I wish liking board games was cool

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deep dish peat moss

Me and my friends play a lot of Catan, and I guess everyone plays Catan, but no one will playr eally nerdy things like arkham horror or android netrunner with me. If you go to like, a board game store where people play, everyone is a really big guy with a bald head and probably a leather jacket, and it's always like being at a nerdy Biker convention.

Do any other yobbers play board games? What are some cool games you've played or ones you really didn't like?

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:40

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 12:02

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
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i just made a thread about a board game i bought today whadda coincidence

i enjoy board games and play them with friends

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:45

Commie NedFlanders

board games are awesome

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# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:46

i am he

i like risk and scrabble

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:47

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
Course ya do!

i also picked up power grid today but haven't really sat down with the book yet

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:47

Commie NedFlanders

one time i was sitting outside of my apartment reading a book and drinking a dr pepper and this friendly guy walked by and said hi. he was curious about what i was drinking, he asked me if he could smell it. i said okay. he was from sweden, he had just moved to texas for school like 2 months before we met. he invited me over to play catan with his wife and friends, they were chill as heck.

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# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:48

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
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i am he posted:

i like risk and scrabble

scrabble will always be great risk. not so much

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:48

i am he

i play the lord of the rings risk with makeshift rules with my dad

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:49

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
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D PimpJedi posted:

one time i was sitting outside of my apartment reading a book and drinking a dr pepper and this friendly guy walked by and said hi. he was curious about what i was drinking, he asked me if he could smell it. i said okay. he was from sweden, he had just moved to texas for school like 2 months before we met. he invited me over to play board games with his wife and friends, they were chill as heck.

board games are cool in europe what a topsy turvy world we live in

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:49

ron color

arkham horror is really fun, also that haunted house game where a player has to flip out

i am he posted:

i like risk and scrabble

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:51

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
Course ya do!

i am he posted:

i play the lord of the rings risk with makeshift rules with my dad

you should try risk legacy if you legit enjoy risk each game played adds new rules and makes indelible changes to the game board like you could win the right to rename a city awesomeville or whatever and you write it on the board with a sharpie

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:52

i am he

i like risk but probably play it less than once a year because a game takes 3 or so days to complete usually

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:54

deep dish peat moss

i am he posted:

i play the lord of the rings risk with makeshift rules with my dad

every time we play catan my friend gets out his lord of the rings risk and demands that he be allowed to build an orc army in catan. when we tell him no he starts putting the orc pieces all over the board, and talking about how they are raiding us and trying to take our resource cards

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:55

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
Course ya do!

i am he posted:

i like risk but probably play it less than once a year because a game takes 3 or so days to complete usually

risk legacy supposedly is streamlined to make each game much shorter but you're not wrong

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:56

dogcrash truther

catan isn't fun in my opinion, but i think that's because of who i play it with

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:57

deep dish peat moss

Bo-Pepper posted:

you should try risk legacy if you legit enjoy risk each game played adds new rules and makes indelible changes to the game board like you could win the right to rename a city awesomeville or whatever and you write it on the board with a sharpie

That sounds like it would be awesome as hell if I lived with people who wanted to play a long-term risk campaign with me

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:57

dogcrash truther

anyone ever played stoneage? that's a pretty good game, lots of pieces though

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:57

dogcrash truther

agricola is cool too

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:57

i am he

Bo-Pepper posted:

risk legacy supposedly is streamlined to make each game much shorter but you're not wrong

im looking into it

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:57

i am he

anyone here still use the vanilla scrabble gameboard? im white so my parents have always had the rotating board with raise edges for the tiles and i played on a normal board for the first time recently... it was hell

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:58

playground tough

catan is a good game
dominion is a good game

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:59

dogcrash truther

Squirrel007 posted:

catan is a good game
dominion is a good game

the problem with dominion and a lot of games like that is i can't shake the feeling that all i'm doing is playing competitive solitaire

# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:59

Senior Management

I like board games and own board games but I have no one to play board games with

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# ? Jan 3, 2015 04:59

dogcrash truther

i am he posted:

anyone here still use the vanilla scrabble gameboard? im white so my parents have always had the rotating board with raise edges for the tiles and i played on a normal board for the first time recently... it was hell

the tiles kept sliding around on ya, huh? noob

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:00

deep dish peat moss

Android Netrunner isn't really a board game, but a card game. Not in the same way that Magic The Gathering is a card game though because you buy one box and it has all the cards. But it's really fun and you should play it if you get a chance. It's a 2 player game where each player plays under a completely different set of rules. One is an evil corporation that has to advance its agenda while protecting its interests and managing publicity, and the other is a cyberpunk hacker who has to aggressively attack and steal from the corporation while upgrading his gear and taking on missions. There's a whole lot of strategy to it, multiple different corporations or hackers you can play as... and the cards are very well done.

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:00

i am he

dogcrash truther posted:

the tiles kept sliding around on ya, huh? noob

erm.. no. bitch. the only things sliding were bingos out of my porcelain hands and china brain.

Funnypost Collabo posted:

Android Netrunner isn't really a board game, but a card game. Not in the same way that Magic The Gathering is a card game though because you buy one box and it has all the cards. But it's really fun and you should play it if you get a chance. It's a 2 player game where each player plays under a completely different set of rules. One is an evil corporation that has to advance its agenda while protecting its interests and managing publicity, and the other is a cyberpunk hacker who has to aggressively attack and steal from the corporation while upgrading his gear and taking on missions. There's a whole lot of strategy to it, multiple different corporations or hackers you can play as... and the cards are very well done.

sounds cool.

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:02

ron color

i am he posted:

anyone here still use the vanilla scrabble gameboard? im white so my parents have always had the rotating board with raise edges for the tiles and i played on a normal board for the first time recently... it was hell

yeah old board is how we did it in 2012

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:03

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
Course ya do!

games I have and have played recently with others and enjoyed

ticket to ride
galaxy trucker

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:06

dogcrash truther

Funnypost Collabo posted:

Android Netrunner isn't really a board game, but a card game. Not in the same way that Magic The Gathering is a card game though because you buy one box and it has all the cards. But it's really fun and you should play it if you get a chance. It's a 2 player game where each player plays under a completely different set of rules. One is an evil corporation that has to advance its agenda while protecting its interests and managing publicity, and the other is a cyberpunk hacker who has to aggressively attack and steal from the corporation while upgrading his gear and taking on missions. There's a whole lot of strategy to it, multiple different corporations or hackers you can play as... and the cards are very well done.

i want to play this

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:06

dogcrash truther

Bo-Pepper posted:

games I have and have played recently with others and enjoyed

ticket to ride
galaxy trucker

galaxy trucker is the motherfucking poo poo. love that game.

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:06

deep dish peat moss

I'm good with words but not Scrabble in particular and that gives me an advantage over my Plebian friends, except my friend's mom who is a Scrabble Guru and always whoops me. Completely leaves me in the dust every time. My scrabble ranking is as lonely as can be

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:07

Bo-Pepper: Want some rye?
Course ya do!

today i bought star wars imperial assault and power grid and intend to play them with friends

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:08

dogcrash truther

yeah yeah whatever but galaxy trucker is awesome

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:10

playground tough

dogcrash truther posted:

the problem with dominion and a lot of games like that is i can't shake the feeling that all i'm doing is playing competitive solitaire

I see your point, but building decks with the sole purpose of absurd chain moves every turn and annoying everyone else playing is all the fun ill ever need in a board game.

# ? Jan 3, 2015 05:12