Western Canada’s Largest Tabletop Gaming Convention! Join us March 14-16, 2025, at the Vancouver Convention Centre - East (aka Canada Place) in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Keyflower has been in the top 100 of BGG since 2012 - discover it for yourself! It is a highly interactive game that combines city building, resource management, bidding, and worker placement in a unique way and it's one of my favourite games. Come check it out if medium-heavy weight game (3.34/5) with lots of tough decisions sounds interesting to you.
Concordia Venus is a peaceful strategy game of economic development in Ancient Rome. Colonists are sent out to settle down in cities that produce bricks, food, tools, wine, and cloth. Each player starts with an identical set of playing cards and acquires more cards during the game. These cards allow a player to choose actions during the game and are also worth victory points. Concordia is a medium-weight strategy game that requires advance planning and consideration of your opponent's moves.
Tend to one of four farms in the village of Esporles, Majorca in the resource-management, dice-drafting game La Granja! Build up your farm, produce goods, and send out your delivery donkeys to establish your presence in the island's growing market and beat out your opponents! Open to all experience levels - I am willing to teach the game to any players looking to try it. Depending on the experience levels of the players at the table, we may or may not play with some of the expansion components as well. If there are any new players, we'll likely play the base game (or only add in components that increase the card and roof tile pool).
Embark on a thrilling journey to claim dominance in Dune: Imperium Uprising! Harness the perfect balance of military power and political cunning as you vie for control over the desert planet of Arrakis. Deploy spies to execute covert operations, secure vital contracts to amass resources, or embrace the ways of the Fremen and ride colossal sandworms into battle!
This standalone spinoff to the acclaimed Dune: Imperium takes the strategic deck-building and worker-placement mechanics you love to bold new heights. Will you outwit your rivals and rise to power? The spice—and victory—awaits!
May include Dune Imperium: Bloodlines expansion if it arrives before the convention.
Game of Thrones: The Card Game is a two-player asymmetric card game, where you play as your favourite GOT house, drafting characters and revealing plots to win challenges, gain power and defeat your opponent, while trying to keep your characters alive for one more round.
We’ll be playing Joust, the two-player version, and Second Edition.
The game is played over a series of head-to-head rounds, where you’ll draft and recruit characters, reveal plot cards, and then attack and defend a series of challenges until one person is declared the victor. It’s a strategy-heavy game, where your resource economy is pretty low, so every choice you make can win or lose the game.
This session is open to all experience levels. If you’re a GOT master, amazing! If you’ve never played before, even better! The mechanics are pretty simple (it’s choosing what to do with your cards that’s the hard part), and if you’ve ever played an asymmetrical card game like Magic before, you’ll pick it up in no time.
GOT Card Game is also a LCG, so building your deck outside of gameplay is a big part of the fun once you’ve got the hang of it. So feel free to bring your own deck if you have one, or you can use one of our 8 pre-built house decks and give it a go.
Writer, gamer, cosplayer, nerd- who loves DnD, Thousand Year Old Vampire, and reading stupidly long rule books while organising board game pieces into little bags :)
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions).
Arcs is a sharp, tactical space opera game, for 2–4 players, set in a dark yet silly universe. Players represent officials from a distant, decaying and neglectful Empire who are now free to vie for dominance whether through battle, gathering scarce resources or diplomatic intrigue. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle.
A deck of cards in 4 suits with ranks from 1-7 (2-6 for less than 4 players) defines the action selection system. These cards are played in a trick-taking adjacent system to select actions, take the initiative and declare Ambitions. The 3 declared Ambitions are what will score in that deal. Timing is everything. Bad hands must be mitigated by careful card play and benefitting from other players' card play.
Battles are resolved quickly with the attacker choosing their level of risk. The defenders must be prepared with adequate defensive ships and cards in their tableau.
Black Orchestra is a fully co-operative game where you play as historic figures working inside Hitler's Reich, while secretly plotting to kill him and end the madness you see around you.
You will work together to line up assassination plots, gather resources to carry them out, and roll the dice on risky conspiracy actions that hope to raise the motivation you need, undermine Hitler's support, and maybe provide a slim chance to succeed in killing history's worst villain. Unfortunately you will most often either be caught while committing your act of treason or find that your suspicious actions have led the Gestapo to imprison you and your co-conspirators first.
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors – the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force!
In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.
During the course of play, you may gain points or resources through completing quests, constructing buildings, playing intrigue cards or having other players utilize the buildings you have constructed. At the end of 8 rounds of play, the player who has accrued the most points wins the game.
I absolutely love playing board games, especially Euro games and trick-taking games! 🎲 I also enjoy D&D and Cthulhu, but finding a good DM has been tricky—especially since I’ve only been in this country for 2.5 years.If you’re up for board gaming or open to letting me join... Read More →
Because it is such a short game, this event will include multiple games of toy battles!
On your turn in Toy Battle, you either draw two toy troops or place a troop on the board and apply its effect. When a place a troop, you can place it on an empty base, a base that you control, a base that the enemy controls with a lower-valued troop than the one you're placing, or the enemy's headquarters; however, in all cases you must place on a location that has a continuous path to your own headquarters through bases that you occupy, that is, that have your troop on top. If you occupy bases that form a continuous path around a region, you claim the medals within this region.
Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours.
Knizia is likely the most prolific board game designer in history, with over 700 games to his name. We will be meeting at noon, and splitting into 1-2 groups, to play a 3-4 Knizia games together. We will choose to play games out of his such as classics like Through the Desert, Taj Mahal, Ra, Tigris and Euphrates, Amun Re, or Medici, as well as some lesser-known gems such as Rheinlander, Stephenson's Rocket, and Orongo. Feel free to bring some your favourite Knizia games!
Ethnos is a fantasy themed set collection area control game. In Ethnos, players call upon the support of giants, merfolk, halflings, minotaurs, and other fantasy tribes to help them gain control of the land. After three ages of play, whoever has collected the most glory wins!
In more detail, the land of Ethnos contains twelve tribes of fantasy creatures, and in each game you choose six of them (five in a 2/3-player game), then create a deck with only the creatures in those tribes. The cards come in six colors, which match the six regions of Ethnos. Place three glory tokens in each region at random, arranging them from low to high.
Each player starts the game with one card in hand, then 4-12 cards (double the number of players) are placed face up on the table. On a turn, a player either recruits an ally or plays a band of allies. In the former case, you take a face-up card (without replacing it from the deck) or the top card of the deck and add it to your hand. In the latter case, you choose a set of cards in your hand that match either in tribe or in color, play them in front of you on the table, then discard all other cards in hand. You then place one token in the region that matches the color of the top card just played, and you use the power of the tribe member on the top card just played.
At the end of the first age, whoever has the most tokens in a region scores the glory shown on the first token. After the second age, the players with the most and second most tokens score glory equal to the values shown on the first and second tokens respectively. Players score similarly after the third age, then whoever has the most glory wins. (Games with two and three players last only two ages.)
Tried Wingspan and want something familiar, yet different? Play Wyrmspan and build an engine with a tableau of mythical dragons and upgraded components.
Indonesia is a game in which two to five players build up an economy, trying to acquire the most money. Players acquire production companies, which produce goods (rice, spices, microwaveable meals, rubber, and oil), and shipping companies, which deliver goods to cities. As cities receive goods, they grow, increasing their demands. Production companies earn money for each good delivered to a city, up to the city's capacity, but they must pay shipping companies for the distance traveled, even if they end up losing money. Players can research advantages, like greater shipping capacity or the ability to merge companies, possibly stealing ownership of lucrative plantations or shipping routes by buying out other players.
Heat: Pedal to the Metal combines a solid 1960's racing theme with a deck building mechanic, where players must plan out cards to play at each corner and carefully manage their heat to avoid the dreaded spin out. Learn the core rules of the base game and incorporate the garage, weather and road conditions modules for some added challenge!
Member of "Board Games & Tea", where we host weekly public board game events in Port Moody, in accordance with the official proclamation for BC. I teach euro-style games and host social deduction sessions for all ages at our community events. When not immersed in the hobby, I do technical... Read More →
Take your place as the new Chancellor by getting votes from different faculties of a magical university, but watch out! Other player's pawns will get in your way in this cutthroat and extremely chaotic worker placement game with hidden objectives. Will you go on the offensive or defensive or be just faster than the rest before they can upset your well laid plans, it's all up to you and your spellslinging students.
Explore Paris in the 19th century. Discover its renowned architecture and obtain the most eminent buildings in the right districts to achieve victory. Paris is a typical medium-weight Kramer and Kiesling Eurostyle-game with straightforward gameplay, short player turns, and an ingenious point salad mechanism. You mainly score points by obtaining the right buildings and collecting the right bonus cards. New players welcome.
Come by and learn to play Altered, a new and unique trading card game set in the ever changing world of Asgartha. Players take control of 1 of 6 Factions and their Heros, and race to be the first to explore the ever changing landscape.
Battlestar Galactica is a semi-cooperative game for 3–6 players. Players play as one of ten possible characters, classed as 'Political Leaders', 'Military Leaders', 'Pilots', or 'Support', each character having benefits and drawbacks. Player are secretly dealt one loyalty card at the start of the game which determines whether the players are human or Cylon and therefore whether they win or lose if the humans achieve their goal. Simulating the activation of a sleeper agent in the television series who did not realise she was a Cylon, players draw a second card midway through, which may turn them to the Cylon side. A hidden Cylon player can covertly disrupt the humans' plans, meaning that, for the humans, deducing who is secretly an enemy agent is a critical part of the game. Players can send suspected Cylons to Galactica's brig and a revealed Cylon can still be disruptive after returning to their home fleet via the Resurrection Ship.
In this award-winning game, players take on the roles of Grandes in medieval Spain. The king's power is flagging, and these powerful lords are vying for control of the various regions. To that end, you draft caballeros (knights) into your court and subsequently move them onto the board to help seize control of regions. After every third round, the regions are scored, and after the ninth round, the player with the most points is the winner. In each of the nine rounds, you select one of your 13 power cards to determine turn order as well as the number of caballeros you get to move from the provinces (general supply) into your court (personal supply). New players welcome.
Come play some Japanese trick-taking games! Options include Yokai Septet, Nokosu Dice, Schadenfreude. There will be two tables, hosted by myself and Yann G
