Non Hero Gaming

[JmOz]

What Non Hero games do you all enjoy?

I personaly love what I refer to as Games Workshop "Small Scale" games (Blood Bowl, Necromunda, and Mordheim)

I also like Heroclix

[BlackSword]

Jadeclaw is the current game I am playing with some friends. Its anthropmorphic (furry) kung fu game. It has an interesting dicepool and skill system. It has a robust martial arts system so that you can learn such moves as 'butterfly landing on iron pillar' which instead of doing damage knocks back an opponent.

[Trebuchet]

Illuminati: New World Order, a brilliant card game by Steve Jackson Games.

[Lord Liaden]

I'm pretty fond of Talislanta. Fascinating world setting, and though it may sound odd from a HERO lover, I love the simple, fast but flexible game mechanics; they're perfectly suited to the milieu, and help focus the game on role-playing.

[TheEmerged]

RoboRally, AKA Richard Garfield's Other Contribution to Gaming. The story is that this was the game he was trying to sell to Wizards of the Coast when he ended up selling them some obscure card game that required collecting Truth be told, in my opinion it's more fun than his more famous contribution. Our local gaming group has played it so much the movement cards are starting to get ratty...

I play a fair amount of D&D as well, primarily because it's the best way for me to be a player (I'm almost always the HERO GM).

[Lord Mhoram]

My wife and I play Magic:The Gathering (I use a program to print proxies of expensive cards, and I don't collect, so it isn't much of a money drain, no more than HERO).
We play some 3E D&D with 20 year old 1st ed characters that we had converted over, for nostogia, upon occasion.
I played Heroclix, but it has lost its appeal- I could do everything it does with HERO combat with all the options on. I'm not really much of a wargamer.
We also play Trivial Pursuit (which I usually win) and Scrabble (which my wife invariably wins).
Video games- The wife plays console RPGs, I am into emulation of old console games (can't get better than the classic 8 and 16 bit platformers) and the arcade games I sunk quarters into as a youth (Pac Man, Tron, Asteriods, Gauntlet, that sort of thing).

[Thag13]

Lord Mhoram, What program do you use to make the cards with??

I like to play several Cheap A$$ games (Lord of the Fries,give me the Brain). WE also love playing Robo Rally around here, I suck at it, but its fun to play.

We also get around to playing Formula De the Racing game every now and then.

WE do some of the card game, usually the ones on sale really cheap. But I also like L5R, Magic and Warlord.

My wife is really into Dark Age of Camalot right now...She plays a lot, and I get on sometimes with her.

I would like to play the Buffy RPG and check out War Hammer 40 some more, I have the basics of an Army I just need to do more with it....

THANKS

[Bartman]

Love almost eveything everyone has listed so far. But I what I play the most often is the Settlers of Catan board game. Slick design, fast play and plenty of teeth gnashing. And if you lose revenge is only 40 minutes away.

[Lord Mhoram]

Originally posted by Thag13
Lord Mhoram, What program do you use to make the cards with??

The program is in actuallity database and inventory tracking software for magic cards, the proxy printing is an extra: It's a nifty little thing called Magic Suitcase. It's freeware. Most search engines should bring it up, and there is a yahoo group devoted to the program (not magic itself, just the program). There are a couple of other sites that have cropped pictures of all the card art, and they work with suitcase so you can (if you want to take the ink) make a failry cool looking proxy.

[JohnathanChance]

Originally posted by Thag13

We also get around to playing Formula De the Racing game every now and then.


THANKS [/B]

I love that game! I first played a friend's copy up in San Antonio. So I had to buy it.

Also my group currently plays D20 Modern, Wheel of Time (Rarely), Feng Shui, Warhammer FRP, Rifts (I know Mea Culpa, but is more or less just for a powergaming fix), and for a non rpg kick we also occasionally play Modern Naval Battles (mainly to annihilate whichever player ends up with the USS Kirk)

[Tom McCarthy]

We only get to play Champions every 3 weeks.

Lately, we've seen Formula De, Blood Bowl, APBA Baseball, Settlers/Starfarers, Parts Unknown (CheapA$$), Xactica (Screw your neighbour with 12 suits and every cards in 4 different suits), American Megafauna, Roborally and Heroclix.

Funny how it's easier to make a balanced Champions battle than a clix game.

[JmOz]

What team do you do in Blood Bowl Tom? I have moved away from humans for the first time and am doing a undead team

[JohnOSpencer]

"Yay! BLOOD BOWL!" The best Games Workshop game ever!

I play anything GW(something to do with working there), D&D3e, Feng Shui, Shadowfist, and several REALLY old and no-longer-supported card games.

John Spencer

[Blue]

The following are "active" campaigns under 3 different GMs in which I have a character...

• Vampire: Dark Ages
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse
• Runequest
• D&D 2e Monster Campaign (Playing creatures as PCs)
• D&D 3e adaption of the "Return to Temple of Elemental Evil"
• D&D 3e Traditional Greyhawk campaign
• D&D 3e Planar Campaign

That's not including 1-shots and campaigns that are unlikely to ever continue. But you can see why there's a need for a my pending Champions game in there.

I generally hate boardgames. The Exception is indeed Bloodbowl! But then calling it a board game is like calling Hermit a "casual poster". It just doesn't quite cover it.

[ShelleyCM]

I play historical GURPS games...no, wait. I run historical GURPS games! And a GURPS Traveller game, although it's intermittant. And I'm so dying for someone to run Castle Falkenstein or Pendragon!

My evening addiction is Civ III. And I play Frisbee with my dogs, too.

-Shelley