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Tamaqua Area Board Games

Tamaqua, PA

Tamaqua Area Board Games
A group for playing modern hobby-style board games in the Tamaqua area; not for playing mass-market games like Monopoly, Exploding Kittens, or really anything from Parker Brothers & Milton Bradley. Modern hobby board games are generally less luck-driven and more tactical/strategic in nature. Examples include... Large-group games: Codenames, Spyfall, Just One, Skull, Tsuro, Sushi Go! Party, Wavelength, Mysterium, Monikers Lightweight Euro-style games: Five Tribes, Istanbul, Viticulture, Lords of Waterdeep, Galaxy Trucker, Dead of Winter Mid-weight Euro-style games: Russian Railroads, Root, Dominant Species, Terraforming Mars, Tesla vs. Edison, Scoville Heavy-weight Euro-style games: Lisboa, Feudum, Leaving Earth, Pax Renaissance, Through the Ages Splotter Games: Indonesia, Roads & Boats, Food Chain Magnate, Horseless Carriage, Bus, The Great Zimbabwe Train Games: Age of Steam, Baltimore and Ohio, 18xx, Wabash Cannonball, South African Railroads Abstract games like: Hive, Patchwork, Onitama, Azul, Tiny Towns, Santorini Card games: Dominion, Glory to Rome, Modern Art, Tichu Dice games: King of Tokyo, Croatian YAMB, Can't Stop, Noch Mal So Gut! Cooperative games: Yggdrasil, Healthy Heart Hospital, The Crew, Micro Macro Family games: Carcassonne, The Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Splendor Dexterity Games: KLASK, Crokinole, Beasts of Balance, Bausack, PitchCar, Tumblin' Dice Role-playing games: Dungeons & Dragons, Fiasco, Gooey Cube, Call of Cthulhu New and veteran gamers welcome! Games played each night will generally cater to the general experience, skill-level, and enjoyment of attendees present. If there's a game that you own and would like to bring, please feel free to do so - be mindful that certain games like Exploding Kittens, Unstable Unicorns, Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, and Monopoly will be shunned, however. Meetups are free to attend unless stated otherwise; oftentimes they will be hosted in local businesses, so your patronage to support them is greatly appreciated and encouraged. If you have ideas for nearby venues/locales for future events to be held, even in the surrounding areas outside of Tamaqua, please reach out to the Meetup group Organizer and let him know. Organizer: Joshua Acosta, MD
37 members · Public

Honorable Brotherhood of Christian Wargamers

Saint Clair, PA

We are a small, friendly group of miniature wargamers and RPG enthusiasts who meet almost every week to play games, share fellowship, and usually have drinks and a meal as well. Occasionally, we just gather to make terrain or paint miniatures. When we need a break, we play boardgames. All organizations need an ethos, something our membership can cohere around and identify each other by. Tabletop gaming is only a theme, and says nothing in particular about the kind of people we are. Our ethos is belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, particularly the profession of faith as set out in the First and Second Ecumenical Councils (i.e. the Nicene Creed). On this common bond we base our fellowship. Our gaming style is old school. We don't deal with 8-page backstories, characters have a real chance of dying in-game, etc... For wargames, we like to play scenario or narrative based campaigns and don't worry too much about points or tournament style gaming. We like to play with painted armies on fully finished terrain, but we are not snobs about it and will play with unpainted miniatures For RPGs, we have/had ongoing campaigns, including: *A mythical Ice Age North America campaign (Sword of Cepheus) *Chain of Acheron campaign (5E D&D) *Star Wars (WEG D6) *Marvel Superheroes (TSR/FASERIP system) *Various dungeon crawls (OSE). For wargames, we primarily play 28mm sci-fi/weird war, particularly Konflikt '47/Bolt Action. We play a lot of '40k' style games, but we almost never use GW rules, instead using One Page Rules, Stargrunt II, Xenos Rampant, and so on. We also play fantasy stuff like Dragon Rampant, Frostgrave, etc... I have a large collection of 15mm Napoleonics I'd also like to put to use one day. We experiment with new game systems and ideas often, so if you have a favorite I didn't mention we can probably be convinced to try it out.
5 members · Public