The Baltimore Science Fiction Society Welcomes YOU!
Whether you're near Baltimore, Maryland or not, if you're looking to geek out about science fiction, fantasy, horror, anime, and more, we'd love for you to join us! We've got things happening almost every week.
MONTHLY EVENTS!
Writer Critique Circle (zoom) 6:30pm ET 2/4th Thursdays
Speculative Poetry Wkshp (zoom) 7pm ET 3rd Thursday
Film Night! (live) doors open early 6pm ET 3rd Saturday
Board Gaming (live) 4:30pm ET 3rd Sunday
Anime Watch Party (live/discord) 2pm ET 4th Saturday
Book Club (live/zoom) 7pm ET 4th Saturday
TabletopRPGs (discord) 1pm ET LAST Sunday
See bsfs.org for links and directions!
Brought to you by the people who put on the annual Balticon Convention -- a 4-day celebration of all things science-fiction and fantasy -- held annually the last weekend of May.
I think there should be more safe forums and mmo games for kids/teens. It seems like all the cool ones from when I was a kid went away. The only thing I see actively targeted and appealing to kids is tiktok and YouTube stuff, which I'm not sure is such a good thing.
Jaipur is a small but exquisite economic game for two players in the atmosphere of an oriental bazaar from 1001 Nights. Created by Sébastian Pauchon.
The aim is to make high-quality deals by skillfully exchanging and selling trade goods and camels, which will earn you the most victory points at the end.
To do this, you take it in turns to buy goods on the market and then sell them at a profit and hoard rupees.
You always have to decide whether and how many goods you want to exchange for others, or whether you want to clear the bazaar for fresh, more lucrative goods by picking up all the camels on the market.
Pick the right time to sell as many of the same goods as possible at once, for which a high bonus awaits. But be careful! If your timing is bad, your opponent will snatch the best goods from you with smaller but tactically cleverly placed sales.
The game is played in two out of three fast-paced rounds. Only the player with the most excellence coins at the end is the overall winner.
There are already several editions from different publishers.
Look here to get an overview of the physical versions.
re: ur tags on that flashpoint post: you can actually request the flashpoint volunteers add a game thats missing from their database! especially if u have a wayback link. requesting is a bit of a process but theyre always archiving more stuff so im sure someone would be able to get it on there for u
ooooh really? i'll make sure to try that! i have a feeling chances may be slim since it was a finnish flash game on a finnish website, but i suppose it's worth a shot. thank you, anon!!
it was so nice chatting to the tattoo artist again yesterday but realized that was the only time I’ve actually had a back and forth conversation about things both people were interested about in a while