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Belross

#21 August 09, 2012, 10:10:56 pm

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Risk is incredibly boring and too luck-dependent for my tastes. I like wargames, but only if they're mostly deterministic and only rely upon dice for some elements of combat (and not literally ALL COMBAT like risk.) The exception to this is Warhammer: Chaos in the Old world which uses dice for combat but is still one of my favorite games, primarily because there are so many routes to victory that don't involve combat at all, and even in combat there are ways to mitigate the random element. The Game of Thrones board game is really fun too because of its lack of reliance upon dice.

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tuxedo marx

#22 August 09, 2012, 10:41:25 pm

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i'd still play metal gear solid risk

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Bonifangith

#23 August 09, 2012, 11:22:33 pm

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Haha this is awesome I really enjoy reading your posts.

I should probably get onto IRC sooner or later, I'd like to play in a game for once since I'm usually stuck Dming :P (Not that I really mind)
I don't have a lot of physical table top games, I got Donkey kong Jenga, an army of Tyranids and then my old 3.5 D&D books, and AD&D

Recently I've been DMing this http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Pokemon_Tabletop_Adventures It's pretty sweet I've been running the same group for almost a year now.

And don't think for a second they're just going around saving the world from Team rocket! they're in a post apocalyptic earth where humans are nearly extinct from a war they started and fought with Pokemon that ended up with the world being blasted back to the dark ages!

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Warped655

#24 August 09, 2012, 11:57:21 pm

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I'd be up for running a GURPS game on the forums OR IRC. (or maybe it would be most helpful to do a little of both, have a set time on IRC and be allowed to do "next combat turn" or non-combat oriented decisions occasionally when the IRC part is over on a forum topic)

I don't know what kind of game I'd run though other than that it'd probably have to be 'set' in a time (and any time really) AFTER the year 1900 ('decade' games, modern setting games or futuristic games) and I don't generally care for "High Fantasy" unless it really brakes the mold and I would be bored if I had to run one (or play in one).

As for themes I'm generally pretty open. Post the following IDeas on Glitch works awhile back:
-1920's gangster
-WW1 or WW2
-1950-60 cold war spys
-Vietnam
-90's Gangsta

Or even:
-Space Faring
-Deadly virus that kills 99-98% of the population
-Sci-Fi "Urban Decay"
-Silent Hill esque
-"Bully" style kid type game
-Artic explorers
-Mermaid/Mermen/Atlantian
-Totalitarian government dystopia
-Sci-Fi/Modern Horror
-Alien Invasion
-Western
-Cartoon

(Looking at that old post I see Vel's post and remember that she never started the Wrestling game or that if she did I missed it.)

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Vellfire

#25 August 10, 2012, 12:57:20 am

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Quote from: geodude on August 09, 2012, 10:41:25 pm

i'd still play metal gear solid risk

what about megaman catan

because that exists

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tuxedo marx

#26 August 10, 2012, 01:02:27 am

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i knew metal gear solid risk existed, it looks pretty cool

megaman catan can't possibly be real however

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Vellfire

#27 August 10, 2012, 02:14:49 am

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Vellfire

#28 August 10, 2012, 02:15:47 am

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apparently there is mormon catan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_of_Zarahemla

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Vellfire

#29 August 10, 2012, 02:17:19 am

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btw as much as i love catan i do agree with ramci that it doesn't really lend itself well to the sorts of social interactions that make board games fun. i think the mechanics of catan are really fun but it's kinda more fun playing digital versions of it where you wouldn't be having those interactions anyway

Quote from: Warped655 on August 09, 2012, 11:57:21 pm

(Looking at that old post I see Vel's post and remember that she never started the Wrestling game or that if she did I missed it.)

i didn't because it was taking me forever to type up the rules and i kept putting it off. one day i will get around to it tho and we will play it because i still want to.

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Bonifangith

#30 August 10, 2012, 02:28:27 am

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I've never played Catan

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Belross

#31 August 10, 2012, 05:18:00 am

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Catan is great for learning Craps odds, 100% serious. Craps is my favorite casino game hands down (Texas Hold'em aside) and Catan definitely helped give me an intuitive sense of how often dice rolls will come up. I mean obviously you can just CALCULATE it but that's different than actually throwing dice and getting a feel for how things work.

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Dead Phoenix

#32 August 10, 2012, 05:47:25 am

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Quote from: Bonifangith on August 09, 2012, 11:22:33 pm

Haha this is awesome I really enjoy reading your posts.

I should probably get onto IRC sooner or later, I'd like to play in a game for once since I'm usually stuck Dming :P (Not that I really mind)
I don't have a lot of physical table top games, I got Donkey kong Jenga, an army of Tyranids and then my old 3.5 D&D books, and AD&D

Recently I've been DMing this http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Pokemon_Tabletop_Adventures It's pretty sweet I've been running the same group for almost a year now.

And don't think for a second they're just going around saving the world from Team rocket! they're in a post apocalyptic earth where humans are nearly extinct from a war they started and fought with Pokemon that ended up with the world being blasted back to the dark ages!

I always wanted to try that one out, but I'm not sure I could get people interested in it, and even if I could, I'd probably end up having to be the DM and I really don't think I could handle DMing two different games at once(or probably even the same game).

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bonzi_buddy

#33 August 10, 2012, 10:06:15 am

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monopoly is shit even in mechanics avoid it like a plaque too. our game started like 7 pm and ended finally at the 5 am, with the 2 losers of the game ending up in semi-finals when the winners gave up and even after that it was like hell. in what game does this happen, i ask you dear reader, where. i beg of you. of i didn't disclose why it's bad but u havta trust this semiold tabledog on this one. its bad in mechanics and sours the milk and mood. fuck that game.

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Vellfire

#34 August 10, 2012, 12:18:08 pm

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monopoly is one of the worst board games

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tuxedo marx

#35 August 10, 2012, 12:47:08 pm

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i like trivial pursuit and cluedo

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tristero

#36 August 10, 2012, 03:51:49 pm

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i really like clue, despite the fact it has so many bad mechanics in it (woops, rolled a 1, guess i don't get to do anything this turn... uh-oh, turns out my pawn in the killer, looks like i get dragged all over the board in the end game and effectively never get a turn)

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Vellfire

#37 August 10, 2012, 04:20:02 pm

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clue is p. fun

there was a sequel to clue that is a VHS game that i bought at a thrift store but i haven't played it or watched the tape. i just...sorta have it sitting on my game shelf.

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Vellfire

#38 August 10, 2012, 04:20:33 pm

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if you want a game that's really simple to learn and easy to just pick up and play check out the amazeing labyrinth, it's p. dang fun

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tuxedo marx

#39 August 10, 2012, 04:38:31 pm

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look

you have have the american street names with monopoly, but it's called CLUEDO OKAY

how can you ignore the great pun on ludo

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Faust

#40 August 10, 2012, 04:58:02 pm

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Fuck Cluedo. I played that like ONE time when I was younger. My father and his girlfriend at the time played with me, we set the game up, first opportunity she made a guess about who it was, got it totally right, we packed the game away.

They refused to play again.

My memories of Cluedo are filled with sadness...

Hey hey hey

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