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Green Mountain Gamers Game to Raise Money for Extra Life

Posted Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 9:04am

Play Games. Heal Kids.

That’s right, you heard it. Just by simply playing games, you can help raise money for sick children by participating in Extra Life. Extra Life is the biggest gaming charity event of the year and this year, Green Mountain Gamers is encouraging fellow gamers to help by participating in Extra Life at the Carnage Gaming Convention from Nov 2nd to 4th.

Participating is easy. All you have to do is sign up at Extra Life, join or create a team, choose a Children’s Miracle Network hospital to support, ask friends and family for donations, and sit and play games, any kind of games, for a total of 24 hours.

Green Mountain Gamers has created a GMG team and is available for anyone to join. Or create a bit of competition by creating your own team (i.e. the Granite State Team or the RPG Team). Remember, anyone can participate.

GMG would also like to find those gamers who are hard core and want to go that extra mile. We are looking for the Iron Gamer. The Iron Gamer is one who will go the distance and sit and play games for 24 hours straight, or longer! Carnage has set aside 2 board game tables and one RPG table for Iron Gamers. We will need a minimum of 4 board games players (maximum of 10) and for the RPG’s, we’ll need a willing GM and players to play.

To find out how you can participate in the Iron Gamer or for more detailed information, please visit Green Mountain Gamer’s Extra Life team page.  Please note, the date at the top of the GMG team page is NOT the correct date. The GMG team plans to participate from November 2nd to 4th at Carnage.

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Spring Meltdown!

Posted Sunday, April 8th, 2012 at 4:10pm

In two weeks, Green Mountain Gamers brings to you Spring Meltdown on April 21st from 10am to 10pm at the grange hall in Lyndonville.

Lyndonville has lots of delicious places to eat, although none are within walking distance of the grange hall. Because of this, Green Mountain Gamers will have some different food offerings at Spring Meltdown. Green Mountain Gamers will provide the usual sodas, chips and coffee. Instead of snack cakes, we will change it up and provide brownies and donuts (and maybe another homemade sweet). All of these items will be sold at our usual, very low price of 50 cents each.

At lunch time, a variety of cold cuts, sliced cheese, bread and condiments will be put out for you to assemble your own sandwiches. At dinner time, pizzas will
be ordered to provide a warm supper. A sandwich or a slice of pizza will cost only $2 each! We hope that these food offerings will help you obtain sustenance without cutting into valuable gaming time.

So come to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for 12 hours of gaming! There will be a huge variety of board games to choose from, perhaps a role-playing game, and two Magic: the Gathering tournaments! If you want to pick up the latest and greatest game or some new Magic cards, you will be able to buy them from Dark Tower Gaming of St Johnsbury, Vermont or from Triple Play Games of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Green Mountain Game Days are always free. To help offset the cost of organzing these days, we do ask anyone who can to please make a donation (suggested $5) at the door. If you make a donation at the door, enter your name into a door prize drawing. The Spring Meltdown prize is a mystery, donated by Triple Play Games.

For more info, please visit the Green Mountain Gamers website. Read about Spring Meltdown and then join the forum thread conversation.

We hope to see you there!

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Triple Play and Dark Tower Gaming Vend Spring Meltdown, Plus a Door Prize

Posted Thursday, March 15th, 2012 at 2:28pm

Spring Meltdown will have two vendors to sate your consumerist needs. Dark Tower Gaming, in addition to running Magic: the Gathering tournaments, will also be vending cards throughout the day. Triple Play has your board and role-playing games covered. If you anticipate any special requests, contact these fine retailers in advance to see if they can slake your thirst for shrink-wrapped fun.

Additionally, Triple Play kindly pledged a door prize to Spring Meltdown. And it’s a mystery door prize, to boot. Whatever the plunder may be, it will become the belonging of one lucky attendee of the Meltdown.

Spring Meltdown happens April 21st at the Lyndonville grange, from 10:00am to 10:00pm. For more information, including how to enter the door prize drawing, visit the Spring Meltdown page. Join in the conversation on the forum thread, or RSVP to the Facebook event listing.

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Happy GM’s Day 2012

Posted Sunday, March 4th, 2012 at 10:37am

GM's Day logoHappy GM’s Day, everyone!

March 4th[1] has become an unofficial gaming holiday of sorts since it was first discussed in 2002. Think of it as a time to say thanks to the people in your gaming life who make things possible. That might be your actual GM, the person who expends the effort to build a campaign and herd the cats to get people at the table time after time. It could be the early adopter, the one who’s always buying the latest hotness direct from Essen and printing out sheaves of player aids and cheat sheets to help everyone learn. It could be the boss terrain builder who ensures your figures play on something nicer-looking than a bare tabletop.

March 4th took on a new dimension of significance in 2008, when Gary Gygax passed away on that day. As co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and figurehead of the hobby for years, Gary left an indelible mark on role-playing and gaming.

Say thanks, get them something nice, do them a gaming-related favor — show ‘em you appreciate the effort and time they put in to making the hobby better for everyone. Some businesses, like DriveThruRPG, use the weekend as a sale opportunity, so there’s all sorts of interesting digital products for sale there.

Thanks to The Escapist for the encapsulation of the day’s history.

[1] As in “March forth!”

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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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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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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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