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[Mephisto]

My gaming drought is finally coming to an end. While it wasn't exactly my first choice, I've got a Deadlands Reloaded game on Saturday. Seriously, I live in the home of Gen Con. Finding a non-Encounters non-PFS game should not be this difficult.

I'm not sure if all hucksters are supposed to be Gambit expys but that's what I ended up with. Now I just have to decide how far I personally want to go. I'm improving on my card riffling skills but have not yet determined if I want to wear the cowboy hat with small wooden skulls on it to the game.

[Cruxador]

My gaming drought is finally coming to an end. While it wasn't exactly my first choice, I've got a Deadlands Reloaded game on Saturday. Seriously, I live in the home of Gen Con. Finding a non-Encounters non-PFS game should not be this difficult.

I'm not sure if all hucksters are supposed to be Gambit expys but that's what I ended up with. Now I just have to decide how far I personally want to go. I'm improving on my card riffling skills but have not yet determined if I want to wear the cowboy hat with small wooden skulls on it to the game.

It's a good second choice if your cowboy hat with actual little skulls is at the cleaners.

[Cruxador]

I don't know who all follows this kind of thing, but Song of Swords, that successor to Riddle of Steel and all-around good combat game, has finally got a kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2006613790/song-of-swords-tabletop-roleplaying-game

[Tack]

Interesting.
Someone tried to get me into a different tabletop kickstarter (Clockwork angels, someone?), but it's generally pretty rare that they'll take off in Australia so I end up with nobody to play with.

[Cruxador]

Interesting.
Someone tried to get me into a different tabletop kickstarter (Clockwork angels, someone?), but it's generally pretty rare that they'll take off in Australia so I end up with nobody to play with.

This one has a decent internet community, so you can do it the roll20 way. But yeah, if you want to do it around an actual table, probably sell your group on it first. That's the problem with smaller games in smaller markets.

[Shub-Nullgurath]

Autarch are doing the Heroic Fantasy & Barbarian Conquerors Collection: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autarch/heroic-fantasy-and-barbarian-conquerors-collection/description

[Toaster]

Anyone played any good board games lately?  I've always been a fan of the idea, but it's just recently I've started any serious attempts at building a collection.

Castles of Burgundy is near the top of the list of games I want to try at the moment.

[Gentlefish]

Anyone played any good board games lately?  I've always been a fan of the idea, but it's just recently I've started any serious attempts at building a collection.

Castles of Burgundy is near the top of the list of games I want to try at the moment.

Villages isn't quite a board game, but it's a pretty awesome table-top card game to play with freinds!

[MrWiggles]

Anyone played any good board games lately?  I've always been a fan of the idea, but it's just recently I've started any serious attempts at building a collection.

Castles of Burgundy is near the top of the list of games I want to try at the moment.

You can get tabletop simulator, off of steam and play lots of different board games.

But if you're looking a quick list. DC Deckbuilding game, Talisman, Settlers of Catan, Arkham Horror.

[Toaster]

You can get tabletop simulator, off of steam and play lots of different board games.

I have that, actually.  Was going to play online with one guy, but he seems AWOL recently.  Boo.

Also noted.

[MrWiggles]

You can hit me up on steam. misterwigggles666. Generally I'm free around 10pm pst but can play earlier then that, just have to stop semi frequently

[Kadzar]

Anyone played any good board games lately?  I've always been a fan of the idea, but it's just recently I've started any serious attempts at building a collection.

Castles of Burgundy is near the top of the list of games I want to try at the moment.

If you want a good idea of what a game is like in play, Wil Wheaton's Tabletop is pretty decent. For a more varied review show, I tend to prefer Shut Up & Sit Down, which doesn't go into the details of play as much, but has short episodes and has covered a lot more games. They also have written reviews on their website.

As for game recommendations, I don't think you could go wrong with Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre (or just Epic Spell Wars), King of Tokyo, and/or Betrayal at House on the Hill (though it's probably the most complicated of the three). All of them are good for playing with both casual and hardcore board gamers. If you can gather a decent-sized group to play on somewhat regular basis, Zombicide and it's fantasy spin-off Zombicide: Black Plague are quite good (not that the game is too terribly complex, but playing well requires a good understand of the rules and a lot of tactical thinking, and games of it tend to go on longer than a casual player would probably be comfortable with).

[Toaster]

I've pretty much devoured all of SUSD recently; I should probably move on to Tabletop.

I'm moderately looking for some sort of area control wargame type, with Memoir 44 being in my sights as one option.  I've always loved the concept of tabletop wargaming, but the majority of them are frightfully expensive to break into.

Pandemic is sitting on my shelf just waiting for my girlfriend to feel well enough to come over and play.  Yes, I see the irony.


EDIT:  I also caved and backed Dinosaur Island on kickstarter based mostly on theme.

[Sergius]

One of my favorite games is Fluxx (not much the standard game, but I really like the Zombie Fluxx and Star Fluxx variants), you could try that one.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I bought a copy of Exploding Kittens off a grad student at my uni, and I just today got around to playing it. It's a quality game. There's a really interesting level of strategy that goes into it when it comes down to the wire, especially when it's between just two people.