The California contingent will be making a return to the LAX Hilton StrategiCon over there Presidents Day holiday weekend! Among other events, I will be running MECCG sessions for both Saturday and Sunday afternoons, hope to see you there!

Pacific Game Expo, 31 Aug-2 Sept I lived for 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, but this was my first time attending the Pacific Game Expo at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara. I felt very nostalgic driving around the area once again, since I hadn’t visited much since before COVID, but the are...

Greetings Goblin King, Great to see you down here in LA for StrategiCon over the Memorial Day weekend, and thanks much for setting this up for Labor Day weekend! I’ll attend both Saturday and Sunday—I won’t be playing in the general tourney as I have early dinner plans on Saturday, but am happy to p...

Greetings All, Inspired by recent efforts from the esteemed Goblin King and the returned (from beyond all hope :)) Red Arrow, and after a long 4-year microbe-fueled absence, the California MECCG contingent will resume its presence at the OrcCon 2024 at the LAX Hilton, 16-18 Feb 2024: https://www.str...

Gandalf Gene and I have actually played with this card in casual ring decks, best to have some of those DI nerfers and Call of Home to help--it doesn't happen very often, but getting a unique Ring on the cheap has nice shock value.

Greetings all, been a while since I posted—am definitely going to be attending the gathering in Sacramento in November! I’ve not been to the There and Back Again cafe in downtown, but the pictures of the interior are awesome and the gaming venue looks great! I was at the Worlds gathering in the Oakl...

Greetings All,

I regularly refer to the following link for errata, but I’ve not been able to access it for over a week, has it migrated or is it down?

http://www.meccg.net/netherlands/meccg/ ... -card.html

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Greetings All, After discussing with Gandalf Gene, we've decided not to host any MECCG events at StrategiCon at the LAX/Hilton in late May 2020. Due to the ongoing coronavirus situation here in California, it is very likely this StrategiCon will be canceled or postponed at the very least, and am hop...

Greetings All, Vastor, am almost done building the Thorin Dwarf-Lord deck in cardnum, though I still have to learn how to actually play online. Now if I can just stop staring at and salivating over the card images from the upcoming expansions, lol...if I don't get a chance to catch you in cardnum be...

Greetings All, Nicolai, thanks much for your feedback and clarification! Map to Mithril is indeed a worthy goal at Durin's Tower, and fetching Legendary Stair there is also very nice! I'm due to visit Gandalf Gene in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, so I'll PM you the Thorin Dwarf-Lord deck in ...

Greetings Chris/All, It took me a week, but I finally finished tweaking (and prepping for the next StrategiCon in late May, assuming travel isn’t impacted) my DC decks per lessons learned from last weekend’s fun-filled play testing. I usually do this on the Monday after StrategiCon, but for the firs...

Greetings Chris, Thanks for the pictures, as well as for the further clarification of the DC rules! So sad that the Arkenstone is now a hoard item (under "Major DCE"), but it is a righteous change that is a long time coming! It's probably for the best to keep it out of Thorin's sights anyw...

...many thanks, Chris! The two pictures you took of Thorin's mini-saga would be highly entertaining!

Dain Dwarf-Lord vs Dan’s Dwarf-Pack Starting Characters : Thorin III Stonehelm; Balin (DC); Nain, Son of Gror Starting Stage Cards : Trusted Companion (on Thorin III), Son of Nain, Dwarves Heirlooms Starting Minor Items : Dragon Marked in Red, Jewel of Beleriand (on Nain), Arrows Shorn of Ebony (on...

...thanks for the update, Chris! Would like to post some of the pictures from the Con last weekend, but need a little help, please...