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Game Camp 2017 Day 4: Big Danged Boats

Game Camp 2017 Day 4: Big Danged Boats

From: Wednesday And Thursday brought us a return of a camp favorite, BIG DANGED BOATS.  This is a 15mm Fantasy Naval game of my own devising, and it has some weird elements, such as a foot of a dead God, and Steam Powered Cheese, and The Followers of Joe.  We had some delay setting up (remember, the kids wanted Frostgrave to go long so we had to postpone BDB for a day?  Well, it takes a while to…

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Game Camp 17 Day One War Rocket and Room 25

Game Camp 17 Day One War Rocket and Room 25

So Monday dawned and it was our first day of Battle Camp. I have a smaller camp than usual; that’s just fine. Easier to manage. We were set up for WAR ROCKET by Hydra Miniatures when they came in. War Rocket is a very retro look at simple space combat. The trick to War Rocket is being in the right place at the end of a turn, since War Rocket has a turn sequence of Move, then shoot. The combat…

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So, yeah, that camp thing..

So, yeah, that camp thing..

As I have mentioned on here about once a year for a decade, I run a gaming camp for kids through the good graces of Saint Stephens and Saint Agnes school, Alexandria, VA, in the first week of August, every year.   I don’t pretend I invented the concept– in fact, I can look back at my own childhood and remember a guy who did something similar with Airfix plastic soldiers and Testor Paints back in…

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Game Camp for Kids, Day 1: The Magi!

Game Camp for Kids, Day 1: The Magi!

Hey, hey the gang’s all here!

It’s that time of year again, when I run a Gaming Camp for kids at St. Stevens and St. Agnes’ School in Alexandria, VA. This camp will be a week long and it will focus on tabletop gaming. Mostly miniatures based with either a fantasy or science fiction theme. I like to keep the rules pretty simple and easy to teach. The trick between success and failure with these…

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NECN visits Wizards & Warriors Summer Camp.  This is a role playing game camp in Westford, MA where campers unplug from computers and live the life of heroes who fight monsters, win treasure, and solve mysteries.  This style of Adventure Games puts the player right in the middle of the action - where their decisions change the outcome of the story.