Tabletop (Board/Card/Rpg's) Gamers on this Forum?

[Paul 3.0]

I have recently resolved my nerdom and proudly wear it on my sleeve. Was wondering some threads here as I am doing game prep for a Pathfinder 1e adventure path (Second Darkness) that I've converted to Pathfinder 2nd edition rules....and wondered if there was any other gamers out there?

My Story: I started gaming in my early 20's when Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition released in 2000. Played for several years then a divorce and new marriage came along, then kids and a career put me off of it from about 2008 until 2018, and a conversation happened. My brother in law and I were drinking and shooting billiards one night and he mentioned Critical Role, a show on Twitch that runs D&D 5th edition. I checked it out, didn't care for it much (though I appreciate Mercer's worldbuilding and detail/prep level, but the cast rather puts me off) but it got the old game feels back in me. So much so I picked up the new edition, didn't care for it much but still ran with it, because I really missed the laughs.

I made a few phone calls/texts, patched up an old friendship that sorely needed it and got a session together that ran bi-weekly for a year and a half. Eventually a pandemic hit and gaming all went online.

Currently I am Pathfinder/Starfinder/Delta Green player/GM, and was curious if anyone else out here is. I am sure there is one or two and would love to hear about it. My son now 7 has sat in on our sessions (forcing me to really watch the language as I can get a bit salted at times) and now he has an interest in it as well.

I adore this hobby, it's brought friends back together, got one of my best friends who was hanging on by a thread from PTSD and the worst luck I have ever seen in another human (Army Vet) open up, and get his ass into therapy and is crushing it these days from a stability standpoint and allowed me to meet other players from around the world from all walks just gather round a table and tell stupid stories.

Game on.

 

[fightnhampster]

After having played in the early 90s while in junior high, I just got back into it this year. I joined as a player with a group in the spring and just started another group as a DM in October. Really love it and I've got an itch to start collecting 2e materials from when I originally played.

If you are open to podcasts, I definitely recommend checking out Vintage RPG podcast. It's about 30 minutes per episode and it's really fun to listen to.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

We do as family. Grew up playing Parcheesi (four generations until 2nd/3rd grade would play, with little pieces of white cloth tape on the green ones so my great grandpa would know the blue from the green), Pitch, Bridge (my favorite), whatever board games came out as a kid. Our kids liked all sorts of board games including Trivial Pursuit (I play Silver Screen they play LOTR or we all play other versions) and have some new ones they've brought their friends like from time to time. We still gather around the table and play. But people don't really go to other people's houses to play games like they did in my parents' and grandparents' days (after my grandpa died, I was my grandma's bridge partner once a month in the summer when I was working at the farm). Too bad, IMO, getting together is a great idea! And necessary, IMO.

Probably most fun as a kid was learning to play pool on a 9 foot antique Brunswick in my grandpa's basement (more like a cellar, lol). I still remember my great grandpa ambling around the table, purple smoke from his cigarette, pocketing balls. My grandpa was pretty darn good and his brother was really good - what I could have learned if I'd known what to look for back then. Still, got to play with both my grandpas (and my dad just about every week night at our house junior high - high school) - lots of good memories.

Human interaction - kind of important!

 

[scloyd]

In the early 70's before I got my driver's license I spent many summer days playing RISK with my friends in their breezeway/screened porch. The hours in the day flew by. If we weren't playing baseball, we were playing RISK.

Then I got my driver's license and a car and that was it...no more RISK.

 

[Jaylotw]

I ran a camp owned by a small college for two summers. When a group of students came to stay, a bunch of them stayed up late in the main lodge playing a Jurassic Park themed variant of DnD, along with the traditional DnD theme. I set them up with oil lamps, goblets, candles, lit the woodstove etc and hung out while they played.

The first night, there were four of them. By the end of the week, there were 20 or so students with maybe 6 actual players. Everyone else was listening to the story, offering advice, laughing. I cooked snacks, moderated the alcohol consumption, added sound effects etc.

The guy who was DM was a master storyteller and as the game became more of a theater for the rest of us, he started showing off a bit, adding drama and humor, leaving us all hanging for the next night's events. He and I would discuss elements of storytelling during the day and plan for things to happen. One of them involved a plastic bat on some fishing line.

The whole thing was magical. It's amazing what happens when you get young people away from technology.

 

[Grangerous]

Double Deck Pinochle anyone?

 

[Paul 3.0]

After having played in the early 90s while in junior high, I just got back into it this year. I joined as a player with a group in the spring and just started another group as a DM in October. Really love it and I've got an itch to start collecting 2e materials from when I originally played.

If you are open to podcasts, I definitely recommend checking out Vintage RPG podcast. It's about 30 minutes per episode and it's really fun to listen to.

Yeah theres a few I really get into, mostly the Glass Cannon Network

 

[Paul 3.0]

I ran a camp owned by a small college for two summers. When a group of students came to stay, a bunch of them stayed up late in the main lodge playing a Jurassic Park themed variant of DnD, along with the traditional DnD theme. I set them up with oil lamps, goblets, candles, lit the woodstove etc and hung out while they played.

The first night, there were four of them. By the end of the week, there were 20 or so students with maybe 6 actual players. Everyone else was listening to the story, offering advice, laughing. I cooked snacks, moderated the alcohol consumption, added sound effects etc.

The guy who was DM was a master storyteller and as the game became more of a theater for the rest of us, he started showing off a bit, adding drama and humor, leaving us all hanging for the next night's events. He and I would discuss elements of storytelling during the day and plan for things to happen. One of them involved a plastic bat on some fishing line.

The whole thing was magical. It's amazing what happens when you get young people away from technology.

That is a fantastic story right there ty for sharing

 

[Waning Embers]

Was always more into solitaire myself. I bought the AD&D guides in the late '80s to read and draw the monsters but it just didn't feel like something I would want to play.

Human interaction - kind of important!

For some it's too psychologically and emotionally draining.

 

[STP]

We played a lot of board games as kids, but then Atari was released and Monopoly was in my rearview mirror… and then came game rooms w/Donkey Kong, Galaga, Defender, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Battlezone, etc., etc., etc., and I became a junky spending every penny earned as a paperboy?

 

[STP]

… and I still play video games today, XBox, PS, iMac, iPad, iPhone… was just playing Call of Duty?

 

[Waning Embers]

… and I still play video games today, XBox, PS, iMac, iPad, iPhone… was just playing Call of Duty?

My ongoing childhood addiction.

 

[anotherbob]

used to but it's hard to find a decent group for such things.

 

[Streeper541]

I'm a big fan of cribbage... does that count? ?

 

[chilllucky]

used to but it's hard to find a decent group for such things.

Meetup is your friend there.

My wife and I have been in and out of modern nerdy bord game groups. She played DnD a lot in college, but insists it wouldn't be fun anymore. Yet she keeps all the stuff anyways. I just had to move a milk crate of deteriorating Dragon Magazines to paint behind some shelves. I was not allowed to throw them out.

 

[Paul 3.0]

Meetup is your friend there.

My wife and I have been in and out of modern nerdy bord game groups. She played DnD a lot in college, but insists it wouldn't be fun anymore. Yet she keeps all the stuff anyways. I just had to move a milk crate of deteriorating Dragon Magazines to paint behind some shelves. I was not allowed to throw them out.

!! I have a few of those as well.

 

[Servant King]

You've brought back fond memories of my youth, sir! I was more of a FPS guy back then (Doom, Quake, Half-Life etc.), but I did dabble in Warcraft and Warcraft II when they came out in '94 and '96 respectively. I never did very well at them...I remember particularly that the Human campaign of Warcraft II was just about impossible to beat. Err...without cheat codes, that is! ?

As for tabletop games, I still play Scrabble with my wife a couple times a month. Still looking for a chance to use "perique" and get a ton of points. And of course poker, back in the early 2000s when it took off, but I quit. Lost too much (my temper, mostly).

 

[username]

I haven’t played in a couple years. Stupid pandemic but I love to play the Horus heresy with my friends and D&D was always fun.

 

[Infantry23]

About 4 or 5 years ago a friend introduced me to board games outside of the monopoly-type standard games. He's not much of a wargamer but that's where my interests lie. I play Paths of Glory, Combat Commander, Flying Colors, Commands and Colors series, etc. My sons play a lot of superhero board games too. It really has been a great family past time!

 

[Jaylotw]

That is a fantastic story right there ty for sharing

It made me wish that I'd gotten into it when I was younger. The whole thing was perfect, what with a big log cabin with no electricity and a big long table, a 20 foot high vaulted ceiling, flickering lamps. At one point, late at night around 1am, a pack of coyotes went wild about a mile from camp. It just happened that the party was working their way through some deep dark forest in the game, it was perfect timing.