muertog
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Post by muertog on Dec 21, 2011 23:54:29 GMT -8
I might have to suggest Carcassonne to my cousin. He and his wife like Catan, and I have been introducing other games to them that are more kid-friendly in order to be done w/ his two sons as well.
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Post by SirGuido on Dec 22, 2011 5:54:29 GMT -8
I am neck deep into boardgaming since my FLGS opened, and there are a ton of really good games out there. All of those mentioned so far are pretty awesome, I love Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride and have gotten my non-gamer wife into enjoying them as well. If you are a gamer though, Battlestar Galactica is my penultimate game for sure. BSG the board game is FANTASTIC. Its like five different games all rolled into one.
I also enjoy a few card games like the various flavors of Fluxx, Gloom, Munchkin, and a great one is Dominion. Dominion scratches that Magic: the Gathering itch without the intense monetary investment. If you like that whole "deck building" type mechanic there are several games that work... Dominion, Ascension, Thunderstone, Nightfall, and Quarriors!(which is actually a dice game, but uses the same basic deck building type mechanics).
I also recommend Revolution!, Lords of Vegas, Last Night on Earth(very rpg-like), Fortune and Glory(a pulpy rpg-ish game), and if you like Zombie Dice(and I know most of you do...) check out Martian Dice.
Ok, I'll stop there. If you have questions about anything though, just ask.
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Post by ironnikki on Dec 22, 2011 7:20:26 GMT -8
I'll have to check out Ticket to Ride. After hearing so many people singing its praises, it must be good! I tend to stick more to card games: Illuminati, Chez Geek, and Gloom are favorites around our apartment. I've played Arkham Horror once, and very much enjoyed it, but it typically requires more of a commitment than my non-gamer friends are interested in.
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Post by Bill Roper on Dec 27, 2011 10:01:24 GMT -8
I have almost all the games listed in this thread and Carcassonne is a LONG time favorite of mine. I've been playing since it was only really available through stores in Germany and I have two copies of the game that I had shipped by friends over there. Ticket to Ride has several settings (maps) for USA, Europe, Germany, and the Nordic Countries. They also sell a map expansions of Asia and India.
When living in Northern California we played board games every Tuesday night and it was great to constantly be exposed to new titles. There's LOTS to learn from all the various types of games and I've even incorporated some mechanics into my RPGs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2011 12:09:01 GMT -8
I am super hyped that you bought the core rulebook for Shadowrun Stu !!! If you are in any way going to be playing that online with google+, I would be honored to play with you and your group!
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Post by kevinr on Jan 2, 2012 15:32:27 GMT -8
My brother in law got a card game called Saboteur for Christmas when he was up visiting. Great game to sit around drinking and playing we spent the rest of the visit playing and accusing each other of being the Saboteur! I am currently waiting for my FLGS to get another copy in stock for myself.
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Post by kaitoujuliet on Jan 6, 2012 13:13:02 GMT -8
I'm posting before finishing the podcast...dangerous, that, but I want to vent a bit about keeping secrets.
Last September, I was very feeling frustrated with my gaming group. We'd get together weekly as always, but nobody ever seemed to want to put in the effort to actually play. We spent three entire weeks on character creation for a new campaign! The third week, we really could have started playing, because we only spent about 45 minutes on finishing up the character creation, but the others dragged their feet and wouldn't get started. I was frustrated, because I was really itching to play--unlike the others, I don't play in any other games, so this was my only outlet. So I suggested maybe we could at least talk about our characters, work out how well they knew each other, etc.
Player #1 (of 3 besides me) offered a half-hearted two or three sentences before going home early.
I looked eagerly at Players 2 and 3, hoping to salvage something of the evening--after all, those two were typically more enthusiastic gamers than Player 1 anyway.
Player #2 said, "There are some things about my character that are secret, so I can't say too much."
Player 3 was willing to talk, at least, but what little energy we had was gone by that point, and the evening was a complete write-off for me as far as fun was concerned. So right now, I find myself in sympathy with the person who complained that players who have secrets about their characters from the rest of the players are not allowing others to share in the fun of the story.
(Sadly, we're in another gaming slump, caused by a combination of holidays and one player being in graduate school.)
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Post by kaitoujuliet on Jan 10, 2012 9:24:38 GMT -8
Tagging on to the somewhat pointless rant above ... now that I've had a chance to think it over, I think I know what the moral of the story was: Character secrets kept from the other players are, at best, future fun for the rest of the group, i.e. everyone except the GM and the player with the secret. Don't fall so much in love with the possibility of future fun (rubbing your hands over the eventual "big reveal") that you neglect to make sure things are fun for everyone in the present.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jan 10, 2012 12:38:53 GMT -8
And if that reveal never happens, what was the point?
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