The Tabletop/Board Games/Card Games Thread

[KamenGrappler]

To the original poster, I say unto thee: motherfuck D&D 4th edition right in its stupid ear! Ugh. If I wanted to play World of Warcraft, I'd have played World of Warcraft. I tried playing a 4th edition game for a month, with some pretty cool guys that I game regularly with. It sucked balls. It was like playing a video game, just really slow. We found it to be terribly simplistic. The mechanics leave a lot to be desired. If you're tired of D&D 3.5, move on to Pathfinder.

Me and my friends play a 4e game based in the Warhammer universe, and, with some tweaked rules, we all think it's bad ass. It's all in the storytelling I think.

 

[Icefish]

The general concensus on 4e, from what I've heard and read, is that it simplifies and streamlines a lot of things from 3.X. It's good in that it makes things less of a headache, but it does tend to limit classes to certain roles. I've also noticed a lot of complaints about making it more WoWish (which is kinda true, I suppose) and that it limits roleplaying options (to which I say if you need mechanics to roleplay, you're doing it wrong). That, and the lore for 4e blows.

I dunno, I like 4e. It's a surprisingly different game from 3.X, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just different.

 

[KamenGrappler]

I can kind of agree with the lore not being so great, that's why I set our game in the Warhammer universe (I read tons and tons of warhammer novels, so I have lots of source material to pull from.) As far as the roleplaying, I really feel that's all on the player. My friend Tom sucks at roleplaying, and I don't think a different set of rules would really help him. He just overthinks all of his character's dialogue and underthinks his actions. I'm not against 3.X or Pathfinder though.

 

[Kain]

When it comes to the table top I play one game, and one game only. And that game is: Warhammer 40k. My wallet weeps a little every time my army grows but hell if it aint awesome.

 

[KamenGrappler]

Pic from last nights D&D game. The heroes saved the village and killed the dragon, but got stranded out in the wilderness and had to eat the damsel in distress.

 

[FieryRed]

I used to play alot of card games, like Magic: TG, Legends of Five Rings, Shadowfist, and Babylon 5. I've either sold them or dump most of my card collections, except for Babylon 5 and some L5R. I also used to play board games like Settlers of Catan and some Risk, although because my brother & I can't get all the friends to come & play so we didn't play them as much as card games.

 

[crazedjustice888]

Didn't know this thread existed. I have played a lot of tabletop games. Miniature and card games. Miniature: Mechwarrior, Heroclix and Warhammer 40K. Card Games: Pokemon, YugiOh (LONG time ago), Digimon (long time ago as well), Gundam War (When it first came around), and I was getting into the Vs. system before I moved away then lost a venue.

I am actually looking to get back into heroclix and still have my warhammer 40k army, Eldar, and ALL of my mechwarrior games, sadly that game was cancelled.

 

[G.K.]

You know what's a fun game? Munchkin. It's fun when a bunch of us get together and play. Alliances and backstabbings abounds with us.

I remember having a few good laughs with that game.

I played a lot of card games years back. Though the one game me and the people I played with enjoyed most was Magi-Nation. It was criminally underrated and because of that we had a hard time obtaining cards.

 

[Icefish]

**** yes, Magi-Nation. There was only one store I ever saw them in, and even then I was only there once while on vacaton, so I couldn't get any cards other than the ones I got at said store. Even still, I loved that game. Hell, I've still got those cards today.

 

[Ceighk]

I wish more people I know were in to roleplaying games, I could imagine myself getting quite in to it. I know people who play Magic TG though, so that's good.