Anyone Into Tabletop/Card RPGs or Board Games?

[cossackjack]

When I was younger, like 10-16YO, I used to spend days on end with friends playing stuff like Axis and Allies and other strategy games.

I enjoyed those games as well, but rarely could convince or coerce my friends to play. They are not particularly suited for solitary play.

I still have several Avalon Hill games in good-to-very good condition:
Gettysburg (1964 ed.)
Jutland
Luftwaffe
Panzer Blitz
Panzer Leader
Starship Troopers
1776

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I enjoyed those games as well, but rarely could convince or coerce my friends to play. They are not particularly suited for solitary play.

I still have several Avalon Hill games in good-to-very good condition:
Gettysburg (1964 ed.)
Jutland
Luftwaffe
Panzer Blitz
Panzer Leader
Starship Troopers
1776

Where I grew up, all of the other kids were either military brats or the children of those working for NASA. Most don’t think of Alabama as being very smart, but if you wanted to build missiles or space ships, this is where you lived.
I really would have rather floated down the Mississippi on a raft, but my friends were all conquor the world types.

But, I do long for setting up a table and playing a bit of strategy for a week or two, but Mrs Cosmic likes to eat... so I work.

 

[craig61a]

RPG’s...?

 

[Infantry23]

I'm not into RPGs but the world of board games is vast. A friend of mine got me into board games 4 or 5 yrs ago and I play a lot of very detail-oriented war games (USCW, WW1, WW2, etc). There's a game for every taste I've found out.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I'm a Battletech guy.

Edit: Also, if you want to learn how to Backgammon for Blood, just get a Greek to teach you. I was a cook for a lot of years and I'm fairly certain I could beat anyone here at Backgammon. Unless of course they're Greek!

 

[BarrelProof]

Is there anything worth a damn online? Looks like I'm about to saddle up to a 14 day quarantine and can only read so much.

I don't play many games. Most of the ones I do play are like Candy Land and Uno and Pop the PIg, products of having young children at home. Wouldn't mind a way to pass the time over the next couple of weeks...

 

[lightxmyfire]

I used to play a lot more MTG, still have a lot of old cards. I've got a game of D&D 5e going over zoom with a few friends, a game of Numinera (D&D like RPG but a different system, which I think is easier than all the traditional D&D stats. ) there is also "the sprawl" which is a blade runner style setting and uses the powered by the apocalypse system.

All good things to check out, deffo good to have a good group of friends to play with the group really makes it with those games.

In terms of board games Settlers of Catan is a great one, and so is Dominion.