About us
Intro and Ground Rules
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 posted details for events that interest you. All group Members listed are active (see below).
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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 Ground Rules and Guidelines ---
1. No DMs unless you've met in-person and are given permission.
2. If you ask to game with someone and they say no, respect it and find someone else to game with.
- Be kind, respect others, help create safe spaces.
- Most players are looking to enjoy game play and social time, not romance.
- Use opportunities to slowly grow a circle of friends that you can share fun times with for years to come.
- Bad actors (those that act against, or in disregard of, these Ground Rules and Guidelines) weaken our community. Bad actors may be banned from this Meetup group. The full Leadership group may be notified.
- Live into the community you want to live in.
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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 6 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 @ Guardian Games
Guardian Games, 345 Se Taylor St, Portland, OR, USCome join us for Board Game Open Play at Guardian Games every Sunday from 12-6pm, hosted by Alex from Might I Suggest A Game! Learn the game of the week, play from our free demo library, or bring your own for a fun afternoon of good friends and good games :)
The game of the week is Tulikko! This new tile placement game requires some clever planning as you draft tiles to build the perfect forest and be the first player to find a home for all of your animals and rivers! Find more info on this game HERE
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East Portland Tabletop Arcade: PLANET EARTH (Hobby games at the Midland Library)
Multnomah County Library - Midland, 805 Southeast 122nd Avenue, Portland, OR, USHappy equinox! For the past little while, I've been organizing a board game meetup on the first Sunday of every month at the Midland Library at SE 122nd & Morrison. Our last event had six attendees and saw plays of Santiagio, High Society, Rebirth, The Gang, Vegas Dice Game, and Let's Go! to Japan. For next month, I've reserved a community room on Sunday, April 5th, and I'd love for anyone that's interested to come join us. This time around, we'll be in room 1C, one of the larger rooms at the front of the building. These rooms are explicitly for community use and open to the public, so I'm hoping for a pretty friendly, relaxed gathering. So far there's been a mix of interest in shorter/lighter games and longer, more involved games, and we've been able to organize pretty organically without anyone having to wait too long. Still, if you're interested in something longer or more complex, I'd suggest arriving at the beginning so we can get that going from the jump.
My partner recently reminded me that when we hosted game nights many years ago, we used to bring out a few selections each time with a thematic connection, and I thought it would be nice to revive that tradition. Playing these is hardly mandatory, of course - I'll have a number of other games with me, and I hope that anyone who attends will feel free to bring stuff that they're interested in getting to the table. This month's theme is PLANET EARTH, and I'll have several agriculture- and ecology-themed games available:
DAYBREAK (Leacock & Menapace, 2023, medium complexity): Daybreak is a co-operative game about climate action. Each player controls a world power, deploying policies and technologies to both dismantle the engine of global heating and to build resilient societies that protect people from life-threatening crises. If the global temperature gets too high, or if too many people from any world power are in crisis, everyone loses. But if you work together to draw down global emissions to net-zero, you all win!
HARMONIES (Benvenuto, 2024, low complexity): In Harmonies, build landscapes by placing colored tokens and create habitats for your animals. To earn the most points and win the game, incorporate the habitats in your landscapes wisely and have as many animals as you can settle there.
THREE SISTERS (Pinchback & Riddle, 2022, medium complexity): Three Sisters is a strategic roll-and-write game about backyard farming. Three Sisters is named after an indigenous agricultural technique still widely used today in which three different crops — pumpkins, corn, and beans — are planted close together. Corn provides a lattice for beans to climb, the beans bring nitrogen from the air into the soil, and the squash provides a natural mulch ground cover to reduce weeds and keep pests away.
The library itself is quite nice, especially after its recent facelift, and is just a couple minutes' walk from the 20-Burnside bus and a maybe a five or ten minute walk from the 122nd Ave Blue Line MAX stop. As far as food options, Bridge City Taproom is right across the street, there's Just Tea about a block away, and Los Francos Food Truck, Don Pedro, Victorico's, Bon Bahn Mi, Gold Garden (Chinese), and Sisters (Ethiopian) all within a few blocks.
Alright, I think that's everything for the moment. Please let me know if you have any questions, and I hope I'll see you there!
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Past events
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