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Post by HecticDialectic on May 16, 2011 21:54:07 GMT -8
Yeah, I only have dominion: Intrigue, which I actually like for multiplayer because it has so many attack cards and thus feels a lot less like solitaire- playing online is crazy though, because you get all the expansions going at once
Power Grid is definitely an awesome game- I've only played it a few times though and never won- my Calgary friends play it way too often. If I'd known you were a gamer I'd have forced you somehow to go to Underground Con a few weeks ago- my friends were organizers and I ran some Dungeons and Dragons at it.
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Post by J-Dawg on May 16, 2011 21:57:05 GMT -8
I don't D&D, but I do have an RPG group and we're currently doing a Warhammer: Fantasy Roleplay campaign. I have a soft spot for Call of Cthulhu and Shadowrun, but don't have a group doing either of them at the moment.
I'll try to check out the con next year.
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Post by HecticDialectic on May 16, 2011 21:59:59 GMT -8
yeah if you want a hookup for Shadowrun PM me- I'm friends with Bruce, who is the shadowrun head honcho for our part of the world.
Why dont' you DnD? I dont' 4th edition, but I used to play a ton of 3.5, in fact, I know so many people because I was the organizer of the Calgary Dungeons and Dragons Meetup Group for a while.
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Post by J-Dawg on May 16, 2011 22:02:53 GMT -8
The main reason I don't D&D is that I prefer RPGs that are more story-oriented as opposed to crunchy dice-fests. Shadowrun is one of the exceptions to that rule for me. I really enjoy games where rolling dice happens infrequently and it's more about storytelling / roleplaying. The way my group plays warhammer is kind of a mix and I'm OK with it.
I also enjoy indie / 1 shot things like Sweet Agatha and Dead of Night.
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Post by HecticDialectic on May 16, 2011 22:06:52 GMT -8
Hmm... I can't imagine Warhammer RPG would be more story oriented than a dice-fest- actually the RP part is why I like DnD so much as a platform- you can go entire sessions without fighting, and then rely on a robust rule system when it comes down to things and the rubber hits the road.
At UndergroundCon we did an Iron GM (yes, like iron chef) competition and my players only had 2 fights, but a lot of storyline and social stuff- and that was in a 1 shot- it was a fun little horror campaign- which is my favorite kind to run.
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Post by Shaxspear III Esq. on May 17, 2011 0:00:27 GMT -8
Ohhhh man. I used to play Shadowrun once a week when I was younger. The GM had all the bells and whistles. Player pieces, laminate grid maps, every single book... ahhhh good times. I actually bought a SNES at a pawn shop a couple years ago because I found and won an ebay bid for the Shadowrun SNES game. It's still the only game I have for it and I'll dust it off and play it once a year.
/nerd
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Post by Catherine Sun Chips on May 17, 2011 4:57:14 GMT -8
I fucking love apples to apples. YES! Me too!!! |
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Post by mooselyn on May 17, 2011 11:30:10 GMT -8
I really like Blokus, but with all the little translucent pieces it might not be the best game to bring camping.
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Post by HecticDialectic on May 17, 2011 11:31:56 GMT -8
I also enjoy Blokus, but it totally messes with my OCD brain and when I play it once I'll spend days and days thinking about putting down translucent pieces of plastic in my head. It's a horrible horrible thing.
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Post by J-Dawg on May 17, 2011 17:09:48 GMT -8
I played a lot of Blokus when it first arrived on the scene, but I dont' think I've played it even once in the past 2 years for whatever reason.
As for the Warhammer dice fest / story thing, the new edition of warhammer encourages you to storytell a lot more even during combat due to the way the dice work. It does largely depend on your group, as with D&D though.
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Post by mooselyn on May 17, 2011 17:18:52 GMT -8
When I was back on the east coast visiting some friends, I got to be a guest character in their Buffy the Vampire Slayer campaign. I was pleasantly surprised by how terrible it wasn't. It also seemed fairly story driven, but I imagine that if you wanted it to be all about combat you could easily accomplish that. They had a mechanism in the game called Drama points that basically let you do otherwise impossible or at least unlikely things which lends a little more spark to the game and makes for more dynamic combat. My older brothers have always been D&D players so that was pretty much the only tabletop gaming I had played until recently, so the change was pretty interesting.
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Post by weenie on May 17, 2011 17:38:53 GMT -8
Hold up...Buffy tabletop gaming?! Obviously my fellow nerds have been holding out on me.
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Post by J-Dawg on May 17, 2011 18:24:36 GMT -8
Yeah, I'd heard Buffy was an interesting game, have never tried it though.
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Post by weenie on May 17, 2012 13:29:17 GMT -8
Wow I knew this thread existed! I was just reading some Wil Wheaton blog and he recommended this game: cardsagainsthumanity.com/They let you download the cards so I printed some out on card stock and I'm bringing 'em with me. Anybody ever played it? |
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Post by StormyPinkness on May 17, 2012 13:47:05 GMT -8
No.
But we did play Monopoly for like four hours a couple weeks ago.
EDIT: I just went to that site. It kind of looks like Apples to Apples in a way.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 13:53:05 GMT -8
No. But we did play Monopoly for like four hours a couple weeks ago. EDIT: I just went to that site. It kind of looks like Apples to Apples in a way. Sorry! anyone? Also, lol at Wil Wheaton. |
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on May 17, 2012 13:55:13 GMT -8
No. But we did play Monopoly for like four hours a couple weeks ago. EDIT: I just went to that site. It kind of looks like Apples to Apples in a way. Sorry! anyone? I bet Stormy knows Sorry! inside and out because I sent her two coloured blobs on Draw Something meant to be the Sorry! pegs and she guessed that the blobs were Sorry! pegs straight away. I was major impressed. |
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Post by weenie on May 17, 2012 13:56:14 GMT -8
Also, lol at Wil Wheaton. You spend enough time on the interwebz, you're gonna get Wil Wheatoned. FACT. |
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Post by Horned Gramma on May 17, 2012 13:58:45 GMT -8
Monopol-E
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 13:59:38 GMT -8
Also, lol at Wil Wheaton. You spend enough time on the interwebz, you're gonna get Wil Wheatoned. FACT. I have nothin' but love for Wil Wheaton. |
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