Making Thursday evenings better since 1983
As some of you know, the FGC turns 40 next year.
Surviving flood, pestilence and much more.
Four decades of fun, frivolity, unique characters, dice rolling, and dobber pushing have gone by.
Four hundred and eighty months (give or take a few) of providing a sane, friendly, welcoming game-playing space, a refuge from the increasing stress of modern living.
Where did the time go?
It’s not something we can let happen without a celebration of some kind, so we are planning a Sunday Event at the old Finchleians at some point around September 2026 (negotiations are underway as to the exact date).
I know that seems distant, but believe me, it will arrive fast.
So, creative, thoughtful and intelligent FGC members, what should we do on that day?
Ideas please.
LOTS of ideas!
For instance.
Who do we tell it’s happening and how? The local press, definitely. ALL the games (and related) shops in London? Do we track down old members? Shall we do events or just make it a free form gaming day, like we have now, but with better advertising and a big banner? Perhaps a hybrid approach.
Do we do promotional mugs and t-shirts and other game related items?
Do we (and this is controversial) abandon the whole thing and let 40 magnificent years pass without remark?
You know how to comment. Do so.
Posted Monday 21st July 2025 10:37:57 by Ian PearsonFor far too long this website has languished in the doldrums of un-maintenance.
To the point that some, viewing the page, assumed the FGC was no more.
Well fear not.
The FGC is still strongly alive and what is more is that finally a new website in on the horizon.
WATCH THIS SPACE
(NB: For those using Facebook, the Finchley Games Club has an active page.)
Posted Friday 13th June 2025 19:29:38 by Ian Pearson🎲 Exalted vs World of Darkness
🎲 Dungeons and Dragons
🎲 The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
🎲 Skullduggery
🎲 Endeavor: Deep sea
🎲 Star Trek: Captain's Chair
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2025 18:08:45 by Ian PearsonOn 17 July in 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, and (does anyone read these?) happier news, in 1328 Prince David, heir to the Scottish throne marries Joan, Princess of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Games played
🎲 Exalted vs World of Darkness
🎲 Dungeons and Dragons 5e (2024)
🎲 Ra
🎲 High Society
🎲 Carcassonne
🎲 Keyflower
🎲 DroPolter
Posted Monday 21st July 2025 09:23:59 by Ian PearsonOn this day in 1985 the hit film Back to the Future was released and in in 1962 Tom Cruise (full name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ) was born in Syracuse, new York.
Games played
🎲 Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014)
🎲 Lords of Waterdeep
🎲 Bus
🎲 The Gang
🎲 Zoo Vadis
🎲Between Two Cities
🎲 Moving Wild
Posted Monday 7th July 2025 10:38:57 by Ian Pearson