Board Games

[Oogei]

any good ones out there ?

[Kraftwerk]

http://www.freewebs.com/brettmeyer/monopoly%20board.jpg

[Skydash]

Red Dragon Inn is much fun with lots of people:
http://slugfestgames.com/

[Oogei]

http://www.freewebs.com/brettmeyer/monopoly%20board.jpg

fk besides this

[Millburn]

Agricola (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola), Mage Knight (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/96848/mage-knight-board-game), Talisman (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27627/talisman-revised-4th-edition), Carcassonne (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne), and Eclipse (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse) are my favorite. I get together with a group of friends each week and play board games, these are definitely the ones we play the most.

[Swish]

Agricola (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola), Mage Knight (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/96848/mage-knight-board-game), Talisman (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27627/talisman-revised-4th-edition), Carcassonne (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne), and Eclipse (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse) are my favorite. I get together with a group of friends each week and play board games, these are definitely the ones we play the most.

Not played the others but would highly recommend Talisman :)'

Also Block Mania (OOP) if you can find a copy floating around on eBay etc.

[radditsu]

http://www.catan.com

[Uteunayr]

Parcheesi.

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1379/11/1379110190189.jpg

[Tecmos Deception]

I second settlers of catan, Carcassonne, and agricola. Try them in that order, especially if you aren't familiar with euro strategy games.

Recently played hive and ticket to ride too, both fun.

Also: munchkin.

[deezy]

I agree, munchkin is fun and it is hilarious.

[Oogei]

thanks for the suggestions, gunna pick some up today

[JayN]

Relic, Talisman

[Oogei]

mage knight looks a little complicated as ive never really played a board game like this, talisman looks a bit easier

some edit: mage knight looks more involved and probably more interesting to play after you learn the rules, but it just seems if i had acouple people over talisman looks to be an easier game to digest out the gate which is what im looking for. Something that we can play randomly and the rules are easy to teach, i should of made that clearer in my original post!

[Klendathu]

http://www.catan.com

[Oogei]

relic looks good too

[Thulack]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C

can give you ideas of different games and watch the gameplay to see if you like.

[Swish]

If anyone is into their tabletop games (not just 40k), Beasts of War (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBeastsOfWar) are worth a look in terms of YouTube content.

[Rhambuk]

Parcheesi.

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1379/11/1379110190189.jpg


This was my favorite board game as a kid, next to monopoly of course.

[Kayso]

Small World (http://www.daysofwonder.com/smallworld/en/) is a good one.

[Oogei]

im between talisman and relic atm!

[Dr. Edge]

this one is a card game but it's pretty cool and makes a good gift:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/131103682214?lpid=82

Citadels
Description:

A medieval city destined for greatness, immense power and importance beckons you. There is only one problem: it isn’t built yet. This vacuum presents the perfect opportunity for you. You must wisely spend your gold, bluff, intimidate and outmaneuver your rivals as you seek to build and control this new city.
Citadels is a game of nobles, intrigue, and cities for 2-8 players, playable in 20-60 minutes.

we also like ticket to ride, settlers, small world etc... but citadels if great with only 2 people




http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles//a/1/6/4/1/9/8/2/4.jpg.jpg/EG11/resize/600x-1/quality/80
I also bought this game but I can't talk anyone into playing with me. lol

[Neryn]

Munchken is a really fun game.

Carcassone is alright, but luck is too important in this game for me to really enjoy it.

My favorite would be San Juan (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8217/san-juan). No dices, no card draws. Just plannification and analysis. If you lost, blame yourself. :)

I recently bought Brass, which is also a nice one for its historical context and the gameplay (there are many different ways to win).

[Oogei]

No board games locally

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Settlers of catan.
Pandemic.
Ticket to ride.

[Skittlez]

Look up Summoner Wars!! We play a lot of mtg and that game is a mix of Magic and Chess, it's fucking awesome and there are over 10 decks you can play in 1v1 or 2v2 with extra friends!

[Tradesonred]

Im thinking this genre of games is about to explode on PC. All it would take would be one good game like this being solid and popular, and then everyone will get on it.

I played talisman as a kid (26 years ago!) and the board game Dune, which was tons of fun.

Check out infinity wars if you want a card game like magic the gathering thats not pay to win and is free to play.

[Shannacore]

Lots of good recommendations in this thread.

Epidemic and Zombies! are also fun imo.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Mid/heavy load:

Chaos in the old world (warning - highly violent!)
Twilight Struggle
Terra Mistica
Dungeon Pets
Carcasson: Hunters and gatherers
Descent: Journeys in the Dark 1/2
Ticket to Ride
Agricola
Through the Desert
Small World
Citadels

Light fun fillers:

Coloretto
Loot
Aquarius
Bahnanaza

[Tradesonred]

Im close to buying the Talisman game on steam lol damn this thread

Am i about to waste 20 bucks

[heartbrand]

Agricola

[Millburn]

Im close to buying the Talisman game on steam lol damn this thread

Am i about to waste 20 bucks

It's actually a really good port. It had some weird bugs a few weeks ago when I played it last but from what I hear it's mostly been fixed up. I would not recommend grabbing it unless you have friends to play with though.

[Tradesonred]

It's actually a really good port. It had some weird bugs a few weeks ago when I played it last but from what I hear it's mostly been fixed up. I would not recommend grabbing it unless you have friends to play with though.

My friends dont play much computer games so my gaming time is basically solo and meetin strangers digitally time. As long as i can hook up with other players easily it suits me.

[sox7d]

http://www.amazon.com/Z-Man-Games-ZMG-7075-Yggdrasil/dp/B004V8QWB8/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391929538&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=yggrdrasil

my friends have been playing this one when i go back home. it's like co-op, turn-based dota/tower defence vs the "computer" (deck of cards)

we have yet to beat it though :( but we've gotten close!

[Rhambuk]

card games =/= board games,

rpg games with miniatures =/= board games

[Oogei]

I'm gunna pick up munchkin deluxe today, only game sold local out of what was mentioned

[Jimjam]

Im thinking this genre of games is about to explode on PC. All it would take would be one good game like this being solid and popular, and then everyone will get on it.

Not quite the PC, but Warhammer Quest available on ipad etc. I believe the makers of that license made a whq clone preceding that.

... after browsing the thread further I just read you can get Talisman on steam... looks like I have something to do during server down now :D

[Tradesonred]

Not quite the PC, but Warhammer Quest available on ipad etc. I believe the makers of that license made a whq clone preceding that.

... after browsing the thread further I just read you can get Talisman on steam... looks like I have something to do during server down now :D

Looks like i might hold, because infinity wars is coming out on steam in 2 days. Unless i can figure its real easy to get multiplayer games going.

[Oogei]

I liked pandemic I found it at a local target, now I'm waiting outside of booksamillion to see what they have, hopefully munchkin deluxe . Quest version seems a bit long in the tooth

[Tradesonred]

Damn Talisman is in early access on steam, and is selling an expansion. Cant say ive ever seen this before.

[Swish]

Damn Talisman is in early access on steam, and is selling an expansion. Cant say ive ever seen this before.

GW cashing in again?

Their Space Hulk games on Steam have terribad reviews, hope Talisman is better :p

[Millburn]

GW cashing in again?

Their Space Hulk games on Steam have terribad reviews, hope Talisman is better :p

Talisman is now done by Fantasy Flight Games, but yeah...never doubt GW's ability to wiggle their creepy little price bloating fingers into everything they've ever touched before.

[mnemonikos82]

Betrayal at House on the Hill is SUPER fun. Hint hint, one of your group goes crazy (at random) and starts trying to kill everyone else =). Its great fun.

[Abner]

Another vote for Settlers of Catan here. :)

[nilbog]

I have a weekly game night with friends. We usually play one of the following.. some are board games, others are card games, or pen and paper.

last night on earth
zombies!!!
king of tokyo
munchkin (1..5,8)
red dragon inn
ad&d 2e

I want to try out.. a Touch of Evil, Arkham Horror, or Fortune and Glory.

[ymw]

Love me some Munchkin.

[arsenalpow]

King of Tokyo is awful, we played smash up which was kind of fun but some of the factions seemed OP. I really enjoyed the penny arcade board game. Makes me want to get some of the expansions.

[Jimjam]

Damn Talisman is in early access on steam, and is selling an expansion. Cant say ive ever seen this before.GW released a new codex (army rules) for the bug faction and released an expansion for the army at basically the same time. Gotta love G dub!

[Tradesonred]

GW released a new codex (army rules) for the bug faction and released an expansion for the army at basically the same time. Gotta love G dub!

Im really tempted to buy it, looks fun but the 75$ price tag is really making it hard for me to support that. Yeah i can buy only the vanilla for 15$ but ive been spoiled by 10$ game of the years on steam with a fuckload of content.

Bought starbound for 15$ and gonna get free updates and content for a long time

[liveitup1216]

Betrayal at House on the Hill is SUPER fun. Hint hint, one of your group goes crazy (at random) and starts trying to kill everyone else =). Its great fun.

This. It starts out as a co-op game (up to 6 players), then one of 50 different scenarios (literally) begins through the game mechanics and one (or more) people become a traitor.

Talisman is always good, but the shortest game of Talisman I've ever played was 4 hours. Average games are more around 6-8 hours, or longer.

I'm looking to get 'Fortune and Glory' next after seeing it on TableTop, which I find to be a decent guide for finding games.

[Peatree]

Who else rememers " Car Wars "?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Carwars.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wars

[Tradesonred]

Who else rememers " Car Wars "?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wars

In the 80s, in Quebec "Livres dont vous etes le heros" were a huge thing, literal translation is Books where you are the hero. I remember Steve jackson being one of the writers of those books but dont remember car wars.

http://livresdontvousetesleheros.pagesperso-orange.fr/fond%20%27ecran%203.JPG

[Tradesonred]

Now im tempted to buy talisman again XD lol

[nilbog]

So I want to buy a new game. Ideally Betrayal at house on the hill, but it is in between printings and completely sold out since the coverage on Tabletop.

Trying to decide between:
Agricola
7 Wonders
Carcassone
Dominion
Forbidden Island

Lots of discussion about Settlers of Catan; does it work with 2 players?

[whitebandit]

Lots of discussion about Settlers of Catan; does it work with 2 players?

settlers of catan is lots of fun, there is a 2 player variant one but the base game is not so good with 2 players..

[Nlaar]

So I want to buy a new game. Ideally Betrayal at house on the hill, but it is in between printings and completely sold out since the coverage on Tabletop.

Trying to decide between:
Agricola
7 Wonders
Carcassone
Dominion
Forbidden Island

Lots of discussion about Settlers of Catan; does it work with 2 players?

Agricola - Long (2hr) intense game. I have never played with 2 players but assume it would play well. It is also available on tablet devices which might save you the $80 the box costs. Also it is one of those games where you are struggling the entire time to create an "economic engine" and as soon as things are looking up the game ends.
7 Wonders - Nice light party game - should probably be played with 4+ players.
Carcassone - Have only played a few times, again I would imagine it would be more fun with 3+ players rather than 2 but I could be wrong, especially given that there are plenty of expansions that I have not played.
Dominion - Wildly popular game - fun with 2+ players. IMHO it gets a little annoying when people stack Action/Buy after Action/Buy during their turn and you have to wait 5 minutes while they masturbate with their deck.
Forbidden Island - Light weight co op game. I bought the follow up game "Forbidden Desert" and after 1 play I was fairly bored.

My recommendations:
Ascension (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/69789/ascension-chronicle-of-the-godslayer) - Can suffer a little bit from the same issues as Dominion but not to the same extent. Best with 2 players. Available on mobile devices.
Race for the Galaxy (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-for-the-galaxy) - cream of the top - excellent game scales well 2+. Have played easily over 150+ games and one continuously learns something new.
Dominant Species (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/62219/dominant-species) - Have only played 1 2p game of this but again it is incredible and with more players it can quickly become a fun chaotic mess. I believe available for the IPAD.
Hive (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive) - great quick 2player game. Like chess but with bugs.
Android Netrunner (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124742/android-netrunner) - Only have played about 10 games of this but I see great potential - excellent 2player only game. Designed by Richard Garfield back in the 90s and has recently been rereleased/rebooted.

Would also say Small World, Puerto Rico, Container, Manhattan Project, Terra Mystica and Ascending Empires for 3+ people.

Enjoy!

[Rhambuk]

Worst board game ever,

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5yLXWxxKqM0/SwDyvGyluII/AAAAAAAAARk/GqIebxn28-4/s1600/mouse_trap.jpg

[Schnitzel]

Catan
Lords of Waterdeep
Dominion
Pandemic - the most fun you will ever have always losing.
Puerto Rico
Stone Age
Wrath of Ashardalon
Ticket to Ride - my husband and I play the iPad version daily when we eat.

[radditsu]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVary7lyBq0

[nilbog]

So I want to buy a new game. Ideally Betrayal at house on the hill, but it is in between printings and completely sold out since the coverage on Tabletop.

Got Betrayal a few months ago. Our group has played maybe 8 games total with 6 people. That leaves 42 scenarios we haven't encountered. Great game with lots of replayability.

[FoxxHound]

1) Descent
2) Talisman
3) Dark Tower
4) Munchkin
5) Prophecy

[Tradesonred]

My bros are all nightclub people, i need more nerds in my life lol

Would love to see these kind of games go digital

I heard talisman was a buggy mess

[Cookiefist]

Many fond memories of playing this as a kid...

http://magisterrex.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dungeonfront.jpg

[Whirled]

Many fond memories of playing this as a kid...

http://magisterrex.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dungeonfront.jpg

Wow; that DOES bring back some ooooold memories, lol
Almost like the D&D Basic, Expert & Advanced original edition adventures/books too.
Who wants to DM?

[Cookiefist]

I think what i loved most about Dungeon! is its art work as a kid. The things you wish you still had and should of saved as a kid.

[Whirled]

http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/images/pics/dnd-Computer-Labyrinth-boardgame.jpg

This also^

Early computer games like Wizardry definitely

[thedezgyrl]

I love playing Munchkin, the different variants of Monopoly, checkers, but my favorite of all time is Mahjong.

[jarshale]

I love playing Munchkin, the different variants of Monopoly, checkers, but my favorite of all time is Mahjong.

Legit Mahjong? How hard was it to learn?

[Whirled]

I love playing Munchkin, the different variants of Monopoly, checkers, but my favorite of all time is Mahjong.

My brother on the left coast plays Munchkin Cthulhu. I tried to get into the card game it still is but it was only mildly entertaining imo. To each their own, still applies.

[thedezgyrl]

Legit Mahjong? How hard was it to learn?

It was kind of difficult to learn the pairings, but the key is to not stop playing. I learned it in a couple of hours. It is also more fun if you have an hour glass or timer at the ready.

[thedezgyrl]

My brother on the left coast plays Munchkin Cthulhu. I tried to get into the card game it still is but it was only mildly entertaining imo. To each their own, still applies.

A great majority of my friends play Magic the Gathering, but I could never get into it. They didn't like leaving me out and so we would have Munchkin get togethers. One of my friends even hand painted their own game for fun.

[jarshale]

It was kind of difficult to learn the pairings, but the key is to not stop playing. I learned it in a couple of hours. It is also more fun if you have an hour glass or timer at the ready.

That's not really mahjong lol. It's kinda like rummy.

[nilbog]

Since my last update, I have purchased Dead of Winter and Tales of the Arabian Nights.

Dead of Winter: Hard to beat; the game usually wins. In a post zombie world, resources are limited, and players are isolated at a colony. There are many characters, each with different abilities. At the beginning of the game, a secret objective is given to each player, with the possibility that someone might be a traitor. There are many different objectives, and traitor cards, so you can't really determine who is telling the truth. Often, there is a colony vote, and you vote with thumbs up or down based on what is said, and you can choose to Exile someone, based on votes. If someone is exiled, they draw a new Exiled Objective. Anyways, it's a good game, highly recommend.

Tales of the Arabian Nights: I've only played this through once so far. This is a very random game, and kind of like choose your own adventure. Depending on which skills you choose, what you encounter, and what you choose to do, based on a matrix of options leads you to the book of tales, which is a gigantic spiral bound tome of 2000 something choices. This is where the skills you started the game with, or have earned, come into play. I liked the first game a lot, and I think it would be impossible to have the same outcome more than once. Recommend.

[wts]

Diplomacy is the greatest board game of all time, but it has some very specific limitations. First of all, you have to have exactly seven players to play. There are variants to get around this but they all suck. Have six of your best pals over or don't play.

It bears some comparison to chess because it's simultaneously simple in concept with tremendous layers of strategy. The players randomly select a country in Europe and the game starts at 1900 pre world war 1. Each country starts with either three military units or four (Russia, which is spread out and must fight on multiple fronts immediately).

The map is divided into spaces, and only one military unit (army or navy) can occupy a space at any given time. Prior to a turn, each player writes orders for their units and places them face down on a pile. The moderator then reads all of the orders, and moves for all seven players happen simultaneously.

If two units are trying move into the same space, numbers win. A unit can be supported by another unit that is adjacent to the space it is attempting to occupy. Support can come from another unit owned by the same player, or by a unit owned by another player.

This is where diplomacy comes in. Prior to each move, there is a period of time for all seven players to interact with each other and make schemes and plans before submitting their orders. It's best to play in a house that has plenty of rooms for secret allies to sneak off and scheme. And spying is perfectly legal. If you can go outside and listen at the bathroom window as your supposed ally agrees to betray you, it's on the people you spied on for having bad infosec.

An army can support a navy into a coastal space and vice versa, but an army cant support a navy into a sea space, and a navy in a coastal space can't support an army attempting to occupy a space that is not adjacent to water.

So moves are submitted, and wherever there are conflicting moves, the moderator has to apply the rules to see which player gets to occupy the space. There is no random element to this game other than picking your starting country (usually you put a piece from all 7 countries in the box top and everyone draws blind).

Superior numbers always win, and if the numbers are even then the two pieces that are trying to occupy the same space "bounce" and return to their space of origin for the turn, unless a superior force has simultaneously dislodged them from that space, in which case the dislodged force can "retreat" to an adjacent, uncontested space. If there is no adjacent, uncontested space, then the dislodged piece is destroyed and removed from play.

Be warned, this game will permanently impact your relationships with people you know. One person will emerge as the biggest schemer and backstabber (this was me in my high school gaming group), and future games will be impacted as everyone will know to take that player out first and then squabble among the survivors.

[wts]

Edit: There's another way to select starting countries besides random draw. Players can also write down the seven countries in order of preference and the moderator can go through the lists. If a player's first choice is unique, the player gets that country. If multiple players want the same country (England is very desirable for its sea power and relative security), they have to go to their second choice and on and on until all seven are selected.

[Buellen]

For a while their was a "Dungeon" Emulator on the web but I cant seem to find it as this was more than 10 years ago.

[iruinedyourday]

I like classic mmo's and classic board games

http://www.rpgbooster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Heroquest-doors.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3966364564_763b3bd10c.jpg

[Kika Maslyaka]

in the last year I was enjoying the Star Realms deckbuilder.

[SamwiseRed]

I like classic mmo's and classic board games

http://www.rpgbooster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Heroquest-doors.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3966364564_763b3bd10c.jpg

lol my brother and i played that when we were kids. i had forgotten about it.

[iruinedyourday]

lol my brother and i played that when we were kids. i had forgotten about it.

so the genera of game that its in is called "Amera-trash" its a genera of board game that has a bunch of small pieces, not unlike a dungeon and dragons set.

There is a ton of ameritrash games now, I dont really love them.. but i DO love Heros quest heh..

Did you ever complete all the missions? in the back of the 15 mission log book is a blank fill out your own missions page, i photo copied it and made so many! I loved that game :)

NOW! ...

If you want to see some really retarded shit, this video was on a VHS for a Dungeons & Dragons Ameri-trash game called Dragon Strike.. It was basically just like Heros quest only worse and with a better franchise for a title...

it was designed to teach non D&D'ers how to play D&D.. so the video is designed around a bunch of people who havent played dnd, and this SUPER FUCKING NERD apparently got invited to the party, and is like... do you guys waant to play A REAL GAME!??? in the lamest voice possible...

You were supposed to watch this video with a bunch of people that didn't know anything about D&D and THEN play the fucking game.

I shouldn't have to say this but it sold horribly.

anyway, the video is INCREDIBLE and if you like classic EQ youll enjoy watching this while you play it.

Most horrible Introduction into D&D that you will ever see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8LBpMuSTrQ

[Buellen]

Hero quest was a dam amazing for a D & D light game. I purchased most of the expansion pack and had a ton of fun with my friend playing them. I still have the skull and wound markers for my WH40k games.

[nilbog]

Evil Dead 2 board game on Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evildead2/evil-dead-2-the-official-board-game

One notable feature is for $175 pledge you get dice carved the from the cabin used in the movie:

http://i.imgur.com/Ai2oYYf.png