Great Board Games

Yeah. Those are fun. I don't know if we were doing combat right in Arkham, but combat seemed REALLY easy once you got a weapon. Overall the game was a blast, though.

Clank! and Clank! in Space are both good as well.

Yes, yes they are... however once you've played them once, you know all the best combos and it's just a matter of who get's lucky enough to build the best deck.



Yes it is. It's a great mechanic, it forces you to make do with an ever decreasing pool of available cards to upgrade.


Only olay? I knew there was a wrongness in you...


Dragonfire (and Shadowrun Crossfire) are cooperative deck/'character' builder games. Each game you build your deck while trying to defeat the mission with your team. Between games you build your character, which influences your hand size, starting card limit, starting resource amount, etc. Crossfire in set in the Shadowrun universe and you play a shadowrunning team, Dragonfire is set in the Pathfinder universe and you're an adventuring group. Dragonfire is the smoother of the two games, they clearly learned and updated the game play from lessons learned with Crossfire.

Other actual board games I've played recently (ish*):

Roll Player - a competitive dice-builder. The premise is you're building a D&D character, you roll dice and assign them to stats and abilities (no diaglo, it isn't 3d6 in order). Different rolls can be swapped, switched, flipped, reversed, etc as the game goes on. Build the best character and win!

It's a fun, fast little game. Beat mechanic, works best when everyone has experience with D&D obviously, and not a 'long-term' game. This one won't keep you coming back again and again, but every so often when your group is down a few players or you're killing time before the whole group shows up...

Blood Rage - a viking themed "territory capture" game where one of the territories is Valhalla... interesting game, I won both times I played by just by completely fulfilling my quests and accruing victory points, not by taking and holding territory or beating up the other Player's armies. The guys I played with claimed both times that doing it that way was an anomaly...

This one works best when someone knows the rules ahead of time, otherwise the game bogs as you look up rules. Not bad, it's 'normal' play length game, so not something you break out while waiting on people.


Zombicide - A collaborative 'kill all zombies' game, you play a survivor or hunter on a team that is in a town overrun by the Undead (or Orcs, Green Horde is an expansion).

This one is longer and someone definitely needs to know the rules fairly well. But of these three games it's the one we play the most often*. Some Characters are underwhelming, some are ludicrously good.



* The board game we've actually been playing the most is Star Wars Armada... but this a tactical miniatures game and we've been playing the strategic Corellian campaign and I don't recommend it unless you're willing to sink the GDP of Luxembourg into one game... it's Games Workshop levels of expensive.

I'd suggest Eldritch Horror to any fan of Arkham Horror. It's basically Arkham Horror, only better.

It was. It's crept up on the same problem Arkham Horror has, "expansion creep". There is too much nonsense in the game, and it takes way too bloody long to set up and break down if you keep the expansions separate.

There are a number of subtle changes, but mostly two things: the turn structure means that there is less time spent waiting for your turn; and individual actions are more significant.