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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3185644" data-attributes="member: 19675">Chess?  Checkers?  Stratego?  Risk?  Standard Hoyle card games?How about Quarto or Cathedral?Magic: the Gathering?  (Or almost any CCG, really.)Simply put, 2 is a tough number to work with.If you look around, perhaps you can find some of the old Metagames, Task Force Games, TSR minigames, like Ogre/G.E.V., Melee, Wizard, HotSpot, Saga, They've Invaded Pleasantville, or Ultra Warrior.  Most of them were designed for 2 players.Then there are their modern inheritors...games from companies like Cheapass Games (whose Kill Dr. Lucky game- a Clue spoof- is getting the full color "real game" treatment) might fit the bill.Nova Games had something called Ace of Aces, and a systemic spin-off called Lost Worlds, which were both 2 player combat games.  In it, you battled with a POV view of your opponent.  Each book contained illustrations of your PC and a set of maneuvers.  You switched books, so your opponent could see you, and you kept the maneuvers.  Then you tried to kill your opponent.  The former simulated combat between 2 aircraft from WW1 or WW2...the latter between fantasy archetypes, at least a couple of which were inspired by Ral Partha minis (Cold Drake, Hill Troll with Club).  The license on that game has passed through several hands, like Chessex, for one- there was a short- run Robotech version, and just a couple of years ago, all of the major Hackmaster charcters from Knights of the Dinner Table got their own books.  In a very real sense, it was M:tG before M:tG...though not nearly as successful.<a href="http://maverick.brainiac.com/aoa/aoa1.html" target="_blank">http://maverick.brainiac.com/aoa/aoa1.html</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Aces" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Aces</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Worlds" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Worlds</a></blockquote>

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