Topic: The Table Top Gaming thread

@Tasuki Some of the combos became pretty crazy lol. With some family edition cards, some of us were surprised that kids wrote them lol. Probably my favorite card I had from that set was along the lines of "Fartimus Maximus, Lord of Beans". XD

@Tyranexx I have not tried many board games by myself, I still need to play the alien game in some capacity as it’s untouched. Have you taken a look at board game geek? Just curious maybe you will find something there to pique your interest.

@Themagusx1 I should give board game geek a proper search sometime just to see what I can find. Though I admittedly don't often play non video games on my own these days. I usually prefer to play with others in those settings.

@Tyranexx that makes sense. You have a good gaming group right? Anyhoo, have you ever played Magic the Gathering or anything like that?

@Themagusx1 I have a great group, albeit a somewhat small one lol. I never really got into card games outside of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and a little Digimon back when I was a kid. I'm quite aware of Magic: The Gathering now - I used to work with people who played - but wasn't aware the game existed until I went to college.

@Tyranexx I did not know digimon had a card game. Wow that’s cool. I think card games can be great, Have you played trick taking games like spades? Or hearts?

@Themagusx1 Bandai Namco (or however their name is arranged now lol) went full multimedia with the Digimon franchise. I don't think the card game really caught on here though.

I have played Hearts, though it's been awhile. Mainly because the old machines where I went to college, before they switched them out with virtual machine boxes, had a backdoor way to play the game. You couldn't access it normally, but it would work through the Run prompt. It saved my sanity in more than one required Humanities class lol.

@Tyranexx Nice, yeah that’s probably why I did not realize they had Digimon card game cause it was just not popular here.

That’s good a game can help you through classes. When I was in college, we used to play the Bloodborne card game to burn time. Any other card games that you played that helped you through stuff?

@Themagusx1 In the college department...solitaire on my personal computer lol. Never really got into regular card games besides that and Hearts, though I think someone taught me how to play Blackjack at one point.

@Tyranexx Gotcha ahh good old blackjack, I remember this lady showed me some tricks in blackjack that her husband and he used to play. Are there any games that have caught your lately, and has your group been meeting up?

It seems my local card/gaming shop is going out of business in about a week. That means a ~40 minute drive to the next closest. Good news is they're running some clearance sales, and I needed to burn the remains of a gift card. So I bought Ticket To Ride (regular version). I've never played it before but have heard decent things about the game.

@Themagusx1 Someone did try to explain to me how to play poker once. Either they were terrible at explaining it, or I'm just a terrible student lol. Our group is finally meeting up again this weekend for D&D barring a sudden plan change.

@Tyranexx Nice did you get to play ticket to ride? And I understand poker can be tricky. Cool your group meeting up, hopefully you will meet up this weekend. Sorry for the long wait for a response I got busy.

@Themagusx1 Haven't played Ticket To Ride yet; not sure if you've seen in other topics, but the past week was a crazy one for me due to a death in the family. We unfortunately were unable to meet up last weekend or this weekend; one of the other players had to cancel last weekend as they were helping their grandpa move house (I presume into assisted living or at least a smaller place). Unfortunately, said grandpa was admitted to the hospital earlier this week with pneumonia and passed away. We're still on hiatus as a result.

Fingers crossed we can hopefully play next weekend now, but I'm probably jinxing myself at this point.

@Tyranexx I am sorry to hear about the death in your family. My condolences are sent to you. And I don’t follow the other topics much, so sorry about that. I will have to pay more attention to the dnd thread.

Have you guys met up?

@Themagusx1 Thank you. It was expected, though a bit sooner than I figured it would be. It was my step-grandpa who passed. It's sad, but also a relief in a way; his quality of life declined over the past year, especially in the last couple of months.

No worries on the other topics; I've been quite busy and haven't been on the forums nearly as much either. Unfortunately, our group still hasn't met up for another game night yet.

@Tyranexx I am sorry again. I understand I lost my grandmother back in November of 21 and I know how hard that is. And I know how it is hard for the gaming group to meet up.

Have you seen any other new board games that interest you?

Are the card games that have to be placed on table also considered as Table Top games ?

@Anti-Matter yes they are considered table top.

@Themagusx1 My sympathies as well regarding your grandmother. Loss is almost never easy IMO, especially when it's someone we're close to.

Tbh I haven't really been browsing board games recently. Though part of me is still kicking myself for not also buying Takenoko before my local gaming store went out of business....That would've been a fun future family game.

Thank you I much appreciate it. I am not familiar with Takenoko? What is it and how does it play?