Meeple Mountain Contributors

The Meeple Mountain writing includes four published authors (Andy, Dietrich, Tom, KM), five game designers (Gary, Thomas, Logan, Kurt, Robert), as well as experience in video, music, data science, and software engineering. This incredibly diverse skill set means that we can produce interesting and compelling content across a wide spectrum of the tabletop gaming industry.

Meeple Mountain prides itself on unique content not found anywhere else in board game media. Asking questions about tiebreakers, helping your kids become better gamers, improving your RPG experience with “fantasy foods”, and even celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the hit show TableTop, and the 20th anniversary of Carcassonne. We’ve also had interviews with well known designers like Alexander Pfister, Phil Walker-Harding, editorial content which ponders if legacy games are the future board gaming, narrative articles like our story review of Daxu or Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft, scientific articles using Kickstarter data to make predictive analysis about future campaigns, and even tongue in cheek pieces which ask “If Board Games Were Rock Bands“.

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Editor in Chief, Founder

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Andy Matthews

Founder of Meeple Mountain, editor of MeepleMountain.com, software engineer, and published author. Father of 4, husband to 1, lover of games, books, and movies, and all around nice guy. I also run and Nashville Tabletop Day. You can reach me on twitter @commadelimited, or by email andy@meeplemountain.com

Associate Editors

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Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes is a husband, father, scientist, poet and, of course, gamer who lives in Wales, works in England and owns a Scottish rugby shirt. He has never passed up a challenge to play Carcassonne.

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David McMillan

IT support specialist by day, Minecrafter by night; I always find time for board gaming. When it comes to games, I prefer the heavier euro-game fare. Uwe Rosenburg is my personal hero with Stefan Feld coming in as a close second. You can reach me on twitter, @FeldFreak or by email ahorseisahorse@yahoo.com

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Tom Franklin

By day, I’m a mild-mannered IT Manager with a slight attitude. By night I play guitar, board games, watch British TV, and actively avoid writing my next novel. My wife and I live near Raleigh, NC and are staff to five fine cats.

Current Contributors

Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch was a very poor loser as a child. He’s working on it.

Bob Pazehoski, Jr.

Bob Pazehoski, Jr.

On any given day, I am a husband and father of five. I read obsessively and, occasionally, I write stories of varying length, quality, and metrical structure. As often as possible, I enjoy sitting down to the table for a game with friends and family. I’m happy to trumpet Everdell, in all its charm and glory, as the insurmountable favorite of my collection.

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Ian Howard

I am a stay-at-home dad with a background in academic libraries. Gaming and writing are two of my major passions, but I also enjoy watching hockey, hiking and traveling. I currently live in the Nashville area.

Justin Bell

Justin Bell

Gamer / husband / dad / DEI champion / foodie / hoop head / cinephile / travel enthusiast. If you’re in Chicago, let’s meet up and roll some dice!

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Ly-ann Tan Low

Ly-ann is an educator who loves to play! She has never quite grown up herself and wants to inspire parents, tutors and teachers to help kids learn through tabletop games.

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Mark Iradian

Writer, board gamer, video gamer, and terrible cyclist. Tends to give too many details about what he likes and dislikes. Armed with bad opinions about everything.

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Thomas Wells

I am a writer, budding board game designer, and grumpy old man. Also the Chief blowhard at Top 3 Things. I’m enthusiastic about Star Trek, Doctor Who, rap, and my blind dog. Portland, OR.

Tyler Williams

Tyler Williams

A masters student, crazy cat dad and avid board gamer. If it’s on Kickstarter or has minis you can bet Tyler has seen it, played it or wants to give it a try!

Will Hare

Will Hare

I didn’t know what to write for this, so I asked an AI to make a bio for me.

Will Hare is a board game enthusiast who dares to ask if life itself is just a series of dice rolls with no winner or loser. When he’s not busy reviewing board games, he works in digital marketing, honing his skills selling products and services he’ll never use. He’d discovered the secret to happiness, but you’ll have to solve three riddles before he’ll tell you.

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