Hi everyone, I thought I’d say hi in this new community as a new moderator. I’m Foon (she/her), and I love table top games. My partner and I have been gaming a lot in the past 5 years or so, and we have a bunch of friends that turned into boardgamers too, and boardgamers that we turned into friends. So on average we get almost a game a day in.
I’m excited to discuss all things tabletop gaming with you all. Some of my favourite games are Gloomhaven/Frosthaven, Spirit Island, Aeon’s End, Terraforming Mars.
What are y’all’s favourite games?
Hi!!! I haven’t been playing games very long (not even a year) but there’s SO many I want to play. So far, I’ve enjoyed Tokaido, Century Spice Road, and Cryptid Cafe. Have 7 Wonders but haven’t played yet. Looking to get more into solo gaming as I don’t have many people to play with :/
Ooh I like Tokaido a lot! It has such a serene feeling to it. I have it’s successor, Namiji, which is also a great game.
My favourite solo game is Spirit Island, it’s a pretty complex cooperative game with lots of variability. You play as nature spirits (for example the Ocean, Earth, River, Lightning) trying to defend their island from the invading settlers. All the spirits are really different with their own unique powers. The rules aren’t that complicated, but the decision space is huge. It plays really well at all player counts, and it’s one of the few games where I think true solo (i.e. 1 spirit only, instead of playing the role of multiple players yourself) is a cool experience.
Ooo Tokaido has a sequel??? I can probably get my son to play that. I’ve gotten several recs for spirit island, added to my wishlist!
Hi! I play a lot of RPGs (with the exception of DND, for some reasons)… And I mainly enjoy thematic/narrative games (so, no “Germans” for me, even if the distinction is losing meaning day by day!)
I think that the best one is Arkham Horror LCG by MJ Newman. It really blends together game mechanics and narrative feeling (ludonarrative harmony, as she describes here fo example: https://www.bewaretheblackcat.com/post/behind-the-curtain-enemies ). In short, you are not simply moving cards or pulling out tokens, but you are really living an adventure.
Then there is War of the Ring, really conveys both for the Free People and the shadow player a super thematic experience, while being a tight and ruthless wargame.
Those two are the peaks (for us). But I can name many other which we enjoy. Among the new ones, there is a very nice pirate game, forbidden waters. I also enjoy the games by Jerry Hawthorne (mice and mystics, comanauts, stuffed fables, …).
And many, many others (dune conquest, for instance, or star wars: imperial assault, …)
hi! i haven’t been playing tabletop games very long, but its really fun! i play pathfinder 1st and 2nd edition, i really like creating and running dungeon crawls ^_^
I’ve been playing Starfinder and Shadowrun lately for RPGs,l. For board games, Terraforming Mars, 7 Wonders, and I’m absolutely terrible at Wingspan but it’s so pretty I don’t care
One of my old Pathfinder groups is currently talking about converting to 2e. I got all the books with the Humble Bundle a few months ago and have been going through them a bit. One thing I like is that it’s a lot more different from Starfinder than 1e is, I have a hard time going back and forth on those two rulesets.
Hiya! I myself have been playing D&D5E for about seven years now and Pathfinder 2E for about two. As for board games, my favorite are Betrayal at House on the Hill and Mountains or Madness.
Have you run through many adventure paths in PF2e? I’m just starting up a local game where I’ll be GMing Abomination vaults after already playing it as a player. Always on the lookout for tried and recommended APs though.
I’ve run Age of Ashes, which… needs some massaging, and if you’re interested, I would recommend a pretty heavy rewrite of book 1 to reframe the motivations of the PCs. Once that is done, I think the AP would be magnificent. But without it… it’s a little weird.
Quest for the Frozen flame is awesome, and I’m dying to run it as more of a “one month interlude between games”.
I’m currently running through Skull & Shackles from PF1E in PF2E, but I’ve also picked up the first book of Strength of Thousands and I got the Kingmaker books for my birthday.
