GIPPSLAND GAMERS RETURNS TO FACE-TO-FACE GAMING!

 After the long bleak tea-time of COVID (and then just taking ages to get our act together) Gippsland Gamers is about to return to ON SITE GAMING!

Our venue has changed to KORUMBURRA COMMUNITY HUB (same building as the library - Google knows where it is).

We will continue to meet from 4-8PM. The price has risen to $5 per session - $4 room hire, $1 to keep tono fat. This includes tea, coffee and biscuits apparently.

As the library closes around 5PM, the community hub doors also close then. If you arrive to find locked doors, please message me on Discord and I can let you in.

NOTE: 90% of the parking around the community hub is 1 hour, so be careful!

GIPPSLAND GAMERS CONTINUES...

 Despite COVID restrictions, Gippsland Gamers remains active... although only online.

We continue to play a range of (mostly role playing) games via discord and various online platforms. Once we are once more able to stride through the welcoming portals of Coal Creek with banners waving as the adoring multitudes cheer us loudly, we will go back to playing the usual mix of board, card and miniatures games.

Holiday Program Jan. 2: Paint+Take

Paint+Take/Learn To Paint (1400-1600)
Ages 10+
Come along to learn how to paint figures for Wargames and Role Playing Games. All figures, brushes and paints are supplied and no experience what-so-ever is required.

Plus if any of you have cars you want to paint for Gaslands, I will have undercoat sprays and my undercoating turn table, so you can also do that!

Summer Holiday Program 2020

Gippsland Gamers in association with itself and Coal Creek is proud to announce the return of the SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAM!
Paint+Take!
Call of Cthulhu!
Warhammer 40,000!
You can check out full details on our Special Events page.

Paint+Tale 2019 Survey

Will this be the miniature you paint?
Vote in the survey to choose!

The ever popular Paint+Take returns for 2019, and as always YOU get to choose the miniatures!

You'll find a survey here which will let you choose your favourite minis (don't worry if you change your mind - you can edit your responses after you've entered them)

The survey will be open until May 29th.




What is Paint+Take? It's simple! We supply a whole bunch of miniatures, paints and paint brushes, and YOU get to paint them - and you also get to take home any miniatures you paint!

But wait, in the immortal words of Tim Shaw, THERE'S MORE! There are also painting contests with fabulous prizes!

Winter MTG Draft Tournament.

Gippsland Gamers will be holding a small MTG Draft and Tournament on July 5th.
Entry is $15, and covers Dominara cards and lands.
Bookings via email or 5655 1811.

200 Word RPG Contest latest: Word/Cross is a finalist!

The 200 Word RPG Challenge is a pretty simple idea for a contest - you have to write an entire Role Playing Game in 200 words or less. Actually getting a game that small which is still exciting and still makes sense is the hard part.
Toppy's game; Word/Cross has been chosen from nearly 800 entries as one of the 50 finalists. The judges are now reading the finalists and choosing the three winners, which will be announced at the start of July.

NAZORK Monte Carlork Grand(ish) Prix at Little Wars

Little Wars is on in a fortnight!
Which means the NAZORK Monte Carlork Grand(ish) Prix is on in a fortnight!

The normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of thereThe normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of there being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness! being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness!

NAZORK uses a specially modified variant on the Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition rules to provide only the finest Orky racing shenanigans!  A newly expanded line up of racers includes the classic Warbuggies and Grot Tanks, plus newly added Wartrakks and Skorchas - all of which will be racing through the spectacular environs of Monte Carlork - aka Hampton Games Club's Portheim modular terrain set with the addition of such Orky landmarks as the Hotel Grunthos and Spannanut'z Garage!

Oi Reg! and Poor Clone Bastards now available!

Oi Reg! the game of Australian Politics and Poor Clone Bastards the game of... not Australain Politics have both just been made available on Top Dog Games!
Now you too can partake in the joy of heartlessly slaughtering clones to solve problems and pulling snakes in half to win parliamentary debates! Huzzah!

200 Word RPG Challenge

The 200 Word RPG Challenge is now on!
And I've entered. You should probably all go and dutifully check out all the amazing and clever ideas people have sent in over the years.

NAZORK: Easter Classic

The normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of there being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness!

On Easter Sunday, Gippsland Gamers will be running NAZORK at Coal Creek as part of the easter celebrations.

NAZORK is a fast paced full-contact weaponised racing game for Orks, which uses a modified form of the 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000 rules.

Tim Wars: Episode I; The Phantim Menace

A wild Tim appears. It's super effective.

Tim is gearing up to start the next Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign, in which we will be colonising a strange new planet. We have a choice of four worlds to colonise, and Tim asks that you please take this survey so you can help pick our starting world.

GeekFest 2018 Paint+Take Survey

At GeekFest 2018, the great and multitudinous public will decide on which miniatures are painted at the highly popular Paint+Take! Go and take this extremely shiny survey to have your say on what is painted!

The Wreck of the Herald of Eagles: Dice Chucker returns to Gippsland Gamers

Next week (ie: the 11th) we will return to the ravaged world of Harran and once more sail the pirate-riddled skylanes! Yes - Dice Chucker is returning for a new campaign in the Skyships of Harran setting.

Three weeks out from Aun en route to Yinnar, the skyship Herald of Eagles skims across the ocean, held a hundred feet up by the gently glowing runes engraved on her keel by the finest Gleeb skywrights. You stand about the deck, watching the marvels of the ocean, enjoying the wind in your hair and talking of the bright future which awaits you on the newly settled skisland of Yinnar. The day is warm, the sky clear, and flying fish leap from the waves beneath, but then, with the suddenness so characteristic of these tropical waters, clouds close in, the wind picks up, and the rains come down. Soon the crew are fighting desperately with the Herald’s sails, lightning flickers about the mast, and the hurricane screams through the rigging. One of the crew, eyes wide with panic shoves you below and shouts at you to stay there until the storm is past. The ship lurches and sways madly, driven pell mell before the winds, the rain beating on the deck and the roaring wind filling the hull with noise so loud you cannot hear one another. How long this lasts you cannot tell, and then, unbelievably, a louder noise assaults you. The hull bucks as it is struck a thunderous blow, hurling you and every loose object below decks upwards, and tearing great jagged rents in the hull timbers. To your horror, you realise the Herald of Eagles has crashed. In the maelstrom of water, shattering timbers and howling winds, you desperately grab at any solid objects you can lay hand to. As the ship is torn apart, you lose consciousness…

If that's not enough for you; we're going to be using the prototype V.4 rules, which add a few interesting new wrinkles to the gameplay. Character creation and the first part of the adventure will commence on the 11th.

Blood Bowl at Gippsland Gamers

Club funds have been wisely invested in a copy of the latest edition of Blood Bowl, the game of fantasy football. A game which can best be described as exactly like American football, but with orcs and slightly more violence. At the moment, we'll be limited to playing one game at a time since there's only one board in the game, however I have enough teams to allow for multiple games, and will be building a second board. So this Thursday you can learn to play, and hopefully the week after will see some more serious games happening, with the possibility of a league.

Bluggug's Biffo Ladz orc team converted from various things in the mists of time and then forgotten about until the new edition came out...

The DaSaad Naughty Men, a vintage chaos team which was part of a bundle of minis I got cheaply a few years ago, and which has been painted up in honour of the new edition.

Kitnapped: She it published!

You can now buy an actual, physical, properly printed shiny hard copy of Kitnapped, Toppy's game about stealing other people's cats. It's available via The Game Crafter, a print-on-demand games site in the US. When you order a copy, TGC will print it up, box it up and send it out to you!
And whay would you not want a copy? It's a game about stealing other people's kittens so you can have ALL THE KITTENS!
Go forth and order freely!

Tim Wars: The GM awakens.

Tim has announced his intention to run a Star Wars EotE campaign at Gippsland Gamers. Character generation will take place this week (Thurs 5th) and games will kick in the week after. I for one am really stoked because I will finally get the chance to play in rather than GM my favourite system.

GeekFest 2017: Tickets and events

GeekFest 2017 tickets are now on sale!
And there's been a great big fancy update about events which will be happening!
Go read the GeekFest blog!

Summer Holiday Program 2017: ANNOUNCE!

The 2017 Summer Holiday Program can now be viewed on the special events page!
Come down to enjoy a game of MTG: Conspiracy, build an all conquering squadron in Peg Flight, uncover ancient mysteries in Skyships of Harran: Wreck of the Herald of Eagles, or hit naughty monsters in Hero Kids!

Learn to play Warmachine at Get Geeked, Wonthaggi!

Tuesday 20th September; 1300-1600

Learn to play Warmachine at Get Geeked Wonthaggi.

Gippsland Gamers in association with Get Geeked in Wonthaggi proudly present the opportunity to learn to play Warmachine, the popular skirmish wargame of steam-driven, magically controlled angry robot mayhem in Get Geeked's luxuriously appointed* gaming room, in Wonthaggi. 149 Graham Street Wonthaggi to be precise.

Come and be initiated into the mysteries of Warmachine and crush various enemies beneath your steam-driven iron-shod heels!

Get Geeked is located at 149 Graham Street Wonthaggi.

Further information, bookings etc. via email.