D.R.A.G.O.N. Club: Tabletop games for ladies

A Rotterdam based MTG & board game club for ladies. We meet every month and play games at our local game store. You can find out more about us at: https://www.facebook.com/dragonclub010/

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For International Tabletop Day 2016 I organised an event for the board & card game club for ladies that I started here in the Netherlands. We always play at our local game store, since they’re very welcoming to us. For this event, I took some old trophies and turned them into Trophies Of Awesome, as you can see.

We played some Fluxx, Love Letter, Munchkin and Ultimate Werewolves. I also bought some random geeky/nerdy little prizes (Star Wars/Avengers/Minions/lego + tabletop trinkets etc.) both for the winners and also for the ‘goodie bag’ that each attending lady received. In the goodie bag was a gift voucher for either 2 small or 1 medium prize, plus a purple die (since that’s in our logo). The store also bought some yummy red velvet cake, which we very much enjoyed. All in all, it was an awesome day with lots of gaming and laughter!

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So yeah, Wil Wheaton just reblogged the picture of our trophies that we submitted to @seenontabletop. Awesome! Slightly freaking/geeking out over here!

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For International Tabletop Day 2016 we had a special event at Gamers of the West, our local game store. For this event, I took some old trophies and turned them into Trophies Of Awesome, as you can see.

We played some Fluxx, Love Letter, Munchkin and Ultimate Werewolves. I also bought some random geeky/nerdy little prizes (see second picture.) both for the winners and also for the 'goodie bag' that each attending lady received. In the goodie bag was a gift voucher for either 2 small or 1 medium prize, plus a purple die (since that's in our logo). The store also bought some yummy red velvet cake, which we very much enjoyed. All in all, it was an awesome day with lots of gaming and laughter!

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On Saturday the 30th of April, in honour of International Tabletop Day, D.R.A.G.O.N. Club is having an awesome board & card game event for ladies. These are the ‘promo’ items and trophies that we’ve made for this day and below that, a little ‘sneak preview’ of the prizes that are available to win. 

The exact prizes will remain a secret until the event itself, but keywords are:  Avengers, Star Wars, Shrek, My Little Pony, Mario Kart, Minions, Lego, tabletop games, colouring, dinosaurs, cats, and pandas. If you want a chance to win some of these prizes + a Trophy Of Awesome, feel free to stop by. All (people who identify as) ladies are welcome, no matter their age, level of experience or whether you can stay for the entire event or just part of it.

The event will take place from 12h until 17h at Rotterdam based game store Gamers Of The West. The event page is: https://www.facebook.com/events/1682652132007118/

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These are the pictures from the Saturday afternoon event in February. It was actually busier than Wednesday, which I don’t think has ever happened, hahaha! Anyway, as you can see, we started with a game of Magic (yay!), then played a Walking Dead board game one of our members brought, then we played Yahtzee and last but not least, we played some Cards Against Humanity. It was a great afternoon with lots of fun and laughter (and also some crying with laughter during CAH by yours truly)!

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Here are the pictures of our Wednesday event in February. As you can see, we played four different games; Monty Python Fluxx, Stratego card game, Love Letter and an Avenger themed game one of our members brought with her. 

Apparently that game is based on a Victorian card game called ‘old maid’ where you have to get as many pairs of cards as possible to win and avoid getting the one card that doesn’t have a partner. Even though it wasn’t that busy (just the three of us), we ended up having lots of fun!

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And we have another game to add to our collection! This one has been long awaited, ever since seeing it played on Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop show. Hopefully we’ll be able to play it in a couple of months, when we hope to have weekly Wednesday evening events instead of monthly ones instead. 

If and when that happens, the plan is to have one Wednesday evening reserved for ‘advanced board game night’ or something like that. At those events we want to play more complicated games like Betrayal at the house, Smallworld and Elder Sign and have people study the rules in advance so there isn’t any time wasted with explanations on the evening itself (since these games usually take quite a bit of time to play).

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We just got this Ticket To Ride Nederland expansion in earlier this week and we’re really excited to try it out! With the regular version, with the US map, sometimes we had to crane our necks just to find out which city was situated where, but hopefully that won’t be the case (as much haha) with this one, since it’s our own country! 

The next events are tomorrow and this Saturday, so hopefully we’ll get to try it out then! Pics to follow, probably after both events are done.

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We had another board game event on the 13th of January and we had a great turnout; there were 8 ladies in total! We played three rounds of 1 Night Werewolves (2-1 for the villagers) and as much as half the village survived the werewolf attacks and wrongful lynchings! ;-)

After that we tried to play a new game one of our members brought, called Boss Monsters, but the rules were a bit unclear so we were still busy trying to figure it out when some more girls arrived. So we decided that instead of making them wait (the maximum amount of players is 4), we put it away and started a game of Munchkin with all ladies together. Hopefully we will definitely try Boss Monsters again though, since it did seem lots of fun from what we could understand at that point (and also: yay for NES nostalgia)!

So we ended up playing Munchkin with 8 ladies, even though it’s meant for 6 people at most I think. We didn’t want to leave anyone out and someone did bring Zombie Munchkin with a Walking Dead expansion, so we did have enough cards and just gave it a go. However, since it obviously takes more time to go through the rounds with 8 people and there’s more backstabbing and ganging up, the game took a whopping 2,5 hours! We mostly didn’t mind though, we were too busy having lots of fun to really notice!

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The last pictures from an event I posted were in September! I’ve just been way too busy with things, but I felt I had to rectify that! So here’s a couple of pictures from the last couple of months to make up for it!

I recently bought One Night Ultimate Werewolf and this game is quickly becoming a new favourite with the ladies! It’s really a lot of fun and very quick and easy to boot. At another event, one of our members brought a Harry Potter game with her, which was also a lot of fun! Someone also brought Cards Against Humanity at yet another event and I’m telling you: I literally cried my eyes out with laughing! Hopefully someone will bring it once more, or else I’m really going to have to buy it soon.

The last picture is from our most recent event. Coincidentally, there was a Fairytail viewing going on in the back of the store at the same date as our event. There’s plenty of room, so it wasn’t a problem. No problem at all, really, especially since they had hired a bit of catering for the occasion, which we gladly took advantage of! There was some yummy red velvet cake and also some lovely bubble tea. In the background you can see one of our D.R.A.G.O.N. Club mugs, btw. It’s the store owners’, who kindly lent it to one of our members for her regular tea. He’s a big fan of the club, haha!

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It’s been a while since this video was taken, but I just noticed I didn’t actually share it here on Tumblr yet, so here goes! In November the lovely Yavannah from  BETABREAK came to play with us. She filmed a bit in the store and she interviewed me as well, which you can hear (in Dutch) in the voice-over. Fun times!

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Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, or if you're just happy to have a couple of days off and have some time to spend with family/friends, I wish you very happy holidays and a joyous, new year filled with (board)gaming! Remember, like Wil Wheaton says: "Play more games!"

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There’s more to do than you know, when you’re organising a new and fairly unknown card & board game group! At the moment, I’m doing my best to get word out that we excist and that ladies are welcome to join us. I’ve joined some local board/card/rpg game websites and introduced myself and our group. I’ve also made a flyer that is currently hanging in front of the window at Gamers of the West, the game store where we play.

As you can see, I also made some cute little club trinkets, which I hope to sell at the next events. It might be fun for people to have and it helps me pay for travel costs (I’m at all events and have to travel 2 hours with public transport in total each time!) and also buy some new awesome games for the club, hopefully! T-shirts/hoodies etc. are also in the works, but no finished products to show yet on that front.

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We’ve had two more board & card game events this past week; one on Wednesday night and one this Saturday afternoon. Since they were so close together, I waited with this post until both were concluded and have put pictures from both events into this set.

Both events were lots of fun and we got to play a range of games. We played Ticket To Ride on both days and on Wednesday we also played Coup and Fluxx, (I forgot to take pictures of those!), while on Saturday we played Love Letter, Munchkin and some Magic as well. Since it was so busy, on Saturday we moved to the basement of the game store, which we had all to ourselves!

Over the next week we’ll vote for the next two events (one on a Wednesday and one on a Saturday) for the month of October, in our Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/522270321256871/

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A more comprehensive account of our first official D.R.A.G.O.N. event by the same member that wrote a blog and made a personal vlog before. This is for GeekTime, the Youtube channel that she works for.

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A personal vlog from one of our members with a sneak peek of our first official D.R.A.G.O.N. event.

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My Life // D.R.A.G.O.N First Event!

Recentelijk heeft een meisje uit Rotterdam een boardgame + Magic club gestart. Nou, natuurlijk zou ik mijzelf niet zijn als ik daar niet eens een kijkje zou nemen!

A blog post (in Dutch) about our first event from one of our members!

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Because I didn’t have anyone in my direct surroundings to play with, I recently started my own board game + Magic the Gathering group for ladies. It turns out there are lots of ladies out there who like the idea of getting together at a local game store to play together. Tonight was the first event (first official one anyway) and we were with 13 girls in total! It’s supposed to be at least once a month and perhaps even more, if there’s enough interest.

We had a blast and played all kinds of things like Magic, Munchkin, Love Letter, Pokémon and Fluxx. We all got a Magic starter deck from the store and some guys that were also playing Magic actually gave us almost 70 cards that they had just won to use as a kind of ‘communal cards’ for our group, since a lot of the girls are new to Magic and don’t have any cards yet! So nice of them! Thankfully the store owner and his employees were also very excited about having our group and they offered to help us out in any way that they can.

I made the coat of arms you see in the picture myself (from editing and redrawing existing random images from the internet and assembling them together). The name of our group is D.R.A.G.O.N. Club, which stands for: Dice Rolling Awesome Girls Of Nerdhood. I had a friend make the cookies pictured and handed them out as a treat in the little bag I put together myself.

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Our first official event!