RoboRally - using program cards, race your little robot to a flag on a tile board, all the while navigating conveyer belts, avoiding pits and crushers, trying to kill the other robots with your laser, etc.
Illuminati - lie, cheat and steal your way to victory in this ultimate game of conspiracy
Civilization - an epic game of world conquest (precursor to the popular computer game)
Titan - raise an army of centaurs, warbears, giants and their kin to eliminate your rivals in this curiously hexagonal world
Can’t Stop - try to beat the odds in this classic (though out-of-print) dice game
RoboRally - using program cards, race your little robot to a flag on a tile board, all the while navigating conveyer belts, avoiding pits and crushers, trying to kill the other robots with your laser, etc.
Illuminati - lie, cheat and steal your way to victory in this ultimate game of conspiracy
Civilization - an epic game of world conquest (precursor to the popular computer game)
Titan - raise an army of centaurs, warbears, giants and their kin to eliminate your rivals in this curiously hexagonal world
Can’t Stop - try to beat the odds in this classic (though out-of-print) dice game
I’ve played Illuminati and it’s a fun game. It’s a collectible card game (like Magic). Each player controls a secret organization that is seeking world domination like the Bavarian Illuminati, the Gnomes of Zurich, the UFO’s, or the Servants of Chthulhu. Players then seek to control other groups like the Republican Party, the Boy Scouts, Japan, network television, Star Trek fans, etc or to attack other players’ groups.
Another interesting game is Talisman. It’s a board game that plays like a RPG. Each player is a character with different powers. The players move around the board encountering random events and the other players. There are many of typical RPG elements like combat, random monsters, magic spells, treasure hunting, etc.
Talisman – I’ve played it once or twice, and it was fun for what it was.
Magic: the Gathering – I never got into it, but I enjoyed watching people play. I was trapped in Pittsburgh when the Arabian Nights set came out, and packs were selling for $1 a pop. If I’d known then what I know now, I’d be a frickin’ millionaire!! :mad:
While we’re talking table games, do wargames count? I mean real wargames, where you move counters/miniatures on a map in a strategic/tactical exercise? I’m phenomenally bad at such things, but they’re neat anyway. There are lots of WWII tank games, naval combat games (although Battleship is simpler and more fun), all the way up to things like Warhammer and some Star Trekkish battle games.
–Da Cap’n
“Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn
With a deck of fifty-one.”
God and sonny Jesus, the gamer shines through in more of us than I thought. Cant, El Hubbo is a lucky man. You play M:tGand like Jelly Bellies? You rock out loud.
I’m addicted to CCG’s. My sig comes from Legend of the Five Rings, I’m working on completeing my M:tG collection, and I’ve got cards for Legend of the Burning Sands and 7th Sea. Oh, and Narile, I’ve got a near-complete set of XXXenophile-now I’m just looking for a girl who’ll play it with me.
My picks for table games:
Settlers of Catan
Mille Bornes-hey Dem! Coup Ferres!
Talisman
Scotland Yard-although I don’t know if MB makes it anymore
Trivial Pursuit
He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break.
And while Yori raged against his unbending
courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back.
His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought.
-Yakamo’s Funeral
I’m more a fan of Deluxe Illuminati (the boxed set) than the trading card game. In general, I find CCGs to be unsatisfying since over time, you need to keep shelling out cash for increasingly powerful cards to stay in the game.
Talisman is a great game, but a bit unbalanced. Compare powerful characters like the Chaos Warrior, Minotaur, Fire Wizard and Wizard to wimps like the Chaos Dwarf, Assassin, Dwarf Warrior and Dragon Slayer. Generally, when we play, we either choose our characters directly (and eliminate any contested character), or choose from the middle range.
Meara, I used to play Carwars, though I haven’t played in a good 10 years. I also enjoy Talisman at times. Another good wargame is Silent Death, a quick played space dogfighting game. (At an SFCon, I was awarded the Evil Mean Bastard Award by the guy running a SD tournament. Also got the Luckiest Shot in History Award for taking out a gunship with a super weak gun in a single blow practically.) Another one I tried once and enjoyed was Full Thrust A simple Starship fighting game.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
Personally, I prefer my wargames of the diplomatic/ subterfuge/ screw the other guy behind his back type:
Junta
Kremlin
Down With The King! (an old favorite, long out of print, thank you eBay!)
I used to play Settlers of Cataan religously; then one of my roommates realized my strategy, decided it was good, and began using it. Which meant I went from winning more often than the other to losing nearly every game (because he and I would fight constantly over the same land and constantly screw each other over, allowing the third player to coast to victory). While I don’t mind getting backstabbed, or losing games, I do mind having someone decide on turn one to try and destroy me and never relenting. Sigh. One game I used to love and can no longer touch…
JMCJ
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I hate CCG’s with a passion, partly because the craze ruined many RPG-companies (don’t care about T$R), but mainly for the collecting part. I used to play M:tG before it got out of hand, no one would play for ante anymore ("I don’t want to lose my Ultrarare Thingamajing, bo-hoo hoo!).
Diplomacy
This game has tested more friendships than women and booze put together! Well, maybe not…
For once you must try to face the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Othello is a remake of the game Reversi with one minor rule change: In Reversi there are two different opening setups; in Othello, there’s only one.
Othello/Reversi is a two-dimensional game of position played on an 8 by 8 square board. The pieces are white on one side and black on the other side of the piece. Movement is by placing a piece on the board so as to capture (cooperative capture) one or more of the oppenent’s pieces inbetween the placed piece and pieces already on the board.
A win is credited to the player with more of his colour pieces on the board at the end of play.