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    From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to All on Fri Dec 4 01:04:06 2020
    What has everyone been playing during lockdown? we started a game of betrayal legacy weeks before lockdown and of course our group hasn't been able to play together since march, but we've had a lot of fun playing forgotten waters since it has a companion app so people can play together remotely

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mantrid on Thu Dec 3 20:37:39 2020
    Re: Board Games
    By: Mantrid to All on Fri Dec 04 2020 01:04 am

    What has everyone been playing during lockdown? we started a game of betrayal legacy weeks before lockdown and of course our group hasn't been able to play together since march, but we've had a lot of fun playing forgotten waters since it has a companion app so people can play together remotely


    i've been playing go to work every fucking day and wear a mask even though it doesnt work.

    some weekends i play lick the stripper's butthole
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Mantrid on Fri Dec 4 04:46:22 2020
    Re: Board Games
    By: Mantrid to All on Fri Dec 04 2020 01:04 am

    What has everyone been playing during lockdown? we started a game of betraya legacy weeks before lockdown and of course our group hasn't been able to pla together since march, but we've had a lot of fun playing forgotten waters si it has a companion app so people can play together remotely

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    The game I have been playing the most with my family is Brass. Then we have also played a lot of Lords of Waterdeep and 7 Wonders.

    I used to play lots of RPG games with my friends, but they are too unreliable to get them to play via audioconference or any other online platforms.
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  • From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to MRO on Fri Dec 4 11:47:43 2020
    Re: Board Games
    By: MRO to Mantrid on Thu Dec 03 2020 08:37 pm

    i've been playing go to work every fucking day and wear a mask even though i doesnt work.

    That does indeed suck. I was sent home even before official lockdown and nowadays a trip to the grocery store is something to get excited about and bring your sunglasses and bucket and spade for
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  • From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to Arelor on Fri Dec 4 14:25:46 2020
    Re: Board Games
    By: Arelor to Mantrid on Fri Dec 04 2020 04:46 am

    yeah that's the problem, I only live with my wife so it's either 2 player games or games which can be played over some sort of video chat.

    So for us that's been forgotten waters, automobiles, animal upon animal, galaxy trucker, and evolution. the latter two kind of count as even though I own the actual games we've been playing them multiplayer over the phone version to include our friends, although 2 friends annoyingly don't have a phone so we generally go back to forgotten waters to include everyone.

    It's only in the past year that I've really had to discover the 2-player modes of the games i have, and some of the 2-player variant rules are really just downright hacky at best, just to get that 2-p icon on the box ----------------------
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Mantrid on Fri Dec 4 16:33:15 2020
    Re: Board Games
    By: Mantrid to Arelor on Fri Dec 04 2020 02:25 pm


    It's only in the past year that I've really had to discover the 2-player mod of the games i have, and some of the 2-player variant rules are really just downright hacky at best, just to get that 2-p icon on the box

    Yeah, I have noticed that myself too.

    Sometimes, the 2 player variant is better than the main variant, or at least novel enough to be its own cool thing.

    Cyclades comes to mind. The two player variant has each player try to bribe two greekl gods at once so there is a lot of double guessing involved. Are you familiar with that game?
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mantrid on Fri Dec 4 06:30:00 2020
    Mantrid wrote to All <=-

    What has everyone been playing during lockdown? we started a game of betrayal legacy weeks before lockdown and of course our group hasn't
    been able to play together since march, but we've had a lot of fun
    playing forgotten waters since it has a companion app so people can
    play together remotely

    Here's an interesting idea - are there any multinode, concurrent BBS
    door games? I know the legacy games are turns-based, wondered if any
    games could be played concurrently. That might be a fun (and socially
    distant) past-time.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Fri Dec 4 06:38:00 2020
    MRO wrote to Mantrid <=-

    some weekends i play lick the stripper's butthole

    pleasepleaseplease let that be a figure of speech.




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  • From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 7 08:30:27 2020
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mantrid on Fri Dec 04 2020 06:30 am

    that sounds like an awesome idea, i
    havent looked into a lot of doors yt
    but i'll keep an eye out when i do!
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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Mon Dec 7 11:57:00 2020
    Here's an interesting idea - are there any multinode, concurrent BBS
    door games? I know the legacy games are turns-based, wondered if any
    games could be played concurrently. That might be a fun (and socially
    distant) past-time.

    IIRC, MarisaG has one or two set up. I think you can play Conquest against someone from remote.

    MarisaG???


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 7 16:57:07 2020
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Fri Dec 04 2020 06:38 am

    MRO wrote to Mantrid <=-

    some weekends i play lick the stripper's butthole

    pleasepleaseplease let that be a figure of speech.

    nope
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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to Mantrid on Mon Dec 7 21:36:52 2020
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: Mantrid to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 07 2020 08:30:27

    I have several BBS door boardgames, my favorite being GNUGo which you can also get more info at https://go.gameplayer.club

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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to Mike Powell on Mon Dec 7 21:38:52 2020
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: Mike Powell to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Mon Dec 07 2020 11:57:00

    IIRC, MarisaG has one or two set up. I think you can play Conquest against someone from remote.

    Yes I have quite a few and would love to get more players for Conquest. Also check out my Empire & Imperium games. More info about those at https://empiredirectory.net and conquest is https://conquest.gameplayer.club - Suggest you go to amigacity.xyz to see all the doors I have installed and that can be downloaded....

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  • From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to Marisag on Tue Dec 8 09:23:20 2020
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: Marisag to Mantrid on Mon Dec 07 2020 09:36 pm

    I have several BBS door boardgames,
    favorite being GNUGo which you can a
    get more info at
    https://go.gameplayer.club
    I have to confess i've never actually
    played go! but this seems like as good
    a reason as any to learn :D
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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Mantrid on Thu Jan 21 16:27:00 2021
    Mantrid wrote to All <=-

    What has everyone been playing during lockdown? we started a game of betrayal legacy weeks before lockdown and of course our group hasn't
    been able to play together since march, but we've had a lot of fun
    playing forgotten waters since it has a companion app so people can
    play together remotely

    I do a lot of Battletech with my son and for x-mas we purchased a shared gift to play with called Bloodbowl.
    But we ended up painting figures first and the whole skirmish is still kind of parked.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to hollowone on Thu Jan 21 14:36:22 2021
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: hollowone to Mantrid on Thu Jan 21 2021 04:27 pm

    But we ended up painting figures first and the whole skirmish is still kind parked.

    Well, those games are to be enjoyed preparing them more than playing them :-P

    It is a problem Warhammer developed. In order to deploy a playable army you needed a truckoad of miniatures, which you had to mount and paint. It was a lot of work and not everybody was willing to put it in.

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  • From Mantrid@VERT/UKBBS to hollowone on Fri Jan 22 09:51:36 2021
    Re: Re: Board Games
    By: hollowone to Mantrid on Thu Jan 21 2021 04:27 pm

    I do a lot of Battletech with my son and for x-mas we purchased a shared gif to play with called Bloodbowl.

    I've got a lot of nan-boardgamer friends who meet up for just bloodbowl, but i've never given it a go yet myself

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