Bard & Baker Board Game Cafe

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Bard & Baker is the Capital District's cozy board game café located in downtown Troy, featuring over 1,000 titles in a relaxed setting encouraging our guests & community to unplug & play through the world of games.

🐦🎨B I R D H O U S E P A I N T I N G🎨🐦Join us on Sunday July 19th 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM for another fun and relaxed worksh...
06/13/2026

🐦🎨B I R D H O U S E P A I N T I N G🎨🐦
Join us on Sunday July 19th 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM for another fun and relaxed workshop with .cpaints ! Bring your creativity and paint your very own birdhouse while hanging out with fellow art (& bird!) lovers.
No experience needed—just come ready to have a good time and make something special.
Get your tickets in advance from ! DM us for the direct link or peep our stories for it! 👀🐣✨

🍋 L E M O N A D E 🍋Flight Night Fridays continue in 2026! Join us every Friday night 5pm-9pm as we do a different themed...
06/11/2026

🍋 L E M O N A D E 🍋
Flight Night Fridays continue in 2026!
Join us every Friday night 5pm-9pm as we do a different themed cocktail flight each week. This Friday we're featuring frozen boozy lemonade cocktail flights!
Reservations aren't required but are recommended as Friday nights can get busy. 518-948-6693 to reserve a table.
$20 gets you a flight of 4 specialty themed cocktails and a snack bowl to share (or not to share -- we won't tell!). Mocktails flights typically also available at discounted rate. Hope you'll join us!!

🎙✨ F R O N T P A R L O R ✨🎙Thanks so much to everyone who came out and shared their stories last night at the very firs...
06/11/2026

🎙✨ F R O N T P A R L O R ✨🎙
Thanks so much to everyone who came out and shared their stories last night at the very first held at Bard & Baker! They'll continue hosting on the second Wednesday of the month throughout the rest of the year at 7:30 PM -- so we hope to see you (and hear your stories!) at future ones as well!
The Front Parlor Series is live storytelling in the Capital Region. Every month we gather around an open mic to hear our fellow humans tell us their truths — unfiltered, without notes.
If you’re familiar with The Moth, it’s kind of like that. At Front Parlor, tellers volunteer their names in a can, and the MC selects the order at random. (Bribes encouraged.) Tellers share 5-minute, true stories based on a common theme. Front Parlor also features “flash nonfiction” — one- or two-sentence, audience-submitted stories responding to a prompt based on the evening’s theme. Flash nonfiction is a relatively painless (and anonymous) way to share your stories.
They will be meeting every second Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm in The Cottage at Bard & Baker. It’s fun. Come share. (But you don’t have to.) And listen. 💕

🪴P L A N T & S I P🪴Escape into creativity on Friday June 26th 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM! Transform your favorite mug, jar, or ...
06/11/2026

🪴P L A N T & S I P🪴
Escape into creativity on Friday June 26th 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM! Transform your favorite mug, jar, or thrifted container into a one-of-a-kind planter. Choose 4 or 6 tropical plants (2 inch size) and learn hands-on repotting techniques. provides the decor, tools, and guidance on caring for plants in unconventional containers with or without drainage. You bring any water-holding container—the more creative, the better! All supplies included such as soil, plants, decor. The Planter will not be supplies the vessels -- that's what you bring to plant your new little plant cuties in!
Whether you're a plant enthusiast or trying something new, this hands-on workshop is the perfect way to spend your Friday evening. No experience needed—just bring your creativity! Tix available on The Planter's w3bsite! DM us for the direct link or peep our stories for it! 👀🌿✨

🏕🪓 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🪓🏕Welcome to Camp Hope Falls*Read like an 80’s ad pitch*It’s the perfect place for family frien...
06/10/2026

🏕🪓 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🪓🏕
Welcome to Camp Hope Falls
*Read like an 80’s ad pitch*
It’s the perfect place for family friendly fun, exciting challenges, and life-threatening horrors?
Take a seat by the warm fires of camp…or is that heck? Where the marshmallows might roast you!?
Table Open at 6:00pm, Game Starting at 6:30pm on Thursday July 16th! Tickets available on our website in our online store and space is limited so be sure to sign up ASAP to guarantee your spot!
In this game you play a teen archetype competing in the Campy Games, a Camp vs. Camp tournament. Game play style is if Scooby Doo had consequences.
The goal is to have fun, be as campy, edgy, and teen-like as you want, and try to survive. While there is a chance of character death, the real prize is the friends we make along the way.
Camp Hope Falls uses a D10 homebrew High School Horror game system, made by Cody Kanak.
Players are free to bring along ten sided dice, otherwise everything will be provided by Game Master Lynn Andrews! This game is offered for players ages 16+.

✨ G A L A C T I C G A L A ✨We are excited to welcome back for The Return of the Starship Idyllic on Saturday September...
06/10/2026

✨ G A L A C T I C G A L A ✨
We are excited to welcome back for The Return of the Starship Idyllic on Saturday September 5th, 2026 at Bard & Baker's Galactic Gala II!
Inspired by a Galaxy Far, Far Away...join us for an immersive evening among the stars. There will be themed passed food, cash bar for themed cocktails & mocktails plus Sabacc lessons & tournament. There will be an optional roleplay element for those interested in participating & cosplays/personas are both welcomed & encouraged! There will be mingling, music, a charity raffle, & fun interactive elements created by !
More information can be found online on our w3bsite regarding the event, plus how to purchase tickets! We hope to see you there!

🎨 M I N I P A I N T I N G 🎨Love painting miniatures but have no one to paint with or hang out with? Bring your minis an...
06/09/2026

🎨 M I N I P A I N T I N G 🎨
Love painting miniatures but have no one to paint with or hang out with? Bring your minis and we'll supply the paint, brushes and lighting to deck them out and get those minis looking awesome! Join us on Sunday June 28th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM for our next Miniature Painting Meetup at Bard & Baker!
This is all ages and all skill levels friendly! You're welcome to bring the kiddos learning how to paint. Warhammer, Warmachine, Dungeons & Dragons, board game minis and more! All are welcome.
$5 entry or free entry with any menu purchase
Whether you've been painting for 10+ years or this is your first mini and you're nervous about how to start -- you're all welcome to join in! Hope to see you there!

🎲🐱 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🐱🎲You are Cute. You are Cunning. You are Fierce. You are Magical Kitties, and it’s time to Save...
06/09/2026

🎲🐱 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🐱🎲
You are Cute. You are Cunning. You are Fierce.
You are Magical Kitties, and it’s time to Save the Day!
Every Magical Kitty has a human. Every human has a Problem.
In Magical Kitties & the Big Adventure, your little girl has lost her doll and you'll need to do everything you can to find it ... including journeying into a haunted house!
Magical Kitties Save The Day is an all-ages roleplaying game of cute, fierce, cunning kitties. Use your magical powers to solve problems and save humans from terrible troubles!
The game session on Saturday July 11th at 11:00 AM is meant for ages 9-14 years while the game session on Saturday July 25th at 11:00 AM is meant for players ages 16+. Players can bring along their own dice, but all other materials will be supplied by GM Lynn.
Come early to settle in and grab some food. Table will be open for players at 10:30am. Feel free to enjoy food and drink during your session. Length of game session will vary. A table for parents and caregivers of players to relax during the game will be reserved nearby.

🎲 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🎲Your God is dead… How long can you can the charade up? Our god is dead is a comedy role-playin...
06/08/2026

🎲 R O L E P L A Y I N G 🎲
Your God is dead… How long can you can the charade up?
Our god is dead is a comedy role-playing game about clerics hiding the fact that their god has died just before a celebration in their god's honor.
Players will take on the role of devotees to their god and start scheming up increasingly impractical miracles in order to fool everyone else into thinking their god is still alive. How long can you keep the charade up?
Join Game Master Lynn for this funny and creative role playing game on Tuesday June 9th and Thursday July 2nd at 6:30 PM! There isn't any prep or character creation, so you can jump straight into playing, all you need are six-sided dice. Feel free to bring some along or dice will be provided! Tix available on out website on our online store and space is limited so be sure to RSVP ASAP!

Address

501 Broadway, Suite 105
Troy, NY
12180

Opening Hours

Tuesday 2pm - 10pm
Wednesday 2pm - 10pm
Thursday 2pm - 10pm
Friday 11am - 11pm
Saturday 10am - 11pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

Telephone

+15189486693

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