Which Board or RPG-type games do you play?
Sunday, October 24th, 2004 - 4:45pm
Well, we all know that everyone here plays video games, but what about board games? What type of games do you like that have little to do with a computer and more to do with actual people(ugh)? Old style bookshelf games like Avalon Hill puts out? Or do you like the basic type games like Life, Pictionary, Monopoly, etc... Perhaps Role-Playing games suit you? I`m going to list some of my current non-cpu powered games. How crazy of a gamer are you?
Five of my personal favorites currently;
Risk- Either basic, Godstorm, or 2210 this is always fun with friends. (It would be better if I won once in a while though. 
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Dungeons and Dragons RPG- Fantasy adventure Always a good time and plenty of teamwork involved. Good to spur the imagination! Had a Thief player named 'Maltheon' that was a legend in his own mind.
Traveller RPG- Another great game set in the far future. Nothing feels better than popping in a fresh clip and laying waste to a group of space pirates with your Gauss rifle or Laser Rifle if you prefer. I like their character damage rules better than D&D.
Sidewinder another RPG- Set in the old west and only played it once but it was great fun especially rubbing horse crap in some young snotty kids face and pistol-whipping his Ma till her face looked like hamburger! Great time!
Life - Regular and Star wars always fun with the kids!
There are more but these make the short list for me.
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I wish I had the time to play. Maybe if we lived closer it would be easier but at this rate, don''t think so. Not enough geeks in Miami. Let me rephrase that. Not enough odorless geeks that I can stand in Miami.
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Mostly D&G and any boardgame - love them. Played Twilight 2000 and Traveller when i was a teenager... I also have played a smattering of other RPGs including the Star Wars...
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My friends have me into WarMachine minis and the Iron Kingdoms D20 game, though I''m resisting the minis so far. Oh, and the CyberPunk RPG as well.
My boardgaming has been pretty quiet as of late. Some friends keep threatening me with Cranium and I always counter with Rummoli. So far, it''s a stale-mate. I''ll probably break out the Axis and Allies and Red Storm Rising at some point.
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So many games, so little time. Here''s what I played or have played in the past month...
Star Wars RPG (d20) - I just started a Star Wars RPG game with some coworkers. It''s been a tradition for the past few years that we do a campaign the winter before the next movie comes out. I purposefully spoil small parts of the movie so that my friends can have an ""I was there"" sort of adventure when the movie comes out in the spring.
Dungeons & Dragons RPG - For those years when a Star Wars movie isn''t coming out I''ll typically be playing D&D. We''ve also run Mutants & Masterminds (sort of like City of Heroes), Spycraft (James Bond-ish) d20 and Darwin''s World (post-apocalyptic Mad Max fun) RPGs.
Battle of the Sexes - A fun party game with men versus women answering questions about the opposite sex.
Yugioh card game - I wouldn''t say that I play this exactly. Mostly I just pretend I know what I''m doing and let my brother-in-law beat me every time.
Texas Hold''em Poker - I am so addicted to Poker right now. I''ve been playing for years but now I''m starting to hit local tournaments and friends'' games. Most of the time I lose but when I win it''s a nice little ego boost.
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I havent found that kind of group here in my area which is too bad since I really enjoy the time around the table.
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Likewise.
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Do I actually play or have attempted to play? Because i''ve attempted to play just about anything d20 recently, with no luck (see Spy''s last post).
However, there is a small core of Risk players on campus who I have enjoyed being smashed by.
And Poker, if that counts, although I actually know nothing about the game and play to score free cigarettes and liquor.
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In the past I have played:
Twilight 200
AD&D
Rolemaster
GURPS
Currently I''m unable to find a group that will consistantly get together for more than 2-3 sessions before it breaks up... to bad, like the others above I''d love to get into a regular game.
This is actually a big separate hobby for me. Let''s see, I actually just yesterday played the new War of the Ring game from Fantasy Flight Games.
I''ve recently played:
Duel of Ages
Age of Napoleon
Blue vs. Gray
Hannibal: Rome v. Carthage
Paths of Glory
Up Front!
Europe Engulfed
Totaler Krieg!
We the People
Lost Cities
I just purchased A World At War, which has a 138 pg (!!!) rulebook for lord''s sake.
I have a fair number of other Avalon Hill, GMT, and similar games.
I stopped playing Role Playing Games in early college because of a combination of: 1) lack of time; but more importantly 2) really creepy and freaky people who generally (not everyone, just generally) play those games in adulthood.
No one has mentioned Talisman (along with all the freakin expansions) yet?!
How about Dungeonquest?
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Has anyone played this LotR board game? It seems to be out of stock everywhere but it sounds really good.
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If there is anyone in the Northern Va area - Fredericksburg, Washington etc... lets try to have an RPG night...
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I don''t think that much of it. You should be looking at this LoTR board game instead.
Re: Talisman; I have that too; it is a drastically overrated game. It''s basically Candyland with monsters in the end; the bulk of the game is random number generation with no real constructive choices to be made.
Not to detour this thread any more but there was talk of having a GWJ RPG group using the OpenRPG software. Not sure what ever happened to it, though.
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I used to play RPGs when I was a kid - D&D, 2020, homebrewed rulesets. But I haven''t played that stuff in ages. I had an opportunity recently to try again, but it just wasn''t doing it for me. It was too unsettling to be sitting around with a bunch of grown men pretending to be warriors and wizards...
The thrill is gone, and it''s gone away for good.
At least I still like strategy games, though. My top two right now are: History of the World, a strategy game with an interesting temporal-continuity twist, and Settlers of Catan, a very tight game of resource trade and expansion...
Just started up a D&D campaign. First one in about three years. Just wish I could find a Shadowrun game around somewhere.
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I dunno, sometimes it''s fun. My problem with Talisman is how freaking LONG it takes. After about the 2nd hour I start getting restless. By the 3rd hour, I''m hurting people with my miniature.
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Sadly, I haven''t had a regular gaming group in several years now... when I was able to I probably played Runequest more than any other single game, then GURPS, In Nomine, Skyrealms of Jorune, Traveller, Pendragon, TMNT, and D&D. Plus some Paranoia, Toon, and Teenagers from Outerspace when we needed something lighter. OOPS: forgot Mechwarrior.
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I played RPGs during my school year, but I don''t have a group anymore, so that time is over it seems. We started with Realms of Arcardia and soon enough switched to Warhammer RPG.
I play a lot of board and card games. Current ones are:
- Cheez Geek
- Munchkin
- Illuminati New World Order
- Shadowfist
- Chess
- Frag
- Ninja Burger
- Lord of the Rings Board Game
These are german games, that I think are not released in the US afaik:
- Carcassonne
- Die Drei Magier
- Alhambra
- Morgenland
- Port Royal
- Torres
- Tikal
- ...
We play at least once per week usually in the evenings, so we get some relaxing after work.
Someone mentioned Settlers of Catan, I think this is a really good board game except for one drawback: You can''t siege another player''s cities or villages, nor can you stop his roads very well. Once a player has cities or a long enough street there is no real way for the others to recover from that disadvantage.
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I still have 2 regular Pen&Paper rounds going. Trinity and Fadings Suns, i think those are not so well known.
I also used to play Board Games (Settlers, Carcassonne, LotR (the other one
)...) but that has ceased a bit over summer.
I just spent the weekend playing Risk. I do enjoy the game. Constantly yelling that ""my communism warriors will overthrow the capitalist enemies and establish a new order that is just and stern"" seems to annoy my fellow players though.
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I tried but the software was pretty borky...so I eventually just gave up.
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I haven''t played Risk in some time but this weekend we picked up the LotR Risk so I could indoctrinate the missus.
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Let''s see, in my formative years it was:
AD&D
Champions
Traveller
GURPS
Car Wars
Risk
Chess
NATO
Squad Leader
And a bunch of others.
Then I sold it all, went to college, and never went back. Online gaming is enough.
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Ooh, I should add that to my list. My current favorite is ""parasites on the body of the working class"".
I was actually a witness to Shotgun pistol whipping that poor woman. After we killed her husband. That situation (RichyRambo was GMing) had me laughing so hard my sides hurt. The last time we played Traveler d20 I demonstrated a couple of tactical moves my character was doing on Phil. Problem is, I kept forgetting he had hurt his back the day before. Great times. I''m glad we get to play now and again.
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Just some of the games near me now that I''ve played with someone (more like opening back up, set-up and talking about it, but not getting very far
Or I just go thru ever once and awhile.
Dark December (OSI old Ardennes game)
Ambush!
Up Front!
Successors
Dune
Risk: LOTR (Trilogy Edition)
Twilight Imperium
House Divided
Ney versus Wellington
Stonewall Jackson''s Way
The Civil War
Battle Cry
Gleam of Bayonets
La Battille D''Auerstadt (old Clash of Arms game)
La Battille D''Albuera-Espagnol
"" "" Espagnol Talavera
Patton''s Best
etc. etc.
Again, mostly just cracking the box again. Fondling the cool counter''s and admiring the neat maps. And talking mechanics and games of yesteryear.
Oh yes, my ancient, ancient, loved copy of Stellar Conquest.
Many RPG''s of Star Wars, LOTR, Star Trek etc.
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I played a fair amount of D&D in college and enjoyed it quite a bit. We were pretty fast and loose with the rules and mainly were there to have fun. Didn''t touch it again for about ten years until a buddy of mine at work asked if I wanted to sit in on a session.
A session turned into about a year of gaming with the group, with 7 or 8 hr game nights once every two weeks. After a bit though I was through with the pen and paper adventures but this is what I took away.
Imagination beats game code hands down, at least for multiplayer games. I had forgotton what the Role Playing part of RPG was
all about. To play well you really had to BE you charector. It really added a huge dimension of depth that really didn''t exist in online games such as EQ. Also there was a bit more logic to adventures. Where D8D has a slow paced goal that brought interesting reactions from the party members (I recall a good 40 minutes with a rust monster. the dwarf in half plate running from rusty, while the monk in rags chases both with a net), an online adventure wouldn''t really fly as well in a paper game (ok folks you''ve made your way into the dungeon and have killed the arch goblin, now you all need to wait for an hour and he''ll reappear and you need to fight him again, We''ll need to do this again for 3 days until the eye of atoth drops.)
On the flip side I acknowledged that people still get cranky. While this is not so noticable online, around a table of folks after a long work week it can really come out. I''d count at least one minor tantrum a session. Whether it was how rules were intrepreted, or ""of course I was searching for traps, I always search for traps"", or the DM getting frustrated with uber-tweaks charectors, or just outside life seeping in, sometimes it seemed a bit more like a drama club than a gaming
club.
One last item would be group dynamics in general. That is to say, in order to function well as a group and have a battle that goes fairly smoothly you really need a leader. One member that directs the battle so that grp doesn''t go all will nilly doing doing their own specific thing. Of couse the flip side of that you get a lot of spectators in long engagements, which can lead to boredom, which can lead to crankiness, yadda yadda.
After about a year I drifted away, not really getting the same enjoyment out of the grp. What I wouldn''t mind is kinda of a hybrid between the old pen and paper games and the online components. Whereas someone takes their imagination and develops an adventure they can take their friends through in a
graphical enviroment. The session takes place online which eases the logistics a bit. And the games can customize their avatars to the personality quirks so important in RPGs.
Just started to learn the new War of the Ring .
Pretty cool so far kind of combines Risk with the old SPI War of the Ring - only with 215 miniatures.
Almost had Shotgun Phil weeping when the hordes of Isengard pushed the Rohirrim out of Helm''s Deep. Har!
Other new games I''m trying
Betrayal at House on the Hill (perfect for Halloween)
Runebound
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Old favorites include:
D&D
Traveller
Risk
Nuclear War
Bang!
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