Tabletop folks, where do we go now, Hobbies?

[Kelly]

They blew our subforum up. Do we stay here amid the flood of "Should a Christian play Diablo?" type threads?

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

I say we stay here.

They have been blowing up a lot of forums it seems because many of them weren't used. Maybe if we get a good table-top thread going, it will be more active than a subforum is.

 

[stonetoflesh]

I'm ok with staying here, although the Science Fiction & Fantasy forum could also be a nice new home...

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

Mainstream wise, I play Descent now mostly. I'm waiting for Merchants and Marauders to come out soon as well. Then there are other games like Catan that we are into as well, but I like the complex fantasy based games. Shame we can't find good people to play with it seems.

 

[SlateGreyDays]

I've longed thought the Catan series of games were really interesting. I have a card version of it but still haven't managed to play it ;(

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

The card game is very very different. I didn't really care for it myself, but then, I don't really care for any card games.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Recent gaming action: Talisman (2nd ed.), Castles & Crusades RPG (playing), Mongoose Traveller RPG (running)

 

[Kelly]

Playing 4E D&D, a halfling rogue (ruthless ruffian). We are going through "Thunderspire Labyrinth"

 

[Breakaway_republic]

my recent gaming activity:
D&D campaign [playing female 1/2 elf rogue], Gamma World RPG tabletop, 2 Gurps campaigns [potentially becoming 3], 1 horribly BAD Blood of Heroes campaign [that's circling the drain [and thatnk goodness for that]], and 1 character on the MMO "Runes of Maigic"

*Note: All campaigns except the last are on Wed and Sat nights [i'm not a gameoholic ,just possibly OVER diversified!].

 

[Kelly]

Ah, youth! Free time.

Have any of you used any online tabletop assistant to run online games? I have been looking at Maptool, I own Fantasy Grounds, but that involves each player forking over cash. What have you used and do you know a good place to learn how to DM using Maptool?

 

[Truffle]

what did they get rid of? didn't notice..? is it the board gamers???

 

[stonetoflesh]

^ Apparently a number of subforums were purged (recently?), including the one devoted to tabletop games (board games, pencil & paper RPGs, etc.)

 

[Kelly]

Darksun was announced as the campaign release for 2010. That made half my gaming group psyched and the other half groan. I kind of groaned, as all I remember from playing DS was hunting for food and water. It was super boring and took a majority of our gaming sessions. I hope they streamline/cinematize that aspect a bit and let the otherwise interesting campaign world shine.

 

[SiderealExalt]

Exalted and M:TG are all I play anymore. Never did like D&D.

 

[Saldaws]

imagination keeps you young...

 

[Jesus4Life777]

Occasionally I go to board game stores where they only have "geek" games. Nothing like monopoly unless it's star wars monopoly.

These stores are very fun. One weekend at Tower Games (near me) was dedicated to gamers and over 200 people showed up to play games over the weekend. There was a giant Heroscape table, Warhammer table, people were playing Battlestar Gallactica, etc...

I played games like Pitch Car, Snowtails, Smallworld, Roborally...

As you all know, board games can be so much more intuitive than Sorry or Checkers. The board game world is lively. I've enjoyed the fantasy adventure games a lot... like Runebound Second edition and WoW the board game (and miniatures). Or Twilight Empirium. I haven't played Descent yet but I really want to. Basically if you are a D&D fan you should really look into Descent (is what I heard).

Here's a recent thread I made on BoardGameGeek called "Which fantasy adventure games are you most looking forward to?". What a great website.


haha I like your signature SiderealExalt

 

[Kelly]

(All, fee free to start new threads related to table top games, no need to stay in this post about where do we go.)

 

[Jesus4Life777]

I played Ticket to Ride - Nordic Countries last night. It was the first time I played any Ticket to Ride game. I did terrible. I liked how the Nordic Countries version works with 2 players... I don't know if that's true for all Ticket to Ride games.

 

[MattLangley]

I'm loving D&D 4e, fortunately have some co-workers to play with.

 

[stonetoflesh]

(All, fee free to start new threads related to table top games, no need to stay in this post about where do we go.)

Perhaps we should preface the subject line with [tabletop] to make things easier to pick out analog gaming threads?