Everyday Meeple

Everyday Meeple

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 people talk about everything meeple.

Episodes

August 30, 2020 55 mins
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 up and coming designer she is also an all-around positive force in the hobby and o...
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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.
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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 Spire, God of War among others, nothing overly in-depth just a fun conversation. Mista...
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August 12, 2020 56 mins
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 Games as well as a new version of L.L.A.M.A the Party Edition that puts a few new twis...
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August 12, 2020 56 mins
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 mention the Steven Universe : Beach-a-Palooza Kickstarter in the episode but unfortunat...
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August 12, 2020 56 mins
Dave is back and we ramble on about Wingspan and Survive! Escape from Atlantis among other nonsense.
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August 12, 2020 57 mins
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 the newest addition New Frontiers.
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August 12, 2020 59 mins
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: Journeys in Middle Earth. I should have just glanced at my shelf before talking there. *...
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August 12, 2020 58 mins
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August 12, 2020 59 mins
This is the lost "Episode 16"
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August 12, 2020 56 mins
EM - June 21 2020 by Everyday Meeple
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August 12, 2020 58 mins
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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August 12, 2020 56 mins
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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August 12, 2020 57 mins
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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August 12, 2020 56 mins
EM June 28 2020 by Everyday Meeple
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August 12, 2020 52 mins
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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May 24, 2020 59 mins
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 Red Raven games. While we’ve only played a small sampling of his games, the art, mec...
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May 10, 2020 60 mins
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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April 26, 2020 60 mins
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 show to give it the attention it deserves. Some of the games we bring up: MTG, Domi...
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April 12, 2020 58 mins
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