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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: I'm starting a board game club. Go ahead, have a nerdgasm. |
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My social circle needs replenishing. I've got board games. Maybe these two things could have something do with each other.
No Monopoly or Risk, though, sorry. These are mostly games that topped the lists at www.Boardgamegeek.com or caught my eye at the board game cafe.
Here's what I've got at the moment:
Settlers of Catan -- tile based resource management
Catan (with Traders and Barbarians expansion) -- 2-player card-based
Candamir (from the folks who make Catan) -- exploration
Carcasonne (with Inns and Cathedrals expansions) -- tile-based territorial
Metro -- tile-based geometric
Ingenious -- tile-based geometric
Twilight Struggle -- card-based, world domination (set in Cold War)
Killer Bunnies -- card-based, murder and mayhem
Dutch Blitz -- speedy card-based game
Illuminati -- card-based, world domination
maybe a few more I've forgotten about...
I've got an idea for a club name, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. I'd be happy to host it, but I don't know who would come down to Yongin to play, so we could hold it in a cafe in Seoul too.
Interested? Got ideas? Share! Please! |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| No Monopoly or Risk, though, sorry. |
Ah, nerdgasm interruptus. |
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nolegirl
Joined: 17 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: I'm starting a board game club. Go ahead, have a nerdgas |
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| kermo wrote: |
My social circle needs replenishing. I've got board games. Maybe these two things could have something do with each other.
No Monopoly or Risk, though, sorry. These are mostly games that topped the lists at www.Boardgamegeek.com or caught my eye at the board game cafe.
Here's what I've got at the moment:
Settlers of Catan -- tile based resource management
Catan (with Traders and Barbarians expansion) -- 2-player card-based
Candamir (from the folks who make Catan) -- exploration
Carcasonne (with Inns and Cathedrals expansions) -- tile-based territorial
Metro -- tile-based geometric
Ingenious -- tile-based geometric
Twilight Struggle -- card-based, world domination (set in Cold War)
Killer Bunnies -- card-based, murder and mayhem
Dutch Blitz -- speedy card-based game
Illuminati -- card-based, world domination
maybe a few more I've forgotten about...
I've got an idea for a club name, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. I'd be happy to host it, but I don't know who would come down to Yongin to play, so we could hold it in a cafe in Seoul too.
Interested? Got ideas? Share! Please! |
That sounds like fun and I would go but your games all sound like math problems??? What about Scatergories or Taboo.... |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sigh.
Live a little. Do something you haven't been doing since you were 8.
The weird thing is, I searched for people who listed board games on their Facebook profiles in South Korea, and an alarming percentage of results (maybe 25%) were shirtless, ripped men. No kidding.
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nolegirl
Joined: 17 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Sigh.
The weird thing is, I searched for people who listed board games on their Facebook profiles in South Korea, and an alarming percentage of results (maybe 25%) were shirtless, ripped men. No kidding. |
Kermo, I'll go!!! Find those ripped shirtless men please!! |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Carcasonne rules, many happy days drinking wine with my friends and playing that.
You should check out "Die Kutschfahrt Zur Teufelsburg" it's like werewolf with more strategy and cards, loads of fun.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/25951
I'd be in but I'm nowhere near Seoul. |
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RyanInKorea
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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What?! No Axis and Allies!?
WTF,
Ryan |
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nolegirl
Joined: 17 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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Am I the only one who does not know what these games are??
What ever happened to just plain scrabble or shirades.
I will still go for the hot men in ripped shirts though!! |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Catan is BIG. I heard someone talking about it the Wolfhound this weekend. My friend went back home and found out his best mate had fallen in love with it too. I started a few years ago. I even bought a copy at GrandMart Department Store in Shinchon!
Carcasonne was introduced to me by a Finnish guy. Most board game cafes here have a copy.
The other games are a bit obscure. I learned Killer Bunnies thanks to Tommynomad (former poster here.) Dutch Blitz is really popular with the Mennonites back home. The rest were just random or highly rated.
Oh, just in case you want the next level of nerdiness, I just remembered another game: it's called Order of the Stick, and it's based on a web-comic which is a spoof of Dungeons and Dragons. Woah.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html |
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makemischief
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: Traveling
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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catan is awesome and one of many games improved by alcohol (though it certainly works well without).
have you tried any of the games by gigamic? I like them too. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| makemischief wrote: |
catan is awesome and one of many games improved by alcohol (though it certainly works well without).
have you tried any of the games by gigamic? I like them too. |
Actually, I've thought about making Catan into a drinking game.
I've seen gigamic's games, but never dabbled. They're pretty straightforward and geometric, and I like something a bit more ornate. |
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makemischief
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: Traveling
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| makemischief wrote: |
catan is awesome and one of many games improved by alcohol (though it certainly works well without).
have you tried any of the games by gigamic? I like them too. |
Actually, I've thought about making Catan into a drinking game.
I've seen gigamic's games, but never dabbled. They're pretty straightforward and geometric, and I like something a bit more ornate. |
Catan: Shots each round, or anytime roles the evil 7. Or for trades. Many possibilities.
Gigamic appeals to the "I like straight-up chess style games, but want to seem more sophisticated than checkers and am way to busy (lazy) to get good at chess itself." |
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Roving_gypsy_gurl
Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| I have scrabble and risk, and would be happy to bring both. |
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KumaraKitty
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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I'd love to play! I enjoy games by Ravensburger(Scotland Yard and Labyrinth). Was introduced to them on an exchange to Finland as a teen.
I could host it at our apartment here in Bucheon! It's big!
Or there is a new expat bar and a bunch of good cafes here! Heehee! Come to Bucheon so I can play! |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| nolegirl wrote: |
| Am I the only one who does not know what these games are?? |
Nope.
Although no Monopoly is a definite bonus. |
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