A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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If there's any RPGers with an Xbox, PS3 or PC get Oblivion. Seriously. It's gaming crack. It's set in a massive, massive gaming world where you can do anything, pretty much. There's day, night, rain, snow, cities, towns, villages, thousands of people going about their daily lives... You can break into houses and steal stuff, join guilds, you get the picture. I've had it for 18 months now and I've still not seen half the gaming world.
Downside: I've worked out if I was playing it 9 till 5, monday to friday, it equates to about a month of my life so far.
I hadn't realized you have to join Facebook to play Scrabulous. I don't keep up with my myriad of on-line communities already. Oh the pressure.
favorite card games?
The old standards. Gin rummy, 500 rummy, hearts, spades, bridge.
500 rummy
Known as Rummy 500 in our household, the mere mention gets my blood pumping, the shouted, "I want that card!" of my siblings ringing in my ears. I only ever think I've had more fun playing Spoons, one cold and rainy Minocqua Wisconsin summer with all the kids in the campground gathered around a long rickety table, a mismatched assortment of spoons spread carefully before us on the stained plastic table cloth. I can almost feel my mosquito bites itching.
My favorite card game ever is called Russian Bank. I've never met anyone outside of my family who had ever heard of it before, although I've heard rumors of others.
My favorite card game ever is called Russian Bank.
Looks interesting. I think the closest I've come is Double Solitaire. I sometimes played quadruple solitaire with Mom & both sisters.
rummy 500 was always big in my house. As was head-to-head solitaire (where you can build on eachothers aces piles). Hearts. A friend taught me Canasta, which I liked, but the computer variants sucked. would love to play with people. Ugg. That's the shitty thing of living alone... nobody to play games with! Is there a gaming singles network???
My family was big into hearts until my father discovered bridge.
In middle school we used to play scum (which has about a gazillion alternate names I can't remember right now) and speed in the hallway in front of the library.
Is there a gaming singles network?
I have heard a lot of game players use Meetup.com to find others to play with.
In middle school we used to play scum (which has about a gazillion alternate names I can't remember right now)
I was going to ask if this was the same as Spit or Speed until you said
and speed
man I got some bruises on my hand playing Speed against my shark of a sister.
No, scum is the one with 4 players and after each round the loser becomes Scum, the winner becomes President (or King/Queen), and the 2 in the middle become vice-scum and vice-president, and your ranking gets you some kind of advantage or disadvantage in the next round.
And er, obviously I don't remember how it's actually played. But for 7th and 8th grade, it was just about all I did during my free periods.
