OK, for starters bucket list was so an exaggeration, I
probably just said that to get your attention.
I don’t plan on dying any time soon and I want this list checked off in
the near future. But what is this list
you ask?
Simple, it’s a collection of the Tabletop Games that I want
to spend some time playing – either playing games I’ve never played or doing
something more with games I have, I’ll go into more detail about that in the
individual entrees.
So what are the games?
Well, I’m glad you asked.
1.
Dungeons and Dragons – The premium Fantasy
role-playing game (RPG). It’s the RPG
that other RPG’s dream about one day being.
I’ve played a little, both running through 1 player
choose-your-own-adventure type games and DMing (that’s Dungeon Master-ing, for
the unfamiliar – *waves* “hi mom”) a
few short games with friends. Now what I
want to do is run a long campaign in the Points of Light/Nentir Vale setting or
play in a campaign in a different setting – probably Forgotten Realms or
Greyhawk – or do both.
2.
GURPS – Short for Generic Universe Role-Playing
System is an RPG with no setting, it can be used to play medieval fantasy,
science fiction, horror, adventure, crime, western, or whatever setting/genre
the players choose, including time travel settings to bring the various options
together. I have never played GURPS but
I’d kinda like to give it a try, either as player or as Game Master (GM).
3.
Call of Cthulhu – There is a lot of ground
covered by GURPS, including the ability to create player characters (PCs) and
nonplayer characters (NPCs) that are compatible with the Cthulhu Mythos. Thus eliminating the need for this Gaming
System, yet it is still on here.
Why? Because I still want to play
it. I am sure, after I play it a few
times – and play GURPS a few times – unless I decide I really like this system
much better than GURPS, I will start playing Weird Horror Campaigns using the
GURPS system with this as a resource.
But I still want to try this first.
4.
Cthulhu Live – A Live Action RPG or LARP,
Cthulhu Live is sorta kinda not really but maybe like Call of Cthulhu. It is set in the Lovecraft/Cthulhu mythos,
often but not always in the Lovecraft 20s/30s era. But rather than the pen and paper or
miniature RPGs like CoC, DnD, and GURPS, Cthulhu Live is acted out. Players dress the part go to locations and
act out their characters rather than talking them out. Using one of my local colleges or universities as a
backdrop for Miskatonic University would be one interesting way to act out a
scenario, but others could be found as well.
5.
Fiasco – Ok, one last RPG. Fiasco is sort of a pen and paper RPG. No campaigns, just a quick story that takes
about the same amount of time to play as a movie takes to watch. In terms of content, they compare this game
to Coen Brothers’ movies. A game all
about “powerful ambition and poor impulse control,” Fiasco is a GM-less RPG set
at the “intersection of greed, fear, and lust.”
Basically, it’s bad things happen to bad people, everybody loses, and
most everybody dies. Not only do I want
to play this, I want to write my own Playsets for it.
6.
Munchkin – A card game that is similar to and
making fun of RPGs – especially D&D –
made by the same folks who also make GURPS – D&D’s most important rival
system. In Munchkin, you play cards that
give you races and classes, items, special abilities, etc. and fight monsters
looking for treasure, in Munchkin it’s all about winning. There are a number of spinoffs to Munchkin –
I have the original game and spinoff Star Munchkin, which spends a lot of time
mocking sci-fi franchises such as Star Wars and Star Trek (among others) and
the RPGs based on them. My wife and I
both love Munchkin, and I would like to play a massive Epic Munchkin blender
game with lots of sets and expansions mixed together. (Note: Epic Munchkin is played to level 20
instead of level 10, and blender is when two or more versions are mixed
together).
7.
Catan – I love Catan. My wife is “meh” about it and my parents
aren’t big fans either – though they have only got to play it once and we
weren’t able to play to a conclusion due to time constraints, so I may be able
to recover them. I have the basic Settlers of Catan, the 5-6 Player expansion
to Settlers, and Traders and Barbarians.
I want to get Seafarers, Cities and Knights, and the corresponding 5-6
Player expansions I need. Once I have everything I wanna play a couple of big
games with several of the variants and scenarios mixed together, playing to 20
victory points instead of 10. It would
take potentially a long time to finish, but I like games that take a long time
– unlike my wife, who will cringe when she reads this part.
8.
Invasion from Outer Space – The Martian Game – I
love Last Night on Earth – my wife doesn’t love it as much as me, but she likes
it so we’re cool there. But what does
this have to do with Invasion from Outer Space?
I’m glad you asked. The
Three-Sided Game: Earth Overrun! That’s
right, if you own both Last Night on Earth – The Zombie Game and Invasion from
Outer Space – The Martian Game, you can combine them and play a Humans vs.
Martians vs. Zombies game. The official
instructions say you should play with either the IFOS Circus/Carnival pieces or
the LNOE Small Town pieces but I say boo.
Place them together, forming a larger playing area, with two Human
players (one playing the IFOS heroes, the other playing the LNOE heroes), one
Martian player and one Zombie player.
Additional players could take up sides as is deemed most fair.
9.
Power Grid – ok, this one isn’t so much for me
as it is for my father. He doesn’t know
much about it, but he found it on Amazon and thought it looked
interesting. So I want to get a copy and
play with him, mostly to get him to shut up about it.
10. Tabletop
– yeah I know pipe dream. But I want to
be on Tabletop. If anyone from Geek and Sundry is reading
this, I would love to be on to play any of the above games or any other game you
need players for.
So there you have it, the ten games I’d most like to spend
some time with in the near future. What
games do you like to play? Leave a
comment below or hit me up on twitter @nerdisnewcool.
Also, a good resource for games is www.boardgamegeek.com. Also, be sure to check out Tabletop starring
Wil Wheaton Thursdays on youtube for game play videos.
Until next time,
Nerd is the New Cool, signing off
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