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[Ozle]

Ozle, you should invest in the Cities and Knights expansion for Settlers.  It is my favourite.  I've played Seafarers but didn't think it added enough to justify the purchase.

Unfortunately it doesn't come to the table enough to warrant another expansion, the people i p lay with are just no good at it

[jsh357]

Im still the only person in my gaming group that actually buys games, very annoying!

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

It's the worst in the Southeast.  Just look at the Members map...  foreveralone.jpg

[Captain_Frisk]

Im still the only person in my gaming group that actually buys games, very annoying!

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

I miss living in New York.  I'm just now getting my gaming group rebuilt.

I would move to New York just for the Blue Note and Theory's game collection.

Theory has like 3 games. 

[Drab Emordnilap]

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

It's the worst in the Southeast.  Just look at the Members map...  foreveralone.jpg

I got excited when I saw 3 members in Houston, until I realized that two of them are me, and one of them is the friend of mine who introduced me to isotropic.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Im still the only person in my gaming group that actually buys games, very annoying!

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

It's the worst in the Southeast.  Just look at the Members map...  foreveralone.jpg

Yeah, I hear you.  Nothing here in Florida that I've found.  Need to dig deeper, on Meetup or something.  The local game store is all about MtG and miniatures.

There were game players at Chapel Hill when I was there though.  'Course that was a long time ago.  We would start every semester with a 72-hour marathon of Risk, played with two boards side by side and double the number of armies. This was in Granville South.  Put an ad in the DTH.

[jsh357]

I'm actually leaving Chapel Hill tomorrow!  I did go to the (only?) local game store a few times on their board game night, but as with a lot of gaming groups, they seemed pretty close-knit and were already playing things when I got there.  Yeah, most gaming groups seem heavily based on MtG or miniatures in my experience... I got enough of MtG in the 90s.

[theory]

Im still the only person in my gaming group that actually buys games, very annoying!

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

I miss living in New York.  I'm just now getting my gaming group rebuilt.

I would move to New York just for the Blue Note and Theory's game collection.

Theory has like 3 games. 

Maybe he's saying that's how desperate he is, that even my game collection is exciting to him.

[Davio]

Having a gaming group isn't always gravy though.

I have a gaming group made up of a bunch of friends I've known for some 5 years.
The thing is, in that time, I've gotten married and became a father while they're still going out every weekend getting drunk and drifting towards their 30's without any improvement in their lives. They're still doing exactly the same things as when they were 21.

Now I don't want to judge them because they can do whatever the hell they want, it's just that our lifestyles have gone "out of sync" as it were. They don't understand what it's like to have a meaningful relationship and to start a family.

I would love to find some new friends who understand when I can't make gamenight because the baby has been crying all day and my wife is at her wit's end. Also I would like some friends who actually think about the neighbors when they come over and not shout all night driving my wife insane.

On the other hand, I'm moving to my old village in a couple of weeks and maybe there will be some new neighbors interested in board games there who are socially acceptable. Fingers crossed!

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Im still the only person in my gaming group that actually buys games, very annoying!

Probably not as annoying as not having a gaming group.

I miss living in New York.  I'm just now getting my gaming group rebuilt.

I would move to New York just for the Blue Note and Theory's game collection.

Theory has like 3 games. 

Maybe he's saying that's how desperate he is, that even my game collection is exciting to him.

I own about 6 or 8 games, so the 20-30 in your list would be an improvement.  I also have no gaming group, so that seems like a luxury. Desparate? Not yet, as Iso is still up.  But the odds of finding boardgamers in NY are exponentially astronomically larger than my finding them where I am. However, I have not yet begun to look.

[ftl]

Here's my list!

Apples to Apples
Arkham Horror
Bang! (+1 expansion)
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Carcassonne (+1 expansion)
Citadels
Dominion (+some expansions but not all))
Fluxx (well, 5 different Fluxxes)
Ingenious
Kingdom Builder
Memoir '44 (+ expansions)
Nanuk
Pandemic (+expansion)
Power Grid
Race for the Galaxy
RoboRally
Set
Set Cubed
Space Alert
The Red Dragon Inn 3
Zombies!!!

I have a gaming group in San Diego who I have games days with once a month or so, and I have a lovely girlfriend who plays Dominion with me every weekend (and other 2-player games from this list). Life is good.

[ipofanes]

Of course.  Thank you kind sir.

Not sure as the photo hosting company is sitting in the same time zone as me. Might be a pathetically out of time clock on my camera.

[ipofanes]

Having a gaming group isn't always gravy though.

I have a gaming group made up of a bunch of friends I've known for some 5 years.
The thing is, in that time, I've gotten married and became a father while they're still going out every weekend getting drunk and drifting towards their 30's without any improvement in their lives. They're still doing exactly the same things as when they were 21.

Now I don't want to judge them because they can do whatever the hell they want, it's just that our lifestyles have gone "out of sync" as it were. They don't understand what it's like to have a meaningful relationship and to start a family.

I would love to find some new friends who understand when I can't make gamenight because the baby has been crying all day and my wife is at her wit's end. Also I would like some friends who actually think about the neighbors when they come over and not shout all night driving my wife insane.

On the other hand, I'm moving to my old village in a couple of weeks and maybe there will be some new neighbors interested in board games there who are socially acceptable. Fingers crossed!

You do seem to be using some sort of judgment on your friends when you use the word "improvement". Whether having kids is an improvement of your life is debatable, but more power to you that you see it that way during the first couple of weeks. The taxi driver giving me a ride home from the hospital (in Germany kids are routinely delivered in hospital, though some people opt for home births) said to me "it'll get more and more fun over time" and 9 years later I still think he was right!

My board game collection does bear some of the experience you are just making. A couple of months befor my first child was born, my friends got me "Age of Renaissance" for birthday, that Civilzation sequel which had taken me 13 hours on first try but had been loads of fun. I have left my copy alone, apart from removing the wrap, ever since. My current game buddies (neighbours and hiking club members) won't touch anything longer or more demanding than Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, or Wizards. My wife and kids would play the occasional Cyclades or 7 Wonders, but it takes a friend's 14yo son and his friend to open the Through the Ages box. The old classics (Titan, Britannia, 18xx) are gathering dust.
 

[Galzria]

I'm traveling, but off the top of my head...:

Diplomacy
Kingmaker
Ticket to Ride (+ expansions)
Eurorails
Britrails
Nippon Rails
Aussie Rails
Empire Builder
Iron Dragon
India Rails
Cosmic Encounters (+ expansions)
Fluxx (all but Stoner and Zombie)
Munchkin (+ expansions)
Nuclear War (+ expansions)
Agricula (+ expansions)
Settlers of Catan
Catan Germany
Pandemic (+ expansion)
Risk
Monopoly
Space Alert
Galaxy Trucker
Forbidden Island
Dungeon Lords
Formula D (+ expansions)
TransAmerica
TransEurope
4 cases of Clay poker chips and 1001 decks of cards
Dominion (+ expansions)
Robo Rally
Wise or Otherwise

Uhh... There's a few others whose boxes are coming to mind but not their name. Basically way, way more than I can ever actually play.

[ipofanes]

1001 decks of cards

Are 999 of them worn or do you always open a new one for a Poker match?

[Galzria]

1001 decks of cards

Are 999 of them worn or do you always open a new one for a Poker match?

Most aren't open. I'll usually buy sets by the pack of 10 or 20, open/use a handful, forget how many unopened I have, and buy a new set of packs. Rinse, repeat.

[Ozle]

I have masses of random packs around the house, some are half used for magic tricks, the others were just cool looking cards I have seen. I have Kem cards for poker that dont wear out easily, more than a years use of them so far

[Polk5440]

I own scrabble, balderdash and alias, nothing else. They are all fun games though!

Balderdash used to be my favourite game ever!

Balderdash is great. I have that in my collection along with Wise and Otherwise, which I think is the "better Balderdash." When we have family events at holidays, that's the game we gravitate toward. It's basically the same rules as Balderdash, but uses ancient/foreign phrases instead of words. It gives more structure to what each person submits. It's hilarious as everyone tries to reason out what those sayings could mean.

Example:
There's an old Chinese saying, "Don't add salt to..."

"...a boatload of salt fish." Of course!!

[Lekkit]

I've recently started to get board games for myself. I've been in two different gaming clubs that own a lot of games too. But just like some other people here, life is catching up with me. Three years ago I woul've said that I'd be the annoying guy who wanted to come over to friends' places to play games. Now I live with my girlfriend so I can't really do that. The good thing is that she likes games too, so we get to play a lot. My friends have also moved to other cities to pursue their studies and almost everyone of them has gotten partners. Most of them are fine with the occasional board game night, though, so I'm not a girlfriend/boyfriend hater. Not at all. But it's not really common for us to sit down a weekend and play a bunch of Twilight Imperium games, but rather get as many fast played games as possible and rotate seats during game nights. Anyways, the games me and my girlfriend currently owns (I don't really remember which ones I've bought and which ones she's bought):

Kindgom Builder
Dominion (with all expansions and promos)
Nefarious
Carcasonne Big Box 3
Ricochet Robots
Race For the Galaxy (with the expansion that gives the 1p option)
Set
Neuroshima Hex (with the two expansions, but no promos)
Titan
Power Grid

I might have missed something, but that's the general idea.

[Eevee]

I'm surprised no one is hating on me for not owning the base dominion or any expansions.

[Captain_Frisk]

I'm surprised no one is hating on me for not owning the base dominion or any expansions.

Hard to hate on you.  I have them, but they don't get played at all. 

[Ozle]

Example:
There's an old Chinese saying, "Don't add salt to..."

...a slugs dinner?

[Drab Emordnilap]

Fluxx (well, 5 different Fluxxes)

The plural of Fluxx is Fluxxen, FYI.

[GendoIkari]

Here's my list: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/GendoIkari_82?own=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1

62 games, though that count includes expansions, as well as a couple non-Eurogames that don't really count.

[Toolshed113]

I'm a lifelong video gamer who has recently (last year or two) gotten into some strategy card games, so my list is short:

Dominion (base through alchemy)
Citadels
Race For the Galaxy

I bought RFTG last week and I have to say that I am becoming completely obsessed with it. Keldon's AI is pretty amazing. Now if only I had some friends to play it with IRL...

[Grujah]

I'm surprised no one is hating on me for not owning the base dominion or any expansions.

I am worse; I printed a home made B&W version

Played Arkham Asylum last weekend, was surprisingly quite interesting, esp for a fully cooperative game.