Gaming groups around Philadelphia
John Desmond
Gaming groups
- in and around Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington,
Harrisburg, Reading, and points inbetween
Salutations, gentlefolk,
This is a draft of the edition for the May `05 - Miniature Figure
Collectors of America convention, this weekend. Please send
additions and corrections to me ASAP so I can get them into the
printed copies, at john.a.des...@alumni.upenn.edu ( or
write me at 4910 Cedar Ave, Phila, Pa, 19143 )
Please pass the word to all who might be interested !
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 Eastern Pennsylvania Gaming Society - www.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 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
There is a Philadelphia Boardgamers Meetup Group at
http://boardgames.meetup.com/99/about/
Regular meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of every month in King of
Prussia
Alternate Universes, 2034 Parker Avenue (at McDade Boulevard)
Holmes PA 19043, (610) 583-9960
has boardgaming Sunday nights.
Gamers should call before showing up.
There are games at the Abington Game and Hobby Store,
check website - www.abingtongh.com - for schedule
The Ambler Gamers - Email list - AmblerGamers on yahoogroups.com
Bux-Mont Historical Gamers - meets in
the northern and western suburbs of Philadhelphia on Wed nights
POC - Dick McFarland, Mor...@erols.com
The Rogues, POC - Michael Panzer, 267-258-4969,
www.angelfire.com/pa/therogues/
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 daddyh...@juno.com
Lansdale_PA_Gaming_Group @ yahoogroups.com
Trenton - Regular gaming at the Gamer's Realm in West Windsor, NJ,
Thursday nights, 6:30PM until 10:30.
Anyone interested should join the realmgamers mailing list
at Yahoo Groups.
We 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.
Jersey Assn of Gamers - POC - Dan Foley, dlc...@aol.com
or Jeff Schulte, jsch...@spyral.net
http://www.jerseygamers.com
Picatinny Games Club - POC - John Thamasovich jts...@planet.net
New Jersey Miniatures Society - POC -
Tim Ruffner, tim.r...@dowjones.com, www.njms.net
South Jersey Confederation of Wargamers,
POC - John Burke, 609-886-3205, Charles Keller, 609-889-1403
Days of Knights - games club in Newark, Delaware -
board games every Saturday - http://www.daysofknights.com/
The Delaware Area Wargaming Group - meet in Newark
every other Friday night at 7:30.
This group has been around for over 30 years.
We have a Yahoo groups site, DAWG4U and a web page
delawargamers.org
We are having a mini-con on May 14 at the Rogue's Den
in Claymont, Delaware.
Visit the website for game information and directions.
Contact person - Jim Ferich, flas...@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
ma...@boardgamerspastime.com
Harrisburg - East Shore group meets 2nd and 4th Saturdays
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 10-5.
POC - Christopher Gnech, boardga...@hotmail.com
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
we also run 15mm Napoleonics and ACW, 25mm FIW and Pirates,
fighting sail, modern micro armor, and more. No fees, no arguing,
just good community.
For more info contact Chalfant at infer...@aol.com
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
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
dr...@earthlink.net or cap...@ptd.net
Pennsylvania Wargamers Militia, POC - Roger Bos
anyminia...@yahoo.com
Gettysburg-York ACW Gamers, POC - Scott Mingus,
scott...@yahoo.com
Berks Boardgamers - http://www.berksboardgamers.com
( or http://jcarvin.tripod.com/berksboardgamers/ ? ),
POC-Jim Carvin, j...@berksboardgamers.com, 610-220-5644.
Meets irregularly on Saturdays near Kutztown.
Please see our website for the schedule, or our Email list,
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/berksbg/
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, Histori...@aol.com, or
Eric Feifer (717) 872-7984
NEPA Table Top Warlords, POC - Kurtus Brown
http://members.toast.net/jab/
Local conventions for gaming, etc:
The Shorecon game convention was acquired by Double Exposure
convention management - www.dexposure.com
The Historical Miniature Gaming Society-East conventions, in
Lancaster,
www.hmgs.org,
www.historicon.org, www.coldwars.org, www.fall-in.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 .
www.philcon.org for info