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Who are we?

Gamesoc is the place to be at UoB for Boardgames, Roleplaying games, Social deduction games, Trading card games, Wargames, Megagames (and sometimes LARPing!). If it’s not electronic, we play it. We own huge quantities of boardgames, trading cards, roleplaying sourcebooks and wargame terrains, all available for you to try out, borrow, and enjoy!

Upcoming meetups and events

We get together every Saturday, 12pm - 6pm, spread across four CALD rooms (4.70, 4.72, 4.74, & 4.76) on the 4th floor of the Richmond Building, and will also be holding special themed events and socials most weeks. Please note that this calendar is provisional; for the latest updates see our Discord and Instagram.

• Sunday 1st of February (10am - 4pm): Back of the Cupboard Games
  When you're at the regular meet you might get into the habit of playing the same games -- ones that you are very familiar with or ones that you and your friends all know. In this session we will be bringing games that aren't played a lot during regular meets. You are also welcome to bring any new games that you have wanted to bring to gamesoc but have never had the opportunity to play. Hopefully in this session you will be able to learn new games, and also have people learn the games you love so you can play them more at our regluar meets. Join us in room 1.69 in the Queens Building this Sunday with your unique games!

• Monday 2nd of February (6pm - 11pm): Chance & Counters Meet
  GameSoc will be running a meet up o in Chance and Counters, a boardgame café on Gloucester Road. This event will run 6pm-11pm, and there will be a deal on offer to get games, burger and fries and a soft/hot drink for £15, or just games for £5. Please come along and see us there!

• Wednesday 11th of February (12pm - 9pm): Den of Wolves Megagame!
  A megagame is a big strategy game (like Risk) but rather than playing by yourself, you will be working in a team. This is a megagame set in the 27th Century. Despite political differences and internal problems, most of humanity is at peace. The various factions, spread across multiple star systems, are governed by the Interstellar Council. This all changed eighteen days ago when the military of Wolf-1061, an insular and secretive planet-state, launched a massive, catastrophic attack against the other inhabited planets. Through a mixture of cyber-attacks, espionage and sabotage, they managed to disable the vast majority of the Interstellar Council's military, and went on to devastate their targets on the various planets. You must maintain governmental and social order, while providing critical supplies to survivours and mounting an effective defense against the pursuing Wolf forces. We hope to see you in the Hawthorns Basement. Tickets to the event are £4 -- which you can find on the Events page of our website. This covers the cost of the game itself and the pizzas which we will be catering because of how long the event runs for. Don't worry we won't be starting at exactly 12pm, so if you have a class that runs until 12 you won't miss anything. If you have any classes that run until 1pm that you can't miss but you really want to come to the Megagame, let us know and we will find a way to accomodate this. 

  Saturday 28th of February & Sunday 1st of March: South West Amalgamation of Games (SWAG)
  Boardgames Societies from all over the South West & Wales (Cardiff, Swansea, Bristol, Bath, Exeter...) will be joining together for the second annual gathering of games! These will include Boardgames, Megagames, Wargaming, TTRPG oneshots, a Magic: The Gathering tournament and much much more. Whilst it was held in Cardiff last year, this year it will be held in Bath. More details (including where to get tickets) are still to come!

 

Our community

For all our news and updates, as well as a fantastic community of fellow gamers to chat with, we'd love for you to join our Discord server (you don't need to be a member). This is our primary venue for general discussion, finding Tabletop RPG groups (like Dungeons & Dragons), suggesting improvements to our society, and more. To keep up to date with the more socials side of the society, follow the Instagram @uob_gamesoc, and you can reach us with any other queries through either Discord, Instagram or by emailing bristol.gamesoc@gmail.com. For more up to date news, and links to other things, follow this linktree link.

One of us! One of us!

Membership is just £3 for the whole year – this money goes directly into expanding our inventory, organizing events and overall improving your experience as a member of the society. As a paid member, you get the following benefits:

• Access to all our weekly meets, and you can bring a couple of non-member guests along too
• Access to Westmarches, our weekly D&D campaign that you can drop in and out of whenever
• The right to borrow any games or materials from our inventory
• Opportunities to influence what we do as a society, eg. suggesting games to buy
• Your can change your Discord name to be a non-white colour (very important)

 

We hope you decide to visit and become part of the society, the more members the merrier! So come along, have fun, make friends, and let’s play some games together!

 

The 2025-26 Gamesoc Committee:

President - Charlie Timbrell

Secretary - Bryn Peters

Treasurer - Christian Tsui

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing Officer - Jenny Flatt

Events Officer - Theodora Jervis

Quartermaster - Peter Kippax

Social Media Officer - Rowan Wanstall

 

Liaisons:

Megagaming - Art Nicholson-Lailey & Cale Baguley

Social Deduction - Theodora Jervis

Table-Top Role Playing Games (TTRPG) - Rylan King

Trading Card Games (TCG) - Galatea Langham

Wargaming - George Scott