When did you start board gaming?
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In primary school I loved Hero Quest, Space Crusade and Battle Masters. Still own all three in decent condition. Attempted to paint some Space Crusade miniatures back in the day though ... Will have to get some paint remover or something at some point 
Still own a bunch of games and expansions from that era too. They form the bulk of my collection still, along with the usual suspects (Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit etc).
During high school a bunch of us would play Magic: The Gathering at lunch times like the nerds we are. Videogames largely took over from here though.
Warhammer and Warhammer 40k always looked amazing but it was always too expensive and I can't paint. I do read a lot of the fiction though, like the Horus Heresy series. Love it. And the Dawn of War games. But I avoid the actual tabletop stuff.
Looking to get back into board gaming now that I'm in my 30s. I got the absolutely epic Star Wars: Rebellion for Christmas and played my first game yesterday. Was awesome
Definitely got the itch again. The only downside is that I live a fair distance away from my board game playing friends, so that makes anything that can't be played with only 2 players difficult
Still own a bunch of games and expansions from that era too. They form the bulk of my collection still, along with the usual suspects (Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit etc).During high school a bunch of us would play Magic: The Gathering at lunch times like the nerds we are. Videogames largely took over from here though.
Warhammer and Warhammer 40k always looked amazing but it was always too expensive and I can't paint. I do read a lot of the fiction though, like the Horus Heresy series. Love it. And the Dawn of War games. But I avoid the actual tabletop stuff.
Looking to get back into board gaming now that I'm in my 30s. I got the absolutely epic Star Wars: Rebellion for Christmas and played my first game yesterday. Was awesome
Definitely got the itch again. The only downside is that I live a fair distance away from my board game playing friends, so that makes anything that can't be played with only 2 players difficult 
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Monopoly 1967 at age 6, Chutes and Ladders didn't cut it. More Lego's. RPG: saw a tunnels and trolls Dad wouldn't buy it, then parents bought D&D box set in search of the unknown for my sister in 1975. Oh and Net trek on the HP-67 and 97. Had been trying to get in on the Diplomacy games with parents but couldn't. Into the Navy 1980 my first computers and some of the games nobodies has heard of them. As a sophomore in HS 1978 built a Monopoly simulator, 5% simulator, 95% d6 die roller in Dartmouth Basic.
I feel like a married couple playing Diplomacy is a one-way ticket to divorce (or marriage counselling, at the very least).
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At 9. Saved up to buy the D&D Basic set. Chalked up the set of dice and played with myself for many years Then some company came along.
Then some company came along.
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Great stuff. I'm being foolhardy enough to try and get some red box action happening now with all my friends in their 30's and 40's.
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Do you mean actual red box original D&D?
Havent been able to get it organised with my friends yet (waiting for some of them to move cities!) but going to run a D&D 5E game once i can.
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Yes, actual red box. Eventually I want to get one or more players through and beyond the Immortals set.
Good luck with the 5E campaign!
Good luck with the 5E campaign!
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Ah - just realised what you might be saying ... not red box as in B/X, but red box as in BECMI.
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Cool enjoy.
Yep me too.
My wife and I about 10 years ago went on a run of buying the deluxe versions of games like Scrabble and Monopoly, Yahtzee etc which we played a fair bit but they eventually wound up in the back of a cupboard at the holiday house. When we moved into our new house about three years ago we didn't have foxtel, or internet for a while so they got dusted off, and we bought The Walking Dead board game, which was OK. It triggered off a search for new games, different themes etc. Ticket To Ride really set the hobby off for us though.
The further we stretched away from the known games and into different titles, kickstarter projects etc the better the games got IMO. We like the abstract, puzzle type ones the most. Azul and Alhambra get played frequently.
The further we stretched away from the known games and into different titles, kickstarter projects etc the better the games got IMO. We like the abstract, puzzle type ones the most. Azul and Alhambra get played frequently.
I still need to get Azul. Looks great.
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Azul is amazing, will probably win board game of the year in Germany.
Try Sagrada as well, new copies just go released. Also fantastic. Also Century Spice Road. All straightforward but fascinating like Azul.
As the youngest of 5 I was introduced to games like Stock Market and Squatter, we never had an English version of Monopoly - but had a round board Danish version called Matador. My older brothers played games like Diplomacy, and the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", I got into Feudal and Campaign. And in the '80s we got introduced to the (classic) 2nd Edition of Talisman. I really liked it. When I got to Uni I started acquiring my own including expansions. I never got "Dragons" but got Timescape, and City and Dungeon.
What I always wanted to do was to do it as a 3D diorama of sorts. Lego provided that opportunity - especially once the collectible minifigs came out including things like a Minotaur. Other themes like Monster Fighters, Harry Potter, LOTR, Hobbit, Castles/Kingdoms and even Nexo Knights and NinJago offer many minifigs that either transform directly or provide the vital elements. It's more fun when your character buys or finds a helmet or sword or suit of armor and you can actually put it on them.
Anyway - had a fairly basic diorama-playable board on display at Melbourne's Brickvention Jan 2017 (see flickr album here). Working on Mark II which will be improved as a diorama and hoping to include the City expansion board. Cool fun bringing board games to 'life' but still being a board game at heart and not a digital version.
What I always wanted to do was to do it as a 3D diorama of sorts. Lego provided that opportunity - especially once the collectible minifigs came out including things like a Minotaur. Other themes like Monster Fighters, Harry Potter, LOTR, Hobbit, Castles/Kingdoms and even Nexo Knights and NinJago offer many minifigs that either transform directly or provide the vital elements. It's more fun when your character buys or finds a helmet or sword or suit of armor and you can actually put it on them.
Anyway - had a fairly basic diorama-playable board on display at Melbourne's Brickvention Jan 2017 (see flickr album here). Working on Mark II which will be improved as a diorama and hoping to include the City expansion board. Cool fun bringing board games to 'life' but still being a board game at heart and not a digital version.
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In primary school I loved Hero Quest, Space Crusade and Battle Masters. Still own all three in decent condition. Attempted to paint some Space Crusade miniatures back in the day though ... Will have to get some paint remover or something at some point
During high school a bunch of us would play Magic: The Gathering at lunch times like the nerds we are. Videogames largely took over from here though.
Warhammer and Warhammer 40k always looked amazing but it was always too expensive and I can't paint. I do read a lot of the fiction though, like the Horus Heresy series. Love it. And the Dawn of War games. But I avoid the actual tabletop stuff.
Looking to get back into board gaming now that I'm in my 30s. I got the absolutely epic Star Wars: Rebellion for Christmas and played my first game yesterday. Was awesome
Hero Quest!
I went to a gaming convention a few years back and found and bought some second hand pre-painted miniatures, purely for nostalgia (seeing as I don’t have a board anymore).
A young fella exhibited his Lego Hero Quest at Brickvention in Melbourne Jan just gone - (he'd been inspired by my Lego Talisman 2 years earlier). Another fellow has been doing Lego D&D. I've got Hero Quest and Space Crusade in the cupboard - (SC mostly painted) - would like to do an SC in Lego but it's less of a big deal, the miniatures already are adaptable (weapons of choice including the Dreadnought) - whereas the Lego-isation of a game like Talisman works on so many levels that the miniatures just can't.
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Sounds like a great idea... this is like vampire-sailors, each on their own is cool, but when you put the two together you get a much better product.
The only problem I can see is if a player puts a space helmet on a lego figurine who’s head hole (foramen magnum) is a bit too large for the neck. Then there’s going to be issues and tears trying to get that space helmet off that head... I’ve been there.
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A very basic but fun game. Panic. Used to play it as kids and still do now. Came across a complete set in an op shop for $5 few months ago. Basically draw a card, have 20 sec timer counting down. Rattle off 3 vegetables that are green etc and then stop the timer when you do it and that's your score. The best thing about it is seeing people panic and struggle under the pressure. Probably best to play with kids.
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Lots of older siblings so I played their games.
Started with checkers and chess when I was about 5. No good though to this day.
Card games on holidays, 500 and snap. Stratego was a fave.
By age 10 I was playing KingMaker and War of the Ring badly. Blitzkrieg was too hard.
1979 or so my cousin introduced me to D&D, became a DM until my early 20s. Still have blokes hassling me to play, but I don't have the time. Risk, Shogun, the one with nukes and inflation, Talisman, a bunch of guys from school would have great fun.
In the 90s went through a ftf phase with a south African mate, he had everything. Victory block games , battle cry tactical battle system, Empires in Arms, Krieg and Totaler Krieg. Played a few older games. Eastern Front and World in Flames.
We (mostly he) made home brews and games from scratch. Was of the Three Kingdoms was Charkes I downfall: area based roll to move and simple arithmetic combat.
That was fun while I was a bachelor. Most computer games now, waiting for Jnr to be able to play Totaler Krieg. He likes Risk and Risk Europe, and bought Caesar in Gaul (which to complex for him fir now). He lives to use the bits in free play, do I've hidden both copies of TK. Can't be losing the Army Group North HQ unit.
He loves Dragonwood, Azul and Catan (basic). Games these days are awesome, just as good as the golden age stuff.
Started with checkers and chess when I was about 5. No good though to this day.
Card games on holidays, 500 and snap. Stratego was a fave.
By age 10 I was playing KingMaker and War of the Ring badly. Blitzkrieg was too hard.
1979 or so my cousin introduced me to D&D, became a DM until my early 20s. Still have blokes hassling me to play, but I don't have the time. Risk, Shogun, the one with nukes and inflation, Talisman, a bunch of guys from school would have great fun.
In the 90s went through a ftf phase with a south African mate, he had everything. Victory block games , battle cry tactical battle system, Empires in Arms, Krieg and Totaler Krieg. Played a few older games. Eastern Front and World in Flames.
We (mostly he) made home brews and games from scratch. Was of the Three Kingdoms was Charkes I downfall: area based roll to move and simple arithmetic combat.
That was fun while I was a bachelor. Most computer games now, waiting for Jnr to be able to play Totaler Krieg. He likes Risk and Risk Europe, and bought Caesar in Gaul (which to complex for him fir now). He lives to use the bits in free play, do I've hidden both copies of TK. Can't be losing the Army Group North HQ unit.
He loves Dragonwood, Azul and Catan (basic). Games these days are awesome, just as good as the golden age stuff.
I love the fact that Hero Quest is back, with updated expansions that were never released in Australia back in the day, only the US, and brand new expansions too.
