Open Gaming, combined with other meetups - Gift Card Giveaway!

Sep '09 1 Tue 7:00 PM
Location

3443 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
773 529-8550

Attendance
 81  people attended.
4.50 4.503 (3 ratings)

Who organized?
Nate Scheidler

Hi folks,

Our last event hit 45 attendees, and I can only imagine we'll get even more this time around. The enthusiasm was great, and its nice to get our standard monthly gig up to its old numbers again.

Here are the groups attending:

Board Games Meetup
Board Game Design Meetup
RPG Chicago
SciFi/Fantasy
Horror
Jedi (unconfirmed, organizer is on as a maybe)
Anime (unconfirmed)
Couchsurfing

We're also starting just a hair later, 7pm, to give the Cubs crowd some time to clear out.

The SciFi group has a lot of board game enthusiasts... I heard several calls for Settlers, and a batch of them played some Battlestar Galactica. I'll also be bringing some simpler, party-style games and classic games for people that don't want to learn complex rules.

Hope you can join us!


GIFT CARDS:

Mystic Celt has given us a couple of $10 gift cards to give away! What you need to do to be eligible:

1. RSVP Yes or Maybe 24 hours in advance of the event
2. Attend.

Only one entry per person, no duplicate entries for RSVPing on multiple sites.

Drawing is at 9pm. If you arrive later, we'll roll your entry over to the next meeting.

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Nate Scheidler
    Posted Sep 2, 2009 2:22 PM
    Organizer
    There was some Le Havre, Bang, Carcassone, Clue, T-Shirt Game, Pickomino and Battlestar Galactica. Four prototypes from Chicago Design group too. And a little AD&D. We'll try to aim for more intro style short games at this event I think, and push heavier rules games with longer playtimes out to other events.
  • davedaring
    Posted Sep 2, 2009 2:13 PM
    Ding Ding
    So tell us what was played!

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