Edinburgh Gamers Guild

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Introduce Yourself

Once you have joined please introduce yourself in this thread: Introductions or just post a new thread in the forums.

Meetup

There is a Meetup group dedicated to Board Gaming. This group attracts a wide range of people from complete novices to seasoned gamers. If you join the group then you will get notified when the next Meetup happens, or keep an eye on the forums here as often someone will point out that a new Meetup has been scheduled.

http://www.meetup.com/Edinburgh-Gamers/

The Meetup group also has a linked Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdinburghBoardGamers/

Join our Discord chat group

The group use a real-time chat application called 'Discord'. This is something like WhatsApp but has a lot of features to help organise conversations into separate topics. Most of the chat is text (typed) but it has Voice channels to allow multiple people to talk (verbally) to each other at the same time. Also it is usable via any web browser and using phone apps. Click this invite to join us: https://discord.gg/CYb5JC3

Games Hub

We are lucky to have the Edinburgh Games Hub http://www.gameshubedinburgh.com/ The Hub does food and proper coffee and have a games library of 300+ games. Here is a list of games the Hub owns (not up to date but probably quite close): http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/HubGames?own=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1

Show your support for the Games Hub with the Microbadge I created: Get it here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/microbadge/33620

An informal group paradoxically known as 'Groupless Gamers' meets in The Hub, usually on Thursday, this is now being organised via Meetup (see above). Just go downstairs in the Hub and call out "who's Groupless?" or something similar! Goose gave us a little write up on this geeklist: http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/181829/item/3564256#item3564256

FAQ

FAQ is a student led Board Game Society currently meeting in The Southsider pub http://www.thesouthsiderpub.co.uk/ on Tuesdays from 6pm to around midnight. Although FAQ is run by students it has a large number of non students members. You can just turn up and play but if you become a regular you need to pay your annual subs which is about the price of a pint for students or two pints for others. They have a (closed membership) Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/110669485661498