What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

[IAmBatman]

Heh, yeah, that's pretty far up there! I still think $80 for a game is expensive.

[Hahma]

I agree Bats, though I have paid a lot for a few games/systems

But on the other end of the spectrum, I have gotten some really good deals elsewhere.

[quozl]

I played Catacombs today. Very fun flicking game with heroes vs. the dungeon.

[Hahma]

Is that the new one Q or the older one? A buddy of mine had the older one and just got something new for it, either a new expansion or new version with new art. He brought it to game day yesterday but I don't think it got played.

I've played it a couple times and it was fun. Though my buddy is always controls the bad guys and he's really good at dexterity games like this, so it made it tough for us heroes.

[Lord Pyre]

Played Kragmortha and the Wrong Game with inlaws last week.

Kragmortha is fun for kids and masochists. You get cursed in real life (Stand on one leg-type crap), woo!

Wrong game is trivia that's actually fun. You get asked 5 questions extremely fast, and you have to get them all wrong. Sounds easy, but not at all. People freeze up all the time, or accidentally blurt the right answer. I hate trivia games basically because they're all luck whether you know something or not, but this game puts everyone on the same playing field with the same chance to get everything right.

[Hahma]

Last night I played a long game of Fury of Dracula 3rd edition - First time playing for 4 of us, with just my buddy Brian having played before (2nd edition as the 3rd edition he has technically isn't out yet). One player (Brian) plays as Dracula and basically is trying to move around Europe without us hunters catching him. We don't know where he is, as he plays location cards face down in a row in front of him and after the 6th one slides over, he gets it back. As there is only one of any location card, once we land on a place he is at or was (with the card still on the track), he has to reveal it. If he has any encounter cards there also, we can search to try to deal with them, because if they "mature", they can be extra nasty later. So anytime we actually force him to reveal a location, it gives a hint of where he is, but he can put up road blocks, use fog, and other special cards to mess with us. We also get some neat cards as well, but it took forever to finally catch him, because Brian plays Dracula really well. Finally won, but it took 4 hours.

[rudyvalentine]

Originally Posted by Hahma

Last night I played a long game of Fury of Dracula 3rd edition - First time playing for 4 of us, with just my buddy Brian having played before (2nd edition as the 3rd edition he has technically isn't out yet). One player (Brian) plays as Dracula and basically is trying to move around Europe without us hunters catching him. We don't know where he is, as he plays location cards face down in a row in front of him and after the 6th one slides over, he gets it back. As there is only one of any location card, once we land on a place he is at or was (with the card still on the track), he has to reveal it. If he has any encounter cards there also, we can search to try to deal with them, because if they "mature", they can be extra nasty later. So anytime we actually force him to reveal a location, it gives a hint of where he is, but he can put up road blocks, use fog, and other special cards to mess with us. We also get some neat cards as well, but it took forever to finally catch him, because Brian plays Dracula really well. Finally won, but it took 4 hours.

The theme and mechanics of this game really appeal to me, but the reported length of games is a big deterrent. I just don't get the opportunity to play games that last this long. Sounds like a lot of fun though.

[1Mmirg]

Most recent plays:

Codenames - we've really been enjoying this word/deduction game
Colt Express - thanks to your suggestions, I got this for my wife's birthday and we are enjoying it quite a bit (a Western card programming game about robbing a train)
Rattlebones - still love this one--a light/medium dice building game, where you actually build the sides of your dice
DC Deckbuilder - we've been playing the Forever Evil version recently
Pathfinder ACG - jumped back in to a game; fun to play again
Snake Oil - fun party game where you are selling weird items to the rest of the table
X-Wing - picked up Houndstooth, fun ship!

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by rudyvalentine

The theme and mechanics of this game really appeal to me, but the reported length of games is a big deterrent. I just don't get the opportunity to play games that last this long. Sounds like a lot of fun though.

Well the reported game time for this on BGG was from 2 to 3 hours. Being that it was a learning game for most of us, and that the owner of it hadn't played this edition yet and it had been a while since playing 2nd edition, our time was really long. I imagine that after a couple plays, the time could get knocked down to under 3 hours. Still a long game for most people and one that might be best played a couple times a year, and not a regular rotation game.

[chas]

Just got the Firefly Kalidasa Expansion. My buddies are busy right now, so I'll probably be flying solitaire onto the final board section of the 'Verse out to the black with the two newest ships Esmeralda and Jetwash!

PS: Tell 'em I ain't comin' back.

[Yodaking]

I have not picked up the new ships yet. Let me know which one you think is the better one to get should I only buy one at a time.

[Porkins]

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