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The Gathered Magic of Spring Meltdown

Posted Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 1:30pm

Spring Meltdown’s gaming bonanza will include two Magic: the Gathering tournaments run by Dark Tower Gaming, St. Johnsbury and the Northeast Kingdom’s local source for Magic and related supplies. The details are just below. Check on the Spring Meltdown page for any further updates about the tournaments or other doings at Lyndonville.

  • Magic: the Gathering sealed deck tournament. $18 entry fee buys 2 packs each of Dark Ascension and Innistrad, land provided. Should begin by 10:30-11:00am. Minimum eight players needed to make a sanctioned event. Prizes provided. Run by Dark Tower Gaming.
  • Magic: the Gathering standard constructed deck tournament. $5 entry fee. Uses the standard constructed environment: Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, M12, Innistrad, and Dark Ascension. Tournament starts at 4:00pm. Prizes provided. Run by Dark Tower Gaming.

Green Mountain Gamers is excited to continue the trend of hosting more organized gaming, first by the Book Garden in Barre, and now Dark Tower in Lyndonville.

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Winter Weirdness 2012: Neither Snow nor Rain nor Critical Failures

Posted Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 8:00am

Gamers doing what they do best at Winter Weirdness.

Those who remembered last year’s Winter Weirdness game day might have had lousy travel weather on their mind in the run-up to the 2012 event. In spite of weather advisories the night before, the driving was fair and Green Mountain Gamers had their biggest turn-out ever, with over fifty people flocking to the Church of the Good Shepherd in Barre, Vermont for a day of tabletop gaming.

Rick of The Book Garden presents Steve with his gift certificate prize.

Rick Powell of the Book Garden arrived mid-morning to vend games and host some afternoon Magic: the Gathering. Eight players coalesced for a draft tournament that stretched into the evening. Rick also kindly donated a $50 gift certificate to the Book Garden as a door prize for Winter Weirdness. Everyone who donated to Green Mountain Gamers was eligible to enter for the door prize, which Steve Petruzzi won in the drawing.

And speaking of donations, Winter Weirdness attendees were so generous this year in giving to support the event that Green Mountain Gamers is able to make a $200 donation to the Church of the Good Shepherd. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the effort!

It was non-stop board and card games throughout the day. You can glimpse some of the games played in the pictures below. To give you an idea of the sheer range of kinds of games played, some of those played that day include A Game of Thrones, Ora et Labora and Secret Tijuana Deathmatch.

It all made for an excellent day of gaming in central Vermont. From Barre, the Green Mountain Gamers move on to Lyndonville for Spring Meltdown on April 21st. Hope to see you there! Read the rest of this entry →

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Share Content on Green Mountain Gamers with a Bookmarklet

Posted Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 12:01pm

Green Mountain Gamers has a new way to help you share content in your activity stream: a bookmarklet. By placing the bookmarklet in your browser’s toolbar or bookmark menu, you can quickly share links in your stream without going through the rigamarole of copying the link, loading the Green Mountain Gamers site and pasting it in the activity update box.

There are a few set-up steps we’ll walk through to get the bookmarklet set for use. Go behind the jump for the whole process. Read the rest of this entry →

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Winter Weirdness 2012 on the Horizon

Posted Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 12:00pm

Andrew supervises the rail barons at Winter Weirdness 2011; the crew of Battlestar Galactica schemes in the background.

Even with less than two months to go, it feels a bit odd to talk about something that happens in 2012. That year has always had the ring of the future to it, and now it’s just around the corner.

Go boldly with us into that future as we return to the undercroft of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Barre for Winter Weirdness 2012. The forum thread is already hopping with folks suggesting games to play, like A Game of Thrones and King of Tokyo.

Additionally, the Book Garden will run a Green Mountain Game Day’s first ever Magic: the Gathering tournament. Capacity runs to 16 participants with a $15-20 buy-in per player.

The Book Garden has also kindly donated a gift certificate to be awarded at Winter Weirdness. Everyone who makes a donation at the door — half of the total proceeds of which goes to the Church of the Good Shepherd’s food shelf — may enter in the drawing. The Book Garden is conveniently located in downtown Montpelier on State Street for central Vermont’s gaming supply needs.

Winter Weirdness 2012 happens January 14th from 10:00am to 10:00pm at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Washington Street in Barre, Vermont. Visit the Winter Weirdness page for directions, updates and more.

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Teach Your Kids to Game Week

Posted Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 3:46pm

DriveThruRPG is sponsoring Teach Your Kids to Game Week, Gaming parents are encouraged to introduce their children to the hobby, whatever genre of gaming they may pursue. DriveThruRPG’s site includes a list of kid-friendly RPGs that run the gamut in age level from Argyle & Crew to DC Adventures.

Elsewhere, The Escapist has updated the Adventurer’s Atlas of its Young Person’s Adventure League, which is “The Adventurer’s Atlas is your guide to the best role-playing adventure games for young people, a sort of road map to other worlds where you are free to explore as another character, a tour guide of places to go and people to be.”

If you have children, are you doing anything particular to teach them the joys of the tabletop hobby?

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Contribute to Vermont Flood Relief with Green Mountain Gamers

Posted Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 12:15pm

The effects of Tropical Storm Irene are evident everywhere you look in Vermont; some airborne pictures are visible here. Whole roads were washed away, towns cut off from access with the rest of the world and people saw their homes heavily damaged or outright destroyed. In the aftermath, the state has come together to support the flood victims. Volunteers give their time and energy to help clean up. Websites like #VTResponse coordinate offers and requests for help.

The Vermont area gaming community stepped up to contribute to flood relief as well. Matt Golec organized a charity Geeklist auction — ending tonight! — to generate money for the Red Cross. Triple Play of West Lebanon hosts a Flood Benefit Game Day on September 10th, collecting donations and holding a raffle to also go to the Red Cross.

Inspired by their example, Green Mountain Gamers is holding a fundraising drive. We will match dollar for dollar donations sent via Paypal to greenmtngamers@gmail.com, up to $100, making a potential total donation of $200, to the Vermont Food Bank, which contributes to post-Irene disaster relief needs.

The drive runs for seven days, from September 7th to the 14th. If you haven’t already made a contribution to Vermont flood relief, this is your chance to do so. And please help spread the word; the more people who contribute the better.

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Game Auction to Benefit Vermont Flood Victims

Posted Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 at 11:14am

Matt Golec (@mattgo) hit on the idea of holding a game auction to aid short term relief efforts via the Vermont / New Hampshire Valley Red Cross. The short of it is he’s invited a group of people to list games for auction via a Boardgamegeek geeklist. All proceeds from the auctions will go to the Red Cross.

Spread the word about this to all your game-playing friends, wherever they may be!

Find a wordier version of this post here.

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Quarterstaff Games Donates Gift Certificates to Fall-loha

Posted Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 6:39pm

Redeemable for games!

Hot in our hands for Fall-loha is a pair — that’s right, count ‘em, two — of gift certificates generously donated to the day’s festivities by Quarterstaff Games of Burlington. Two lucky game day-goers will each receive a $25 certificate to spend at northern Vermont’s long-standing purveyors of tabletop-related delights.

To put yourself in the running to win one of these gift certificates, you need only do two things:

  1. Attend Fall-loha. (But you were going to do that anyway.)
  2. Make a donation at the door, helping Green Mountain Gamers cover the expenses of renting the hall and all that fun stuff. While doing so, write out your name and contact information on the provided slip of paper.

It’s that easy!

Later in the day, probably around 4:00 or 5:00ish, we’ll hold a drawing right there for the lucky winners to receive their prizes.

Thanks again to Quarterstaff for kindly donating the gift certificates to make this door prize drawing possible. Open seven days a week, Quarterstaff may be found at 152 Church Street in the heart of Burlington.

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Share Your Blog in the Activity Stream

Posted Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 1:00pm

Bloggers take note: you have the ability to automatically share your blog’s content with the Green Mountain Gamers community, thus saving you the hassle of copying and pasting links to a status update or forum thread.

Blog posts appear in the stream much like any user’s status update, but including a header with the post title, the blog name and the initial few dozen words of content below.

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Web Site Maintenance, Friday, July 8th

Posted Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 8:04pm

Photo by James Kim.

The Green Mountain Gamers website will go down for routine maintenance at 10:00pm EST on Friday, July 8th. After 10:00, the site may come and go and appear to be only partially functional as elements are turned off and on. Smooth sailing assumed, it should be back up not much later.

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