Welcome!
For more than 30 years,
Metro
Detroit Gamers (MDG) has hosted a series of gaming conventions for the
enjoyment of gamers everywhere! We are proud to continue this tradition by
welcoming those who enjoy playing games of all stripes: wargames, board games,
chess, card games, train games, naval, space and army miniatures, roleplaying
games and more!
Our history is vast, with a dedicated core of game players just like you who
enjoy promoting and gathering fellow gamers together for one purpose: FUN! So stop on by at our next convention, or better yet volunteer to run a game and
enjoy the masses!
Please take
a moment to sign our guestbook so we may keep you up-to-date with the latest
information...
EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
In The News! (Jan. 2008)
A Metro Detroit Gamers director is making the news, thanks to a series of game
days! Visit http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/CFP07/801130495
for the scoop! Upcoming events:
Game Day: 1-4 p.m., March 1, 2008, at the
Sterling Heights Public Library. For more information call 586-446-2656.
After-School Gaming: 3:30-6 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Sterling Heights Public
Library.
Star Frontiers Mini-Convention by
Metro Detroit Gamers! (Jan. 2008)
·
One-Day
Event, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008, at Pandemonium Gaming Center, Garden City,
Michigan. Cost is $3 per person.
·
An
event by Metro Detroit Gamers, the Motor City’s 32-year-old game convention
society!
·
Event
will run 8-10 hours from 1 to 10 p.m.
·
Sign-up
now to participate. Once four persons are signed up, the con is on! Sign up by
sending an e-mail to chipjamieson@yahoo.com
·
Character
creation information will be provided on sign-up.
·
Drinks
& snacks will be provided (within reason). Please feel free to bring a dish
to share.
·
If
you are old Star Frontiers fan (the game was originally published in the
1980s), or have never even heard of this wonderfully quick, fun, wild
science-fiction system, sign up today for a lot of fun!
·
This
is a roleplaying game of science fiction adventure. If you have never tried a
roleplaying game, now is your chance! The easiest way to think of it is
improvisational theatre mixed with boardgaming. You take on the role of a
character in a story of interstellar danger and drama. Sign up today to learn
more.
·
If
you would like to join in running a Star Frontiers event as a Gamemaster,
please e-mail John at chipjamieson@yahoo.com.
Main Event (others to be added if
GMs register)
Broken Arrow
Min/Maximum
Players: 4/8
Difficulty:
Easy, will teach
Duration: 8
to 10 hours
Your mixed
crew of SpaceFleet flight officers and StarLaw agents are called to a nearby
military base, for a mission that could change the balance of power in the
Frontier!
Links:
www.metrodetroitgamers.com
www.starfrontiers.us
www.pandemonium-online.com
Podcasting for Gaming (Aug. 2007)
MDG is pleased to present a podcast taken at the 2007
(summer) MichiCon. It is an interview that discusses the Detroit gaming scene,
MichiCon and the fun new or inexperienced gamers can have at small conventions
like ours...check it out! (Direct link follows - it is a lengthy 'cast, so you
may want to right-click and download to your computer):
All
Things Gaming podcast on MichiCon 2007
Link to All
Games Considered
