Board Games

[Mblake1981]

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22777029

Little Wars: How HG Wells created hobby war gaming

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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/b...-training.html

While miniature war-gaming has never been able to claim a place in the mainstream, it has influenced almost everything we think of as gaming today. By the middle of the 20th century, war-gaming had not only added new sets of rules for armies of many periods, but it had inspired a new kind of richly complex board game, like Axis & Allies and Blitzkrieg.Entirely novel face-to-face entertainments emerged from the same lineage. The game designer Gary Gygax, in a foreword to a 2004 edition of the book, credits “Little Wars” with influencing his own set of rules for medieval-period miniature wars, Chainmail — which in turn became the basis of a slightly less obscure role-*playing game: Dungeons & Dragons.

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A fan of table-top role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons since his days at Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego, Smedley’s vision for EverQuest was to replicate the RPG experience of text-based multi-user dungeons (MUDs) but within an animated 3D world. To do this he recruited Steve Clover, Bill Trost (responsible for Everquest’s mythos and lore), Geoffrey Zatkin (creator of the game’s spell system), Mile D. Cooper (character modelling), and most notably, Brad McQuaid, who was originally taken on as lead designer, and yet would soon be promoted to the role of producer on the project. Clover and McQuaid had come to Smedley’s attention after working together on a shareware role-playing game called WarWizard for the Commodore Amiga, released via the duos own company, Microgenesis in 1993.

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[Patriam1066]

Settlers of Catan is a family favorite

[Patriam1066]

Viticulture is also pretty fun, albeit complicated when you’re first learning

[Botten]

Battlestar Galactica - a lot of fun; you will be calling each other the Cylon or a toaster for days (need to pay attention)

Lords of Waters Deep - very D&Dish and fun not a lot of paying attention needed and expansions get fun

Splendor - No thought needed and a lot of fun

Any of the Century games: Golem.. partial to Century: Eastern Wonders (get upgrades to your boat) No thought needed and a lot of fun

Blood Rage - Game is intense and going get more exciting every round

Rising Sun - Sooooo much fun with a lot of people

twilight imperium 4th edition - Sooooo much fun with a lot of People (takes a day or longer to play)

Red Dragon Inn - No thinking really involved. Don't get too drunk or beat unconscious in this D&D tavern game. Lots of fun with others. Probably the most popular with this group on these forums.

Nemesis - if you are fan of Aliens - you will like this game - it is extremely hard to win thou. Very fun.

Xia board game - Space game - think firefly but more PvP oriented - more fun as you get expansions. Get a Ship you upgrade to Warp about!

Black Rose Wars - you are wizard in a tower; a prisoner with other powerful wizards you need to take the black rose room! (lots of thinking involved)

Anachrony - The future has never been so bleak but you want your race and only your people to survive, Game is for Jib. Travel back in time but don't mess up the time line too bad!!!
(lots of thinking)

Mention a board game I have probably played it but these are a fun of my favorite.

[Homesteaded]

I’ve heard Spelndor is good.

Anyone ever ply Wingspan?

[Botten]

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I’ve heard Spelndor is good.

Anyone ever ply Wingspan?

Wingspan is fun be careful of the expansion it isn't balanced.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

I would say Talisman as well for OP's requirements. It's kind of a mix of light RPG and Monopoly. Much simpler than something like Gloomhaven.

As Botten mentions Twilight Imperium is a really cool game if you have the players, but it's a LONG game. Last time I played we spent 12 hours on a Saturday to finish it. The only reason why it ended in in 12 hours was because we set up the board wrong, which gave the Army focused player too many resources to build his army. It probably would have lasted longer otherwise.

Glad to see someone mention Stratego! Haven't played that in forever, but that is a very fun and simple game, with good replay-ability. That's probably good for OP as well if you only have one other player. Sadly it is only a 2 player game.

D&D is more accessible now too with 5th edition, so it's worth a shot for anyone interested in pen and paper RPGs. That can be mostly if not all social if you don't mind playing fast and loose with the rules (which many people do).

I am a fan of Warhammer 40k, but that is a tough one to get into for new players. It's expensive and can be hard to find other people in the area that also plays, unless you get lucky and live in an area with a lot of players.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

D&D is more accessible now too with 5th edition, so it's worth a shot for anyone interested in pen and paper RPGs. That can be mostly if not all social if you don't mind playing fast and loose with the rules (which many people do).

And if anyone is looking for non-D&D RPGs, I have a little personal project that's all about recommending lesser-known RPGs: https://goblincrafted.com/

[Mblake1981]

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https://goblincrafted.com/

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This your website loramin??! Thats so cool!!! I am a pationate subscriber now (dont worry I will not post my reptoid propaganda though ofc that is for here and here only. P99: The ark.)

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You know I've never given Star Trek a fair shake...where to start nerds?

I recently started watching The Next Generation with my wife (who is not a nerd) on Hulu. Long story short, we're midway through season 5 right now, and I would definitely recommend giving it a try.