break for a while Ryan Delnick of Spider Dog Crafting sits in and we discuss the shared DNA of Risk and D&D and we talk about what lead Ryan to his current work crafting D&D terrain and painting minis.CORRECTIONS:** At one point I refer to a game called Lord of the Rings: Journey of the Ring - OOPS - That is called LOTR: Journey…
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EM July 5 2020 by Everyday Meeple
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This is the lost "Episode 16"
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EM - June 21 2020 by Everyday Meeple
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Everyday Meeple made a switch to a weekly radio show on our local college station CHMA 106.9 FM. We still record as a podcast as well but most of our shows are light and conversational.
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Everyday Meeple made a switch to a weekly radio show on our local college station CHMA 106.9 FM. We still record as a podcast as well but most of our shows are light and conversational.Por Everyday Meeple
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Everyday Meeple made a switch to a weekly radio show on our local college station CHMA 106.9 FM. We still record as a podcast as well but most of our shows are light and conversational.Por Everyday Meeple
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EM June 28 2020 by Everyday Meeple
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Everyday Meeple made a switch to a weekly radio show on our local college station CHMA 106.9 FM. We still record as a podcast as well but most of our shows are light and conversational.Por Everyday Meeple
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This week we celebrate the triple-threat designer, artist and publisher, Ryan Laukat of Red Raven games. Ryan is responsible for hit games like Near and Far and Above and Below. He has a fascinating story of how he started in the board game industry as an artist, then a designer. We dig into all of that goodness and go on to gush over our favourite…
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(Ep 17) Losers of Midgard
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With a quick nod to Elisabeth Hargrave and the Wingspan team for winning 8 Golden Geek awards we move into a discussion of Champions of Midgard and how much fun it is losing.
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Ep 15 - The Deck Building Episode
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In this episode we try and tackle deck-building but it is such a vast topic that we really just scratch a small itch on the surface. A brief time-line from the explosive force that was Magic: The Gathering to the emergence of a new mechanic through Donald X Vaccarino's Dominion. There is so much to love with deck-building and so little time in our …
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The Isolation Episodes #3 by Everyday Meeple
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Our second show from isolation has us talking with some technical improvements as we settle into the new system. It also finds us talking about how some publishers are trying to help out during this awkward moment.
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As we all tuck ourselves neatly away into our homes during this peculiar time I reach out to Steve in his underground board game bunker so we can catch up and try and find some things to keep us all sane.We talk a bit about what we've been playing with our families and come up with a few ways that people who may not have a board game collection to …
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We joked we would call it the co-op episode but that's really a bit of a misnomer. While we do focus on the Ravensburger game Horrified, which is a beautiful family weight, gateway co-op. And we do spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of playing co-op games with kids, and what some favourites are. I would say we spend the bulk of the time…
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In Episode 10 we spend a lot of time chatting about some of our favourites games. I’m looking at you Raiders of the North Sea. I introduce Steve to geekgroup.app a web app that links to your BGG (Board Game Geek) account and visualizes your collection data in so many fun ways. This leads us to discover what is considered the worst games in our coll…
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Ep 9 - The Road to Catan
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For episode 9 I get a bit excited and try and explain to Steve what I find fascinating about the world before Catan.I had something in my head about the game Acquire having been mentioned as the seed of modern Eurogames. Which really interested me. I started looking into and did not find too much at first then came across the book "Eurogames: The D…
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