I'll speak up for Settlers of Catan, as well as its sister game Cities and Knights of Catan, which adds elements of Risk and Chess into the rules.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hayden - Jul 27, 2011 5:32:25 am PDT #18223 of 30001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
billytea - Jul 27, 2011 5:33:44 am PDT #18224 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've actually soured on Settlers a bit. A couple of bad experiences with people who took it way too seriously. It was quite the revolution in board games though.
If you like Settlers, I hear tell that the expansion, Cities and Knights of Catan, adds a lot to the game. I also like a spinoff, the standalone game Elasund. It loses the trading aspect, but keeps the die roll for resources deal, and has some other innovative ideas. Oh, and the robber gets replaced by pirates! (Yarr.) I played it with Emmett once, the pirates were a definite hit.
brenda m - Jul 27, 2011 5:37:54 am PDT #18225 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh man, my grandmother and great-aunt were vicious Pit players.
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2011 5:48:47 am PDT #18226 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The group I used to hang with were addicted to Eurorails. I liked it. Learned a lot of European geography, too.
Gudanov - Jul 27, 2011 5:53:59 am PDT #18227 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I always like Junta, but that could cause conflict as well. I guess that's to be expected in a game in which backstabbing and double-dealing is really the whole point.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 5:57:40 am PDT #18228 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not sure how I feel about this:
SAVAGE TO SANTORUM: KEEP ATTACKING GAYS AND I’LL REDEFINE ‘RICK,’ TOO
Sex columnist Dan Savage has offered a new threat to Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum: If Santorum continues to attack gays and lesbians during his campaign, Savage will expand his “google problem” by redefining “Rick.” Savage led a campaign to redefine “Santorum” in 2003 after Santorum compared homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia. Other people named Rick chimed in to urge Santorum to heed Savage’s threat. Watch it (Audio may be NSFW):
le nubian - Jul 27, 2011 6:03:42 am PDT #18229 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Uh oh. So glad my first name isn't shared by someone running for President.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2011 6:08:05 am PDT #18230 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. Santorum is a pretty obscure name, but Rick is not.
Also, I wonder if this would just be counterproductive.
brenda m - Jul 27, 2011 6:15:10 am PDT #18231 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also, I wonder if this would just be counterproductive.
This. The earlier stuff was brilliant, but continuing to push on it starts to feel like playground behavior.
Strega - Jul 27, 2011 6:18:23 am PDT #18232 of 30001
People play Monopoly without auctions? This is weirder to me than the debate about the rules to Clue.
But yeah, as billytea said, it's a pretty terrible game with or without auctions.
the only thing that ever seemed to make it fun was cheating
Ah! You would be welcome to any game night with my family.