Everyday Meeple

EM June 28 2020 by Everyday Meeple

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, Dominion, Clank!, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Ascension, Dale of Merchants, Quest for El Dorado, Vikings Gone Wild, Thunderstone, Baseball Highlights 2045, Abandon all Artichokes, Slay the Spire

It's been a while but we are back. Macy has been really excited to record another episode so here it is. For this episode Macy chose one of her new favorites, Cat Lady. A cute as a button set collection game published by AEG designed by Josh Wood who also did the art.  In Cat Lady you are collecting cats and cat things. Every cat you pick up needs to be fed so you have to make sure you get enough food, but cats are finicky so make sure you get the right kinds of food. Cats also need costumes and toys, and maybe a little catnip. You can also adopt strays. This is a great light family game and a great intro game for drafting, set collecting, and resource management mechanics.  Macy gives it a 10. It's a good time.

Macy and I were probably both a little to sleepy to try this again but she really wanted to. So we did. We probably shouldn't have though, but again, why not. This time around she wanted to talk about Sleeping Queens again and Mystery Garden.

In this very first episode, my 5 year old daughter and I talk about some of her favorite games, and get distracted. It actually went pretty well for a first try. We try and stay focused on the game Incan Gold, her very favorite right now, plus we kind of talk about a few other things, like D&D (Pathfinder) and Sleeping Queens. Plus she mentions a few aspirations and has fun with the delay effect. I had a great time. That's what counts right.

In the second episode between our "regular" epsiodes we ramble on about a few games and what have you. Mostly we focus on Caverna by Uwe Rosenberg, Friday by Friedemann Friese, and 51st State by Ignacy Trzewiczek and that naturally leads us to bits about some of our favourites like Terraforming Mars and Race for the Galaxy, but that's what rambling is all about right?

In this, our 3 effort, we stumble around our microphones discussing the game Terraforming Mars and what we like about it as well as some other stuff they may or may not relate.

We decided we should just keep talking between figuring out what we should talk about next so we have decided to fill the space in between with casual talks about more board game stuff. This epsiode we talk about the Board Game Stats app.

In our first, dare we say, haphazard adventure into the podcast universe we discuss the 7.5lb box of good times that is Wasteland Express Delivery Service by Pandasaurus Games.

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 out. She is a regular contributor to https://dayton.momcollective.com where she often writes articles that highlight inclusion and understanding. She writes about small gestures that while often overlooked can really add up to a better world. [Mitch: I went on about a problem with Oracle of Delphi but it was really not accurate at all. Terrible. Reading comprehension is not a problem of the rulebook. I went back and it really is spelled out quite well as it should be. The problem was really me just skimming the rules to get things set up quickly. As far as examples go it was not just a bad example but not an actual example of what I was talking about. Yikes. Maybe the most embarrassing error I have had to admit to yet.]

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.

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. Mistakes: Oops. There are probably plenty as always but one big stand out was not knowing the name for the Game Artisans of Canada group. I got it confused and called it the League of Canadian Designers - not the same.

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 twists in what is already a quick family gem. Mitch also says something weird about dinosaurs and asks Steve about dexterity games from his childhood. There's some more going on too but that's the broad strokes of things anyway. There are some errors in there too but I didn't write them down and now I can't remember. If you spot one let us know at : feedback@everydaymeeple.com

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 unfortunately it ended on July 31, 2 days before this episode actually aired. Dang.

Dave is back and we ramble on about Wingspan and Survive! Escape from Atlantis among other nonsense.

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.

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. ** I mentioned the D&D board games being $140 retail and that just isn't true. I have seen them pretty steep but they almost all seem to sell at $70 (CDN) and there is not apparently a new Waterdeep one that I can find any trace of - not sure where that came from. ** Also the idea of shrinking the scale for D&D minis was just a bunch of words I happened to say in a string together. I don't think it is worth exploring at all. :| LOL

EM July 5 2020 by Everyday Meeple

This is the lost "Episode 16"

EM - June 21 2020 by Everyday Meeple