return of board (and card) game night
We have so much fun with the board/card games at the gatherings, so why not try to do this when we're not gathering? We tried this in the past, but attendance was low, and it never really got going too well, but after talking with Mori and Garu at MWG, we thought it would be worthwhile to try again.
Most likely once a month. Not sure if we want to try a set night or rotate it around.
For Dominion, this site works really well, you play within a browser window and it has all the expansions and it seems to work pretty good, at least as good as BSW, better in some ways, but it is mostly text based. http://dominion.isotropic.org/
For Race For The Galaxy, this location http://www.keldon.net/rftg/ has a client you can download. You can then play locally vs the computer (the computer is *very* tough, especially when playing against 3 computer opponents), or you can sign into the server and play against others (or combination of real and computer opponents).
For other games (Power Grid, Carcassonne, Thurn and Taxis and many others), there is still BSW that can be used.
Probably some other sites for other games that I'm not aware of too.
We would probably want to all hop on voice chat to make things easier, but we can try to organize that once we have our first night set up.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Most likely once a month. Not sure if we want to try a set night or rotate it around.
For Dominion, this site works really well, you play within a browser window and it has all the expansions and it seems to work pretty good, at least as good as BSW, better in some ways, but it is mostly text based. http://dominion.isotropic.org/
For Race For The Galaxy, this location http://www.keldon.net/rftg/ has a client you can download. You can then play locally vs the computer (the computer is *very* tough, especially when playing against 3 computer opponents), or you can sign into the server and play against others (or combination of real and computer opponents).
For other games (Power Grid, Carcassonne, Thurn and Taxis and many others), there is still BSW that can be used.
Probably some other sites for other games that I'm not aware of too.
We would probably want to all hop on voice chat to make things easier, but we can try to organize that once we have our first night set up.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Comments
I'm probably in, relatively flexible on time.
http://games.asobrain.com/
It requires Java for the client but that's about it. It's much easier to use than BSW.
-- note, I wasn't looking for something spur of the moment, I was looking more something that was planned a week or so ahead of time to attempt to get people ready to play and such.
-- done for now, ping me on HL if you're interested
So, November 4th will be the first one.
I know there is some east coast interest (Mukow and Ramses) and then late interest too - Mori, Garu and such. What time do you guys want to get started? We should probably sort out the voice chat thing too...
As for voice chat, we can use the CP Ventrilo server. I don't have the address handy at the moment, but I can post it later tonight if someone hasn't already
port: 3208
pass: (turns out this was a public post.)
http://www.yucata.de/Default.aspx
this one has Roll Through The Ages and many games I have not heard of. Apparently you can play a game on the server and 'save' it for later, so long games can be played over several days.
For this Thursday, perhaps we should choose a game or two to play beforehand we everyone can know what to expect and be ready if there is any software needed to download/update?
I'm open for suggestions
I'm coming to save you from sleep.