This Meetup-based boardgames group continues to meet at the Marlow Donkey.
Having been evicted from the Two Brewers for not drinking enough, we gathered at the Marlow Donkey for the fourth meeting of this Meetup-based boardgames group.
Back to the Two Brewers on a muggy night, for the third meeting of this Meetup-based boardgames group.
A five-player games session on a hot afternoon at home. Images follow: cc-by-sa on everything.
Seven of us this time, at the Wild Lime in the drunken quarter of Reading.
Yesterday was the third International Tabletop Day, and the first time I've got involved in events for it.
Nine players this time, though a couple had to leave early.
On a chilly January day, nine of us ended up boardgaming at my place. (With images; cc-by-sa on everything.)
To a mate's place in London on New Year's Eve for beer, games and chat.
Quite a few people turned up for the Christmas Party (not actually all that party-like though the red bobble hats made an apparance).
In July I backed the Kickstarters for The Resistance - Hostile Intent & Hidden Agenda and Flash Point: Honor & Duty. My copies have now arrived.
This small one-day boardgaming event happens twice a year in a village hall in Deepest Buckinghamshire, and has been going for quite a few years. This was my second visit, and probably the last autumn one I'll get to for a while as it will clash in future with YSDC Games Day.
Quite a lot of games have some sort of hidden identity component: for example, Lords of Waterdeep and Discworld: Ankh-Morpork both deal each player a random role which then gives them a secret way of winning the game; Battlestar Galactica and Shadows over Camelot, while nominally cooperative, may assign a traitor role to one or more players; and the UFO faction in Illuminati can even covertly choose which victory condition to aspire to. But some games are entirely about the hidden roles and working out who's got which, and I seem to have been playing a lot of them lately.
People who know me will be aware that I'm an enthusiastic player of several of the games published by Indie Boards and Cards. They currently have Kickstarter projects running for two of them.
Since a planned session at home had to be called off, I went along to Uxbridge for an afternoon of games.
Thanks to Manuel, the group has survived the loss of its coffee-bar venue; we met at his home. I played six different games, and enjoyed them all in different ways.