Gaming at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia since 1803
This guild is a clearinghouse for information about all Portland metro area game groups. Feel free to add links to individual guilds or information useful to the general Portland gamer community (sales, auctions, trades, events, conventions, etc).
Game Events Open to New Gamers
Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
- Hops on Tap Beaverton/Tigard/Tualatin area Meetup 6:45-10:00 at 15660 SW Pacific Hwy, Suite A-8, Tigard, OR 97224 hosted by Beaverton Tabletop Card & Board Gamers
- Red Castle Games: From 7pm to close, 6406 SE Foster Rd Portland
- Flames of War and Team Yankee by the Rose City Dukes and Duchesses Tabletop Wargaming Group at 6:00-9:30 PM at Guardian Games 345 SE Taylor St, Portland, OR 97214. See our forum threads at Flames of War - Ordo Fanaticus
- Portland Boardgames Meetup: From 6:00 - midnight at SE Lucky Lab Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne - contact Justin or Pete.
- Thursday Game Night: From 6:00 - midnight at Red Castle Games, 6406 SE Foster Rd.
- Other Worlds Games: From 5:00 - 9:00, 6350 SW Capitol Highway.
- Go Play PDX Story Game Night: From 7:00 - midnight at Red Castle Games, 6406 SE Foster Rd.
- Family Game Night at West Slope Library: Every first Thursday of the month, 6:00pm-7:30pm at 3678 SW 78th Ave.
- IMOGAP (postponed awaiting new location)
- Cloud Cap Games: 7:00pm to 10pm, 1226 SE Lexington.
- Vancouver Game Night: Fridays from 6:00 - midnight at Dice Age Games, 5107 E Fourth Plain Blvd #105 in Vancouver.
- Go Play PDX Westside: Third Fridays from 6:00 to close at Rainy Day Games, 18105 SW Tualatin Valley Highway in Aloha. Pick-up indie/story games.
- Vancouver 2nd Friday Game Night: Second Friday from 7:00 - 11pm at CBC Mill Plain Church, 14311 SE Mill Plain Blvd Vancouver 98684.
- Off The Charts Games: 6:00 to 9:00, 30 NW 2nd Street, Gresham.
- The Game Lodge: 7:00pm to Midnight, BYO Board Game Meetup, Beaverton/Tigard.
- Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery (IMOGAP) hosts evening Magic play tournaments
Saturday
Varying Days
- Gals and Games is a ladies-only group that hosts a lot of "let's learn" euro game nights.
- Ordo Fanaticus hosts Warhammer 40K, Blood Bowl, RPGs and board games at Western Oregon Wargamers on Tuesday and Sunday evenings. Contact Bryan Bertsch.
- pdx18xx train gamers meet irregularly, usually once a month, sometimes at Guardian Games.
- PDX Epic Gamers Meetup meets Tuesdays (see above) and hosts additional events on other days.
- Portland State University has a student run group, all are welcome, contact gamers@pdx.edu for current schedule as it changes every few months.
- Portland Wargamers and the Portland, OR Wargamer Player Finder.
- Ready, Set, Game PDX runs casual role-playing and story game events (See also Portland Gamers).
- Boardgames In and Around Portland
- Beaverton Table Top Card & Board Gamers
- TableTop and Taps. Meeting in the Vancouver area.
- Vancouver WA Board game community Events throughout Vancouver, WA on different nights.
- There are dozens of local gaming-related groups on meetup.com (search for "board game" or "boardgame")
Want to Play Lists (for those hoping to find players for a specific game)
Guilds on BGG
Conventions with Boardgames
- GameStorm: March 23-26, 2023 at Holiday Inn Portland – Columbia Riverfront (also hosts quarterly free gaming days)
- PDXAGE: May, near PDX airport
- Portland 18xx Tournament in June, near the PDX airport, ask on the pdx18xx email list for details
- Kumoricon (primarily Anime): September, in Vancouver
- OryCon (primarily Science Fiction): November, downtown Portland
- Elsewhere in Oregon
- Elsewhere in Washington
Stores
Map of Stores
- Map of Stores in the Portland area that have tables for play as well as product
Libraries With Game Collections
Trades and Flea Markets
- Members of the guild frequently host no-shipping math trades. The GameStorm 2009 math trade was the largest no-shipping math trade in BoardGameGeek history at the time!
- Members of the guild also host no-shipping flea markets.
Secret Santa
Mailing Lists
Games
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