NECC Tabletop Game club has been meeting once a week at 4:30 p.m. at the Knights Nook in the SC Building of the Haverhill Campus for years to allow students to gather around and have fun working together or participating in friendly competition over some fun games of their choice.
Meetings usually include members cycling through and playing multiple games while chatting, laughing and having fun. Multiple games can be played at once with members splitting up to play what they want.
Members say that people are also encouraged to bring their own games if the selection provided does not have what they want.
There is a wide selection available at the school with multiple bins of games displayed on the tables.
According to members anyone can join just by showing up to the meetings there isn’t anything specific people have to do but if they do have any questions they can feel free to email the current advisor of the club Jessica Angelini.
The club was without an advisor for about four months until one was finally found and they say they are always looking for new members.
The club meetings begin at 4:30 p.m. and end at 6 p.m. but members say students are welcome to arrive early and stay late if they want.
“The more the merrier, anyone is invited and if you are not happy with the selection you are welcome to bring your own game” says Charlie Morfill a current member of the club. “Weird(ness) is accepted and encouraged,” says John Lahey, a guest attending the meeting.
Current members of the club attending the last meeting included Morfill who has been attending meetings for two years, Duncan Brenner who has been attending meetings since the end of his first semester or the start of second semester, and Lahey a guest who has been attending meetings for two years.
This past meeting members played a round of the game Rapid Response in which the goal is to complete five missions which are all on different cards before they run out of tokens which are taken away one by one after a two minute timer goes off.
Then members played Doctor Who trivial Pursuit for the remainder of the meeting where members competed to test their knowledge of the TV show by rolling a dice with different color Daleks on each side and answering the question corresponding with the color rolled.
