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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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Public Gaming Announcement: Quarterstaff Games on Facebook

Posted Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 at 11:37am

For those who want to keep up with the latest doings at Quarterstaff Games in Burlington, you can now like them on Facebook.

A couple days ago, the store took control of the page automatically generated by what is probably a combination of Facebook skimming business listings for locations to include in their check-in function and Facebook users checking in at Quarterstaff.

In addition to Quarterstaff Games, you can also like The Book Garden, Montpelier’s tabletop game supplier, Triple Play, local game store to the Upper Valley on the eastern border of the state, Flights of Fantasy and  Zombie Planet, the latter both in Albany, New York.

The benefit of a store taking advantage of an up to the date network like a Facebook or a Twitter is customers can learn quickly about new product, sales and in-store events. Zombie Planet goes the further step of posting special coupons to their Facebook page for customers to redeem in the store.

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Fall-loha 2011 Comes to Underhill

Posted Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at 9:00am

Click through to the Fall-loha information page.

As the year rolls on, Green Mountain Gamers returns to the northwest corner of Vermont to hold Fall-loha in Underhill, in sight of the ridge line of Mount Mansfield.

The United Church of Underhill kindly hosts our festivities this time on August 27th, a Saturday hovering on the cusp between the dying days of summer and the encroaching fall.

Check out the Fall-loha forum thread for the latest chatter in the community. The Fall-loha information page will compile updates about the day’s happenings as they coalesce.

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The Norwich Game ‘n Grill of 2011

Posted Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 11:37am

It's right there on the sign board.

With the Norwich Game ‘n Grill this past Saturday, Green Mountain Gamers came full circle, returning to our summertime roots. It was a year ago to the day, more or less, that people straggled into the Essex community hall, not sure what they would find. What they found was friendship and a metric crapton[1] of tabletop games to play.

Those two qualities were in abundant supply at the Upper Valley Community Grange in Norwich. The purple Big Frakkin’ Bag and a variety of other bags, bins and backpacks[2] conveyed a riotous array of games to play. Even before the day officially began at 10:00, enough early arrivals congregated to spin off and start a number of games. And the action only grew from there.

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Do You Recognize These Tokens?

Posted Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at 10:28pm

Do you recognize these tokens?

At the end of the Game ‘n Grill last night, Chuck Burkins found a small stack of gold colored cardboard tokens.

Two questions arise:

  1. Do you recognize what game from which these tokens hail?
  2. Is it your game?

Answers in the comments below, please!

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Announcing the Game ‘n Grill Garage Sale

Posted Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 at 1:06pm

Adding to the fun of the Summer Game ‘n Grill, coming up in a two weeks’ time in Norwich, Vermont, Matt G. (@mattgo) has stepped up to coordinate the first ever game garage sale.

If you’ve got some games you’d like to sell off, but don’t want to deal with the hassle of shipping services, this is just the deal for you. Arrange the deal beforehand with another interested party, meet up at the Game ‘n Grill in Norwich and execute the exchange. It’s worked out well the last couple years at the Carnage math trade — which Matt also coordinates. This is a great opportunity to make some space in your game library for new titles — or find some items to fill conspicuous gaps in your shelves.

To list the titles you’re offering for sale and peruse what others have up, visit the Green Mountain Gamers 2011 Game ‘n Grill Garage Sale geeklist over on Boardgamegeek.com. Matt’s posted a helpful guide to participating in the garage sale; give that a good look and commence to posting!

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Game ‘n Grill is almost here!

Posted Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 at 8:36am

June 18th, Norwich, Vermont.

Green Mountain Gamers invites you to its second annual Summer Game ‘n Grill. We’ve come full circle with our seasonal game days and will once again bring together gaming and grilling on June 18th at the Grange Hall on Main Street in Norwich, Vermont. You bring the games, some food to grill and we provide a place to play and a grill to use!

The Green Mountain Game Days are a chance to get together to play 12 hours of tabletop games. Our usual mix of games includes board games and role-playing games but we also would love to have anyone set up some minis or play some CCGs.

The format is open gaming with some people offering to run specific games. You can visit the Green Mountain Gamers website to look up more info, see what people are already talking about for the Game ‘n Grill, what people have already volunteered to run and, if you wish, submit a game to run.

This year’s Game ‘n Grill is going to be bigger than last year’s. We have a Race for the Galaxy tournament with a prize of a $30 Triple Play gift certificate donated by Triple Play in West Lebanon, NH.

PonderZombie Games, an independent game publisher, has donated their new game, Castaways at Deadman’s Bay to Green Mountain Gamers. Bethany will teach this game to anyone attending the Game ‘n Grill. Anyone who plays this game will automatically be entered into a random drawing to win the game!

Green Mountain Gamers will also hold a raffle to support a Derby, Vermont gamer’s family, the Hartwells. Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell’s 15 year old son, Zach, had a malignant brain tumor removed in February. After the surgery, Zach developed a rare condition where he no longer can control simple motor skills. Because of this, his recovery has moved him from Hanover, NH to Boston, MA and has kept him and his mother away from home since February. This has created a hardship on the Hartwell family and Green Mountain Gamers would like to raise some money to donate to the Hartwell’s.

You will be able to buy raffle tickets for $2 each or 3 for $5. The prize will be your choice of either a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com OR have GMG pay your full weekend admission to the local game convention Carnage. Bethany will be selling the tickets. Bethany has short, reddish hair and will be wearing an orange shirt. If you’d like to read more about Zach Hartwell, please visit here.

Green Mountain Gamers will have snacks available for purchase. We will have our usual chips, sodas, and snack cakes to buy. In addition, we will also offer hot coffee and hot dogs. All snacks and drinks will only cost 50 cents each (even the hot dogs!). You buy the hot dog and grill it. Or, bring your own meat to throw on the grill!

Besides the Race for the Galaxy tournament and Castaways at Deadman’s Bay, we have people running Battlestar Galactica, Inspectres role-playing game, and there is talk of having two tables of A Game of Thrones right at the beginning of the day.

Come to Norwich, VT on June 18th and join in for a fun day of gaming!

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Raffle at Game ‘n Grill

Posted Friday, May 20th, 2011 at 8:59am

At the Game ‘n Grill on June 18th in Norwich, VT, Green Mountain Gamers will hold a raffle to support Rob Hartwell’s family. Rob lives in Derby, VT and is a fellow gamer and member of Border Board Games. Rob’s 15 year old brother, Zach, had a malignant brain tumor removed in February. Since that time he has developed a rare complication and had to moved from Dartmouth Hitchcock hospital to Boston. The complication means he has to relearn basic motor skills such as walking, talking, picking up things, or any other fine motor skills. This has created a hardship on Rob’s family. His mother has not been home since February and is on unpaid leave. His father is supporting the family while watching their even younger brother and managing to drive to and from Boston as much as possible.

Raffle tickets will cost $2 each or 3 for $5 and the prize will be your choice of either a gift certificate  to Amazon.com or weekend admission to Carnage. Bethany will sell the tickets at the Game ‘n Grill. Bethany has short, reddish hair and will be wearing an orange shirt.

If you’d like to read more about Rob, Zach, and their family, please click here.

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