Favorite Board Games

[hunter_le five]

I'm going to need a bigger table.

 

[TheCADJockey]

My all-time favorite board game was Hero Quest. I can not tell you the last time I played a board game, but it was likely Risk and I hate it because I suck at it. I bought Frontiers, it is still in the box.

I'll be buying D&D Wrath of Ashartdemon as soon as possible. It looks to be exactly what I need in a board game.

 

[Jesterdeal]

Brew day is usually game day as well. My favorites are:
Settler of Catan (w Cities & Knights)
Carcassonne
Ticket to Ride
Dominion
DC Deck Builder
and Cribbage

 

[Psylocide]

I'm going to need a bigger table.

It's funny... the direction I end up exploring is directly related to how much table space I have in any one direction.

The bad parts that I can't control are hallways that only have one exit, or sentry monsters that pull new tiles (and monsters) when there is no hero on their tile and it has an unexplored edge. Sometimes I can make the dungeon a nice square, but more often than not, it ends up looking like that.

My all-time favorite board game was Hero Quest. I can not tell you the last time I played a board game, but it was likely Risk and I hate it because I suck at it. I bought Frontiers, it is still in the box.

I'll be buying D&D Wrath of Ashartdemon as soon as possible. It looks to be exactly what I need in a board game.

The only reason I love/hate risk is how much the die rolls factor into winning. Yeah, there's some strategy, but if you roll like ****, it all goes out the window. It's true for a lot of games, but Risk is one of the worst for that.

Still play it once in a blue moon though, haha.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Still play it once in a blue moon though, haha.

I always go for Australia. I'm always the first to lose.

 

[user 198378]

Axis and Allies
Risk

 

[Psylocide]

I always go for Australia. I'm always the first to lose.

Hey... con your FIL into playing Frontiers with you.

 

[hunter_le five]

The only reason I love/hate risk is how much the die rolls factor into winning. Yeah, there's some strategy, but if you roll like ****, it all goes out the window. It's true for a lot of games, but Risk is one of the worst for that.

That's why it's called "Risk" and not "Stratego" bruh.

 

[Psylocide]

That's why it's called "Risk" and not "Stratego" bruh.

Yeah... Just hate watching 4 hrs of positioning go down in a blaze of ****ty rolls. Welp, that was fun!

Of course, we played for money quite a bit, so that made me hate it even more.

Do you have someone that you game with frequently?

 

[TheCADJockey]

I don't care. I laughed my ass off while I was typing Wrath of Ashartdemon. You guys have no funny.
Also, staying as far away from FIL as possible.

 

[hunter_le five]

Do you have someone that you game with frequently?

I don't a whole lot anymore, but I play with one of my old college buddies every time he comes to visit. I don't actually own any board games, but he literally drives around with a trunk full of them at all times.

He's an insufferable smug asshoke to play with. But seeing him die a little on the inside on the occasions that I win make it all worth it. And the smug generally makes it easy to convince others to gang up on him, which is always fun.

I don't care. I laughed my ass off while I was typing Wrath of Ashartdemon. You guys have no funny.
Also, staying as far away from FIL as possible.

Lulz. Didn't even catch that one.

 

[Psylocide]

I don't care. I laughed my ass off while I was typing Wrath of Ashartdemon. You guys have no funny.
Also, staying as far away from FIL as possible.

I lol'd.

Why? Wouldn't it feel nice to throw a grenade through a window and blow up half his squad?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Why? Wouldn't it feel nice to throw a grenade through a window and blow up half his squad?

Yeah. If I had a week to explain to him the rules. Why the buildings are flat. Why there are aliens. Why I don't like him spitting his chewspit on the deck. What the numbers mean on the cards. Etc.

I get enough enjoyment out of the half hour each visit where he decides he's practiced enough and can kill me in Call of Duty.

 

[Psylocide]

Yeah. If I had a week to explain to him the rules. Why the buildings are flat. Why there are aliens. Why I don't like him spitting his chewspit on the deck. What the numbers mean on the cards. Etc.

I get enough enjoyment out of the half hour each visit where he decides he's practiced enough and can kill me in Call of Duty.

Oh, so then you screen lurk the entire time and buy him a one-way ticket on the pain train?

Real cool, CAD.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Real cool, CAD.

Usually just a knife. Clown around, run past his screen point blank a few times, stand up real slow in front of his scope... he hasn't played the new one yet. I'll make it quick. Burn everything with flamethrower and call it a day.

Might just get that D&D game and go home early for a 4 person game since all my brothers will be home. That should be a shirtshow.

 

[hunter_le five]

What kind of savage doesn't use a spitcup?

 

[Psylocide]

Usually just a knife. Clown around, run past his screen point blank a few times, stand up real slow in front of his scope... he hasn't played the new one yet. I'll make it quick. Burn everything with flamethrower and call it a day.

Might just get that D&D game and go home early for a 4 person game since all my brothers will be home. That should be a shirtshow.

I'll have my phone on so you can call if you need any rules clarifications mid-game.

First game, I bet you guys make it 5 turns before you're all dead.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I'll have my phone on so you can call if you need any rules clarifications mid-game.

First game, I bet you guys make it 5 turns before you're all dead.

Sure you want that phone call?

"Brother #1 called brother #2 a smelly dwarf turd, then brother #3 punched brother #1 for being a nerfherder and I had to tell mom on them to get them all to settle down and play the game right... do I draw a card now?"

 

[Psylocide]

Sure you want that phone call?

"Brother #1 called brother #2 a smelly dwarf turd, then brother #3 punched brother #1 for being a nerfherder and I had to tell mom on them to get them all to settle down and play the game right... do I draw a card now?"

Only if brother #4 is putting his finger really close to brother #3 and repeatedly telling him "I'm not touching you" but it's like, really suuuuuuper close.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Only if brother #4 is putting his finger really close to brother #3 and repeatedly telling him "I'm not touching you" but it's like, really suuuuuuper close.

Well I'm obviously brother #4 in that situation even though I am actually brother #1 if we're being serious here... which I am. I usually reserve the NTY game for my mom when she's bugging us with questions like, "what do you want for dinner?" and she doesn't take pizza for an answer.

 

[ifnotuthenwho]

These days I play the old standard games like Monopoly, Clue, Sorry. When I get together with my brothers and sisters we play trivial pursuit. But way back when, in college, I played the hell out of a game called Dark Tower. I wish I could find a working one that wasn't $300 or more, cuz if I paid that much I would never play it for fear of breaking it.

Anyone else play Dark Tower?

 

[hunter_le five]

Apology accepted. Monopoly is the worst.

 

[mikeasu]

Brew day is usually game day as well. My favorites are:
Settler of Catan (w Cities & Knights)
Carcassonne
Ticket to Ride
Dominion
DC Deck Builder
and Cribbage

Just played Catan with the Traders and Barbarians expansion, with my boys (9 1/2 and 8) the other day - liked the variations from T&B. May have to check out some of those other euro games you've got on your list too - heard good stuff about them. Wouldn't mind a deck-building card game (is it deck-building) as long as you aren't seeking out packs in the store to get the random rare card.

 

[Psylocide]

Euro games have never really held my interest. Too much going on in the way of economic strategy. I still like to try them out for a play or two to see what the mechanics are all about, but end up picking Ameritrash every time if I have the choice.

 

[Jesterdeal]

Just played Catan with the Traders and Barbarians expansion, with my boys (9 1/2 and 8) the other day - liked the variations from T&B. May have to check out some of those other euro games you've got on your list too - heard good stuff about them. Wouldn't mind a deck-building card game (is it deck-building) as long as you aren't seeking out packs in the store to get the random rare card.

Yeah, Deck-building games are self-contained, not like a CCG. Dominion and the DC Deckbuilders are my favorites but the Street Fighter, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel deck-building games are pretty fun.

I also play casual Magic the Gathering so every so often, brew day turns into EDH day.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I've been playing tablet versions of Life and Monopoly with my son.

Been looking for my old Pente set so we can play that together now that he's old enough to not try to steal the gems.

 

[dkwolf]

I've got a closet full, some of the more popular euro games (Settlers, Carcasonne...one of the Dominion expansions, but not Dominion...), lot of strategy games..Risk, Axis & Allies, a full collection of chess boards (I think around 13 right now), Khet, plus a full assortment of card games.


For the most part, my family does not play games that involve thinking - they prefer party games. My nephew will be a gamer, but he's not quite ready to dedicate himself to following the rules of a more complex game -- we might try some of my new purchases over Easter and see. And so far, I haven't found any friends here that are into gaming much at all, either - unless you count Cards Against Humanity.

 

[Psylocide]

Anyone play Chess? I like to play against a real person... but can't get into the computer ones for some reason.

Never play checkers... used to play with my grandpa a lot, haven't since.

Oh well. Also, do they make Chinese chess?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Anyone play Chess? I like to play against a real person... but can't get into the computer ones for some reason.

Only person I ever beat was a drunk Architecture Studio TA. Battle Chess was cool. We had it on our first computer.

 

[hunter_le five]

Anyone play Chess? I like to play against a real person... but can't get into the computer ones for some reason.

Never play checkers... used to play with my grandpa a lot, haven't since.

Oh well. Also, do they make Chinese chess?

You should try mail-chess.

All the riveting tactical action of regular chess, but at the breakneck speed of watching paint dry.