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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 607281" data-attributes="member: 203">Well here I am again at the tail end of a thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> (why I can't I find the really interesting threads at the beginning?).I love and play a lot of board and card games most of which have been mentioned above.  A few 2-player card games that I have enjoyed recently includeHack!  by Kenzer & Co. based on their Knights of the Dinner Table comic.  You and your adventuring buddies build the dungeon you explore searching for the Hand of Vectra (or at least the exit!) fighting monsters, circumventing traps and outwitting NPCs to grab the kewl l00t!  Great fun with 2 players and freaking fantastic with 4 or 5.Once Upon a Time.  A (sadly) overlooked and overshadowed story telling card game that came out in 1995 from Atlas Games.  You can still order it from them though (or get your FLGS to - I got 2 packs from them).  The premise of the game is that you use the cards to build your fairy tale story - each card must be used in such a way as that it is important to the plot of the story being told (and the short rulebook has some excellent examples of how to adjudicate this).  The cards have things like "forest", "magic sword" and "dragons" on them but also things like "People meet each other", "By the Sea" and "A fight".  Other players can interrupt your story if you mention something that they have a card for and then they take over (forcing you to draw more cards).  You also have ending cards that you have to work towards.  A great deal of fun if you are into stroy telling (although it can be difficult for those you can't 'think on their feet'  I find that of you have done any DMing on the fly in the past it is a great help).Before I Kill You Mister Bond...  A great card game from Cheapass Games.  You are evil.  You have a Secret Lair.  You lure agents to their deaths while taunting them unmercifully.  And you are easily distracted by ice cream!  Great with 3-4 but still very enjoyable with only 2.  Reallybig games (6 or more people) really need 2 decks combined to provide a full game.Some great board games that are easily playable with only 2Heroquest - from Milton Bradley.  Out of print now but you can usually find a copy in "used" bins at gaming stores or online (the ones on eBay go for extraordinary amounts - almost temps me to sell my copy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  One player controls the 4 heroes (Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf and Wizard) and the other reveals the dungeon they are exploring and controls all monsters.  Great fun for 2-5 players (can get very compeditive with 5 though especially if you don't allow people to share gold they find)Starship Catan (2 player version of Starfarers of Catan).  Surprisingly good (I say that because the 2 player version of Settlers of Catan was so surprisingly bad).  Those and I agree that the original Civilzation/Advanced Civilzation (don't try to play the basic game get the 'advanced' rules they make the game run faster so even 6 player games are playable within an 8 hour timeframe the original would take nearly 12 hours with 6 players), Settlers of Catan, Starfarers of Catan, Axis & Allies, Tikal and, of course, Monoploy! (just kidding, I always hated Monoploy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

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