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[Toaster]

Exchange Diplomacy (Bruce Duewer)
    A variant that combines ideas from the Payola and Bourse variants. Each player is an investor, trying to win the game by getting the largest stake in the winning power or coalition of powers in the Payola game which is going on.

I kinda dig this one too. The basic idea is that you can buy or sell shares in different nation's military ventures.

If you like that game, Imperial 2030 is a board game that runs off that same idea.

[MrWiggles]

Does anyone have a discord they hang out in to play various board games?

[SalmonGod]

So I'm thinking life is probably going to stabilize a bit now.  Some sources of personal drama are gone.  Vehicles that were total'd are repaired or replaced.  We are moved into our new house.  Work is settling after the big re-structure of the office.  And I'm likely to start working from home soon for reals, which will enable me to cut back on some responsibilities and hours.  Goddamn what a fucking ridiculous year it's been.

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

[Trekkin]

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Well, are you looking for tabletop games as in board games or tabletop games as in D&D-style pnpRPGs? Because if it's the latter, you might have more luck in the thread for them, too .

[SalmonGod]

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Well, are you looking for tabletop games as in board games or tabletop games as in D&D-style pnpRPGs? Because if it's the latter, you might have more luck in the thread for them, too .

Gah, you're right.  I knew we had such a thread that's usually floating somewhere in the first couple pages of GD.  Came on this one first, and Tabletop is synonymous with PnP RPG in my mind.  Because board games don't really need to specify that, do they?

[Trekkin]

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Well, are you looking for tabletop games as in board games or tabletop games as in D&D-style pnpRPGs? Because if it's the latter, you might have more luck in the thread for them, too .

Gah, you're right.  I knew we had such a thread that's usually floating somewhere in the first couple pages of GD.  Came on this one first, and Tabletop is synonymous with PnP RPG in my mind.  Because board games don't really need to specify that, do they?

I always thought that tabletop games were a superset of board games so as to include card games (especially deck and tableau builders).

[SalmonGod]

I hear that from people a lot, but I've never thought of roleplay as a board game.  There can be a board game element if you break out a map and miniatures for crunchy encounter stuff, but that's a sideshow.  I've never even done that much, preferring things more freeform and story-focused.  The essence of the game is impromptu, collaborative storytelling.  I know I'm in the minority on that, though.

[Trekkin]

I hear that from people a lot, but I've never thought of roleplay as a board game.  There can be a board game element if you break out a map and miniatures for crunchy encounter stuff, but that's a sideshow.  I've never even done that much, preferring things more freeform and story-focused.  The essence of the game is impromptu, collaborative storytelling.  I know I'm in the minority on that, though.

Are you, though? Certainly no one I've ever played with has ever actually used minis and maps in any regimented way, and I've only used any kind of crunchy combat rules once in the past three years for all of one half of one round of D&D 5e. We don't play FATE or DramaSystem, but honestly every system we do play has more or less morphed into one of the two with additional subsystems, and it's the same for everyone I know barring one determined Pathfinder group.

[SalmonGod]

I hear that from people a lot, but I've never thought of roleplay as a board game.  There can be a board game element if you break out a map and miniatures for crunchy encounter stuff, but that's a sideshow.  I've never even done that much, preferring things more freeform and story-focused.  The essence of the game is impromptu, collaborative storytelling.  I know I'm in the minority on that, though.

Are you, though? Certainly no one I've ever played with has ever actually used minis and maps in any regimented way, and I've only used any kind of crunchy combat rules once in the past three years for all of one half of one round of D&D 5e. We don't play FATE or DramaSystem, but honestly every system we do play has more or less morphed into one of the two with additional subsystems, and it's the same for everyone I know barring one determined Pathfinder group.

That's been my impression talking with other gamers, and going to Gencon almost every year.  Seems like most people do combat-heavy adventure stuff and like their grid maps.  And I rarely meet anyone who plays anything other than D&D/Pathfinder, which is the most oriented towards that stuff.

[Arx]

My group flips between the two interchangeably. One session we'll end up going purely roleplay and out-of-combat stuff, another will be tactical combat for most of the session. I find both fun.

[scriver]

I hear that from people a lot, but I've never thought of roleplay as a board game.  There can be a board game element if you break out a map and miniatures for crunchy encounter stuff, but that's a sideshow.  I've never even done that much, preferring things more freeform and story-focused.  The essence of the game is impromptu, collaborative storytelling.  I know I'm in the minority on that, though.

In Swedish, apart from the word literally meaning board games ("brädspel"), we have a more broadly applicable word, "sällskapsspel", meaning sorta like "company games" (as in keeping another company), which I feel role-playing games fit very nicely into. But if translated, I would still translate it to "board games" since it is the closest equivalent.

[Cruxador]

I hear that from people a lot, but I've never thought of roleplay as a board game.  There can be a board game element if you break out a map and miniatures for crunchy encounter stuff, but that's a sideshow.  I've never even done that much, preferring things more freeform and story-focused.  The essence of the game is impromptu, collaborative storytelling.  I know I'm in the minority on that, though.

Are you, though? Certainly no one I've ever played with has ever actually used minis and maps in any regimented way, and I've only used any kind of crunchy combat rules once in the past three years for all of one half of one round of D&D 5e. We don't play FATE or DramaSystem, but honestly every system we do play has more or less morphed into one of the two with additional subsystems, and it's the same for everyone I know barring one determined Pathfinder group.

That's been my impression talking with other gamers, and going to Gencon almost every year.  Seems like most people do combat-heavy adventure stuff and like their grid maps.  And I rarely meet anyone who plays anything other than D&D/Pathfinder, which is the most oriented towards that stuff.

card games, rpgs, and also tactics games like Warhammer. That's what people lump in the most. But it does also include board games even though those aren't as far down the rabbit hole of nerdery.

[scriver]

Unless you're a board game need.

*Settlers of Catan intensifies*

[Sergius]

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Well, are you looking for tabletop games as in board games or tabletop games as in D&D-style pnpRPGs? Because if it's the latter, you might have more luck in the thread for them, too .

Gah, you're right.  I knew we had such a thread that's usually floating somewhere in the first couple pages of GD.  Came on this one first, and Tabletop is synonymous with PnP RPG in my mind.  Because board games don't really need to specify that, do they?

This thread is just fine for tabletop roleplaying games.

Currently, I'm playing a Fate Discord game on thursdays. We're sort of going thru all kinds of settings rather than one long campaign. We're just finishing up the Tower of the Serpents and after that we're probably going to try one with knights of the round table with giant robots.

[birdy51]

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Not entirely the right thread. Ignore!