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Most of our board games were left in Ohio when we moved to Texas.

Chess and Go are still played at our house and I've witnessed Warhammer construction. The advent of girlfriends has taken the bloom off board games of late.

My chess partner is back in Ohio so I don't play much anymore.

We play Last Night on Earth almost weekly with a couple friends. We've also played Pandemic (A co-op board game) and one of my sons just bought A Game of Thrones second edition. We played that yesterday, and I introduced him and Skrael to the concept of Lannister backstabbing ;D

Hey, I played that exact combination once too! (senseless, not sensitive).

I recently got a game called Who What Where that I haven't gotten a chance to play yet. It's a drawing game, and it is really fun (previously I've had to draw Gandhi babysitting on Mount Everest and Kermit the Frog playing piano in a bar).

Additionally, I am a D&D guy, though I don't get to play nearly often enough.

In your photo you didn't look old enough to have a son who'd be old enough to want to play "A Game of Thrones." Damn.

And yeah, atmopheric/dramatic games ftw! I simply can't get into abstract games like cards, chess, or go. It's all too distilled down to the basic elements. I need lavish trappings on top of sound game elements, such as cool miniatures, a dramatic backdrop, rules which simulate epic conflicts, etc etc.

I want this game... I've always only heard good things about it...

However, I found out just how ridiculously expensive it is to ship board games outside of the USA. You'd think it's cheap, considering it's not glass or electronics or anything...
The shipping costs about 3x more than the actual price of the game!
I intend to buy/order some just before I make a trip stateside this year...

Edit: Actually... I should buy like 10 boxes, and sell it on eBay over here... I mean, I'm in Asia where they love Starcraft... and they can't get the board game here... I should be able to make some bucks!

Boxed games are heavy very, very heavy with all that card stock and miniatures so they cost a lot to ship.

Being ancient I used to play the board wargames like Blitzkrieg, D-Day to the Rhine, Panzerblitz, Gettysburg, Midway, Jutland, Sink the Bismarck, France 1940, Squad Leader and so on with the little cardboard counters with the unit symbols. I had some monster games with over 1000 counters and maps the size of a kitchen table for divisional simulations of Operation Barbarossa (the German attack on Russia in WWII) or a battalion simulation of the Battle of the Bulge.

I also did miniatures with modern (1980s) and World War II table top game systems like Tractics and Command Decision in both 1/285 scale and 1/87-1/72 scale. We had a board the size of someone's garage with pasteboard terrain and real buildings and companies of infantry, armor and trucks. Lots of trucks. And when something got hit and burned? On went a huge plume of red and black painted cotton.

Now all I have left is a beat up box of Risk and the usual party games. No time, no room and no opponents.

this isn't exactly a board game, but Fluxx is pretty awesome.

for anyone who has never played the game, you start out with a basic set of rules and you play rule cards that change or add rules. You also play goal cards, which tell you the objective you need to complete to win the game. You play keeper cards to try to get to that objective. And finally you have action cards which let you do things like reverse the turn order or exchange hands with another player.

It is rather fun.

GO FTW

Go is simple yet complicated. Truly a battle of wits.

After watching this anime I am scared to death of Go and would never ever attempt to play it.


No not because of the ghost. Because of the game.

That manga made me want to play it, not to not want to :I

That manga makes it look like a game for Einsteins and Rain Men. Normal ppl will puke blood if they try.

Actually, Go has a tradition of offering several levels of "handicaps" to even the odds. A lesser player can begin the game several stones to the good, already on the board before play starts.

Ha ha, that's for sure

Chess, Pictionary and occasionally Monopoly are the only board games I ever play. Any less "pedestrian" board games have been ruined for me.

Long story short, my girlfriend's mum's "partner" is massively into board games, has nearly a thousand of them apparently, and one time I was around there and was forced to play some river/logging game, during which I had a moderate intensity anxiety attack which stopped me from effectively moving the pieces (shaky hands - didn't stop me winning, though :P).

I haven't been back there since... and incidentally I haven't played a board game since.

Should i post here? I will.
I play Monopoly, Sorry, Battleship, Jenga, and...............Yahtzee?

Magic the Gathering was my game for a long long time. I got into it just as the Arabian Nights expansion hit. I think I quit playing about the time Mirrage hit. I barely played off and on through the years.

Once I discovered online gaming, it was all over but the crying.

I still have several monster boxes of cards and spent an untold fortune on them. I also managed to earn a nice chunk of change off ebay selling some.


I did play Warhammer 40k for about a minute. I was turned off mostly because the guy who was teaching me didnt like to lose. So he made sure that I was only told some of the rules, tricks and tips. The rest I discovered while I was getting butchered without mercy.

The only other 'round the table' games I play are RPGs like Vampire, D&D, and Cyberpunk. Nothing beats sitting around the table goofing with friends, eating junk food, and badly role playing an alter ego!

today in the mail i got risk legacy!!!!

...now i just need people to play it with

I love Monopoly, Risk, and Clue. I found out there's a Clue game out that you can program to send clues to your cell phone. O_O

And the good old fashioned Handmade Cardboard Monopoly Board never fails. :P


EDIT: And CHECKERS. Checkers is the king (haha, king. :P) of all board games!

I looked it up and I found out that it looks awesome O.O

Must resist urge to buy it...