In Finchley and beyond...

Do you own any games which you are looking to sell? Come to Ruby-Con on Saturday 6th September for a great opportunity to find buyers. As part of Ruby-Con, we'll be hosting a Bring and Buy. Anyone who donates at least £5 to our Great Ormond Street Charity appeal will be allowed to add up to five items to our Bring and Buy stand.  Purchases will be made between the seller and buyer. If you are selling an item this way you will need to add your contact details which customers can use to get in touch with you to...

To help commemorate our ruby anniversary, we're trying to collect as many memories as we can from people who have been our customers over the last 40 years. Whether you started shopping at Leisure Games in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s or 2020s, we want to hear from you? Tell us about your first visit, or a regular game night you attended. Or maybe you were part of one of the more unusual events we've hosted over the years? You can let us know your memories by filling in this short form: https://forms.gle/FxTw4d1aV5LW3MgH8 We'd also welcome any old photographs you...

Slate & Chalcedony, the latest book for Troika! RPG by Melsonian Arts Council is being launched on an unsuspecting public on Thursday 28th September. Join us at 100 Ballards Lane, Finchley (nearest tube: Finchley Central), to meet the people responsible and celebrate this terrible transgression with them. You can pre-order your copy of Slate & Chalcedony and get it signed on the day!

At the start of each year we have a look back on our best selling games to see what trends are emerging, what's on the rise and what's fading in popularity. In this blog post we'll look at our best selling roleplaying games of the year.

Above and Below is a unique mixture of a storytelling and town-building game for 2-4 players. Each person plays a small group of villagers who are attempting to build a settlement, while exploring the labyrinthine caverns which they discover beneath them. Mechanically, the game is incredibly simple. You start the game with three villagers and you take turns giving them one of a number of tasks: recruit more villagers, build new buildings, "harvest" commodities from an existing building, earn gold and explore the caverns. The main resource is gold, and each new building or villager will cost you. As you...