Extreme Board Gaming

elchrist · Posted: 03 Mar 2003 11:34 AM Post subject: Extreme Board Gaming

Computer and console-based gaming is great, but once in a while I prefer to play a good ol' board game with a few friends (or enemies). This is real multi-player gaming.

Whether it's Risk, Scrabble, or even Operation, you can always make a game more exciting when you add a little somethin' somethin' to it, whether it's new rules or alcohol. Try playing Scrabble (without a dictionary) when you're wasted, it's tons of fun.

Risk is my personal favorite. You never know what can happen when you have 4 or more players smoking and drinking. From personal insults to the idiot who knocks the board off the make-shift table, instant game-over. It usually ends the night as well. I also always seem to catch one player trying to sneak an extra thousand men into one of their territories. It never works, dude.

It's all just fun and games though. People usually end up talking to each other again regardless of what happens. Usually.

So what's your game?

bemisnorris · Posted: 03 Mar 2003 02:18 PM Post subject:

I like playing Monopoly and card games, such as Speed, California Speed, Spades, or King's Corner.

revramrod · Posted: 03 Mar 2003 07:16 PM Post subject:

While by no means a board game, the carnage and full out stupid shit we did in the Forgotten Realms while playing AD&D (2nd Edition Rules) back in the late 80s, early 90s was the stuff of legends.

Bogart, our party's thief, was notorious for hiring henchmen and using them as bait or target practice. The time Bogart started a fight in a tavern by punching out an older patron with his shit-smeared fist also comes to mind. Bogart, being ever the thief, took advantage of the ensuing bar brawl by kidnapping a bar wench by knocking her out cold with a blow to the head and tossing her in his Bag of Holding.

Or what about Freddy, our retarded barbarian, who took it upon himself to kill first and ask questions later. Bayleaf, the most critical character to one of our mission's success, didn't stand a chance, as Fred proceeded to hack him to pieces when we first encountered him sleeping in his bed. Fred was such a liability to our party that we left him to die when he accidentally fell into a 20' pit and broke his legs.

Robin The Hood. Robin was our Ranger. More Army Ranger than the forest-dwelling variety, he proceeded to blast away with bolts and arrows (depending on his ranged-weapon of choice at the given time) at any enemy that stood within shooting range. Of course, the fact that we'd be engaged in melee with said enemies mattered not to Robin The Hood. What's a few arrows (or bolts) in your friends' back's when there is experience to be gained.

Astaroth, Fighter/Mage, and Ugh, Barbarian. Astaroth and Ugh, as well as the other party member, decided they hadn't had their fill of bloodshed after completing a quest for a certain village. So, during the celebration in their honor, they climbed up onto the tallest building in the village and began lobbing burning flasks of oil upon every villager within sight. Of course, Bogart wasn't going to miss out on the action. After failing multiple rolls at climbing up the building's wall in his drunken stupor, he was more than satisfied to simply unleash his Dogs of War on every man, woman and child in the area.

Mix one Astaroth, one Bill (our Cleric), a bridge, one Beholder, some rope, a pair of spears and a treasure at the bottom of a stream-filled dragon's nest and what do you get? Bungee Jump attacks with a -15 modifier, one dead Beholder, a broken rope, 2nd degree burns and not enough treasure to have made it worthwhile.

But what really stands out among everything was Bill, our Swiss-Army Cleric. The circumstances under which Bill perished are nowhere near as interesting as the adventures he undertook while dead. While hiding from Orcs in a wooden crate, rigor mortis set into Bill's now dead body, thus converting our faithful healer into: a battering ram, a shield, a ladder, a raft, a door wedge and a magic trap detonation device, among other things. Bill came to his second demise while in the Ethereal Planes when a band of savage humans ran out of a portal we were resting near, caught us off guard, and ran away with Bill's stiff corpse.

R.I.P. Bill, wherever you are.

revramrod · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 02:24 PM Post subject:

elchrist · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 02:28 PM Post subject:

watts · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 03:05 PM Post subject:

I played Cranium - Primo Edition for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It is a really fun board game with all kinds of shit to do. It's a mix between Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, and Charades with some new stuff thrown in. During certain parts of the game you have to model stuff out of clay, sketch something with your eyes closed, humm a song or act like someone famous. It was very entertaining and we spent a good while playing it.

Mr.Tasty · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 03:44 PM Post subject:

How do you draw dignity?

revramrod · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 11:32 PM Post subject:

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chainsmokinmonkey · Posted: 04 Mar 2003 11:54 PM Post subject:

i sure loved playing trivial pursuit. the one i want to try out now is "you don't know jack." i hear that one is pretty tough.