Central Coast Game Community

29/05/2024

June Newsletter: Summer Gaming Events & Clubs

Highlights:
PolyCon
Central Coast Renaissance Festival
Nine Realms Fantasy Faire
Board Game Clubs
D&D Clubs
Professional Dungeon Masters

Excerpts:
"The Central Coast Board Gamers meet monthly at Fire & Vice in Santa Maria to play board games, eat food, and meet like-minded gamers. Sign up for reminders and reserve your seat here."

"The PolyCon Miniature Painting Contest for Novice and Adept Hobby Painters. Entries must be submitted in person before the start of the event and fully painted before the time of their submission. See the rubric for rules and categories."

"Join us for ConQuest Ventura 2 the weekend of July 12-14, 2024 for three days of exciting tabletop gaming adventures! We will have the D&D Adventurers League here in full force, as well as the legendary War Game Boot Camp where you can learn how to play historical board games!"

https://centralcoastgamecommunity.substack.com/p/central-coast-game-community-june?r=aee4s

Summer Gaming Events and Clubs

17/05/2024

Llyn Hunter worked as an Emmy-award winning TV animation storyboard artist (Animaniacs, Pinky and The Brain, Curious George), and illustrates for fantasy role-playing and collectible card games such as 7th Sea, Legend of the Five Rings and Warlord Saga of the Storm.

Join her at her booth for prints and stories or attend a workshop at PolyCon XLI: Roaring Con!

13/05/2024

13/05/2024

PolyCon XLI: Roaring Con

Hi everyone the 41st annual 3-Day PolyCon non-profit* Tabletop Game Convention in San Luis Obispo CA is just around the corner.

June 21st - 23rd -- This year PolyCon is featuring:

🔸 Wolfnet Battletech Tournament
🔸 Board Games Protospiel
🔸 Adventurers League Dungeons & Dragons
🔸 Malifaux Tournament
🔹 Painting Competition
🔸 Roleplaying Game Section with games like RIFTS, 7th Sea, D&D and More
🔸 Miniature Wargaming Section with games like Kriegspiel, Warhammer 40k, WWII, Frostgrave
🔸 Live Action Roleplaying
🔸 Open Play Board Gaming Tables (all games welcome)
🔹 Paint-N-Take
🔹 Scavenger Hunt
🔹 Free BBQ (Saturday)
🔹 and Tons more

🔷 Want to add your own event to the list? Fill out our event submission form and get free 1-day admission for 8hrs of GMing, volunteering, or hosting an activity!
https://forms.gle/YZyUBg4KrS5webXs7

🔶 We are still looking for judges for Magic The Gathering events

🩸 Show up Friday for our Gamers! Blood Drive and help replenish the local blood bank. Local donations are currently very low! Also, free dice, Insomnia Cookies , and Black Rose Designs, LLC discounts for every donor. And stick around for free ice cream social afterwards.

🔥 Reserve your tickets before discounted sales end and help support our local gaming community with the link below..
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/polycon-xli-roaring-con-tabletop-gaming-convention-tickets-820769392347?aff=oddtdtcreator

*This is a non-profit tabletop game convention benefitting the Cal Poly SLO student organization, PolyCon. Students of all ages attend free

22/04/2024

Three Great Gaming Clubs in Santa Maria now!

Central Coast Board Gamers is a resurrected club now meeting monthly on the third Sunday of each month at the Fire & Vice Restaurant on Skyway and Broadway.

Santa Maria Valley Adventurer's League is a D&D club that meets at the Santa Maria Public Library and welcomes newcomers and veterans alike. D&D - Open Play - Chapter 4 this Sunday, April 28th.

Teen D&D is a youth club that plays at the Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center (call for details)

And of course, two upcoming events

May 4th Paradise Collectibles Convention
June 21-23 PolyCon XLI: Roaring Con
And don't forget, June 21 Gamers! Blood Drive at PolyCon this year.

15/04/2024

Pokemon League Tournament May 4th at Paradise Collectibles Convention!

Prizes and league packs available to win, included in tournament fees.

25/03/2024

Just in time for

Come try out the new Star Wars unlimited! Tonight at the shop at 6:30!

25/03/2024

If you enjoy playing Board Games, Cosplay, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, LARPing or community activities and news, consider checking out our newsletter for gaming on the Central Coast and subscribing to the club :) (It's always free to everyone).

https://localgamecommunity.substack.com/p/central-coast-game-community-e91

There are a lot of exciting events upcoming for the Central Coast in the next few months:
- May 4th Santa Maria Paradise Collectibles Convention
- May 18-19 SLO Ohana Comic Con
- June 21-23 SLO PolyCon XLI: Roaring Con
- July 13-14 Ventura ConQuest Ventura
- July 20-21 SLO Central Coast Renaissance Festival

It's also a great way to find a local club or meet local gamers, with over 30 clubs represented along the Central Coast and links to their groups and club info.

Enjoy!

14/03/2024

Don't forget and miss this opportunity. Promo code Save$6 takes $6 off EVERY ticket. Visit https://ccrenfaire.com/get-tickets/ TODAY!

08/03/2024

Our pleasure

Thank you Central Coast Game Community for organizing gaming and cosplay for Paradise Collectibles Convention! We're excited to include:
Dungeons & Dragons 5e
Star Wars RPG
Splendor Tournament
Pokemon Tournament
Yu-Gi-Oh! Modern Tournament
Magic the Gathering CEDH Tournament
Battletech Open Play
Board Games
Paint & Take

06/03/2024

Red Yellow Orange and Green. Purple and Tangerine.

01/03/2024

SLO County! Can You Escape? The Locked Inn is a live, escape room game experience. Work with fri

13/02/2024

Game Convention Announcement
https://polycon41.eventbrite.com/

PolyCon XLI: Roaring Con this year's Premiere Non Profit Tabletop Game Convention for the Central Coast. Preregistration is available now, 3-days for $30 June 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. Help support the PolyCon Gaming student club and this amazing community event.

Early support helps the organizers plan a great event and afford costly deposits.

Look forward to activities such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic The Gathering, Warhammer, Paint-N-Take, Live Action Roleplaying, Pokemon TCG, Board Game Protospiel, Pathfinder, Vendors, BBQ, Ice Cream & Waffles, Battletech, and special events yet to be announced.

PolyCon is a wonderful community event and a fantastic way to network with local gamers and find your in-crowd if you're new to the area or just getting into hobby gaming.

30/01/2024

http://CCRenFaire.com The 38th annual festival will be held on July 20 & 21, 2024

04/09/2022

First issue of our newsletter!!



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29/08/2022

This is the start of a community development project on the central coast that aims to build a D&D hub for community members to coordinate events, find places to play D&D, and create in-person D&D groups. The community is currently under construction, though the goal is to have a robust community by June 2023 that is beginning to self organize with a high rate of success.

If you know anyone on the central coast who is interested in D&D, or other TTRPGS please share our project with them and invite them to our socials to be a part of our budding community!

Here are some other ways to connect to this community
Discord - https://discord.gg/RHtgG6z8
Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/Centralcoastdnd-103396932507637
Newsletter - https://centralcoastdnd.substack.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/centralcoastdnd
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/centralcoastdnd/
Messenger - http://m.me/.centralcoastdungeonsanddragons
WhatsApp - https://wa.me/18052866707
Nextdoor Group - https://nextdoor.com/g/vw41vubhs/?is=post_audience_link

28/08/2022

My name is Chay Comas, I have lived in Santa Maria for 17 years, and have been trying to play Dungeons & Dragons in Santa Maria for most of those years lol.

I am currently running D&D games at the Abel Maldonado Center for youths and it is growing quite popular. However, It seems what little community around the hobby there was before COVID has dried up since, including the local discord Central Coast Gaming. I would like to revive the D&D community here in Santa Maria, and I am ready to devote the next 10-months testing the feasibility of this.

My first step is to reach out to the community here, on other boards, and in person at local spots to find anyone willing to join the discord and start priming the community.

If you are interested, or know anyone who may be interested in joining this community, or helping grow it, please reach out to me. Discord seems to be the fastest growing community binder of the next generation, and I am in the middle of learning it, though I would graciously accept any assistance on the technical side of community moderation and management.

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