Are there "board gaming groups" just like there are RPG-gaming groups?
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Heh.
Did you know that Snakes and Ladders was (probably) designed as an Indian morality game? The ladders were virtues and the snakes were vices. It made it into Victorian England, and the virtues & vices were changed to accomodate the new culture.
Eventually, it lost those links.
I've just taught the second lesson of my Ad Astra - Science of Board Games class at my school - I taught the three pupils a bit about Settlers of Catan.
Cheers!
Did you know that Snakes and Ladders was (probably) designed as an Indian morality game? The ladders were virtues and the snakes were vices. It made it into Victorian England, and the virtues & vices were changed to accomodate the new culture.
Eventually, it lost those links.
I've just taught the second lesson of my Ad Astra - Science of Board Games class at my school - I taught the three pupils a bit about Settlers of Catan.
Cheers!
DonTadow
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I"m apart of the culture and I run my own board game group, along iwth running 2 d and d groups. I"m designing a website where we can choose the games we play ahead of time including the filler games and the main games. Last night was game of thrones night. First time playing it and it rocked. Its my favorite war game. I really don't understand how so manhy people like a 2 player, hour to set up, long ruled game like battlelore but eh.Chainsaw Mage said: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???
It is indeed its own culture, filled with sub groups. We get good flaming discussions about euro vs. american just like d and d has 1e vs 3.5.
I own about 150 board games and thanks to tanga i buy about 4 a month. Part of the reason i love gencon so much is that i can board game out and rpg out without having to worry about doing one or the other too much.
Shadowslayer
Explorer
Tonguez said:
My hat of Chutes and Ladders know NO limit.
GlassJaw
Hero
We play board or card games sometimes if the whole group can't get together and we don't want to continue the campaign without a full group.
Certain board games can go on just like a normal RPG campaign: Doom, Descent, old-school Heroquest, etc come with a series of quests that have a story-arc.
Certain board games can go on just like a normal RPG campaign: Doom, Descent, old-school Heroquest, etc come with a series of quests that have a story-arc.
Chainsaw Mage
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GlassJaw said:
Hmmmm. Sounds cool, I must say. I'm really getting into Arkham Horror in a big way, and I can see where it could almost become a sort of "horror campaign", especially with adding Dunwich Horror expansion et. al.
Anyone play Runebound? I'm interested in that one too.
Henry
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Yep -- as a matter of fact, an old high school buddy of mine runs one on Saturday nights -- one of our RPG gaming group from Sundays actually participates in both groups (though I don't know if it's currently still true, but was around a year ago when I last asked). They (about 5 guys) get together to play all sorts of new board games (primarily but not exclusively Euro-games) for about 5 hours each weekend. I've joined in once or twice, but board games aren't my fancy usually, so I haven't for a while.
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