Friday: Games Night, What do you want to do? Options

[Thunder Drum]

Ok Leon here,(now that I?m Vice President I?ve decided to get off my lazy ass)
I?ve established this topic so we can see a list of what we can/plan on playing during game nights and console nights. This way it?s slightly more organised then last year, where nights turned in to us talking for several hours before going home (though it was fun). The main reason for this is so people will have something to look forwards to. I?m thinking votes under this topic to decide what people would like to play would be also a good idea. also if you have anything you would new you would like to try, then post it under here as well so the people can research it to see if they're are interested

I intend to put a list of all the games we have for Game Night on this topic as soon as possible, but I need to get in to contact with Dean to work out what we have.

Note to the newbie?s (hopefully you?re still interested in coming) and people who just generally don?t know
Once a list is compiled if you have no idea what a game is, then leave a question under this topic and we?ll give a brief description so you to can have a say in what you would like to do.

Also this will allow me and Dean to work out if we need to prepare for Role play encase we plan on doing large role play groups.

[Thunder Drum]

I'll replace this reply with a full list of games once we have compiled it. that way people don't have to look through several pages of replys to find a list of what we have


Dean mentioned being interested in playing some magic, i also plan on doing a large group role play more details of that on the Friday: Games Night Role Play topic. if anyone has any ideas what they would like to do, please post it here

[Lortarg]

I'll add my, and the clubs, list of games here later tonight.

[Lortarg]

Hmm... Seems like I still need to list the games we have.

Club Games
D&D Role Playing 3.5 Ed
D&D Miniatures/Role Playing (unsure what edition, pretty sure 3 or 3.5)
BESM Role Playing 2.5 Ed

Personal
BESM Role Playing 3rd Ed
Munchkin and most of the base expansions
Magic: The Gathering
World of Warcraft TCG and all the current Raid decks
Starcraft: The Board Game
Frag
Dungeonville
Zombies
Tannhauser
Diceland - Deep White Sea

[Lortarg]

Next gaming night, I'd like to have a game (or 2 if possible) of Starcraft.

[Thunder Drum]

I've got

Munchkin Fu
Vampire: Prince of the city (something like that, never looked at it)

BESM 3rd
i do have campaignes and premades for BESM ready so if we end up playing i'll probaly GM

[nikiwu]

I never knew you had Starcraft... I wanna play now!

Oh yeah, I have Pink Godzilla.. I should bring that at next gaming night..

[Lortarg]

Bought it on the weekend. Looks quite good. Haven't had a chance to play it yet though.

[Lortarg]

For those that are interested in playing this on the next Gaming night, here are some good references to look at before we start playing so you can get an idea of how it works.

Condenced version of the rules, with some pictures. 13 pages in word, as opposed to 45 pages in the rules booklet.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/28528

Flow chart of a turn, as well as a flowchart for combat. Plenty of info on each step as well.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/26703

[Lortarg]

Couldn't be bothered starting something up for Starcraft since the last few posts were for it anyway.

Here is a primer for new players to Starcraft. Gives some strategy hints as well as ideas on what to look out for.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/371705

[Cro]

You can add my board games to the list if you want:

Settlers of Catan +5/6 player
+Seafarers of Catan +5/6 player
+Cities and Knights of Catan +5/6 player

Carcassonne
+Princess and Dragon
+The Count of Carcassonne
+Inns and Cathedrals
+Abbey and Mayor

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Runebound

I might have some others, but they're not coming to me right now

[Lortarg]

Would definitely want to try Betrayal at house on haunted hill, Runebound (if it can be played in 6hrs? is it a long game, I'm not sure, I may be thinking of something else, but would still like to try runebound) and Settlers with Cities and Knights.

I would also like to see if any of the expansions to Carcassonne make it more enjoyable to me, but would prefer to play the above games.

[Cro]

Runebound is pretty long, but you can reduce the XP per level to make it faster. Still probably around 3 or 4 hours though.

Betrayal is pretty quick, only about an hour per game. Lots of fun though and every game is different once the betrayal starts which is cool.

Annoyingly none of my friends like Settlers, so I've never even played Cities and Knights, it'd be good to have some people to play with.

When are board game nights usually? You'll have to tell me what you'd like me to bring along

[Lortarg]

3-4 hours is good.
Starcraft is usually 3-6 hours depending on how many new people are playing as well as if there are any slow people.

Well there are a few people who have played settlers, although not many games. I'm certainly up for cities and knights.

Boardgame nights are (at the moment) every 4 weeks or whenever we feel like.
Next year (start of the semester in march) they will be every 3 weeks.

I think next friday will be anime, then it'll be whatever we decide to do, probably either video or board games.

[Reaverx]

I have Navia Dratp if anyone is interested in playing.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10819

[Lortarg]

Been looking at some Dominion variants, such as playing with 5-6 players (6 really needs another set like one of the two expansions), choosing which cards to play with and ways to mix up play.

I think the easiest way to play with 5 people is to add 2 kingdom decks (playing with 12 instead of 10) and you need to get rid of 4 stacks (instead of 3, or the provinces)
Another way to play with 5 (or 6) is to increase the number of provinces and make the end conditions deplete the provinces or 4 stacks. This is harder to do with just the base set.

There are a few selection methods for choosing what kingdom cards are used and I think next time we play we'll use one.
1. Everyone gets a selection of cards and choose 1 and pass the rest on (similar to a booster draft)
2. Everyone gets a selection of cards and choose 1, discard 1 then pass the rest on.
3. Lay out all cards and people take turns picking what they want to add to the game.
I'm sure we could come up with more.

Mixing up play is more for when we've played a heap of games. One I'm interested in trying is choose the 10 kingdom cards as normal (or see above) then shuffle them all and deal them out to 10 piles. This way you don't have all the cards available all the time. You can only pick what is on top.

[Lortarg]

Galaxy trucker expansion is great. Will be bringing it to tuesday and friday.

[Lortarg]

24 to 92, worst game I've ever played. Its great! Definitely bringing it along.

Have only played with the 6 bonus cards (just normal stage cards), Evil Machinations (cards players get to put in each round) and Rough Roads (cards that get flipped up each round that do nasty things)

First game played with 2 Rough Roads cards a round. Didn't do too bad. Second game played with Evil Machinations and 1 Rough Roads card a round. See above score for the fun had there.