D20 Games

Specialties

D20 Games Alameda specializes in being an very friendly place to get and play face-​to-​face (nothing that goes beep) games. We feature MTG (Magic the Gathering), Pokemon, D&D and carefully selected tabletop games (From Catan to X-​wing). We sell product and singles for Magic and Pokemon, and host regular and special events and tournaments. D20 is a dad-​run joint that provides a safe and welcoming place for kids, parents and adults (experienced and new players alike).

Regular Events:

Weds: Magic Commander and D&D Encounters,

Friday: Friday Night Magic (6:45) Magic (MTG) Draft

Sat: Pokemon @ 11 – 1, and at 4pm either Date Night Magic Draft (1^st Sat. of the month), for responsible 9 – 14 year-​olds, or Magic Two-​headed Giants, the rest of the month.

Sunday: Magic Standard @ 11 –Magic Drafts @ 3 –check website for updates.

History

Established in 2011.

D20 reopened under new management in August of 2011 with a focus on «games that don’t go beep» (table top and collectible card games… games that encourage people to get face to face, not face to screen.) In spring of 2015, we moved about 10 blocks our old location near the Park street business district to a much bigger location in Alameda’s Gold Coast district to give our growing community of players some more elbow room.

Meet the Business Owner

Ben C.

Business Owner

D20 is a dad run joint, and Ben is the main store dad in question. He has teenage twin boys and a tween daughter. In past lives, he was an old-​school geek type, having spent 23 years in tech, working companies as big as Apple, Adobe & Microsoft, to kitchen table start-​ups. Included in this was being responsible for Apple’s Game technology in the 90’s and having worked at NeXT long enough to get into a really good fight with Steve Jobs.

In addition, he was a writer and journalist, having written for over twenty different national magazines, including being the first Toys Editor for Wired and founding Editor of New Media magazine, the first national publication focused on interactive technologies.

His perpetual Hawaiian shirt does a good job of distracting from the gray hairs that adorn someone with enough years for their first D&D figures to be made of lead, and to have had his first Magic league be at lunchtime when he was working at Apple.