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A quiet wake
Aug. 27th, 2007 09:36 amYesterday the Wolverine Gaming Club had its last meeting as a regular student group at The Michigan Union. Some people who hadn't attended in a while showed to say goodbye to the old club. We had to leave before the bitter end due to a family event, but we did go.
WGC has been around in since the early 90s. As these things go, it was very, very long lived for a college games club. I myself will miss the club very much; it's been through a lot. I remember a Space 1889 campaign and a Star Wars campaign whose only certain "member" from session to session was the ship. We've met in Anderson, in Kuenzel, in Pond, and mostly in the Wolverine room. UCon and the WGC parted ways in the later 90s, but originally WGC was the student group that put on UCon. We played Settlers of Catan on a members' home-produced edition cobbled from online descriptions, and we were doing the ports wrong until we got an actual published copy! There were advanced games of Silverton, Road Kill, and lots of Outpost at one time. Magic players have come and gone and come back and gone again. Sometimes we'd even break out an 18XX game, especially if there was a new one. People went off to summer vacation and conventions and came back with new games. I have learned and taught many, many board games at club meetings. We had a few dedicated minis players who would show up, sometimes but not always, and immediately hog two tables at one end of the room. Lately it's been lots of Power Grid, Ticket to Ride in its various versions, To Court the King, and Betrayal at House on the Hill. My older daughter has literally grown up in the club. I am going to miss it even though it has been a shadow of its former self for a while now.
Apparently we get to keep our mailing address/list and our web site by dropping to a second or third class student group. Now the plan is to meet in the MUG next time and look for a suitable venue to meet. Regular attendance had been down in the teens recently, but maybe we can reinvent ourselves. Any suggestions for a meeting place? Traditionally, Sunday was the meeting day because that was the day parking was free near the Michigan Union. Free parking and nearby or onsite food (or perhaps the ability to order in food) are the major requirements I think. Maybe other people or past members will chime in with other ideas.
Thanks to current and past officers including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gizelnort, sorcycat, cpl_hicks, illyaa, Mike C., and probably a few others that I am forgetting.
The Wolverine Gaming Club is dead...long live the Wolverine Gaming Club.
WGC has been around in since the early 90s. As these things go, it was very, very long lived for a college games club. I myself will miss the club very much; it's been through a lot. I remember a Space 1889 campaign and a Star Wars campaign whose only certain "member" from session to session was the ship. We've met in Anderson, in Kuenzel, in Pond, and mostly in the Wolverine room. UCon and the WGC parted ways in the later 90s, but originally WGC was the student group that put on UCon. We played Settlers of Catan on a members' home-produced edition cobbled from online descriptions, and we were doing the ports wrong until we got an actual published copy! There were advanced games of Silverton, Road Kill, and lots of Outpost at one time. Magic players have come and gone and come back and gone again. Sometimes we'd even break out an 18XX game, especially if there was a new one. People went off to summer vacation and conventions and came back with new games. I have learned and taught many, many board games at club meetings. We had a few dedicated minis players who would show up, sometimes but not always, and immediately hog two tables at one end of the room. Lately it's been lots of Power Grid, Ticket to Ride in its various versions, To Court the King, and Betrayal at House on the Hill. My older daughter has literally grown up in the club. I am going to miss it even though it has been a shadow of its former self for a while now.
Apparently we get to keep our mailing address/list and our web site by dropping to a second or third class student group. Now the plan is to meet in the MUG next time and look for a suitable venue to meet. Regular attendance had been down in the teens recently, but maybe we can reinvent ourselves. Any suggestions for a meeting place? Traditionally, Sunday was the meeting day because that was the day parking was free near the Michigan Union. Free parking and nearby or onsite food (or perhaps the ability to order in food) are the major requirements I think. Maybe other people or past members will chime in with other ideas.
Thanks to current and past officers including
gizelnort, sorcycat, cpl_hicks, illyaa, Mike C., and probably a few others that I am forgetting.The Wolverine Gaming Club is dead...long live the Wolverine Gaming Club.
