Board games

[golden_boy]

Lots of good suggestions in this thread, I'm slowly googling and youtubing my way through all of them (while trying to get better at chess!)

[Canadian*Sniper]

I grew up with Fireball Island. Such a great game. You'd try to fuck everyone else over by tapping one of the red balls to roll into other players or the bridges they're standing on.

[RL Clown]

Do I like board games? Of course! That's kinda like asking: "Do you like ice cream?" I think that Risk is a great board game. *sigh* If only the map could be a little more "modernized"... What I mean: I would really like it if the map in Risk could correspond to a world map (I'm talking about today's world map). But other than that, Risk is an amazing game!

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Theoretically speaking, I think that anybody can create a board game. All you need is a pen, a piece of paper, and maybe a few coins. Your only limit is your imagination.

[golden_boy]

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This is one of the games I grew up with.

[OMacKnight]

Amusing fact, yesterday I started working on a dungeon crawling RPG and found myself basically making a hybrid of monopoly and ultima.

I'll probably find a way to demonstrate this idea to you lads (and ladies) in the future when I make a playable version.

But the basic idea for the gameplay is that you have a monopoly like board of 24 tiles and must work your way around to complete a "level".

For each tile is a card face down from a deck of cards that is reset once everybody makes it around the board. These include monster instances, traps, secret shops and some other cool things.

There will be 4 starting classes with unique pieces (probably 4 colour variants on 4 different pieces, so everybody can play the one they want and potentially this will introduce a teamplay system).

As you progress you get items and equipment that you can use. But be careful, this game is designed to kill you as quick as possible (within a fair level). So games will probably be quite short.

And now my brain appears to be shutting down as I sit here looking at my new system. So I'll hopefully remember to edit this tomorrow, but basically. Monopoly meets a classic rpg. On the PC it's being designed to be more like a single player experience with all of these mechanics happening in the background, but the boardgame would be fun to do a prototype of tomorrow.

[Solecord]

If you like Risk, go find a copy of Risk Legacy and get a regular gaming group together. Different take on Risk. I completely love it. Much better than the original Risk!

[yesterday]

Amusing fact, yesterday I started working on a dungeon crawling RPG and found myself basically making a hybrid of monopoly and ultima.

So in other words, Talisman?

[ezzetabi]

I love board games! I prefer coop games, but some competitive ones are nice. I tend to prefer lighter games, because stuff like go and chess remind too much of work.

I own:
Ghost Story with both expansions
Pandemic
A go-ban with some extra colored stones (you should try gess if you never did)
Roborally (which I love)
The Lord of the Ring, the Confrontation (IMO Stratego done well)
Fairy Story
Mahjong (I play japanese rules)
Creationary

and probably others I do not remember now...