gaming night at Casa del McKitterick: starts this Thursday 6pm

[mckitterick]

Dear friends -

I've decided that it's been way too long since I've gamed, so it's high time I get back into it again! I really enjoyed having a weekly gaming night at my place in Seattle, and I would love to have that again.

We have a big assortment of games (board, miniature, tabletop, card, roleplaying, and so on), so I'll have a big selection to choose from when y'all show up.

After tonight's survey, it sounds as if Thursday nights might be good. Does that work for you? I'll just plan that this Thursday (say, starting at 6pm) will be the first night -- especially considering that I'll be missing out on GenCon this year, the first time I would have gone :-(

Favorite game you want to try? If I don't have it, bring it! We oughta be able to try a coupla things without going too late. If'n someone wants to play late into the night, I'm up for die-hards, too. Let's see if I can remember what I have offhand:


Easy card games:
Chrononauts (I think it's called; Steve Jackson game)
Dilbert
The Great Dalmuti
Lunch Money
The Simpsons
Zombie Killer Something-or-other
lots of others

Collectible card games (I have pre-built decks so you can try 'em):
Battletech
Doomtown

Board games:
Risk
Robo-Rally (all the expansions)
Scrabble
lots of others

Miniatures wargames:
Battletech (the classic 8-hour mini game; only on a weekend, please!)
Crimson Skies (alternate-history WWI-era air battles)
MechWarrior (easy, rompin' stompin' killer robot tank warfare)

Roleplaying games (best to plan a few weeks in advance so I or someone else can prep to run a scenario):
Alternity (SF game)
Dungeons & Dragons (duh)

And miscellaneous other non-classifiable games.

Who's interested? Once we find out who's a regular, we can talk about maybe inviting others, but at first I wanted to keep the invite list limited to people I know I'd have fun gaming with.

I presume we won't get into roleplaying games (at least not right away!), so of course you needn't commit to every week. And non-gaming-types are welcome to just hang out with other non-gamers and chat and such, or watch, or whatever. And if you show up late, that's cool, but whoever's there by 6pm will be the first round (or should we start at 5pm?). Bring your favorite munchable, or we can order a pizza or something.

Lemme know!
Chris

Comments

[radcliffe.livejournal.com]

Sounds great! I am not sure how my work will be, but I will at the very least swing by and say hello!

[bellanorth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun, but I think your survey pool was a bit small. Wednesdays are my vote, unless taiko moves after the school year gets truly underway.

[radcliffe.livejournal.com]

Yes Taiko is a Thursday thing, that I will want to get back into once faire opens- and once faire opens my wednesdays are free :-), as well as most of my weekdays from the sound of it.

[jensixstones.livejournal.com]

Oh, Man!
I would love to come play but that is my taiko night. On nights when taiko is cancelled, I'd like to join in and I can bring games too.
-Jen

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Thursday nights would be perfect on days that I am off on Friday or when I start working from home on Friday. I doubt that I'll ever make it by 6:00 pm unless I start skipping going to the gym, so 5:00 would be way too early.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

I'll phone in!

[http://users.livejournal.com/louie_d_/]

So far as I know, I don't have any other commitments for thursday, but this close to faire opening, there's always a possibility of a last minute rehearsal.

I also have a few games that I could add to the choices. I have Fluxx, Trivial Pursuit (20th anniversary and Lord of the Rings editions), Lord of the Rings Monopoly.

For RPGs, I got rid of all my D&D books years ago, but I still have all my GURPS books and a few others.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

thursday night we have a classes at the gym until 8pm so that eats up most of our mondays and thrudays

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

Wonder if anyone has Cranium?
that's a really fun game!

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

If you haven't already, you so need to discover Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. I'm guessing they'd both be big hits in your household and are terrific introductions to the big, wonderful world of German boardgames.