I too have that problem, Jess. I miss having a console in the house.

I started games with Sean, Raq and Kristin. I'm happy to go just about whatever speed works for you on the games, so please don't feel rushed.

I have no Wiis to borrow. Seriously, I think that there are about 10-20 in my whole area, and I don't know any of their owners. Although...I think that the public library might have one for their game nights. I might have to go to the next one that's open to adults.

I've got a Wii, Xbox360, PS2, PSP, DS, and an Xbox. Sadly I rarely find time to play with any of them.

I'm really salivating over the upcoming Starcraft 2 though. I lost huge chunks of time in grad school to Warcraft II and Starcraft.

I've got a Wii, Xbox360, PS2, PSP, DS, and an Xbox. Sadly I rarely find time to play with any of them.

I think we have all those. Sadly I have no desire to play any of them.

libkitty, would you like to start a game with me? I enjoy all versions of scrabble I run across. I'm a huge literati fiend on Yahoo.

I also play Scrabulous.

I also play Scrabulous.

Somehow, after your hardware litany, this is... unsurprising.

I know we have Set. I have played Bohnanza but am not sure if we own it. I know it has been on the list so if we don't have it then we might need to get it. We also have fluxx and Zombie Fluxx.

You played Bohnanza when I was over! I love that game. Wallybee goes through this great transformation when she plays it.

I miss DMing--hell, I miss D&D, but the only games around here are Living Greyhawk, which I hate.

I've always quite enjoyed LG myself, though that's got a lot to do with my gaming group in Philly, and the relative ease with which I can get a game here in Melbourne. Just started a home game (Eberron setting), though, which is entertaining me at the moment.

I wasn't all that whelmed with Settlers of Catan, but thought it was decent enough. I really like Starfarers of Catan, although the nifty spaceships are breaking.

SoC is a mixed bag for me. I've had some excellent games, but also some rather bad experiences. I own but haven't played Cities and Knights, which I believe improves matters; I also find Elasund to be a fairly elegant reworking of the basic mechanisms. (And it has pirates, which improved its appeal to Emmett when I was staying with Hec and JZ.)

Have you Catan fans played Carcassone or Caylus?

I own all of them. Caylus is easily my favourite of the three. It's also the most complex. The turn process becomes fairly intuitive after a couple of plays, but I'm led to believe it can get pretty cutthroat with the right bunch of people.

I just got Ticket to Ride Europe for Christmas and enjoyed that quite a bit. I think I still might prefer Acquire or Bohanza to all of them, but those are both different sorts of games.

Wallybee and I have been playing a lot of the original TtR lately. (I thoroughly recommend picking up the 1910 expansion if you're going to do that. It makes the route deck better balanced, and it has proper sized train cards! Oh, and if you play the 15-point bonus for most routes, that also opens up winning strategies a bit.)

If you don't have the 1910 expansion, then I find another way to deal with the route deck imbalance is to split the deck into the routes worth 13+ (10 cards) and the routes worth 12- (20 cards). Then, every time you take new routes (inc. game start), you grab one ticket from the long routes pile and two from the short routes pile. (You'll note that this is similar to the TtR Europe initial cards strategy.)

I'm toying with the idea of maybe trying to get a D&D 4th Ed game going once it comes out. As much as a lot of the changes bother my nitpicky, modifiers-for-everything, encumberance-tracking, staying-up-until-the-wee-hours-of-the-morning-designing-bad-guys DMing ways, the plug-and-play, streamlined mechanics look like they might make it possible for me to actually run a game in between work, family time and getting things done around the house. We'll have to see.

I'm quite looking forward to 4E by now. I do enjoy 3.5, and it was a great improvement in elegance over 1E, but there's plenty of clunky, ambiguous or poorly balanced bits. I am also looking forward to the online play capacity, simply because so many people I'd like to play D&D with are on an entirely different continent.

I'm getting so many Scrabulous games going. Whoot!