Just curious. I think we know what kinda of rpg’s Meguey Baker and Vincent Baker play (awesome ones) but what other games do they enjoy? (insert obvious invitation for them to share and then comparison of our favorite games)
Just curious.
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You mean like board games and card games and such? Ones in heavy rotation around here are:
Uno http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-42003-Uno-Card-Game/dp/B00004TZY8
Spot It http://www.blueorangegames.com/spotit/
Squint http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3595/squint
Smash Ups http://www.alderac.com/smashup/about/
Dungeon Fighter http://www.craniocreations.com/en/boardView.php?id=2
Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers http://www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=49
Zero (airplane dogfights in WWII) http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2247/zero
By this you can tell we have a youngest child who only learned to read in the last year, and so lots of our family games are still pre-reading.
Vincent really likes the game Keep Cool http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14698/keep-cool and other super-thinky strategy games.
I really like Cranium and Pictionary and Taboo and Encore and things like that which involve an active component. I like Jungle Speed but we don’t own it.
We periodically go on card-playing streaks and try all sorts of traditional and obscure trick-taking games.
We tell a lot of jokes and play a lot of riddle games like 20 Questions and Who Am I? and Mini Mysteries (of the “There’s a person dead in a room with fifty-one bicycles. How did they die?” sort).
We have a HUGE array of padded PVC weaponry that gets used year-round, mostly by the kids, and in the summer we set up a badminton net in the yard. We play a mean (read: fun and silly) game of Baker Baseball, which involves lots of invisible players and some wacky batting rules. Also sometimes a variable number of bases.
There’s various video games too of course, like all the Lego games for the wii, and Minecraft for the whole family (except I very rarely play). The older boys and I play Guild Wars 2, Vincent plays Star Wars Battlefront, and the middle son plays Portal and Half-life enough that there’s a general family awareness of them.
Ok, y’all. Which of those do you play, and what other games do you like?
I am a big fan of dominion. I own many other games but that is the most common one I play. Citadels is nice for pulling out something that doesn’t take much space. I play the occasional video game, but I haven’t been big into that stuff since the 90’s. Unfortunately my social life has been rather limited recently which means not many opportunities to play much.
I was a development tester for Star Wars Battlefront. I played so many hundreds of hours of that game… Some people get ringing in their ears, I would litterally lay down and close my eyes at night with pew pew pew in my ears. It was worth it for the Pandemic v Lucasarts playtest / grudge matches though.
I have some friends that make a machinima series based on it:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=K8gL9HjDNeo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DK8gL9HjDNeo