What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?

SuperflyTNT wrote: The night before last we proved that not EVERYONE likes Settlers. See, my wife isn't so much a sore loser as a sore player; she cannot stand to have you fuck with her plans. So, when I traded her a bunch of wood for her rock and then played the Monopoly card for wood, that was like pouring gasoline on a house fire. Holy shit. I almost expected a table flip with all the pissing and moaning.

Funny, but the 12 year old was fine with it. But not mamasan. "I will never play this shitty fucking game again, ever, and fuck this game one more time for good measure" was the motto for the night.

AWESOME. If you can piss someone off that bad without cheating, you know you're playing it right, and the game has legs.

ubarose wrote: You know what game I really hated the first time I played it? Arkham Horror. Hated it with a passion. Refused to play it again for an entire year until a friend, whose judgement of my taste in games I trust, twisted my arm into playing again. Even after that it took two more plays for me to warm up to it.

Michael Barnes wrote:
I am still being blacklisted by a couple of my friends for some bad trades that happened back in the Clinton administration.

It's not Settlers, but the Hellfire Club has a very, very negative connotation applied to the term "Starcraft buddies" due to something that went down in 2008.

wadenels wrote: Pax Porfiriana can be weird the first time you play it because it's hard to grasp everything happening or can happening. It's a tableau-building game that doesn't play like any other tableau-building games, and it has various forms of direct and indirect player interaction. Timing for the Topple Card win is critical, but it's hard to develop timing when you're still learning the game. It's a game where you have to keep tabs on and often block the other players, sometimes all of the other players at once, and that's a lot to deal with when you're starting out. I think it's best to learn how to play with two or three players because there's less to think about.

A great game though. Since you only play with a fraction of the cards each game can play out differently, which doesn't make it any easier to learn. There's a bit of information overload in the first game, but by the second or third game it should really start to click.

I made a player aid ( here ) that hopefully helps teach and learn the game. It's a lot to take in and isn't a very good player aid, but it does condense a lot of the important parts of the rule-book to three pages.