Tabletop Gaming

I just wanna know what ongoing games you all are playing! If it's ongoing catan meet ups, TTRPGS, or what not! What are you excited for?

I'm personally excited to play tomorrow, which is a villain campaign and I play as a psychotic kobold that is trying to impress a red dragon he has a crush on by burning enough things!

So I've started a project. My roughly bigfoot inspired custodes. I'm calling them apestodes. Far from perfect but I'm happy with them just don't know how to base them.

I really like playing worldbuilding games! I'm going to try The Ground Itself soon but I also play a lot of The Quiet Year. I was wondering if y'all have ones you like a lot that you'd like to share!

I have a weekly board game meeting and I thought it would be fun to have the difficulty of the games change with every week. So like one week is light, then medium, then heavy. The light and medium week made sense, but then I discovered I had very few "Heavy" games.

A couple made sense, Millennium Blades and Argent: the Consortium still feel like a lot of thinking for me, even though I've played them a lot. But Spirit Island towered over my entire collection and I feel it is much easier to get into than the other two games. Also, Dead of Winter ended up in heavy games because of how I broke down the system.

I just used BGG's average weight metric to categorize my games. Light is 1.99 and lower, Medium is 2.0 to 2.99, and heavy is 3.00 and higher.

Maybe I'm just making the tiers incorrectly. Any ideas? Also, any discussion on what you feel makes a game "complex" would be fun to read about.

Hi all!

I LOVE board games but don't have a lot of people to play with. What are some good games that are either solo only or are able to be played solo? Open to all suggestions!

With the increase of accessibility of AI for both text and art, the implications on the RPG world have been greatly apparent. I have an ongoing 5e game that I run on a Foundry server, but this can also apply to the other variety of TTRPG games out there as well.

I've used Stable Diffusion to create character and scene art and it's allowed me to output high quality visuals for my players. When I'm having a hard time getting out the words I want to say, I've pulled up ChatGPT to help me convey the ideas. I've also used ChatGPT to fill out random encounter tables, come up with names, and fill out towns for flavoring. There's still a lot of work involved and I only keep about 5% of anything that's generated, but I feel like this is a tool that has helped me become a better DM rather than outright replace me entirely.

There's a few options for me, but I'm personally most excited for 7th Citadel after finishing all of 7th Continent over the past few years.

A runner up would be the first expansion for Ark Nova in the fall.

Hello Beehaw!

As someone that enjoy playing with my spouse a lot I wonder which games are your favorites for playing with or against someone else. Our current favorites are:

• Dominion
• Res Arcana
• Wingspan (still need to try Asia expansion)
• Terraforming Mars

Unfortunately these listed games are competitive ones so I'm also looking to increase the list of cooperative games! We did play Aeon's End Legacy but need play the expansions.

edit: typo

A friend recently brought over his Legions minis that he's been working on and we played a skirmish match.

The image linked is the setup from some time mid-game.

The matchup was Republic Clone Troopers (him) vs. CIS Droid Troopers (me). The Droids took it in the end, mostly due to General Grievous being an absolute truck.

I found the game a lot of fun to play. We've played a bunch of Fantasy Flight's games - Runewars, X-wing, and Imperial Assault among them - and I'm starting to recognize a lot of common mechanics among their games. This was was relatively snappy and I enjoyed the command/activation mechanic.

Minis and terrain were painted by my friend, who is a much better painter than me, lol. I was really blown away by the ship in the center of the play area, which he kitbashed from this Zurg Mothership toy from the Lightyear movie:

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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?

Bastard kept gleefully smashing my poor plants with his asteroids!

[Image description: board game at the end of the game, after counting up points. Cards and pieces are splayed all over, and a red and a blue player markers are sitting on the same square on the scoreboard.]