Today Sapphire City Board Game Parlor in North Canton (map) held a pre-release event for Fantasy Flight‘s upcoming game KeyForge designed by Richard Garfield, creator of Magic the Gathering.
Fist, I got to commend how nice Sapphire City is. It’s the first board game parlor I’ve been to, and it is a really nice place. Good parking, nice play space. There’s a large library and large retail selection.

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I’ve been able to explore some of the stores in the greater Canton/Akron, Ohio area (CAK as our airport is called), and I’ve formed a few thoughts. My primary interest is board games, Netrunner and LCGs if I ever could play them, followed by roll playing (never get to play those either, but hey…), and then on from there. I list Canton first as I’m closer to Canton than Akron. I live between Alliance and Hartville, and work in Akron (and sadly this new job takes me out of the gaming arena for the moment due to the schedule).
I’ll cover stores first. Clubs and Meetups next, then a couple misc links that aren’t really local related but community board game related…
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I’ve got a new video series planned. More Let’s Plays, but it will be In Real Life, so board gaming… Something like “BT Plays…” x game “IRL”… Staring myself and occasionally my son(s)… Very lose plan… Not sure which games of anything else yet, but I may spend some time getting new graphics ready and the like…
Random Musings of Father, Gamer, Author, and occasional YouTuber, and Twitch Streamer, Brian A. Thomas.