Board Games

[Lorizael]

Also

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

I also second this site. Great resource.

[Zkribbler]

They said it just wasn't that great.

JM

Lies!!!!

[Andemagne]

shouldn't this be in the Other Games forum?



Good Games (to name a few):
Puerto Rico
Arkham Horror
Svea Rike
A Game Of Thrones (both of them)
Republic Of Rome



Throw Away:
Monopoly
Risk
Ticket To Ride
Carcassonne


Don't Even Think About:
Munckin

[Jon Miller]

The unfortunate thing is that more often I am a collector rather than a player.

At least I stopped my ASL purchsing addiction (I would buy modules, but only play in a tournament ~1 time a year).

JM

[rah]

Rail Baron
Amoeba Wars (tightest rules I've ever seen) and a great game.
Junta, silly but can be hilarious with a big group of players.
Escape from Auschwitz, Even sillier than Junta but the concept is quite absurd.

[Edan]

Some people also like
Zombies

I've played it once. It was ok, but not something I would rush to play.

Munchkin

Fun once, but I found it very dull on repeated playings. Other people seem to like it, though.

Arcanum Horror

Good if you like HP Lovecraft and you've got 4 hours to kill and like a fairly complex game with a large board and lots of decks of cards. And yet it's not the most complex game I've played (that would be Android, where we gave up after two hours - great setting/mood/gameplay mechanics that was just overly complex)

[onodera]

Havannah!

[Andemagne]

Talisman -- but good luck finding one. Game Designers Workshop hasn't made it in years.

Fantasy Fllight Games (industry leader) has released a new version of Talisman.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=29&enmi=Talisman

[Lorizael]

Escape from Auschwitz, Even sillier than Junta but the concept is quite absurd.

Escape from Auschwitz is a silly game?

[Zkribbler]

I wonder if you can find any more old games, e.g.
Avalon Hill's Blitzkrieg or
SPI's Fall of Rome

[Zkribbler]

Fantasy Fllight Games (industry leader) has released a new version of Talisman.
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ed...&enmi=Talisman

I remember once finding a copy of Talisman to selling on E-Bay for over $400. No, I didn't buy it.

[rah]

Escape from Auschwitz is a silly game?

One person plays the german jail keeper and it's his goal to keep all the other players (jews) from escaping so they can be exterminated. (Sounds pretty silly as a family board game)
I can see young johney screaming, "I want to be the NAZI, please daddy, can I be the NAZI" "It so much fun to kill all the jews."

[Jon Miller]

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243

I wouldn't learn something so complicated again, to be honest, although I have enjoyed playing it (I haven't played it in 5ish years). I have heard that the board game for Europa Universalist is worse.

JM

[Zkribbler]

One person plays the german jail keeper and it's his goal to keep all the other players (jews) from escaping so they can be exterminated. (Sounds pretty silly as a family board game)
I can see young johney screaming, "I want to be the NAZI, please daddy, can I be the NAZI" "It so much fun to kill all the jews."

Sounds like a cooool game.

[Dinner]

Diplomacy

Word.