This has ZERO to do with fandom, but...

[themostepotente]

A friend and I were just discussing this over IM. What are your top ten tabletop games?

10.) Life; So like there's me in my pink plastic car (excuse me, cars plural) filled with kids heading into the poor house. WTF -- can I fucking spin again?

9.) Operation; The ONLY explanation for my having fucked up nerves. Buzzzzzz!

8.) Uno; Draw four MOTHERFUCKAH!

7.) Mille Bournes; It's French. It makes no fucking sense until you've read the directions FIVE times. What's not to love?

6.) Monopoly (LotR edition); Because who wouldn't want to own Rivendell and Lothlorien?

5.) Battleship; I totally used to cheat and move my ships :P

4.) Clue (Too bad there was no HP edition); Snape did it in the Potions lab...with Harry!

3.) Stratego; Fuck chess! I'll bet Ron would be good at this.

2.) Trivial Pursuit; 80's edition fersure! Like totally.

1.) Candyland; Simplistic as fuck but still so cool.

--P

Comments

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we have some people to convert. Lots of answers to this post and only two of us mentioning any non-mass market stuff...

[eponis.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know. I mean, I agree that some of the non-mass market stuff can be difficult to learn and/or unnecessarily complex, but the good ones involve genuinely challenging gameplay, as opposed to "Yay! I rolled a seven! Park Place, here I come!"

(There's also the cost factor, of course; this is why mine isn't even more obscure, as I have to rely on my less-poor friends' tastes.)

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky in that I have a really good local group with several people who buy just about EVERYTHING that comes out. I picked up a bunch of new releases at Essen this year but my collection of ~100 is small in comparison to most of my gaming friends :)