WELCOME to the Brewtown BoardGamers Guild:

guild /gild/ n.

• Any group, club, or society of people with similar interests.
  • An association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards.
  • A similar association, as of merchants or artisans, in medieval times.
• In Ecology, a group of diverse species, especially animal species, that occupy a common niche in a given community, characterized by exploitation of environmental resources in the same way.
  • Middle English 'gild, from Old Norse gildi, payment, guild.

First off, there will be no expenditure of Norse currency required to participate.

Let this be your niche within the Board Game Geek community for the diverse species (plural) of boardgamers who reside in and around the Milwaukee Metro Area.

• Women: please join. Don't let this become a boys club. Your perspective is needed.

• Those displaced Milwaukeeans who no longer sip the suds in this city are also invited to join.

• AND ANY Wisconsinites who would like to make use of this forum for any reason!!

May this be a rich resource environment of exploitable information that will further or foster common interests, opportunities, and even "trade" pursuits...

We don't have many rules here beyond the BGG site rules, and generally I prefer to think of them as policies, rather than rules. We're all adults here and should be able to act as adults and treat each other with respect and civility.

That said, here are the policies we should try to adhere to:

• Please be civil and respectful in your dealings with other Guild members. If you feel a need to challenge or call out someone, please do so privately.

• We are blessed with several really good game stores in the area.
  • Game store owners or their staff are welcome to post about free gaming events. Please note that if I am informed by BGG site admins that this is frowned upon, we might have to step back a little from that.
    • Guild members who are not game store owners or staff are welcome to post notices of free gaming events.
    • These posts should be listed under "News". They can be added to the Guild calendar as long as it isn't more than a month in advance. Do not spam the entire Guild with them by using the calendar as a messaging service.
    • Informal gaming events which are unrelated to game stores can be posted as either "News" or "General".
    • Do not post a new thread about an event after one has been posted. If you need to add an update or comment, please do so in the existing thread.
  • The Guild calendar messaging capability should be reserved for notification of conventions or math trades. If you use this, please do so only once per event.
  • Game store owners and their staff must not post about sales, promotions, coupons, new releases, etc. as this is a direct violation of BGG rules about advertising. (More than anything, I don't want to see anyone banned for this sort of thing, as has - I'm told - happened in the past).
  • Please do not promote new releases, restocks or sales, even if you are not affiliated with a game store. These happen all the time and will just be noise in the forums.

Special thanks to the originator of the Guild and author of the above for setting up this forum.

Vetrhus of Rogaland

(diehard4life)

United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin

West over water I fared bearing poetry's waves to the shore of the war-god's heart; my course was set. I launched my oaken craft at the breaking of ice, loaded my cargo of praise aboard my longboat aft.

We are one of the largest and most active regional Guilds, which is something to be proud of, and it's thanks to Christian that we even exist as a group.