Stardate 2212020. Janeway here. As you may have guessed, my family is a bunch of nerds. Eric’s and my names are from Star Trek, my little sister’s is from Doctor Who, my brother was a Hobbit at my parents’ vow renewal, and we all play board games. Luckily for us, there are board games specifically catered to us nerds.
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Jamaica, 1675.
After a long career in piracy, Captain Henry Morgan skillfully gets appointed to be Governor of Jamaica, with the explicit order to cleanse the Caribbean of pirates and buccaneers! Instead, he invites all of his former “colleagues” to join him in his retirement, to enjoy the fruits of their looting with impunity. Each year, in remembrance of the “good old days,” Morgan organizes the Great Challenge, a race around the island, and at its end, the Captain with the most gold is declared Grand Winner.
Hello fellow gamers! I hope that life has been treating you well. Today, let’s talk about something near and dear to my heart in regards to the board gaming world. Friends. When I married Number One, I moved to a town in Northern Michigan. If you guessed that it was Traverse City, then bonus points for you! I didn’t know anyone outside of my husband and his family. As a stay at home parent who doesn’t drive in the snow and ice that sometimes happens in the winter time up here, it can be difficult to get out and meet new people. And during the summer time we have an influx of out of town people on vacation and looking to sample the local fudge. That can make meeting new people a little more difficult than it would be under normal circumstances. This is where playing board games made a difference for me.
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Hello Gamers, and Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a good holiday season celebrating whatever you and your family celebrate. As you are probably aware, the Traverse City Board Gamers have moved our weekly board game night to a new location, Tabletop Underground. We’ve had a lot of local press recently because the idea of a dedicated space just to play board games is pretty new to Traverse City. When our group first formed, it was much smaller. So, playing at a local bar wasn’t a problem. We’d only take up one or two tables. But as we grew, we started to take up more space (which was fine because we all made sure to purchase items from the bar or brewery where we were playing), but other factors started to come in to play. These factors were important aspects of playing board games like lighting and volume of the people around you. We moved from one place to another. For a significant amount of time, we met weekly at Earthen Ales. They had nice lighting, and it wasn’t too loud. And if we dropped a piece on the floor and missed it, they’d sweep it up and return it to one of us the next time we were there. But once again, we were starting to outgrow our pond. We often felt guilty if we were playing a game that ran long and we kept Jamie and Andrew (owners of Earthen Ales) there after closing. It was time to look for a new place.
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Hello and Happy Holidays to all of my board game friends! We took a little break from writing because it’s the holiday season, and I have kids. That means that life gets crazy, and I’m lucky if I get to brush my teeth by myself let alone find 20 minutes in which to work on a blog post.
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Dear Board Game Diary,
I want to play a game. Unusual as this may appear, be calm for this is a normal occurrence. I venture to the great wall of games and start my ritualistic serpentine visual down the shelves to look for the perfect game for for this moment. It can be a challenge, but how often does anybody really ask themselves what they want to play before they look.
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Hi guys! As you may (or may not) have noticed, the holiday season is quickly approaching. As a kid, I felt like the holidays took forever to get here. As an adult, the holiday season comes around too quickly, and I never feel like I have enough time to prepare. Number One works for the United State Postal Service, so once Thanksgiving rolls around, he works nonstop (or so it seems). So, I like to get prepared and take care of my present shopping as early as I can. You can consider this your reminder to start your holiday shopping, if you want.
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Hello folks! I hope that everyone has had a good week. I don’t know how many of our readers people who also play video games or computer games are. I, myself, do not play video games or computer games. Board games, for me, are a social event where I can interact with other players and drink a beer. But not everyone feels the same way. Luckily, for these people, there are digital versions of many of the games that are played at weekly board game nights.
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Hi guys! I’m writing this post for APATT while on vacation for Stormageddon’s birthday. Although, by the time this is posted, we will already be home and unpacked and caught up on laundry (I hope. Laundry is never ending).
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I want to do something a little different for the Game Night review. In the past, I have posted several statistics and it has become rather difficult to gather the information to give everyone a perfect look into what happens at Game Night. Some of these numbers even incorporated games played outside of our normal Game Night session. Our public Game Nights have always been and always will be about the people at the table. I want these posts to reflect this mentality. Without further ado, welcome to the Game Night Review!
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