Pastor Doug Gray of the Millersburg, Ohio, Grace Brethren church previously worked for a board game company. The Wooster Record recently ran this feature on a group that he has founded. This is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here.
By KELLEY MOHR
Staff Writer
MILLERSBURG — Dream of building a galactic civilization in the far reaches of outer space? Want to become a renaissance merchant in the streets of Genoa? All this, and more, can be done at the local library where the Knights of Gaming meet.
The Knights of Gaming gathers once a month to play German-style board games at the Holmes County District Public Library. Their games of choice are more than the brightly colored boxes commonly found on the shelves of the nearest superstore. These are Eurogames: Sophisticated adventures of the mind, tests of wit that tweak the imagination with every roll of the dice or flip of the card. The club boasts nearly 500 privately owned titles to choose from each month as members try new games or replay old favorites.
The group was founded in 2009 when board game lovers in the community gathered at the home of Doug Gray, the pastor of Millersburg Grace Brethren and Knights of Gaming Board Game Society founder, for a little friendly competition. When the group “took this thing live” in 2010, the community responded.
“We’ve got folks from Big Prairie, Millersburg, Dalton, Killbuck, Fredericksburg, Coshocton, Wooster, Loudonville, Perrysville, Mount Vernon. It’s kind of a unique niche group of people and when we organized it, they just came out of the woodwork and said, ‘Yes! Finally someone organized this,'” Gray said.