These days I play my RPGs via online chat or a VTT. If we don't have enough to game, it's basically a wash.
Back when I played in my High School, College and the years immediately thereafter, we'd pull a game off the shelf (usually my shelf) and get cracking. We had a decent assortment, and there were times that we would opt for one of those games on the shelf over the regular campaign even if we had a full group. Depending on the amount of time we had, we would sometimes do a board game and role-play. Ah, the sweet days before real responsibilities.
The games we played, in no particular order were:
Risk - the classic. My version had the caltrop plastic pieces that were murder on bare feet. My box has been taped many times, but it's still complete. No one wanted to ever use the pink army, go figure.
Ameba Wars - this was one of those boxy bookshelf game boxes. I haven't played or looked at it in over 15 years, but the sic-fi game was always a good time
Nuclear War - card game from Flying Buffalo. Holy crap but this could get intense. A card game based on the fear of mutual destruction, it fit in well for the mindset of the average college student in the late 80's to mid 90's.
Wabbit Wampage - kill the rabbit game from Pacesetter - this didn't come off the shelf as often as others, as it didn't play as well as it should have. Not sure why that is. Maybe it felt more like a game, and less like Bugs and Elmer then it should have.
Chaos Marauders - Game Workshop's card game. Now this was a f'n blast! Up to 4 players, so if we had 5 or 6 at the table it wasn't a choice, but folks would demand a session of Chaos Marauders every chance they got. I may need to bring these to the next Gathering of Fools.
Talisman - the classic game of killing things and taking their stuff. Fun to play. Repeatedly. Until you had the sessions that never seemed to end (especially when using the add-on boxes). Of the games on this list, I'm sure this was played by more readers of this blog then any of the others.
Well, that's my old groups list.
What's you list?
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Hmm, we had a number of games we played as filler games. Risk was the most common one, but we had a Military History Club in our high school so we had ample supply of Avalon Hill war games. Dune was a lot fun, Dungeon was another one. I personally had a devotion to the now defunct Yaquito Company. I had the Attack of the Mutants, Battle the Game of Generals,Mythology was a blast too. Junta was one of our favorite games even when we had enough for Dragonquest.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about Talisman, at least with my old group. It was always big with us. In fact, even today, I still pull it out and manage to get my wife to play it sometimes. :)
ReplyDeleteWe loves us some Talisman.
ReplyDeleteI played alot of Illuminati.
ReplyDeleteJust don't let THEM know, if you know whay I mean.
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We'd usually just get hammered. :(
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