Meeple Nation Board Game Podcast

This week we are talking about games that were first a board game but have been converted to a dice game. Join us at the game table

This week we are discussing Dice Forge. A 2-4 player game designed by Regis Bonnessee. Released through Libellud games. Players make offering to the gods in order to improve the dice they are rolling hoping to earn the most points and be victorious. Join us at the game table.

This week we talk about four different dice rolling games. Boggle, one of David's favorite word games. HEXplore It, a dice rolling adventure game. Kingsburg, a game of growing your influence in the King's court. That's Pretty Clever, and Twice as Clever, two dice rolling games all about combos and bonuses. Join us at the table for this weeks discussion.

This week we talk about the very large pool of games that include the dice rolling mechanic. There are over 30,000 games. Too many to get to so we only discuss a handful of them. Join us at the table as we discuss dice rolling games.

This week we talk about Pictures and The Crew, the winner of Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres for 2020. We talk about the excitement from the announcement of Pandemic Legacy: Season 0. We also talk about several exciting Kickstarters, and we also talk about Ignite, a Kickstarter that is in late pledge for a few more days. Join us at the game table.

This week we discuss Great Western Trail, a 2-4 player game where players compete to get their cattle to Kansas City and ship them across the United States. Shipping cattle alone won't win you the game, you will need to build buildings, advance your train, and overcome hazards. Whomever scores the most points wins. Come join us at the game table as we discuss Great Western Trail.

This week we discuss the Libellud's game Obscurio. 2-8 players must watch the Grimoire closely as it provides clues on how to exit the evil Sorcerer's library. If the players can work together and find the correct exit six times they will have escaped. If they cannot, the Sorcerer, will have you trapped forever in the library. Come join us at the game table as we discuss Obscurio.

This week we discuss four different games with communication limits. First, we talk about about Time's Up! and Time's Up!: Title Recall. Second, we talk about Blood on the Clocktower. Third, we talk about Dixit. Four we talk about Pantone: the Game. Come join us at the game table.

This week we are talking about games that have some forum of communication limits. We go from Taboo, to Gloomhaven and several games in between. Join us at the game table as we discuss games with communication limits.

Join us at the table this week as we discuss Kickstarters, new games and even some puzzles.

This week we discuss the 1-4 player game Isle of Cats, designed by Frank West and distributed through City of Games. Join us at the game table.

This week we are talk about Azul in its three forms. Azul Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra Azul: Summer Pavilion We also cover the expansion for the base game, Azul: Crystal Mosaic. Join us at the game table.

This week we talk about three different pattern building games. Logan talks about Welcome to.. and several of the expansions. Welcome to... is designed by Benoit Turpin and produced by Blue Cocker Games. Nathan discusses Copenhagen designed by Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold Pedersen and produced by Queen Games. Ryan shares with us the joy that can be found in building the Best Treehouse Ever designed by Scott Almes and produced by Green Couch Games. Join us at the game table.

This week we are talking about pattern building games. We get some Facebook feedback and then we talk about games like; Reef, Tiny Towns, Attika, NUMBR9, Kingdomino, and some how we include Boggle. Join us at the game table.

This week we talk about current Kickstarters, new games that are coming out, and some recently released games. Come join us around the news game table.

In this episode we are talking about end game bonuses. Where you may think you are winning, but it is not proven until all the cards are counted. We discuss It's a Wonderful World, Hawaii, Raiders or the North Sea, Majesty: for the Realm, and even Ticket to Ride. Join us at the game table.

Join us this week we discuss action games. Action queue games, which players program their turn and hope they planned for the best (Robo Rally, Tiny Epic Mechs). Action drafting games, where all players have a limited pool of actions to pick from (Puerto Rico). Action retrieval games, where players can only play the action they control once until they spend an action to retrieve those actions (Centenary: Spice Road).

This week we discuss some online gaming options. We go from phone apps like Terraforming Mars, to Charterstone. We talk online gaming sites such as: Boardgamearena.com Yucata.de Tabletop Simulator. Come join us at the virtual table.

This episode we respond to a question on how to keep games civil. We talk about experiences we have had and how we have dealt with them. We offer some advice on maybe what not to play with some people and what mechanic might cause the most contention.

This week we talk about Kickstarters and new released games, including Frosthaven, They Live, and three Ten-minute games. We cover new games such as Azul: Crystal Mosaic, The Crew, Tajuto, and Sanctum.

This week we practice our social distancing as we discuss the new game from Everything Epic, Secrets of the Lost Station. This game was designed by Christopher Batarlis and Jim Samartino. This is a 1-6 player campaign game that has a lot of hidden content to explore.

This week we discuss the Mariucci J Designs, LLC game, HEXplore it. Designed by: Kat Kimoundri, Nathan Loos, and Jonathan Mariucci. This is a fully cooperative game where players must gain enough experience to survive and defeat the threat of the Dead King.

This week we each talk about four different games with modular boards. The Reckoners Descent Mage Knight Cities Skylines

This week we discuss a wide list of games that all have modular boards, such as Catan, The Quest for El Dorado, Takenoko, Nemesis, Clank! In! Space!, HeroQuest, and many others.

This week we discuss march news and recap our experience at SaltCon Spring 2020

This week we discuss It's a Wonderful World, designed by Frederic Guerard. It's a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources, and which ones will be kept for construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain victory points.

This week we discuss Bunny Kingdom, a game designed by Richard Garfield. In Bunny Kingdom, you draft cards, many of which represent a space on the board where you place one of your bunnies. As you connect territories, you create fiefdoms. The score for a fiefdom is the number of castle spires times the number of unique resources that fiefdom produces. Other cards can add resources and castles, connect territories, and provide end game scoring. Build your fiefdoms to their greatest scoring potential and be named Big Ears by the Bunny King.

This week we discuss some of our favorite card drafting games. Each game uses the card drafting mechanic in a different way. Each game we discuss we think is awesome. Agricola Fairy Tale El Grande Trekking the National Parks Join us at the game table.

This week we discuss the card drafting mechanic. It was a little surprising to find non-card games in this episode, but they fit the mold. We include games with trade rows like Clank! or markets like Aeon's End and Thunderstone Quest, and also games with tiles like Azul and Kingdomino. Have a listen and share us your thought on our Facebook page Meeple Nation Off Air.

This week we announce our contest winners from episode 300. We sprinkle in some news and all this before the computer runs out of power.

This week we talk about the board game The Menace Among Us by Jeff Gum, published by Smirk and Dagger Games. Hidden roles, space theme, and asymmetrical setup.

This week we talk about all things Legendary, from Marvel to James Bond. Legendary was one the first game to use the semi-cooperative mechanic. We even suggest some new properties for Upper Deck. Who knows what is coming down the road?

This week we share our thoughts Semi-Cooperative games. We're a little loose on the definition of this mechanic a bit. Okay, maybe more than a bit.

This week we talk recap and review the year 2019 as far as the board game hobby. None of that other stuff. We talk about our game of the year. We talk about some of our greatest game memories. Oh, and Nathan plays way too many game and has some way crazy game goals. Like a lot of goals. Think of a lot of games played. Nathan came close to that mark, or maybe blew it away. Find out inside.

This week we discuss the changes we have seen in the board gaming hobby over the last 5 and a half years, since our first episode. Also there are some free games to win. Not two or three contests, but four contest where you can win a free game.

This week we discuss Marvel Champions, the new game from Fantasy Flight. This is a 1-4 player, fully cooperative game where players take on the role of one of the five heroes in the core box, Spider-man, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Iron Man. The heroes face off against one of the three super villains, Rhino, Ultron, or Klaw. Tune in to hear our thoughts and to see if it is a game the Ryan will like. (ed. note: why does Nathan keeps wondering if Ryan will like games?)

Last month, Brent and Nathan got to spend the week in Dallas Texas to attend Board Game Geek Con 2019. We talk about the experience of the con, the people of the con, and of course the games we played. Nathan adjusts his game list mid cast. Learn what game Nathan missed playing. There's an app for that, Nathan.

We continue our discussion of fully cooperative games by focusing on one games each. We discuss three very different games that appeal to us and highlight the mechanic. Spirit Island, City of Kings, and Chronicles of Crime.

We talk about a bunch of cooperative games, not team, or semi-cooperative games. We are only talking fully cooperative games. Marvel Legendary, you don't count. No one winner, secret winner, secret goals, or extra score steps. We discuss Hanabi, Arkham Horror the card game, The Mind, Magic Maze, Mysterium, One key, Just one, and we mention many more.

Christmas shopping got you geared up to buy more board games? We feel the same. We put our stocking caps on and came up with a bunch of awesome suggestions to get the gamer in your life or to gift to a home that could use a little more gaming action.

In this episode we discuss Elizabeth Hargrave's widely popular game Wingspan. You play birds, place eggs, gather food, and create engines for fame and glory of the birding world. If that doesn't sound awesome, you still need to play this game. Wingspan contains just enough player interaction to keep Ryan invested, and lives up to the hype.

This week we discuss Hako Onna which is a creepy deduction game that has a pick up and delivery element to it. This has a US release through WizKids and plays 3-5 players. There are a lot of great elements about this game, and Ryan feels its theme. Does he like a new game? Tune in and find out. We'll see you at the game table.

Logan talks about the mild touch of Pick Up and Deliver in Nemesis. Is there more than the aliens picking up larva and delivering it into players chests? Ryan gushes over crayon rail games again and focuses on Martian Rails. They take the core mechanic and build a wonderful mess of a map. Simplicity and a little magic make these games fabulous. Train game and pick up and delivery mechanics make a lot of sense. Nathan brings up Pirates Cove. Ryan likes it but is not a fan of combat system which punishes the losers dramatically through a whole lot of random. Give us a listen.

We discuss Pick Up and Delivery games, a mechanic that seems to be lacking in our game group, but we have still played some very fun games. Ryan chats up crayon rail games like Empire Builder, and Nathan tries to understand how Ryan can like a game with so little theme. We bring up Firefly (of course) and games like Star Wars: Outer Rim, Deep Sea Adventure, and Pandemic. Still hoping for a Pandemic Legacy: Season 3. Come join us at the game table.

Nathan and Ryan talk Arkham Horror: the card game. Meeple Nation will represent at SaltCon! Our highlight is the Meeple Nation hosted game show. New games coming out: Wingspan European expansion Gloomhaven: Subtitle Will it have new content or a retread of the old stuff and who is the target of this game new players, existing players? Nathan brings up Pandemic Legacy: Season 2. He and his wife have only one game left. David compares Gloomhaven to Agricola. Codenames: the Simpsons Caroline and the Other Mother from Wizkids. Azul: Summer Pavilion Do we need more Azul games? KickStarters: Oathswon Minis vs Standees Hard West Rome and Roll Hey Cutie? Really Ryan?? What happens to a kickstarter when it doesn't fund Tiny Epic Dinosaurs

This week we talk about some great ideas for spooky games for the Halloween season. We discuss Mysterium, Fury of Dracula, Nycophobia, Horrified, and Fearsome Floors. We also mention Hako Onna, Arkham Horror, and a host of other games. Join us for some spooky fun that even Ryan can have.

In this episode we discuss different ways that apps have become a part of the board gaming hobby. We discuss gaming websites like Brettspiewelt.de, BoardGameArena.com, and Yucata.de. We talk gaming apps for the phone like Dominion, San Juan, and Suburbia app, and Ryan brings up Star Realms for some reason. We also discuss board games that have app integration.

We talk Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Arkham Horror TCG, Agricola, Terraforming Mars, Marvel Legendary and Lord of the Rings the Living Card Game, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Chronicles of Crime and The Reckoners. And then Ryan had to bring up Firefly.

We discuss the art of playing games alone, games designed to be played with only one player. Games discussed: Proving Grounds, Onirim, Hostage Negotiator, and Ambush! We don't play games alone that much, but we tried a few out for this episode and were not disappointed.

Some great games coming down the pipe to report about this month. Clank! In! Space! Cyber Station 11 - We love this game and want more always. Fox in the Forest Duet Hako Onna - It's out and we have it in our grasp. Marvel: Crisis Protocol Wingspan in Digital Alien: Covenant expansion for Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game. - We love this one too, so this is a great excuse for this one to hit the table again. Fired Up - A game where you are the spectators. Hmm. Maybe they pull it off. Moonrakers Solar Storm Rare Roses and more.