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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 1h

10/27-11/2 Events

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6 - Gayme

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5 - Try a Game
6:30 - Root RPG

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4 - Mouse Guard
6 - Game Club
6:30 - Game Design

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6 - Enclave
7 - Trivia

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6 - Eldritch Horror
7 - Mts of Madness

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12 - Doomlings Tourney
6 - Murder D&D

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12 - Cosmic Encounter
12 - Doomlings Tourney
4 - Blood on Clocktower

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 2d

October leaves bring more games...
Wait, that doesn't rhyme.
Oh well.
#boardgamecafe

Root RPG Tuesdays at 6:30
Photo features adorable critters on Root cards

Call of Cthulhu... don't ask
GM hides under a book while the group dies laughing

Large party gathered around the table for some pre-wedding Herd Mentality

Scarface 1920 game map of Chicago with players trading illicit resources

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 3d

If we were rolling a 20-sided die for each of these 3 food displays, what did we roll on each result?

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 5d

Game & Treat Pairing

Game: Sky Team
- coop for two where you land a plane and only your dice can talk

Treat: black coffee
- dark, bitter fuel for dice strategies that's also somehow warm and cozy

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 6d

10/20-10/26

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5 - Try a Game
6:30 - Root RPG

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4 - Mouse Guard
6 - Game Club
6:30 - FiveEvil

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6 - Enclave
7 - Trivia

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6 - Beginner D&D
6 - Learn My Father's Work
6 - RPG Adventure

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12 - Nutmeg Gamers
6 - Cthulhu One-Shot
6 - Social Deduction

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2 - Sun 2pm Games
4 - Costumes on Clocktower

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 9d

What spooky fun we've had this October and we've only just begun...

Two boys (our favorite entrepreneurs) at PumpkinFest with caramel popcorn, cider, and a cafe gift card.

Four folks gathered around a Tea Witches board for a demo.

LED tealights on a Night Cafe board for playing in the dark...

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 9d

Nosh & Pickle read notes from our cafe's Wall of Support.

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 11d

Game & Treat Pairing

Treat: hot chai latte
- all the caffeine of your morning coffee plus pie spices and creamy milk

Game: Chai
- a cozy, low complexity order-filling game with tea ingredient components

Ingredient elements of tea with client cards with text from post and a mug of hot chai

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 13d

10/13-10/19 Drop-in Events

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5 - Learn Vantage
6 - Enclave RPG
6:30 - Root RPG

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4 - Mouse Guard RPG
6 - Board Game Club
6:30 - Game Design

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6 - Enclave RPG
7 - Trivia

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6 - Learn Mythic Mischief
6 - Spades

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2 - Learn Scarface
6 - Cthulhu RPG

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2 - Sunday 2pm Games
4 - Blood on Clocktower

Monster student minis of Mythic Mischief with text from post

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 17d

Favorite photos from the week.
Vantage from Heavy Games teach Fridays at 6
Library is always open when we are :)

Too Many Bones: the beginning
Couple reading the rulebook together with tea

Vantage game cards on the table - "Wait! I can do drugs!"

Call of Cthulhu one-shots: so many implications
Duo makes gestures while GM laughs behind the book

Too Many Bones: the end?
Couple goes over options as poker chip health dwindles in the game. Tea remains.

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 18d

What if... you were supposed to cheat and only one player could stop you. Welcome to Cheating Moths where you want to get rid of moth cards any way you can except play them. Beware, the guard bug is watching.

#cheatingmoths

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 19d

It's primarily worker placement with a few "oh, we should both worry about that coop-ish elements". If the cultist plans go off, worker placement spots go away.

Not sure if the above helps to get anyone into it, but we're also teaching it this Friday at 6!

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 19d

* Witchcraft! (solo - prove you're a helpful witch: 1p, 20-40m, 10+)
* Don't Talk to Strangers (hide from neighborhood aliens, 1-4, 15-20m, 12+)
* Werewolves of Miller's Hollow (defeat werewolves... unless you are one: 8-18p, 30m, 10+)
* Ten Candles RPG (the world is dark... and we're still alive)

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 19d

* Vantage (choose your own path, complete the coop mission 1-6p, 120-180m, 14+)
* Psycho Killer (screw over friends to survive: 2-6p, 15-30m, 13+)
* Black Mold (actions as long as a held breath, coop-ish: 2-5p, 60-120m, 12+)
* Casting Shadows (build power, transform, defeat: 2-4p, 30-60m, 12+)

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 19d

October Games
- Pagan: Ancestors expansion (new villagers, new scenarios)
* Happy Marshmallow Game (match marshmallows to roast: 2-4p, 20m, 2+)
* Kinfire Council (place workers best to save city: 2-6p, 90-120m, 14+)
* Mother of Frankenstein (solve Shelley puzzles: 1-6p, 480-900m, 13+)

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Discord link: discord.gg/yQ9mEMeJNQ

Join the Back Again Board Game Cafe Discord Server!

Check out the Back Again Board Game Cafe community on Discord - hang out with 942 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Library play is available whenever we're open. That and events are generally covered by a $10/person game pass.

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Sundays
- 12pm: Free Tea Witches Demo (10/12)
- 2pm: Sunday 2pm Games (note: 10/12 is Battlestar Galactica at 1pm - that filled up fast)
- 4pm: Blood on the Clocktower (special Costumes on the Clocktower on 10/26)

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Fridays cont.

- 6pm: Spades card game (10/17)
- 6pm: Beginner D&D (10/24)
- 7pm: Learn & Play Mountains of Madness (10/31)

Saturdays
- 12pm: Nutmeg Gamers (10/25)
- 2pm: Scarface 1920 Teach (10/18 RSVP)
- 6pm: Halloween Call of Cthulhu one-shots (10/11 & 10/18)
- 6pm: Social Deduction (10/25)

TBC

Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Fridays
- 5pm: Knight RPG (later ok)
- 6pm: Heavy Game Learn & Play (10/10: Kinfire Council, 10/17: Mythic Mischief, 10/24: My Father's Work, 10/31: Eldritch Horror)
- 6pm: Choose Your RPG Adventure (10/10 & 10/24 - games like Bad Decisions & Kobolds Ate My Baby)

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Wednesdays
- 4pm: Mouse Guard RPG (later ok)
- 6pm: Board Game Club
- 6:30pm: Game Design (10/15 & 10/29)
- 6:30pm: FiveEvil (10/22 - signup)

Thursdays
- 6pm: Enclave RPG (10/9 session will be on Tuesday 10/14 instead)
- 7pm: Trivia (special Halloween theme on 10/30)

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

- Also coming soon.. American Mahjong & Cosmic Encounter meetups (message us if interested)

Tuesdays
- 5pm: Try a Game learn & play
- 6:30pm: Root RPG

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

- Sun 10/26 at 4pm: Blood on the Clocktower in costume
- 10/27 at 6pm: Gayme night in costume (RSVP via link open 10/22)
- 10/30 at 7pm: Halloween Trivia (costumes & candy)
- 10/31 at 6pm: Cthulhu Costume Party (any-theme costumes, candy, teaches of Eldritch Horror & Mountains of Madness...)

TBC

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

October Events

Special
- Mon 10/13 6pm: Night Cage in the dark (RSVP on Discord)
- Sat 10/11 & 10/18 at 6pm: Call of Cthulhu Halloween one-shots
- Sat 10/18 11am to 2pm: Downtown Trick or Treat (we'll be handing out candy)
- Sat 10/18 2pm: Scarface 1920 Learn & Play (signup on Discord)

TBC...

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Back Again Board Game Cafe @backagaincafe.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you! Will do. We're excited to see it in action.