During our Maine trip last summer, Nabeel let us in on his idea to start a board game club. When Joe and I met up with the Hyatts in Philadelphia for the board game convention where they were pitching Race to Kepler, that germ of an idea had become a real project, and we started talking about making a trip out there to to see it in the spring. The Tabletop Library is well on it's way now and Joe and I made our trip out to Berkley to see the progress and play way to many games. The idea is to make it membership based, and a place that where you would want to hang out, come as often as you like, and stay as long as you want. More informally, think of it as a country club for nerds. Construction and permitting are still underway, but they already have nearly a thousand games (many still piled up in Nabeel and Megan's back cottage), a board game Dewey decimal and recommendation system.
We got to preview the back room of the space and play all sorts of games – Botswana, Fate of the Fellowship, Cascadia, Galactic Cruise, a 3v3 cooperative variant of Dune Imperium: Uprising, Eternal Decks, Old King's Crown, Escape the Dark Sector, and Cosmic Encounter. Megan and Kate even joined us for Botswana, Liam played with us for most of the games save for the longest and most complicated ones, and we'll all have to make it back out sometime when Elaine can join us after The Tabletop Library officially opens.
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