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Polygamer #90: Athena Z Peters of Adventure Pub

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Ken Gagne
Athena Z Peters

Athena Z Peters is the founder and co-owner of Adventure Pub, a gaming gastropub located in the suburbs of Boston in Arlington, Massachusetts. Friends, families, and strangers can order from a full food and drink menu, borrow from a library of 400 board games, card games, and role-playing games, and even reserve event space for their Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Whether you’re looking to try a game before you buy, discover something new, revisit a favorite classic, or enjoy a good meal, Adventure Pub will accommodate all these tastes.

Prior to Adventure Pub opening its doors in December 2018, Peters worked in the video games industry, most recently as an executive producer at Turbine, where she managed such projects as Lord of the Rings Online and Batman: Underworld. In this interview, I ask Peters what prompted the career change from digital games to physical; what’s behind the emerging trend of gaming cafés; whether the popularity of Game of Thrones and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has driven players to board games; what rare or unusual games visitors might find in the pub’s library; whether she might open an indie game studio next; and how she juggles all this with her performance group, Incantrix Productions.

Stream the audio edition of this interview below or from Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Overcast, Pandora, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, RadioPublic, or the Internet Archive. Click past the jump for links to resources mentioned in this episode.

Links mentioned in this episode:

  • Adventure Pub (190 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, Mass. 02474)
  • Incantrix Productions
  • BoardGameGeek’s Top 100 games
  • Frog Juice
  • LGBT Asylum of Worcester, Mass.
  • WCVB 5 Chronicle profiles Adventure Pub (with background cameo by Ken Gagne!)
  • Other episodes of Polygamer about board games and live events:
    • Sarah Como of Zephyr Workshop
    • Mike Robles of Betrayal at House on the Hill expansion Widow’s Walk
    • Lorien Green of board game documentary Going Cardboard
    • Kellian Adams Pletcher of Club Drosselmeyer
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Posted in Podcast | Tags: Adventure Pub, Arlington, Athena Peters, Athena Z Peters, board games, gaming cafe, gastropub, Incantrix Productions, Massachusetts, Turbine, WB Games Boston |
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