who plays non-trad/non-mainstream board/card games?

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I'm talking about games like Carcassonne, or San Juan, or even Axis & Allies(tho that's pretty close to a mainstream game). Stuff that's a little to the side of monopoly/scrabble.

I'm started playing Betrayal at the House on the Hill, from Avalon Hill, and I'm looking at getting Arkham Horror, since we can never have enough Lovecrafty games.

Oh yeah, and this is a great site:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

i love boardgamegeek. i don't know what's non mainstream, i play illuminati and the settlers card game sometimes. Also i used to play election day to entice my girlfriend to play since it ws politics based and lord of the fries because it ws cheap, i guess those might be non mainstream.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

yes, Settlers & Illuminati would could as valid for this thread. Anything you have to get from a games/hobby shop.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I got them from the internets.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

but it ws a specialist shop.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

i also bought nanofictionary:

http://boardgamegeek.com/game/2895

but i never ever played it. This ws probably a good thing.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I just got the Warhammer 40k starter set cheap off of eBay. I figure it'll either be an amusing diversion for a rainy afternoon or the gateway to a whole new frontier of neckbearded virginity.

― adam (adam), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

can't it be both?

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

but yeah, something about warhammer 40K really brings out the comic book guys in every city.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

i used to be crazy for settlers. now i have no one to play with :(

when i was a kid i fucking LOVED Warhammer 40k without having ever played it. I just had my uncle send me copies of White Dwarf and made up scenarios in my brain.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I played Illuminati! wiht my friend's cards a bit back in high school. I didn't get a lot of the humor as a clueless Canadian teenager (I have since started reading the actual Illuminatus! Trilogy and get it a bit more). As far as other stuff... I recently bought Atlas Games' Beer Money because I like Unknown Armies... haven't played Beer Money but I wasn't as impressed as I had hoped. Also, the board game Zombies!!! is incredible fun.

― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

(Don't we already have a thread like this? Where GP and I ramble on? Perhaps that's just on ILE.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

we might, but i couldn't find it

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

The Thread Where We Are Board Game Geeks

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Arkham Horror is a lot of fun, but the rules require a good bit of tinkering - in fact, I think it pretty much needs to be played using one of the variants or else it doesn't quite work.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

why not?

also, i like having miniatures, and i think the new horrorclix would fill the roll.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Ct1.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

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