Making Thursday evenings better since 1983
“The overhead light is flickering, casting odd, pulsing shadows. Three others are out completely, probably due to the ragged holes smashed into them.
Behind you, the box corridor is complete darkness. Before you, a steel smooth sliding door.
A door that has the shredded remnants of red tape draped around and across it.
Tape on which you can just make out the word ‘QUARANTINE’, over and over, in bold black text.
That door is slowly, awkwardly, shifting open.
As you grip the rusty pitted tire-iron you hold, you realise three things.
It is pin drop silent.
Your bandaged hand hurts from the pressure on the metal.
It isn’t going to be enough ….”
When I say, ‘LIKE YOU’, in the title, it’s exactly that!
Forget the skilled, heroic extensions of your personality that you have been before.
This time it IS YOU!
Mark the date in your diary.
ALL you need, is your name and list of what you can do. The skills you have acquired and if you run marathons for fun.
You may be surprised just how effective you can be.....
Posted Tuesday 17th February 2026 19:19:19 by Ian PearsonAs 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🎲 Dungeons and Dragons 5e (2014)
🎲 Great Western Trail
🎲 Endeavor: Deep Sea
🎲 Dominant Species: Marine
🎲 Goa
🎲 The Gang
Posted Tuesday 17th February 2026 19:15:15 by Ian Pearson🎲 Dungeons and Dragons 5e (2014)
🎲 Ada's Dream
🎲 Emberleaf
🎲 The Gang
🎲 Puerto Rico
Posted Tuesday 17th February 2026 19:14:29 by Ian Pearson