Tabletop Tuesdays

Tabletop Tuesdays returns to Sticks and Bones on Tuesday 22 December, another session for anyone who likes to spend an evening around a board game. It's a free session, and there's a games master on hand to keep things moving, so you don't need to bring your own group or know the rules inside out to get involved.

The night is built around the classics. You'll find chess and Magic: The Gathering, and Dungeons & Dragons, with the games master there to help run the table if you're new to the hobby or just fancy a game without having to do the heavy lifting yourself. It's as much about the social side as the games, and since it's a pub setting, you can just drop in for a few rounds and head off whenever you're done.

Sticks and Bones is tucked away in the corner of Hope Square and opened last July as a community pub run by Weymouth local Shaun Davies. He saw a gap in town for a place where you could watch a movie, sit down and play board games, or indulge your inner kid with arcade games, and he built the pub around that. The lounge leans into it, with medieval stone walls, Lord of the Rings-themed tables and chairs, a Tolkien-looking map of Weymouth carved into the wood, and a disco ball hanging above. It's a new venture into hospitality for Davies, who also runs Dead Walk Designs, a 3D design company in Weymouth that makes imaginative models for music festivals and venues across the country.

The pub programmes its week around these kinds of things, with a tournament on Thursday nights, a Wednesday pub quiz, Mystery Movie Monday, and live music on Fridays and weekends. Tabletop Tuesdays is part of that mix, and it's free for everyone, so you can just turn up on Tuesday 22 December and get a game going.