Dice Age Games

Dice Age Games is a veteran-owned game and hobby store in Vancouver, Washington, open since 2011. It carries Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon alongside a much wider tabletop catalog, and its calendar is crowded with miniatures, role-playing and board game groups. It suits card players who also dabble in the rest of the hobby, and anyone who wants a shop where a Tuesday Commander night shares the floor with a Warhammer table.

What's on the shelves

The store specializes in miniatures, collectible card games, board games, and dice and dice accessories. Card players will find Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon, plus card sleeves, deck boxes and playmats. Around them sits the rest of a full hobby shop: Games Workshop lines including Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Kill Team and Necromunda, role-playing games from Dungeons & Dragons to horror and sci-fi systems, board games, scatter terrain, paints, brushes and hobby tools, plus books and magazines.

Orders can be placed online and picked up in store, with a notification when an order is ready. A loyalty rewards program earns points on qualifying in-store purchases, calculated on the dollars spent before tax.

Weekly play

The Pokémon group meets on Sunday afternoons, from noon to 4 PM.

Beyond cards

The event calendar leans heavily on miniatures and role-playing. Warhammer 40,000 has open play on Thursdays, with all players welcome. BattleTech and Alpha Strike run on Monday evenings, with suggested battle values of 6,000 to 8,000 for BattleTech and 30,000 to 60,000 for Alpha Strike. Warmachine plays on Wednesday evenings.

Dungeons & Dragons tables run several evenings a week and on weekends, alongside a Fallout role-playing night, Pathfinder and Starfinder Society groups, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. Some of these tables are run by outside groups, and space can be limited, so seats are worth confirming with the group first.

On Saturday mornings, a model-building group meets from 10 AM to noon. It is open to everyone and covers autos, military, aircraft, sci-fi, armor and ships, in plastic, wood and metal. The store also hosts paint classes, such as a wet blending class on a Sunday afternoon that costs $20 for 12 slots and includes a miniature, paints and brushes.

Community and atmosphere

The store aims to be a space free from discrimination, criticism and harassment, and it runs regular events and tournaments where players can compete for prizes. The shop is staffed by people who play the games they sell.

Hours and getting there

The store is in Vancouver at 5107 E 4th Plain Blvd #105.

The local scene

Several other card and hobby stores sit within a couple of miles in Vancouver: Conway Games and Super Sports Cards, each about 0.8 miles away, CCGHouse Games at 1.2 miles, Reckless Hobbies and Collectibles at 1.6 miles, and HobbyTown at 1.8 miles.