Hi all, Sarah here. If you follow me you’ll know that I’m an avid board gamer. A couple of months ago my brother and I started a tabletop gaming club in the town that I grew up in and one of our first orders of business was to set up an event for International Tabletop Day (luckily the local library already had an event planned and happily agreed to let us cohost it). A few years ago Wil Wheaton (of Stand by Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation fame) began a YouTube series, TableTop which is all about playing board games. Over the past 20 years or so (with the introduction of games such as Settler’s of Catan to the United States) there has been an influx of great games and this series does such a great job highlighting these games. With Tabletop, in about 30 minutes or so, you can learn about a new game, see how it’s played and watch a group of people actually play through the game. It’s been great at introducing my family to quite a few games that we just had to add to our collection. The series became so popular that they decided to create an event for people to get together and play games. International TableTop Day is basically a day set aside each spring to promote tabletop gaming through events set up all over the world.
In 2014 there were over 3000 events scheduled in 80 countries. The next International TableTop Day is scheduled for April 11th, 2015. If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend consider checking out the International TableTop Day events page and seeing if there is something scheduled near you. Tabletop gaming is such a fun way to spend time with family and friends and there are tons of amazing games being released on a monthly basis. Of course, there is an added bonus, if you decide to spend Saturday playing games, take some photos and scrapbook them. Here are a few kits from the TLP store that you can use to document your fun board gaming memories.
Even if you aren’t able to make it to an event on Saturday, I highly suggest making board games a part of your regular entertainment. It’s so much fun spending a Friday night with my family eating pizza and playing a board game or three.
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