About us
Intro -- Rules and Guidelines
In-person, live, in-real-time game play is the focus of this Meetup group/collective. Discover new games or play old favorites. Read the details for events that interest you. All group Members listed are active (see below). Tap/click "Read more" to see Rules and Guidelines for this group.
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Portland Area Board Games and RPGs as a collective welcomes you to join in events several different host teams run. Each TEAM of hosts (the best way!), is in charge of the events they post and they retain full charge over who participates in their events.
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--- Meetup Group Rules and Guidelines ---
- Be kind, considerate, and courteous.
- Treat others how they would like to be treated.
- If you ask to game with someone and they say no, respect them and find someone else to game with. - Respect everyone's privacy.
- No DMs unless you've met in-person and are given permission.
- Most players are looking to enjoy game play and social time, not romance. - No hate speech, defamation, or bullying.
- These are grounds for an immediate ban from the group.
- Discrimination of anyone's sexuality, gender, race, disability, and alike will result in an immediate ban from the group.
- The full Leadership team and all community organizers may be notified. - No Spam.
Violation of the above will result in a warning. Subsequent violations will result in permanent ban from the group.
These Rules and Guidelines may be edited without notification.
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Join/Start a Host TEAM
Many hands make light work! Volunteer to help as you are able. Want to start up an ongoing event/game night, or run a special event? Either post your thoughts in the Discussion space for Portland Area Board Games and RPGs, or contact one of the Organizers/Co-Organizers on the Leadership list (on full website, not mobile).
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Site Use
Currently, Meetup functions differently on the mobile app vs the full website. The website gives users access to a calendar view of events, a page of all event photo albums, and different ways to sort/view members. Both means of access are handy in their own way.
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Active Members Only
In 2025, we began focusing on growing active users of the group. All members listed are active or have recently joined. To maintain membership, users should visit the Portland Area Board Games and RPGs group website at least once every 9 months. Users inactive past that time may find they need to rejoin. No worries. Should that happen to you, you will be welcomed back. All are welcome to join/rejoin any time, except bad actors, of course. Live into the community you want to live in. :)
Upcoming events
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Board Games @ SE CORE Food Carts!
CORE - Collective Oregon Eateries, 3612 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR, USEvery Tuesday join us as we dive into the world of gaming at CORE Food Carts. No need to worry about rain, too much sun or a strong breeze because we’ll be set up in their large indoor space equipped with copious number of tables perfect for gaming and safe from the weather.
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🎉View a list of what games people are briging, ask questions and stay connected **via Discord**👈
We have games ranging from party games, to co-ops, to strategic middleweight and fun social deception games.
How Many People Attend?
We regularly have 20 to 30 people attend with most of them arriving around 5:30 PM/6 PM.🧐Have your own games you’d like to play?
🎉Bring them!🤔Never played board games before?
😃No problem! We'll happily teach you in this low-pressure, welcoming environment.😨Feeling a little nervous?
👌That’s totally natural.New games started about every 15 min or so, so it doesn’t matter what time you arrive we’ll have something for you to do. Also we are happy to teach you a new game.
The thing that’s fantastic about attending board game events is it takes out the stress of not knowing what to talk about. Simply talk about the games, ask how to play the games, learn, laugh, strategize and enjoy in this welcoming environment surrounded by delicious food.
If you’re new to town or simply would like to expand your friend group this can be a great, low stress way to meet new friends!
If you’re new to games, this is a judgement free zone and board gamers are happy to take the time to explain and teach and, in all truth, love to share their hobby with new people. Because, board games are the best games.
Heavy weight games & gamers welcome as well! While its not required, and people have brought & stared heavy weight games on the fly, because of the time commitment for a game like this you may want join our Discord to gain interest for your game and get a time set up for others to play.
Newbies and veteran board gamers are always welcome!
🍔WHAT IS CORE?
Collective Oregon Eateries, also known as CORE, is a indoor/outdoor community gathering and food cart space that is located along 82nd Avenue.
See photos of the space below 👇
The indoor space is quite large, 6,500 square feet to be exact with ample amount of large tables perfect for gaming! Also provides clean bathrooms and will soon have indoor bar!
Outdoors is a variety of delicious food carts to enjoy! We highly recommend sampling the bounty. See photos attached to this event to see how amazing this venue is.
Check out CORE’s instagram . Stay up to date with their other events.
CORE has a large, safe and free parking lot!
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Rules-Light RPGs
2105 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR, USChange your PRIVACY SETTINGS so I can actually reply to your messages! :)
or contact me directly at
email = God.Emperor@Gmail.com
call/text = 971 325-2100Join us on Tuesday for Kids on Bikes, Super Spies, Escape from Dino Island, Spacy weird Fantasy, Mörk Borg/Pirates, or Call of Cthulhu, and other Homebrew One-Shots -- things change over time.
So send me an email at God.Emperor@Gmail.com or call/text me at 971 325-2100 for more setting and system info. And the story plots are episodic enough that you can miss sessions and it's no big deal.
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East Side Game Night
Board Bard Games, 7960 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, USBoard Game Social every Wednesday on the east side of Portland!
What? FREE, hosted board game social at Board Bard Games (BBG).
The East Side Game Night (ESGN) host team is here to play AND to help you get playing! We love including friends and new acquaintances alike. Let's Play!Ground Rules and Guidelines? Yes!
Please read the About info (click/tap "read more" below About) on the Portland Area Board Games and RPGs main page. Also note that Board Bard Games has Play Space Rules and Reqs posted near the door of the shop that must be followed.What Games? Players choose.
Casual to medium-heavy complexity board/card/dice games hit tables with a mix of strategy games and big group/lighter games.Forecast: Share what you want to play here in Meetup - or on the BBG Discord server. Best place to plan future plays - and see photos of past game play.
LIBRARY: The BBG in-store demo library is available - free to play!
Games you bring. You are awesome for bringing games you can teach and would like to play. There is typically one or more players new to every game. See the games we have played in the past event photo albums. We post every week.
New Games? Yes. Learning new games is common here at ESGN.
In addition to playing our favorites (something we discover together), East Side Game Night is a space where many different games are played every week. You can typically learn/play several different games on the same night. "Game learning" (experiencing new games) is part of the fun. Excellent brain exercise!Prep for play! It works best to play games someone has prepared to teach. There are too many fun games we already know how to play to be sitting watching someone read the rulebook for the first time.
Prototypes and Play Testing: We ask that game designers first 'join the community" by joining in the normal flow of game play before setting up camp and working to get a new design tested. The ESGN host team includes people that enjoy designing games as well as people that work in board game publishing. But, the normal at ESGN is playing already published games.
RSVP? Yes, please!
Your RSVP helps others know that plenty of people will be there and fun games will get played! Post on the Event page if you have any questions. Let people know which games you’re bringing or want to play. RSVP not required - join us if your plans change last minute!Food? Outside food welcome.
Options are abundant: Food in Montavilla. BBG has snacks and non-alcoholic drinks for sale in house and welcomes players to bring food in.
Alcohol may be brought into BBG if it is in a sealed container. To-go pints can be purchased next door at Tinker Tavern.When? Arrive when you can.
5:00pm is the initial start, but people arrive when they are able. We often play short, big group games you can join on the fly as people show up. Longer playing games typically start between 6 and 7pm. New games start up throughout the evening. Can arrive early? Let others know, maybe they can too. The tables and games are there. LATE NIGHT: Most weeks a group moves to a nearby bar to continue game play after 10pm. :)Parking? Mostly on-street.
Find what you can. Obey posted signage. 80th typically has available on-street parking south of the Stark and Washington couplet. Plan to walk a block or 3.New? Give ESGN a real chance!
Dropping by just one week is never a good measure of a weekly group - no matter what the activity. Many of our regulars come and go depending on what is going on in life.If you are attracted to the activity, plan to give the group a month of visits to really see if it is for you. See you soon!
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Past events
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