Gaming groups – in and around Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, Harrisburg, Reading, and points in between
Salutations, gentlefolk,
This is the July `06 – Historicon & WBC edition. _Please Email additions and corrections_ to John.A.Desmond.cgs80@alumni.upenn.edu – or mail to 165 Houston Rd, Lansdowne, Pa, 19050, and _please pass the word_ to all who might be interested ! Donations to the printing fund welcome.
Thanks very much ! Yours, John Desmond
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Gaming Conventions
World Boardgaming Championships meets in Lancaster the first week of August – boardgamers.org
Double Exposure convention management announces Southern Exposure III, Sept 28-Oct 1 '06 in Cherry Hill, NJ dexposure.com/se2006.html
The Historical Miniature Gaming Society-East conventions, in Lancaster, hmgs.org, historicon.org, coldwars.org
The Miniature Figure Collectors of America's Annual Show – MFCA, 205 Park Place, Cherry Hill, NJ, 08002
Ground Zero Games East Coast Convention – downtown Lancaster – for GZG and related games – Dirtside, Stargrunt, Full Thrust, etc – warpfish.com/gzgecc
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention – Nov, 17-19 2006, at the downtown Sheraton – philcon.org
Game Stores
The Games Keep, 9 North Five Points Road, 2nd Floor, West Chester, PA 19382, (484)-905-5533, gameskeep@cavtel.net
Current hours: M-W 12PM-8PM, TH-F 12PM-10, Sat 12PM-11PM, Sun 2PM-8PM, closing on Tuesdays for the summer.
We typically have open gaming every Friday night until 10pm and Saturdays 12pm-11pm
Alternate Universes, 2034 Parker Avenue (at McDade Boulevard), Holmes PA 19043, (610) 583-9960, has boardgaming Sun nights. Gamers should call before showing up.
the Abington Game and Hobby Store, 1562 Easton Road, Roslyn, PA 19001, 215-657-9550, abingtongh.com
Roundtable Games & Stuff, 15 Fayette Street, Conshohocken, PA 19428 – Wed night open gaming (610) 825-6120
The Compleat Strategist, 580 Shoemaker Rd, King of Prussia, PA 19406, (610) 265-8562
Why be Board?, 4339 Main Street, Manayunk (Philadelphia), PA, 215-483-8800
Hobby Town, USA, 150 Baltimore Pike (Cutler Plaza), Springfield PA and Showcase Comics, Granite Run Mall and 874 W. Lancaster Ave in Bryn Mawr have a selection of games
All Things Fun! Toys, Games, Comics & Adventure, 185 C Route 73 North, West Berlin, NJ 08091, 856-719-1414, allthingsfun.net, Ed Evans, prop. – Wed nights open gaming
The Gamer's Realm in West Windsor, NJ, Thursday nights, 6:30PM until 10:30. Anyone interested should join the realmgamers YahooGroup. We play designer/German games for the most part.
Lancaster Gamers – for general board and wargames – meet Tuesdays at Six Feet Under Games, 844 West Main Street, Brookshire Plaza, New Holland, PA 17557. lanc_gamers is their Yahoogroup
The Days of Knights in Newark, Delaware – Gaming nightly, Board Game Day the second Saturday of every month, check link or contact John Corradin at (302)366-0963
Between Books in Claymont, DE – betweenbooks.com
In Rehoboth Beach, Del – Beany's Games & Puzzles (http://www.gamesend.com/)
Clubs
The Philadelphia Area Gaming Enthusiasts – philagamers.org – Meet in Glenside on Tuesday evenings and in Center City on Sunday evenings. Email lists on yahoogroups.com – page, pagecentercity, page_announcements
The Eastern Pennsylvania Gaming Society – epgs.org – Meet in Oxford Valley Mall, usually on 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month Email – epgs & epgs_announce on yahoogroups.com
The Penn Gamers meet Wednesday evenings on the Univ. of Pennsylvania campus. For info on meeting times & places, see link To get on their mailing list, visit dolphin.upenn.edu/~pgamers/list
The Drexel Univ. Anime & Gaming Society – Sunday afternoons – animegaming.org/forums/, 'animegaming' Yahoogroup
The Philly Flames of War WWII miniatures group – email list at link
There are gaming Meetup Groups at boardgames.meetup.com/289 (downtown, may be dead ?),
cardgame.meetup.com/12 and boardgames.meetup.com/99 (both King of Prussia),
boardgames.meetup.com/331 (Downingtown), boardgames.meetup.com/80 (Woodbridge, NJ)
The PhiladelphiaAreaGamers – card and board gamers – meet every 1st Saturday at 1pm at John Harvards in Radnor and every 3rd Tuesday 7PM at Fox and Hound in King of Prussia. PhiladelphiaAreaGamers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
The Ambler Gamers – Email list – AmblerGamers on yahoogroups.com
The Eagleville gaming group – Thursday nights. Contact Matt Hendricks, at gbcgs@yahoogroups.com
Valley Forge Gamers, Norristown PA, Contact Jon Yuengling, jonyuengling@hotmail.com – WWII & Modern Micro Armour
Bux-Mont Historical Gamers – meets in the Lansdale PA vicinity on Wed nights. POC – Dick McFarland, Morwood@erols.com
The Rogues – angelfire.com/pa/therogues , POC – Michael Panzer, 267-258-4969
Lansdale, Pa – Gaming meeting at Bill Chapman's house, about a mile from exit 31, PA Turnpike NorthEast Extention. Thursday, 7:00PM until 10:00. German-style boardgames, old time miniature games, non-German style games. Lansdale_Gamers yahoogroup, or contact daddyhwilliam@juno.com
ABE Gamers in the Lehigh Valley – contact: xandril@att.net or rozik_ritclave@yahoo.com
Princeton Games Union – princetongames.org – Meets on Friday and Saturday nights (sometimes Saturday afternoons) in the Frist Student Center at Princeton University. Board games, RPGs, etc.
Picatinny Games Club – POC – John Thamasovich jtsavo@planet.net
The Jersey Association of Gamers (JAG) meets twice a month to play all types of boardgames at Time Warp Comics in Cedar Grave and at the 1st Congregational Church in Park Ridge. Contact Jeff Schulte jeff.schulte@att.net or Seth Gunar sgunar@aol.com, jerseygamers.com or link
MiniatureGamersNJ – a group for miniature wargamers in NJ and surrounding areas to coordinate gaming events. link POC-Mike Lorenzo, MiniatureGamersNJ@Yahoo.com
New Jersey Miniatures Society – POC – Tim Ruffner, tim.ruffner@dowjones.com, njms.net
South Jersey Confederation of Wargamers – meet the first Saturday of each month in Cape May Court House, NJ. POC – John Burke, 609-886-3205 or Tom Gallagher, 609-886-0803 HTTP://groups.yahoo.com/group/sjcw
Southern NJ Gaming – snjjgaming.com – or contact Steve at boboprime@gmail.com
The Delaware Area Wargaming Group – meet in Newark every other Friday night at 7:30. DAWG4U Yahoogroup, delawargamers.org, POC – Jim Ferich, flashman2@comcast.net
Harrisburg – The West Shore group is Boardgamers Pastime. They meet in the annex (called "Foundation Hall") to the New Cumberland Public Library in New Cumberland, PA, on the first and third (and usually fifth) Sundays of each month, from 12-6. The organizer is Mario Lanza, who can be reached at mario@boardgamerspastime.com
Harrisburg – East Shore group meets 2nd and 4th Saturdays, from 10-5 at the East Shore Area Library, at 4501 Ethel St, Colonial Park (behind the Colonial Park Mall), POC – Christopher Gnech, boardgames17112@hotmail.com
Lykens – The Black Creek Gamers meet 2nd Saturday of every month, 10 AM – 2 PM, in the Northern Dauphin County Library, POC – Jim Kramer, 717-647-4062 (evenings)
The Susquehanna Historical Gamers, meet weekly (currently Monday nights) at the Comic Store West on Route 30 in York PA.. Home of the Disposable Heroes & the Coffin for Seven Brothers WWII system, also 15mm Napoleonics and ACW, 25mm FIW and Pirates, fighting sail, modern micro armor. POC – Chalfant at inferrotas@aol.com
The Bunker – a gaming group in Central Pennsylvania, that hosts a variety of historical miniature games, announced by e-mail and usually held on weekends. Located in Etters, Pa, between York and Harrisburg along I-83 To get on our game notification list, e-mail Dale Zartman at drz66@earthlink.net or capcop@ptd.net
Pennsylvania Wargamers Militia, POC – Roger Bos – anyminiatures1863@yahoo.com
Gettysburg-York ACW Gamers, POC – Scott Mingus, scottmingus@yahoo.com
Central PA Gamers Yahoo Group – link for players and DMs from Berks, Schuylkill and Lehigh counties. Games in Schuylkill Haven, PA, Fridays around 8PM – AD&D 3.5
Berks Boardgamers – berksboardgamers.com POC-Jim Carvin, jim@berksboardgamers.com, 610-220-5644. See our website for the schedule, or our Email list, link . We play mainly "German-designer" games and Avalon Hill games.
Reading, Pa. Area Wargamers – Thursday nights Mostly historical miniature games link – YahooGroup link
NEPA Table Top Warlords, POC – Kurtus Brown members.toast.net/jab
finds a 3D model on the internet, and tries to turn it into a wargaming model.