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The Golden Age of Board Gaming – A Niche Hobby Becomes Mainstream

Since its development in the 1970s, pen and paper tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons have inspired people to create their own stories. Pens, paper, dice, and a little creative energy are all that is needed to play through hours of adventures. However, for many years, the hobby was since as niche, the territory of nerds and social outcasts. In the 1980s in particular, Dungeons and Dragons amassed a great deal of negative press that spawned from “Satanic Panic” – the notion that the game was promoting Satanism and witchcraft. For decades, being a tabletop gamer was almost seen as a source of shame, something to hide or risk being ridiculed over. Although the stigma did reduce over the years, the hobby itself maintained a limited audience. However, in recent years, the hobby has seen a massive amount of growth, entering the mainstream.
Perhaps as a result of nostalgia, or a desire for a more social gaming experience, tabletop gaming has seen a major increase of popularity. The hobby has even spawned an array of board game cafes, such as Kansas City’s own Pawn and Pint, which boasts a collection of a thousand games to entertain its customers. From more structured experiences that can be played over a night, like Settlers of Catan, to more free-flowing improvised journeys, like Dungeons and Dragons or Vampire: the Masquerade, tabletop games offer a little something for everyone. The games span a variety of genres and formats, appealing to a wide audience. Perhaps most importantly, tabletop games give players an excuse to get out and play with their friends, rather than being isolated to a screen at home. This has clearly spoken to many people, as sales for tabletop games has risen dramatically. Whether this growth will continue or not remains to be seen, but for now, this analog hobby seems to be doing perfectly well, even in the digital age.


Pawn and Pint boasts a collection of 1000 board games.


Miniatures are often a staple of tabletop games, many of which are handpainted by players.



 Tabletop Game and Hobby both sells tabletop games and offers players an area to play.


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