Power to the Meeple
Summary: Power to the Meeple! A revolution in Board Game journalism and podcasts. Power to the Meeple is a board and card game podcast featuring reviews and interviews related to nerd culture. The show is hosted by industry and podcasting front man Jeffrey Norman Bourbeau, previously of the Session Impressions podcast. He is joined by John-Michael Gariepy, also of Session Impressions fame, who now writes prolifically about games on his blog at jmgariepy.com. Joe, a man from the digital world, the ever important third chair, steps out from the shadows to grace the audience with his technical knowledge of artistic wizardry and nerdy prowess.
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Warning: This episode is heavy on mature content. This week on Power to the Meeple, we celebrate our minor milestones of ten episode by listing our Top 10 Game Breakers. And JM's birthday! Ricky, our new 4th chair, describes his trip to the Magic GP: Vegas, the largest Magic event to have ever taken place. Throughout Ricky's tales, we cover a variety of topics, Including: a review of prostitutes, Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, Modern Masters pricing, Magic's transsexual community, The Evil Dead Musical, Women Pro Tour Players, Wizards Do's and Don'ts of Organized Play, Navaho Star Wars, Chinese Porn Goes Live, The Sorcerer and The White Snake, QRunk, LoL Player Jailed and youtuber Rants, Jeff's famous youtube video (currently with 58k views lol), Robot Spiders, our facebook page, Jeff's twitter @not_jeff, and Antoine Bauza at Gencon! Top Ten Game Breakers(examples are in the audio!): 10. Setup Takes To Long 9. Mario Party Endings (And the inverse.) 8. Roll To Move 7. Bad Art 6. Analysis Paralysis 5. Dysfunctional (and Unprovided) Components 4. Turn Skipping and Effective Turn Loss 3. Dominant Strategy 2. Kingmaking 1. Eliminated But Still Playing Feel free to share your own top ten in the comments.
Thank you for grinding your ears to another episode of Power to the Meeple. This week, your P to the M reviews Blood Bowl: Team Manager: The Card Game: Sudden Death: The Expansion, designed by Jay Little, published by Fantasy flight Games, and Island Fortress, along with it's 5-6 player Expansion, designed by Bryan Johnson, published by GameSalute. Jeff also discusses his trip to Origins Game Faire 2013, which includes a preview of Rampage, from Asmodee, and Viva Java. Other Origins Stuff! Innovation from the EU, Euchronia, Zpocalypse, Japanime's Booth, Stronghold Games, Experiencing Matt Lotter, Compared to last year, Guild Hall: Job Faire, Time N' Space, Legendary: Dark City, Greater Than Games, Twilight Creations, Not being able to play Bruges, Castle Dice, Steve Avery demoing someone else's game, Kaos Ball, Con Friends, Columbus Hotels, Vici, Pirates Makes a Comeback, Lords of Water Deep Expansion Sighted?! In the News! Cambridge Games Factory, Fine Asian Manufacturing, Super Mario Bros. The Move: The Comic?, Lego Games Shutting Down, Choose your Own Adventure Comics, The Fables Movie, George Takei Has Ghostwriters, Paper Sorcerer Is Paper, Tom Vasal Dethrones Me, What's an UnPub? Jeff Answers! Please listen on Soundcloud! https://soundcloud.com/powertothemeeple Or Subscribe on itunes and leave us a review! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/power-to-the-meeple/id632142529?mt=2
Thank you for listening to another episode of Power to the Meeple! This week JM, Joe, and Jeff review Morels, from Two Lanterns Game, and The Lord of the Rings: The Deck Building Game, from Cryptozoic Entertainment. In the News! Wizard robs robber of his money with low-level invisibility, Furries raise panda cubs in China, Australia sucks at printing guns, and more!
While at Origins 2013, Jeff had a chance to sit down with Magic hall of famer Rob Dougherty and talk about he and fellow hall of famer Darwin Kastle's new deck building game, Star Realms, preparing to launch on kickstarter this July from White Wizard Games, LLC!
Thank you for listening to Episode 7 of Power to the Meeple! Today, our hosts Jeffrey Norman Bourbeau, JM, and Joe review Stack and Attack, cover news that only amuses them, and toss in a curve ball guest host Tev for a review of Sedition Wars! News Breakdown! We cover the new Adult swim lineup, the Chinese Northern Snakehead, an armed robbery involving a dice game(unfortunately not angry dice nor roll through the ages), a free version of civ 2 that plays in your browser, called "FreeCiv," Magic's new old Slivers releasing 2014, Staples selling 3d printers, a short review of Eclipse for ios, SolForge for ios, the game design game containing exclusive content for pirated copies, and the first 3d gun printable gun.
On episode 6 of Power to the Meeple, Jeff, JM, and Joe review Fairy Tale, Dragon's Maze, and a bundle of nonsense in between.
On episode 5 of Power to the Meeple, Jeff, JM, and Joe review Kazume Goddess at the top of the show and Shadows Over Camelot: The Card Game. And do we babble about random tech and nerdy news in between? Of course we do! Including a declaration of the very first Enemy of the Meeple! You may find our website at: powertothemeeple.com Our Soundcloud page at: https://soundcloud.com/powertothemeeple And our itunes page at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/power-to-the-meeple/id632142529 Send any questions or comments to info@powertothemeeple.com, and feel free to rate and review us on itunes as well!
On Episode 4 of Power to the Meeple we add our permanent and third illustrious chair, Joe! We go on to provide full reviews of both the Lord of the Rings The Dice Building Game As well as a review of Sentinels of the Multiverse. In addition, News! The hyper-up Ouya is also discussed, followed by a lengthy discussion fo next-gen consoles and how the videog-ame press seems to have missed the point with he Ouya. Further news topics include the beloved Roger Ebert being Remembered, and how SJG looking to buy games from studios that are already successful, while Upper Deck is accepting submissions from studios that aren't. !!! JM also breaks down the Marvel Infinity Project which he promised in an earlier episode. Enjoy!
We kick off Episode 3 with our usual irrelevant, yet educational news about comics, movies, and the hobby games industry. This includes Chinese skeleton phobia, firefly's 3rd licenses gaming property, Uno newso. Escape: The Curse of the Temple is reviewed, with Space Alert and Robo Rally references. Then Jeff discusses his journey to PaxEast. This includes a review of Emperor's New Clothes, as well as his impressions of Krosmaster Arena, City of Remnants, Von Drakks Manor, and Magic 2014. JM and Jeff then discuss the upcoming magic block, Theros, after which a lengthy discussion of CCGs ensues, including topics such as the WoW TCG's innovations on the genre, Duel Masters, Yu-Gi-Oh,Pokemon, Kaijudo, and Cardfight Vanguard, and Hearthstone, also announced at PaxEast. JM and Jeff discuss their distaste and enjoyment of icv2's listed top-sellers of Fall 2012 in the following categories: Card/Building Games and Board games. Jeff then gives you his thoughts on Bioshock: Infinite. Beware of minor spoilers. Jeff also teases a future review of Motto Cuore!
On Power to the Meeple, Episode 2: Comic Book DBG Rumble, we discuss some of the more recent deck building games of this and last year, including full reviews of Legendary, Marvel Comic's DBG, DC Comic's DBG. Jeff then goes on to discuses his adventures with Absinthe at Total Confusion, how Tom Vassal forced him to play Aloha, experiencing discomforting misogyny in the process. JM later discusses his writing and the life of a struggling artist. Jeff also perpetuates his argument that the Giver was right, and old people should be sent into the hills. Also, politics, anime, and Egyptian sex!
Show Notes! Games Reviewed! Western Town, The Convoy, and a brief review of Pittsburgh 68 News! and Speculation!: Wizkids and copious clix properties, Jeff's Totalcon and unpub attendance, tactical Russian Zinc Strikes, and other nonsense!
