Category Archives: Newcastle Gamers

Tabletop Day

Next Saturday (the 30th March) has been declared International Tabletop Day… a day to turn off your TV, put aside your videogames, and to go and play some real-world, face-to-face tabletop games with friends, family, or anybody else who you … Continue reading

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Newcastle Gamers – 9th March

Mental experiment time: Imagine you took the tile laying of Carcassonne, the worker placement of Le Havre, The pick-up-and-deliver / routebuilding of Steam, an auctioning system so odd-yet-devilishly-clever that it seems like it should’ve come straight out of a Reiner … Continue reading

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Newcastle Gamers, 9th February

The power of the written word is indeed mighty! So mighty, in fact, that when I recently wrote that I still hadn’t managed to play the hot-new-thing-of-this-time-last-year — Eclipse — Olly promptly offered to fix that for me at the … Continue reading

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2012 Board Gaming review…

We’re almost into February already, so if I don’t scribble this down now it’ll never get done. Therefore… herewith and within: a few random thoughts on my boardgaming exploits of the last 12 months 🙂 My most-played board game of … Continue reading

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Newcastle Gamers – 26th January

A shorter-than-usual session report from me this time, as it was a shorter-than-usual gaming session (for me at least); due to prior commitments, I couldn’t get to Newcastle until 7:30 this week, which meant I could only squeeze in a … Continue reading

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