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Post by rc on Apr 3, 2012 15:37:08 GMT -5
My family and I are big gamers. It's our social activity of preference. We're big on Settlers of Catan right now, but we'll play anything we can get our hands on. Anyone else out there big of this style of gaming?
Also, Wil Wheaton just started a new webshow called Table Top where he introduces a table top game and plays with a host of internet and TV celebrities. Makes for a fun half-hour.
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Post by mandate of heaven on Apr 3, 2012 18:21:10 GMT -5
I play so much Settlers with my roommates. I love the shit out of that game. We recently started playing Risk, which is pretty cool too.
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Post by Mr. Keichi on Apr 3, 2012 19:09:28 GMT -5
My family plays board games always.
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Post by Terp Torp on Apr 3, 2012 19:42:48 GMT -5
Huge fan of Munchkin, which is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no attention spans.
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Post by rc on Apr 4, 2012 3:44:09 GMT -5
I play so much Settlers with my roommates. I love the shit out of that game. We recently started playing Risk, which is pretty cool too. Have you played with any of the Catan expansions? Sooooooooooo much customization. Huge fan of Munchkin, which is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no attention spans. We have the horror version and we had a rough time playing it the first time, thus we haven't gone back to it. But it obviously has potential. I just need to convince the others to give it another go.
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Post by Cei on Apr 4, 2012 6:45:35 GMT -5
I've been trying to find a D&D group that is fun enough to have fun and serious enough not to be disgusting and offensive. Tricky.
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Post by Bang on Apr 4, 2012 9:11:31 GMT -5
I love tabletop gaming, but we don't have the space here. Sadface. I'm a massive fan of Small World. I played the Battlestar Galactica game recently and that was great, but so long-winded. I've been D&D'ing for years but at the moment I'm having the same problem as Cei. I'm relatively new to board gaming, but a few friends have got me really into it recently, and it's so much fun
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2012 9:38:47 GMT -5
My roommates and I tried playing Risk a few months back. It ended up lasting almost 12 hours and friendships were on the verge of collapsing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2012 16:43:33 GMT -5
Risk is dangerous. And so is monopoly.
If I catch you stealing from the bank I will bitchslap you!
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Post by Bang on Apr 6, 2012 17:58:51 GMT -5
Played Merchants and Marauders last night. Pirates and traders and shit. So good, really immersive.
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Post by claire on Apr 12, 2012 14:16:46 GMT -5
Risk is dangerous. And so is monopoly. First of all, re-read that first sentence, because it's hilarious. Second of all, my buddy spent like a whole month bragging about his Monopoly skills, so I finally got him to play it with me. He went bankrupt first and his girlfriend ended up winning. wtf. During periods of sobriety my bf and I will play this a lot: which I guess is a game you have in your family when your dad is a rhetoric professor? And in other news, I am a pretty much undefeated champion of Bananagrams.
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Post by rc on Apr 12, 2012 15:31:51 GMT -5
And in other news, I am a pretty much undefeated champion of Bananagrams. This is so a challenge.
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Post by claire on Apr 12, 2012 16:28:28 GMT -5
I am really, really good.
Also I carry it with me at all times.
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Post by Ryan on Apr 12, 2012 18:26:23 GMT -5
One time when we were playing Bananagrams, my friend got all the letters for "boneriffic" in his first draw. Exactly the same amount. We had to let him play it.
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Post by claire on Apr 12, 2012 19:24:06 GMT -5
I am a rules Nazi and I would still allow that.
One time I 'dump'd and literally drew an X, a Y and a Z. AND I STILL WON.
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Post by rc on Apr 17, 2012 17:02:35 GMT -5
We finally opened the Christmas present: Dominion! This game is so much fun. It plays quickly, has tons of variety, is easy to pick up, and feels familiar to anyone who has played trading card games. Very entertaining; we've already played 30-some games!
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Post by Bang on Jan 23, 2013 6:49:02 GMT -5
I got Dixit for Christmas! It's really good and REALLY French.
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Post by Ben on Apr 9, 2016 23:33:25 GMT -5
I really want to finally play D&D. So much. (Bringing back this thread to let everybody know.)
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Post by Pillars of Aaron on Apr 10, 2016 17:14:27 GMT -5
We'll play when we're stuck out in the desert star gazing. How long does it generally take to go through a game anyway?
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Post by Jack on Apr 10, 2016 18:21:02 GMT -5
My friends blackballed me from our old D&D group in order to bring a friend I don't get along with anymore and his 100%-of-the-time-fake-tits-totally-out wife into the group. Fuck conventional nerds.
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Post by Mr. Keichi on Apr 10, 2016 23:13:06 GMT -5
We've always played a ton of the like, traditional family board games with trivia and drawing and whatnot, but lately we've had an influx of new (to us) board games that have been so fun:
Splendor - my god, do I love Splendor Settlers of Catan - after years of hearing about it, I finally know what it is hahaha Ticket to Ride - looooove it Small World - super fun unless you're playing with somebody too competitive and then everybody just gets mad Tokaido - fun, but frustrating cause somebody is always taking the space you want to move to Blueprints - quick moving, super fun Sheriff of Nottingham - I'm bad at bluffing so I'm usually not too great but I won for the first time today woo! Dead of Winter - I would like it maybe, except everybody analyzes every move for ten minutes and it makes the game take for goddamn ever. Betrayal at House on the Hill - fun, and there are so many scenarios that every game is different
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Post by unluckyjarmes on Apr 10, 2016 23:41:45 GMT -5
I played a bunch of the X-Wing miniture game last night and it's fucking excellent. My friend just got the Poe expansion with the black x-wing and everything. Sooo good.
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Post by Ben on Apr 11, 2016 1:52:42 GMT -5
We'll play when we're stuck out in the desert star gazing. How long does it generally take to go through a game anyway? From what I've heard, could be a couple hours for a campaign, or many many meetups for an on-going story and such. My friends blackballed me from our old D&D group in order to bring a friend I don't get along with anymore and his 100%-of-the-time-fake-tits-totally-out wife into the group. Fuck conventional nerds. I don't entirely understand what you said, but sounds like bullshit.
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Post by Jack on Apr 11, 2016 8:57:58 GMT -5
I was the most constant member of our group over the last decade. I was trying to get another campaign started. Everyone seemed disinterested. Two months later, I found out they were playing every week with the aforementioned constant-tits-out abomination. It made me pretty sad.
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Post by sarah on May 13, 2016 20:20:32 GMT -5
Finally got Ticket to Ride and omg so super fun. Does anyone else have any other good two player recommendations? So many of the games I've seen are three or more - which would be great if we had a bunch of board game playing friends that we hung out with on a regular basis - but we don't.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 20:28:12 GMT -5
I'm always on the lookout for a good two player game but so far haven't found one that seems like and me Nick would like it I wish they made a Clue like game for just two people.
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Post by Mr. Keichi on May 13, 2016 21:01:42 GMT -5
We just got Pandemic, it's for 2-4 players and really fun. It's cooperative so it just means playing with two leaves you with fewer people working together which isn't a big deal. Blueprints is also 2-4 but I think it is a little more fun if you have more. Splendor I think is also 2-4 and it is fun as hell no matter what, I really love Splendor.
Not a board game but we have a card game called Sushi Go! and we all love it. It's more challenging and competitive the more people play but it is fun with just two people.
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Post by Ben on Jun 5, 2016 11:46:26 GMT -5
I used meetup.com to find a group that did an Intro to DnD event. Kat and I decided to give it a try and it was a lot of fun. Now, I even more desperately want to play real DnD. (We played like a beginner version that was just some premade characters.) But, it also made me very aware that it needs to be a group of people I'm already SUPER comfortable with. Could not do roleplaying aspects with people I don't know well.
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