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We are pleased to announce that new Guild officers were elected at the January 14th business meeting. Your 2020 Guild officers are:
- Stephanie Hurd, Guildmaster (President)
- Brad Kelley, Castellan (Vice President and Convention Organizer) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Dave Berg, Hoardmaster (Treasurer) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Rob Kraft, Scribe (Secretary) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Beth Perrin, Seneschal (Membership and Ambassador) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Bill Michels, Overlord (Games Coordinator) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Don't forget our monthly online business meeting Tuesday, January 14 at 7pm.
We will hold our annual elections so don't don't miss out!
Check out the current slate of nominations. And don't be afraid to nominate others (or yourself) at the meeting!
Check our Facebook events for additional event information and discussion of details.
Try to show up a little early to work out any tech issues. See you there!
Phone users can dial in at 1-415-200-1362 and use PIN 2070521#.
Business meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month and use the AnyMeeting.com web conference system. If you have an item for the agenda, please send it to our This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. one week in advance.
Check out our Calendar to see when the next meeting will be.
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It is that time of year when we prepare for our officer elections. All positions are open for nomination. If you are a Class I member, basically you've paid for an annual membership for you or your family, then you are eligible to be nominated for any of our positions. If you think you'd like to help with the duties assigned to a position or know another member who might, this is the time to get the name on the election ballet. If you just want to know when we do the election, we vote in January at the Guild's monthly meeting. You can check our Officer's page and contact any of the officer's below to get an idea of what a position entails.
Anyone interested should email the current Guild Secretary/Scribe to formalize their nomination. Alternatively, you can do a nomination online during any of our business meetings prior to the election meeting in January.
Current Officers and Their Positions
- Stephanie Hurd, Guildmaster (President) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Brad Kelley, Castellan (Vice President and Convention Organizer) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Dave Berg, Hoardmaster (Treasurer) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Bill Michels, Seneschal (Membership and Ambassador) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Wade Tripp, Overlord (Games Coordinator) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Rob Kraft, Scribe (Secretary) can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Nominated Candidates from business meeting on December 10, 2019
- Stephanie Hurd, Guildmaster (President)
- Brad Kelley, Castellan (Vice President and Convention Organizer)
- Dave Berg, Hoardmaster (Treasurer)
- Beth Perrin, Seneschal (Membership and Ambassador)
- Bill Michels, Overlord (Games Coordinator)
- Rob Kraft, Scribe (Secretary)
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Our monthly Game Day is Saturday, January 4, 2020 at Tabletop Game and Hobby, located in OPKS (map). Come out and join us as we play some games!
- RPGs and board games available during the day.
- Slots run from 11am-2:30pm, 3pm-6:30pm, 7pm-11pm.
- Open gaming available all day.
- Note: Guild business meetings are now held online the first Saturday of each month. Watch for meeting announcements!
Check out the Facebook Event for more details and to let us know you're coming.
Reserve your seat today!
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Saturday, January 25, 5:30pm-9pm
3708 S Grand Ave, Independence
Happy New Year RPGKC! Time again to gather for food and merriment! Please select "Going" if you plan on being present at the event.
This event is FREE to paid (Class I) RPGKC members in good standing.
This is a family event with food (we are catering chinese food this year to fit the unique theme) and drinks along with some excitement! Let us all come together and have a great time at RPGKC Castellan Brad Kelley's home!
RSVP via Facebook or drop us a line!
Not a member or let your membership lapse? Join now or at the event! https://rpgkc.org/join
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Richard A. Nance Jr, founding member of the Heart of America Historical Miniature Gaming Society, passed away from a heart attack Monday, September 25th 2017 while driving near Dover, Kansas. Rick was 65.
Rick Nance founded the Heart of America Miniature Gaming Society with Oril Eisle and Scott Hansen in 1989. This year, 2019, marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of HAHMS, one of the first HMGS groups. Rick always made a point that HAHMGS was the ‘Miniature’ Gaming Society, not ‘Miniatures’, to reflect the independence and uniqueness of the Kansas City historical miniature gaming community. He started and ran the Borderwars and Call to Arms conventions for HAHMGS. Along with the members of his Pioneer Panzer gaming group, Rick designed and built some great looking and great playing games. Povkorovka, Tarawa, Little Bohemia and Alesia to name just a few. These games were often featured in hobby magazines. You can see his Zanzibar game in Wargames Illustrated #300 (see below).
He and Scott Hansen also founded the Borderland Game & Hobby store in Kansas City. A center of miniature gaming in the KC area for over 20 years.
Not content to play with other’s rules, he designed his own minitaure rules. S.U.T.I.C: Small Unit Tactical Infantry Combat. Based on the research of Michael Korns, SUTIC is a set of one to one skirmish rules. Originally for WWII, Rick adapted it to other periods including the old west and modern warfare.
Rick’s miniature games were always a top draw at Kansas City and other conventions like Historicon, Little Wars, Origins, even the US Army National Infantry Museum in Fort Benning. One of the highlights of his gaming life, was in 2008, when his Modern Iraq War game was chosen to be displayed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. And then later at the Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn.
San Francisco
www.artbusiness.com/1open/071908.html
Brooklyn
vernissage.tv/2010/04/07/brian-conley-miniature-war-in-iraq-and-now-afghanistan-the-boiler-pierogi
As much a boardgame and rol-player as a miniature gamer, Rick always supported RPGKC shows. RPGKC members will surely remember him from the combined shows RPGKC and HAHMGS put on in the 90s.
And Rick was instumental in convincing the Old Guard of HAHMGS to agree to join forces with RPGKC and other KC area groups to start KC-GameFair, and ultimately Midwest GameFest. Even though this neccessitated the end of HAHMGS’s own Fall show, Rick saw that together we would have a bigger and better convention.
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Our monthly Game Day is Saturday, at Mission: Board Games, located in Mission (map). Come out and join us as we play some games!
Ends at 10:00 PM
- RPGs and board games available during the day.
- Slots run from 11am-2:30pm, 3pm-6:30pm, 7pm-11pm.
- Doors open at 10:00am.
- Open gaming available all day.
- Note: Guild business meetings are now held online the first Saturday of each month. Watch for meeting announcements!
Check out the Facebook Event for more details and to let us know you're coming.
Reserve your seat today!
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Join gamer extraordinaire Beth Perrin and "Dice Don't Die" players as they journey through Pathfinder Second Edition's Age of Ashes campaign. Deep-dive into class discussions, game mechanics, and much, much more!
Listen on RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/dice-dont-die
RSS Feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dice-dont-die/id1486419612
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiceDontDie/
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Our monthly Game Day is Saturday, at End Game, located in St. Joseph (map). Come out and join us as we play some games!
- RPGs and board games available during the day.
- Slots run from 11am-2:30pm, 3pm-6:30pm, 7pm-11pm.
- Doors open at 10:00am.
- Open gaming available all day.
- Note: Guild business meetings are now held online the first Saturday of each month. Watch for meeting announcements!
Check out the Facebook Event for more details and to let us know you're coming.
Reserve your seat today!
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Our monthly Game Day is Saturday, September 9, 2009 at Level One Game Shop, located in Kansas City (map). Come out and join us as we play some games!
- RPGs and board games available during the day.
- Slots run from 11am-2:30pm, 3pm-6:30pm, 7pm-11pm.
- Open gaming available all day.
- Note: Guild business meetings are now held online the first Saturday of each month. Watch for meeting announcements!
Check out the Facebook Event for more details and to let us know you're coming.
Reserve your seat today!
