Gaming groups
- in and around Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, Harrisburg, Reading -
and points inbetween
Salutations, gentlefolk,
This is the July ‘04 - Historicon and World Boardgames Championships edition.
Hope you - or some of your friends - finds this interesting. Apologies for wasting your electrons if not.
Please send additions and corrections to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or write me at 4910 Cedar Ave, Phila, Pa, 19143
Thanks very much ! Yours, John Desmond
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The Philadelphia Area Gaming Enthusiasts - www.philagamers.org - Meet in Chestnut Hill on Tuesday evenings and in
Center City on Sunday evenings. Email lists on yahoogroups.com - page, pagecentercity, page_announcements
The Ambler Gamers - Email list - AmblerGamers on yahoogroups.com
The Eastern Pennsylvania Gaming Society - www.epgs.org Meet in Oxford Valley Mall, usually on 1st and 3rd Saturdays of
every month Email - epgs on yahoogroups.com
The Penn Gamers meet Wednesday evenings on the Univ. of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia
For the latest info about meeting locations, check http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pgamers/meetings.html
To get on their mailing list, visit http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pgamers/list
Trenton - There is regular gaming at the Gamer's Realm in West Windsor, NJ on Thursday nights from about 6:30PM until
10:30. Anyone interested should join the realmgamers mailing list at Yahoo Groups. We tend to get 5-10 people each week
and play designer/German games for the most part.
Princeton Games Union - http://www.princetongames.org/ - Meets on Friday and Saturday nights (sometimes Saturday
afternoons) in the Frist Student Center at Princeton University. Board games, RPGs, etc.
Days of Knights - games club in Newark, Delaware - board games every Saturday - http://www.daysofknights.com/
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 1-6.
The organizer is Mario Lanza, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harrisburg - East Shore group meets at the East Shore Area Library, which is at 4501 Ethel St., Colonial Park (behind the
Colonial Park Mall), on the first and third Saturdays of each month, from 9-5. Don't have the name of the organizer for this one,
but call the library at 717.652.9380, and they’ll probably tell you.
Lansdale, Pa - Gaming meeting at my 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.
Contact Bill Chapman, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Berks Boardgamers - http://www.berksboardgamers.com,
POC-Jim Carvin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 610-220-5644.
Meets once per month on Saturday near Kutztown and the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the public library in Womelsdorf.
Please see our website for the schedule or email us to get on our email newsletter list.
We're all about good fun and competition. We play mainly "German-designer" games and Avalon Hill games.
Reading, Pa. Area Wargamers - meets every Thursday night
at the Golden Eagle in Fairgrounds Square Mall, 3050 N. 5th St, 610-921-3160 for directions
Mostly historical miniature games of various scales, sizes, and eras - schedule at
http://home.comcast.net/~efeifer/schedule.htm,
YahooGroup - http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/readingwargamers/
POC - Keith Eshelman (610) 927-3539, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or Eric Feifer (717) 872-7984
Central PA Gamers Yahoo Group - http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Central_PA_Gamers/
for players and DMs from Berks, Schuylkill and Lehigh counties.
Games in Schuylkill Haven, PA, Fridays around 8PM - AD&D 3.5, in a homebrew world
Local conventions for gaming, etc:
The Shorecon game convention is now Southern Exposure, and will be Sept. 30-Oct 3, 2004 at the same hotel as last year.
Shorecon was acquired by Double Exposure convention management - www.dexposure.com. The boardgame coordinator
can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Historical Miniature Gaming Society-East conventions, in Lancaster, www.hmgs.org, www.historicon.org, www.coldwars.org
The Miniature Figure Collectors of America's Annual Show - one of the world's oldest and largest exhibitions of military
miniatures, collectors' figures, and toy soldiers - MFCA, 205 Park Place, Cherry Hill, NJ, 08002
Ground Zero Games East Coast Convention - downtown Lancaster - for GZG games - Dirtside, Stargrunt, Full Thrust, etc -
http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/gzgecc/
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention - Philcon 2004 - at the Marriott Center City Philadelphia
on December 10th-12th, 2004. Large all-weekend gameroom and gaming programming. www.philcon.org for info
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