Local groups
Gaming groups of the San Francisco Bay Area with online
contacts
Not just role-playing games but board games, miniatures,
wargames, LARPs and whatever. Last updated: 2008-01 (Thanks Kelly!)
We are happy to list any and all such local groups.
Be specific, and email
pierre@rahul.net.
Greater Bay Area
Bay Area
Role Playing Society
- RPGs so far, aims to cover also board games and electronic games.
Mostly ads of people looking for more players and games.
- Critical Hit:
- A discussion forum for Bay Area D&D players. Includes
lots of ads from players and groups looking for more people.
Erm, including for non-D&D games...
- Bay Area Gamers:
- RPGs, board and war games, conventions.
send text 'info bag' to
bag-request@skylee.com
- sfbay-stratgame:
- a mailing list for strategy gamers. Including board games like
Settlers and El Grande, classics like Diplomacy, beer-n-pretzels, etc..
- Silicon Valley
Advanced Squad Leader Wargamers:
- Plays ASL, a squad level combat boardgame, meets monthly
in Santa Clara at Game Kastle.
- Bay Area Diplomacy
Association:
- Plays Diplomacy face to face, with games all over the Bay Area
monthly as well as 3-4 tournaments a year. See the
Yahoo Group
or contact
BayAreaDip@yahoogroups.com
or adam.silverman@gmail.com.
- The Floor Show:
- local RPG BBS, 415-952-3231, sysop Donna Hall,
floorsho@hooked.net
- Meetup groups:
- Looks like Meetup may be a useful resource if you are looking
for a specific game in a specific location. You might not find a game
quickly but you might find other people interested and eventually start a
game. For example you can start around San Francisco, looking for Games
> Role Playing Games > Call Of Cthulhu, and broaden your search
from there.
San Francisco
- SF Games:
- Card games and board games. Settlers of Catan, Acquire, Scrabble,
Taboo, etc... Tuesday card games. Friday all games.
- The SF Bay Area Boardgames Group:
- A San Francisco Meetup group.
- San Francisco Settlers of Catan:
- Very specialized Meetup group.
- Always Comes Evening:
- A live-action (LARP) roleplaying game. Every other Friday
night about Justin Hermann Plaza. Web site not up to date as
of 2007-03.
Peninsula, West and South Bay
- Stafnord RolePlayers:
- RPGs only, on the Peninsula, from San Jose to San Francisco included.
(Host of this page)
- Mr. Games & Co:
- Weekly, closed and discriminating RPG group periodically
recruiting players: see
Mr. Games
& Co for info
- Peninsula Gaming Club:
- Board games around Stanford.
contact Gamers-Request@CS.Stanford.edu
- Boardgame
Addicts of the Peninsula (BAP):
- Into boardgames ("Eurogames", Settlers of Cataan...), card games
(Family Business, etc), wargames (Glory, ASL...)
- Silicon
Valley Boardgamers (SVB):
- Open sessions Monday and Wednesday evenings at the
Matchplay
store in Mountain View mostly for strategy boardgames of all kinds,
including wargames and card games. They also have a
Yahoo Group.
- SouthBayWargames:
- Warhammer 40K and other wargamers who want to meet regularly.
Plays in Santa Clara at Game Kastle.
- South Bay Boardgamers:
- Board gaming group that meets at Yahoo! cafeteria in Sunnyvale
Mondays at 6:30pm. Games played tend to be light, "family" strategy games.
You need to go through Yahoo Security, see details at the web site.
- Santa
Cruz by Night:
- A live-action (LARP) vampire roleplaying game in downtown Santa Cruz.
- Santa
Carla by Night:
- Was a long running LARP (Live Action Role-Playing Game), based on
Vampire the Masquerade, in Santa Cruz. The game is no longer
active but a nice web site remains for reference material.
- Warhammer
Fantasy Gaming Group:
- A long running Warhammer fantasy campaign, with most of the
players in the San Jose area.
- Bay Area Games Day:
- Occasional (but over 50 so far) weekend convention-style
game days at the Los Altos library for strategy boardgames of
all kinds. They also have a
Yahoo Group.
- The Bay Area Dungeon's & Dragons Meetup Group
- Might be centered around Palo Alto. A Meetup group also.
- Pandemonium
San Jose RPG & LARP Club (site gone as of 2006-10):
- Silicon Valley-centered, plays RPGs, LARPs, among other things,
currently RPG tuesday nights, and LARP once a month.
- South Bay Gaming
Club (site gone as of 2004-02):
- Mainly historical miniatures but not
exclusively. Day-long monthly meetings in Cupertino. Since 1986. about
120 members. Contact: Gary Price:
gary_price@3com.com, or Chris
Salander: salander@cadence.com
East Bay
- Berkeley Flexibles:
- Highly flexible AD&D players for modified system with lots of
dice. contact
frojas@math.berkeley.edu
- Berkeley Area Social Gamers:
- board, card and word games in El Cerrito or Berkely.
- Berkeley Board Gamers:
- Erm... Board games. ... in Berkeley.
- Contra Costa Game Club:
- Meets once a month on Friday night in the Concord / Walnut
Creek area mostly for strategic board and card-type
games. From 30 minutes to 4 hours to play. For example, Formula Dé,
Settlers of Cataan, Chrononauts. Occasionally plays something longer
as a special event. No role-playing games like D&D. Contact Kevin at
kevinwm0@sbcglobal.net
- Calaveras Gamers:
- RPGs and other games (Skyrealms of Jorune, Champions,
AD&D, Albedo) with a leaning toward obscure games in Milpitas. Contact:
harold@svpal.org
- East Bay Offbeat:
- RPGs (Skyrealms of Jorune, Over the Edge, Space: 1889, who knows what
else...), Joe is back! (as of Feb 2000 anyway) contact mercury@norcov.com
- East
Bay Strategy Games Club:
- Strategic board games: Tigris & Euphrates, Medici, Settlers of Catan,
Cosmic Encounter, etc. Meets at
EndGame in Oakland.
- EndGame events:
- EndGame is a game store in Oakland with a game room and
a nice, eclectic schedule of "event nights".
- Wasting the Dawn:
- A live-action (LARP) vampire roleplaying game in Berkeley. Every
other Friday night.
- EBGD · East Bay Games Day
(site gone as of 2007-03):
- Monthly strategy gaming at EndGame in Oakland.
- CAST Network (dead site as of 2004-02):
- LARP (Live-Action) Vampire the Masquerade. Plays Fridays in Concord.
See the web site or contact
WCVampire@yahoo.com