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.
Let's play Cascadia and its Landmark Expansion! This tile-laying and token-drafting game can be played up to 6 people. It's a game about the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest or Cascadia! Game was designed by Randy Flynn, art by Beth Sobel, and published by Flatout Games.
In the base game, you take turns building your own Cascadia by creating habitats and populating it with wildlife. You start with a base tile and expand gradually putting the appropriate animal to the habitat. Points are earned through wildlife scoring cards and the largest number of habitat tiles placed together. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!
The Cascadia: Landmarks expansion allow players to place landmarks within habitats which adds new end-game scoring benefits to the game. It also adds more unique wildlife scoring cards and habitat tiles to add more players to the base game.
Credits: description information was rewritten and taken from Board Game Geek and the publisher
If you are unaware of how the game works, please watch videos ahead of time about the game. I will still be teaching the game on-site to anyone new to the game, but it would be best to know what you're getting into to see if the game is for you!
How to play Cascadia (10-minute video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-r_TekunQI How to play Cascadia Landmarks (start until 8-minute mark): https://youtu.be/GTb6Tqkloe0?si=EWrKddHZgGKx1MSu&t=11
NOTE: The session will be documented and recorded at times for a news story.
Continuing last year's tradition, I'm starting the convention off by hosting a game that is simple, fast, but full of interaction. The perfect way to warm up your brain! OG aficionados and Auction fans may apply, but don't forget your fighting pants, because this game can get nasty.
In Wingspan 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. Beautiful art and unique bird abilities make this game a lot of fun. We will play with the North American and European birds.
AKA Shanneranner (She/Her)I enjoy strategy games and Euros. Not a fan of social deduction or player elimination. A few favourite games: Wingspan, Innovation, Orléans, Sagrada, Terraforming Mars, and Caverna. I'm a Reiner Knizia fan but couldn't pick a favourite. I really enjoy teaching... Read More →
Explore the universe and research new tech. Competition but no violence. Many paths to victory and enough randomness that the game is different every play through.
Usher in a new era of culture and progress in Brussels in this dynamic Euro! Bruxelles 1893 combines many mechanisms and offer multiple paths towards victory. You’ll find bidding, area majority, and worker placement packed into its interactive gameplay.
Join this game if medium-heavy weight strategy games (3.6/5) and vintage art nouveau aesthetic appeal to you.
Interested in engine building your way to victory with multiple victory conditions? Want to look at upgrades components and artwork? This is the game for you! Build a tableau of cards that score you points from having the most cohesive ecosystem at the end of the game and win!
Choo choo! All aboard. I'll be bringing extra maps based on how many players we get but the plan right now is to play the London map at 4p if we only have 3p I would run Denmark map.
Would prefer players who already have base game understanding so we only have to go over special map rules (which is a fairly big shift)
The epic Egyptian game Kemet is reborn with a new revised edition! With Kemet: Blood and Sand, immerse yourself in a more realistic Ancient Egypt. Here, Gods are powerful, masters of both the desert and the Nile delta. They challenge each other in violent battles and show no mercy. Get ready to become an Egyptian God, open the gates of your city, and let your troops sing the song of war to please you and claim your dominance as master of Ancient Egypt. Kemet: Blood and Sand features new art and upgraded gameplay with new approachable rules that go beyond the 1.5 version of Kemet developed with the help of the BGG community. Free from the constraints of existing components, designers Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage go even further in fine-tuning the Kemet experience. The game also features a redesigned map with a twist, bigger and more detailed figurines, and other surprises.
Each player will assume the role of one of six major animal classes—mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnid, or insect. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last: It is indeed "survival of the fittest". Through wily action pawn placement, players will strive to become dominant on as many different terrain tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. Players will also want to propagate their individual species in order to earn victory points for their particular animal. Players will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration, and adaptation actions, among others.
Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant is a singularly unique trading and negotiation game for 4-9 players. Over the course of the game, each race must trade and negotiate with the rest to acquire the resource cubes necessary to fund their economy and allow it to produce goods for the next turn.
Middara is a story-driven tactics campaign board game inspired by JPRGs and anime. In this session we'll help you learn to play and run you through as much of the MAST (Magical Aptitude and Skill Test) you can make it through! You'll work together with your team to battle various creatures across tiled-square set-ups. Do you have what it takes to become a full-fledged citizen of Middara?
Assume the role of an abolitionist during the Age of Enlightenment. Playing it in a cooperative competitive mode we could all make slavery illegal in the world.
The Emperor has received a gift of a panda, and tasked the gardener with cultivating a bamboo garden to display it. But while the bamboo grows in their carefully positioned plots, a surprisingly active panda is eating everything it can get its paws on. Manage plots, grow bamboo and eat that bamboo better than your opponents to earn the favour of the Emperor and take the victory.
I'm a fan of night to medium board games, that clock in around the hour mark. However, my all time favourite is Inis, followed by Battlestar Galactica. I also enjoy roll'n'write, and abstract. Outside of Tabletop, I love drawing, writing, animation and relaxing with my kids.
Middara is a story-driven tactics campaign board game inspired by JPRGs and anime. In this session we'll help you learn to play and run you through as much of the MAST (Magical Aptitude and Skill Test) you can make it through! You'll work together with your team to battle various creatures across tiled-square set-ups. Do you have what it takes to become a full-fledged citizen of Middara?
Travel the legendary East Sea Road of Japan, collect the most beautiful souvenirs, paint glorious vistas, enjoy enriching encounters, soak in soothing hot springs and more. Have a wonderful, fulfilling, relaxing journey, and do it better than the other pilgrims on the road to win!
I'm a fan of night to medium board games, that clock in around the hour mark. However, my all time favourite is Inis, followed by Battlestar Galactica. I also enjoy roll'n'write, and abstract. Outside of Tabletop, I love drawing, writing, animation and relaxing with my kids.
Come play an easy-to-play fantasy war game by Martin Wallace (of Brass fame). All levels are welcome. It doesn't have a heavy ruleset, so it's a fairly simple war game to grasp.
Magical Athlete, the rare and mysterious game of... Magical Athleticism! Draft a roster of special characters and watch as their special abilities make sparks fly. This is a fun and silly game, but it IS a roll & move. Your enjoyment will be based entirely on your willingness to engage with that mechanism :)
A lighter Vital Lacerda game based on his famous The Gallerist! Manage your restaurant, attract patrons and critics alike and support musicians to become the most successful music scene in town! Manage your tokens to get bonus actions before the end game conditions are met and claim victory!
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.
Arcs is a fast-paced strategy game of cosmic conquest from the creators of Root and Oath. In this 4-player session, participants will take on the roles of ambitious rulers in a crumbling galactic empire, navigating political intrigue, war, and shifting alliances. With a blend of action programming, clever card play, and an evolving narrative, Arcs offers a dynamic spacefaring adventure that can be played as a one-off game or an epic multi-session campaign.
In Molly House, players take the roles of the gender-defying mollies of early eighteenth century London. Throw grand masquerades and cruise back alleys while evading moralistic constables who seek to destroy your community. Be careful, there may even be informers in your midst!
Over the course of an hour, players will draft hands of vice cards representing the different gestures, desires, and encounters that were frowned upon by the Society for the Reformation of Manners, a citizen group that sought to stamp out any behavior it deemed deviant in late 17th and early 18th century London. These cards allow players to host festivities with the help of their fellow mollies and create joy. But, those same cards can also lead players to be arrested and to the ultimate ruin of the molly house.
As players encounter the Society’s enforcers, they will often have to pay bribes or may be coerced into becoming informers for the Society. Informers must try desperately to undermine the community around Mother Clap’s Molly House without being discovered by their fellow mollies.
Spirit Island is a cooperative anti-colonialism strategy game. Players act as different spirits of the land, each with their own unique elemental powers, forced to defend their island home from colonizing Invaders spreading Blight and destruction. Players work with their fellow Spirits and the Dahan (local islanders) to increase their power and drive the invading colonists from their island in this deep and complex area-control game!
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are quack doctors making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot's swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode!
This is a game that I only learned recently, but it's quickly become one of my favorites. Because it's fairly quick, I'm hoping we can get in more than one play.
In this game you run an art gallery: buying, selling, displaying art, attracting visitors, and promoting artists. This is a medium-heavy euro game and it is recommended for players with experience with euro games or other Vital Lacerda games.
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
The time has come for the selection of a new Chancellor at Argent University of Magic, and you are among the likely candidates for the job. Gather your apprentices, ready your spellbook, and build your influence, while secretly discovering and competing over the votes of a limited Consortium of influential board members. Only the one who is able to fulfill the most criteria will claim the title of most influential mage in the World of Indines!
Argent: The Consortium is a cutthroat worker-placement/engine-building game of manipulation and secrecy in which the criteria for victory are secret and the capabilities of your opponents are constantly changing. You'll need to outwit the other candidates, use your spells at the right moment, and choose the correct apprentices to manage your plan.
Unfathomable is pretty much Battlestar Galactica 2nd ed, a semi co-op game where the players are working together to guide a cruise through the dangerous waters of the Atlantic. However, some players are secretly cultists and hybrids that are manipulating in the shadows to make the cruise sink.
I will be adding the expansion From the Abyss to it, which adds new cool enemies for the cultists and new allies for the Humans.
New players are welcome, but please try to watch a "Learn how to play" video for the base game so the rule explanation can be more an overview rather than a full explanation.
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 :)
The Emperor has received a gift of a panda, and tasked the gardener with cultivating a bamboo garden to display it. But while the bamboo grows in their carefully positioned plots, a surprisingly active panda is eating everything it can get its paws on. Manage plots, grow bamboo and eat that bamboo better than your opponents to earn the favour of the Emperor and take the victory.
I'm a fan of night to medium board games, that clock in around the hour mark. However, my all time favourite is Inis, followed by Battlestar Galactica. I also enjoy roll'n'write, and abstract. Outside of Tabletop, I love drawing, writing, animation and relaxing with my kids.
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.
The Kennerspiel des Jahres winner of 2022 boasts an elegant and simple design where you compete with three other players to save the forest with the aid of guardian animals. By combining push your luck mechanics and deck building reminiscent of Mystic Vale, fulfill one of the three victory conditions first to win the game.
Travel the legendary East Sea Road of Japan, collect the most beautiful souvenirs, paint glorious vistas, enjoy enriching encounters, soak in soothing hot springs and more. Have a wonderful, fulfilling, relaxing journey, and do it better than the other pilgrims on the road to win!
I'm a fan of night to medium board games, that clock in around the hour mark. However, my all time favourite is Inis, followed by Battlestar Galactica. I also enjoy roll'n'write, and abstract. Outside of Tabletop, I love drawing, writing, animation and relaxing with my kids.
The 1st one is VIVO: Puppies dream of joining the prestigious "VIVO Puppy Choir". You are a music school teacher who raises such puppies. Today is the day of the long-awaited entrance exam. In this year's entrance exam, puppies with "energetic, loud singing voices" and "small, cute singing voices" will be evaluated. VIVO is a trick-taking game where the follow format changes every trick!
The 2nd one is Ugly Christmas Sweaters: In Ugly Christmas Sweaters, players compete against each other through trick-taking and drafting to collect and assemble sweater pieces. Various gameplay cards (which are drawn at the start of each round) determine gameplay and bonus scoring. The end of a round is triggered when a player completes three sweater builds. At the end of each round, victory points are awarded based on sweaters built and bonus scoring (points for sweaters following round-specific goals and hidden objectives). Build your sweaters quickly!
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 →
Run a Portuguese winery and present your wine to the elites at the annual wine festival. This is a relatively abstract medium-complexity euro game. It is recommended that you have some experience with euro games or other games by Vital Lacerda.
In John Company, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early eighteenth-century, when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition.
John Company is a game about state-sponsored trade monopoly. Unlike most economic games players often do not control their own firms. Instead, they will collectively guide the Company by securing positions of power, attempting to steer the Company’s fate in ways that benefit their own interests. However, the Company is an unwieldy thing. It is difficult to do anything alone, and players will often need to negotiate with one another. In John Company, most everything is up for negotiation.
A 4 player, worker placement game by Lacerda. Go between the surface and orbit of Mars and try and build a sustainable habitat so that the earth no longer needs to send supplies to make Mars livable for all. Win by getting the most points.
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
End your con on a high note with a fun and rowdy party game that's simple to learn, but luck-of-the-draw to master. The OP games' sleeper agent of the year (in my humble opinion) will have you hitting or passing cards, blackjack-style in hopes of flipping 7 before you bust and lose everything.
