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How to maintain a regular game night, including tips for keeping your game group going in a pandemic

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Finding a game group can be hard. What can be even harder is maintaining that game group. In this article, I will be talking about tips and tricks for keeping a regular game night going strong.

This topic comes from longtime Tabletop Bellhop fan Emmet O'Brian who happened to ask this question before we all ended up stuck at home and locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, in addition to talking about maintaining a game night in normal times, I'll also be offering up some tips for keeping your tabletop group going during exceptional times, like during a pandemic.  [ READ MORE ]

Active Game Nights – How to maintain your game night group, Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 122

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 Active Game Nights - How to maintain your game night group. After discussing ways to keep your game group going, with a special look at doing that during the ongoing global pandemic, we’ve got reviews of The Creepy Cellar expansion for Ghost Fightin Treasure Hunters and a look at Roguebook a digital deck-building roguelike from Richard Garfield of Magic The Gathering fame.

Episode 122 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, recorded February 10th, 2021. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to individual segments from this show on YouTube. [ READ MORE ]

February AMA – Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Ep 80

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 This is the 80th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on February 26th 2020. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to individual segments from this show on YouTube.

February AMA - Answering your gaming question live! In addition to answering your questions live we have a review of the Extermination pack for Horizons and some Gloomhaven, Medium, Gorus Maximus, and more Horizons for our Bellhop’s Tabletop segment. [ READ MORE ]

Being Picky – How to Pick What Games to Play – Episode 53 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 53rd episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on August 7th, 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 53 - Being Picky - How to pick what games to play on game night. Also a review of Raiders of the North Sea and some double date night gaming. [ READ MORE ]

How to Pick the Best Board Game To Play? – Ask The Bellhop

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Today I'm going to take some time to talk about how to choose a board game to play. This comes from a question from one of our Tabletop Bellhop Patreon backers.

Joho Rutila writes:
We have an established gaming group of five friends. We get to play about every other month so we want to cherish the time we have found. What would be some of the styles in selecting which games to play? We have now introduced the "Dealer's choice" so the host of the night gets to pick one game. Selecting games has not been a problem for us (except we don't get to play all the game we would want) as everyone is quite happy with the games we play but what kind of ways have you seen? Voting? Dictatorship? Round-robin? [ READ MORE ]

Join The Club – Starting a Local Tabletop Game Club – Episode 51 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 51st episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on July 24th, 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 51 - Join the Club - Starting a local gaming club and building your local gaming community. Also first impressions of Talisman: Legendary Tales and Dead Man’s Cabal. [ READ MORE ]

Wedding Bells – Episode 36 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 36th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on April 3rd 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 36 - Wedding Bells. Tabletop gaming at a wedding, why not? Also, Race for the Galaxy, digital Carcassonne, a couple of prototypes and more DC Deck-Building. [ READ MORE ]