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Weekender XLBS: What Four Games Influenced Your Tabletop Life?
April 29, 2018 by dignity
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Happy Sundaaaaay
Happy Sunday everyone! 🙂
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Yeah it really made my day when she brought that home 🙂
Happy Sunday everyone, I’m looking forward to this week
I certainly won’t disagree that Doom from FFG captures a lot of the FPS feel, but I haven’t found it to be particularly frenetic. For the deathmatch feel on the tabletop, check out a game called Adrenaline from Czech Games Edition. For frenetic play, check out the Hawken card game from Cryptozoic.
Thanks for those suggestions well definitely check those out! I have no doubt it’s a difficult vibe to bring to table top. (Out side of some snap like mechanic)
Four games that “shaped” my tabletop personality. – Risk: I still remember being SOOO pissed that my parents, aunt, and uncle were playing the game, laughing and joking, having so much fun, and I wasn’t allowed to play. (I was 6). – D&D/AD&Dv1: ’nuff said. – Space Marine: Battles in an Age of Heresy: Growing up in a small town in West Virginia (a state in the US), I had NEVER seen anything like this. – Twilight:2000 (RPG from GDW): This is the game where my friends and I realized the truth behind tabletop games: They’re YOURS. Don’t like that… Read more »
Excellent list!
Being a ‘Cold War Kid’ Twilight 2000 would definitely be on my list for much the same reason. We played several regular campaigns over the years and many times it turned into seamlessly flowing, action packed, story telling sessions where the rules became a back up. Switching between free form and printed rules never seemed to create any clunks with that game.
This must be destiny (or just coincidence :p ) but I’m right in the middle of painting my Baccus 6mm American Civil War! I’ll post some pics in the WAYPN 🙂 Four influential games, well: 1. Space Crusade; My uncle had a copy of this game and I just played with the mini’s back when I was about 5 in 1993. The artwork and gaming pieces stuck with me and my parents got me my own copy. I even remember making drawings of Space Marines way before I even knew what they were of what Warhammer was. When I was… Read more »
I was going to start my 4 games with the original Runequest as it was the first RPG I ever played back in the early 80’s and if we were having a top 6 it would be in there but have left it out as would have been the Donald Featherstone book Battles with model soldiers So on with the top 4 1. Command Decision by Frank Chadwick (1986) . A WW2 game that introduced me to the joys of 6mm. It was also the first game I had played with spotting ,opportunity fire a feel of combined arms on… Read more »
Why am I up so early on a Sunday? Oh, yeah. I have an 11 month old alarm clo… Daughter. So what games influenced my development the most? Well it’s probably hard to say as it’s so all so intertwined with so many books, films and video games. However there’s no question that that the stones that started the avalanche were Hero Quest and Space Crusade. Both of these games are now sadly lost to the ravages of time however we did manage to pick up a complete copy of Space Crusade on eBay – sadly no luck as yet… Read more »
For the FPS feel , I really liked AR.SE , I played these at the Hasslefree Table a few years ago at salute , and it really gave the feeling of a FPS.
http://akulasrules.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/bad-arse-modern-skirmish-rules-now.html
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20140530052319/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/ARSE/BAD%20ARSE%20rules.pdf
Back in the early 80’s [showing my age] I remember 1st starting out with Star Fleet Battles and 1/72 Scale Tanks. 2. In 1989 I discovered Warhammer Rogue Trader which started me on the Space Marine trail to 40K. 3. Forget when exactly but number 3 was Warmachine in the days when everything was metal, still have them. This led to Hordes of course and 4. has to be Flames of War for my WWII fix. Problem is do not think I will live long enough to make everything!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude
Word of the week for me right there! Lol Thanks for that 🙂
Happy Sunday! Games that have influenced my life: Runequest II. I had played D&D before this, but was never really satisfied with the strict class system. RQII though was the dogs b*llocks though! It was the game that started my career as a GM and the creation of my own world. 38 years later that campaign world is still going on, now and then, still with some of the original players in it! WRG 6th Edition, when I first started proper gaming, i.e. not pushing marbles at lined up Airfix figures, this was the set of Ancient rules. They introduced… Read more »
Happy Sunday all.
1- 40k second edition, when I was very young. Don’t think I ever truly played a game correctly. My cousin used to just tell me what to role and in retrospect he was clearly trying lists out on me for his club evenings. I enjoyed the models, lore, aesthetic and stories I create, so it didn’t matter. This introduction lead to necromunda and all other gw games. 2- I’m torn between heroquest and advanced space crusade (Tyranid version). Both introduced to me just after 40k by my cousin. I’ll go space crusade to be different. It was one of the… Read more »
Sorry for grammatical errors etc. Writing on the mobile is a hassle.
Much like @warzan Fighting Fantasy books were my first proper intro to gaming. There was a bookshop in Covent Garden London, that on the occasional Sunday my mother would take me to and as a treat she’d buy me a book. My two favourites were Demons of the Deep and Deathtrap Dungeon. I used to play them on the school bus when all my friends were playing Top Trumps. There were some great other ones though, I remember getting for Christmas one year a special two player one the name of which escapes me, and a Mad Max Road Warrioreresque… Read more »
For me my list would be….
Fighting fantasy books
Stratego
Civilisation board game
40k rogue trader
Hero quest
All of these gave sparked some interest in me somewhere. Still playing 40k now and eyeing up the latest version of civilisation.
Happy Sunday! The four games that influenced my hobby are as follows 1. Advanced dungeons and dragons second editon.This was the first hook into the world of gaming whilst still at school, after reading fantasy books like the elric novels written by michel Morecock. 2.Then the obligitary Games Workshop….warhammer fantasy for the introduction to miniature wargaming. Several of my school pals and i visited a club in south east london in the late 80’s and played a lot of RPG’s in one of the back rooms but there was always tables of wonderful wargames set up that we walked past… Read more »
The reverse tower defence game is on its way: the Village Attacks Kickstarter. I’m in it and I’m very excited for it.
@dracs rats’ eyes move independently. I’m guessing mice do the same, so you could mirror that splendid side-eye.
Happy Sunday everyone, @dignity wondering what you would have as the objective for Frost Punk if it was made into a tabletop game? Would it just be as high a score on a turn counter as you can get? Some great looking minis earning their Golden Buttons in here. Congratulations to all the winners. 1. I guess the first one everyone will be listing is the first game we played. Cyberpunk 2020 was my start point as I grew up in the era where Manga was on the video shelf and the likes of Akira, Ninja Scroll and te Cyberpunk… Read more »
@noyjatat you would have to have a randomized weather deck that would be your game timer with maybe a preset storm pack for the end of the game where you finish up with a final fight for survival, you would then have the different elements of building homes and gathering resources and placing your workers out so you could make it as a meeples game really easily 🙂
It’s hard to whittle down to just four:
– D&D fired my imagination around fantasy worlds, and got me painting figures, reading books, everything else that consumes by time and money now.
– Call of Cthulhu. Like Ben, I had a game which showed me RPGs were more than hack, slash, get XP, get treasure; instead really get into a character, tell stories with friends.
– Car Wars: the first combat game we really got into
– Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine – the originial Epic: big armies are best
Gawds no Warhammer Roleplay, Space Hulk, Blood Bowl
Happy Sunday! Going to have to think hard to pick out 4 games, except for my first. Diplomacy the board game. It’s the mid-70s and games for me either consist of the staple family board game or airfix battles. Then Diplomacy arrives with its longer, campaign style and some great mechanics. My favorite aspect is the mechanic of everyone writing down their orders and then all the unit movement being resolved simultaneously and conflicts identified that then need to be resolved. It’s this mechanic that allows the diplomatic, away from table interactions to take place; secret alliances and backstabbing are… Read more »
Casting the net a bit wider than just tabletop games like most, these are arguably my major influences: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain First found this in my local library as well and then bought my own copy as it took me ages to actually defeat. It’s a well worn relic in my collection now. I played this around the same time as I discovered fantasy literature like The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, the Neverending Story, Narnia etc. Apart from the game and its writing, I particularly adored the artwork. Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd Edition The hardcover rulebook… Read more »
Happy Sunday everyone 😀 .
My list would be :
D&D
Risk
Heroquest
Space Crusade
Don`t bash the badger !!! was thinking of doing samurai with animals..
These games all hit my geek target and lead to me finding out about Rogue Trader and beginning the long journey down the wargaming rabbit hole that is our hobby 😀 .Final point, man i feel old, all those are thirty years ago now, with a special mention going out to all the Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf adventure books i have and still play through from time to time.
Do you have the lone wolf phone app. My god it is an awesome piece of nostalgia.
Not the phone app, i did have a Lone Wolf game on the PS4 though.
My top games that have most influenced me are: 1: Traveller 1st Ed. I love this game and it opened the whole space opera game to me. It had the Star Wars, Space 1999 feel to me without the sword and sorcery part of Star Wars. And the focus of the game could be small scale with you battling space pirates, traders and the authorities to massive space combats. It totally opened creative mind 2: Vampire the Masquerade and in truth all of the World of Darkness games. It was a good way of seeing the modern world in a… Read more »
Video Games has to be
Street Fighter 2
Simon the Sorcerer (to be honest so many point and click adventures)
Dark Ages of Camelot
World of Warcraft
Board Games
HeroQuest – I can’t believe I lost this growing up and had to buy it again many years later.
BattleShip
Cluedo
But my tabletop hobby took off only a couple of years ago when I played my first game of Warhammer Fantasy with the Isle of Blood set and it has gone on from there.
A very recent love and I think is unsung is the DarkSouls game my boys and I have played many hours of this.