Are there "board gaming groups" just like there are RPG-gaming groups?

[Chainsaw Mage]

In my mind, the term "gaming group" immediately implies an RPG. But at my FLGS I just saw an ad posted for someone who "seeks a new gaming group". And he lists his favorite games: "Runebound, Arkham Horror, A Game of Thrones" and a few others . . . all boardgames.

I know about boardgamegeek.com (since it's inevitable that someone will point it out to me in this thread ) but I didn't know that boardgaming was an entirely separate "gamer subculture" like RPGs.

Is it???

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Oh, it totally is it's own culture.
And there's myriad subcultures as well (Euro-Gamers, Ameri-Gamers, etc.).

Though, in my experience, there's not as much cross-over between cultures as I would have initally expected.

Personally, I belong to both the RPG and Board-Game culture equally, though I'll confess I post more here than I do at board-game sites!

 

[Crothian]

Ya, it is and there are people that get together weekly and play board games. I used to but we just don't have the time anymore.

 

[Kafkonia]

My coworkers and I did a irregular/monthly board game night for a few months, but it then morphed into our irregular/monthly D&D night (see SH below.)

 

[frankthedm]

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

 

[Turjan]

I get to play board games more often than RPGs. My best friends are big board game nuts, and we often meet at their house to play board games. They have several hundred different ones.

In principle, board games are more of a family activity. I'd say that it's typically parents plus children who play these. I'm not sure why, but for many women that I know, playing board games seems to be more acceptable than playing RPGs. I think it has to do with the graphic violence in RPGs.

 

[Dragonbait]

I'm not much of a board gamer, but a good friend of mine in my rpg group was in a board game group that would meet 1/week. They played D&D too, but apparently board games were their bread & butter.

 

[MerricB]

Yep. It's definitely a gamer culture.

And, like RPG-land, it's fractured into its own cliques. I'm a generalist, so give me almost any boardgame, and I'll play it.

This Saturday, I'm off to a semi-regular boardgame night (we have them 1/fortnight or month), where I expect to play...
* Tigris and Euphrates
* BattleLore
* Railroad Tycoon
* Goa
* Amun Re

I own about 30 boardgames myself, and our group must have about 80.

Cheers!

 

[Corsair]

Is there a CCG subculture specifically for followers of out of print games?

 

[Banshee16]

I believe there are groups like that. Some of my non-gamer friends have been circulating an e-mail about getting a couples board game group together and getting together every week to drinks, and to try out different games.

Banshee