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Post by Todd Tjersland on Jun 14, 2006 1:33:34 GMT -8
My favorite board games are:
AXIS & ALLIES BLOOD FEUD IN NEW YORK CONQUEST OF THE EMPIRE HEROQUEST HEROSCAPE MEMOIR '44 PIRATE'S COVE RISK: 2210 A.D. RUNEBOUND SHOGUN (aka SAMURAI SWORDS) UPWORDS ZOMBIES!!!
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Post by skaramine on Jun 20, 2006 9:11:03 GMT -8
I liked the Escape from New York board game that was in an issue of Dragon magazine a while back.
I'm more an RPG nerd myself. :-p
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Post by Todd Tjersland on Jun 20, 2006 17:23:05 GMT -8
The only reason I switched to board games over RPGs was the time factor... You could finish it in one night and nobody had to prepare in advance. GMing (Game Mastering, aka Dungeon Mastering, for our RPG-impaired readers) takes a LOT of time to do it right!
There was an official Escape From New York board game that came out to coincide with the movie. I saw it used recently at my FLGS (friendly local game store) but it looked pretty lame. Then again, it was the early 80s...
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Post by skaramine on Jun 21, 2006 9:39:55 GMT -8
I hear you on that point.
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Post by Todd Tjersland on Jun 21, 2006 13:16:50 GMT -8
Yeah, but you just never get the same impact or emotional connect from boardgames that you get from the "shared fantasy" of pen-n-paper RPGs like D&D. I have a couple sets of the old Milton Bradley/Games Workshop boardgame HeroQuest that I remember trying to turn into a closer D&D hybrid than it already was, including level-ups, back in late 2004.
I wrote a new "HeroQuest Extreme" rules set and a badass mega-adventure for it called "City of Chaos" under an alias. It might be floating around the net somewhere... some Italian HQ site was supposed to host it. I should look into that. I'll post the link if I can find it.
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