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What do you play besides RPG's
I'm trying to start a game night here for the wife and I(and friends when possible), and I'm looking for recommendations for "games for the non-or-casual-gamer". Looking for things which can be played in about an hour or less i.e. after the kid goes to bed. I'd love to play Catan, but I know it's too involved for what I have in mind. The wife is a big backgammon fan, so other abstract games like that are good too.

My first three pics are:

1. Fluxx

2. Carcassonne

3. Adventurer Card Game

all other suggestions welcomed.

Let's see...

Sanctuary - Thieves' World boardgame

LIFE - Pirates of the Carribean style

Clash of the Titans boardgame

and a host of other boardgames, but the three listed are the ones that we play the most (with my kids).
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For a short game with buddies, family, and friends, we usually play either Dungeon Twister or Dungeoneer. Both are quick play games, DT being a little more simple, with Dungeoneer being a type of RPG/card game hyprid.

Oh course, when my gaming buddies come over with a few hours to kill, nothing's better than Talisman and a few beers

Hmm, fun games that the non-RPG gamer friends and family can play:

-Fluxx

-Lunch Money (great card game and you can bet money if you want!)

-Through the Desert (fun, lite boardgame even for kids!)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/503

-Avalon Hill's, Vegas Showdown (a little more complicated, but a very gamer kind of game that disguising itself well for the friends and family)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/503

-O
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> Omote's Advanced C&C stuff <
Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society

lets see:

settlers of catan

adventure

munchkin

arkam horror

lunch money

history of the world

etc...

also at work we play cribbage. we also may be the only non aarp card members playing but thats ok.

These are fun lite games with some strategy I have played them with non gamers before i.e the family at holidays

Ticket to ride - a surprise hit with the whole family

Fish Eat Fish - by Riener Knizia - I play with my wife and son

Blokus - Abstract block laying game very fun

GO - a great game from ancient china, simple rules difficult to master

I like some of the other suggestions but i won't repeat them.

Lets see, Ill probably miss something but:

Adventurer

Munchkin (lots of expansions)

Descent + expansions

Talisman

Risk

Own a lot more but havent gotten to play them yet. Looking forward to playing Battlestar Galactica and Mutant Chronicles boardgames soon.

In addition to Adventurer, The Card Game, I really enjoy playing Dragon Lairds by Jim Ward and Tom Wham. Very fun game that can be played in an hour.
http://www.margaretweis.com/news.php?extend.23

Jim Ward has a small write up about the game in the last Crusader magazine.

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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

Wardogs (soon to be released)

Iron Stars

Starmada:AE

Dungeon

Talisman

several others

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High Warden of the Castles & Crusades Society

What I've mostly been playing these days is:

Munchkin (and its many spin-off variants)

Arkham Horror

Lord of the Rings

Frag

Car Wars non-collectible card game

Im trying Battleground Fantasy Warfare. A "miniatures" wargame that uses cards instead of expensive figures you need to paint.
http://yourmovegames.com/battleground_index.html

BattleTech

Settlers of Catan

Old but good video games that I haven't finished yet

Twilight Imperium

Wizard's Gambit

Adventurer

Dungeon Twister

Catan

Warhammer & 40k

Mordheim & Necromunda

OOTS boardgame

Talisman

and a bunch of other games virtual, board and otherwise.

I play Texas Hold'em every Wednesday night. I like to get the Chess set out when I can find someone to paly. I play Phase 10 Dice with my clients alot. My wife and I like to get the Scrabble board out every now and then. When I go see my buddy from home, I take along the Heroscape set and we play that til all hours of the night. Plus various card games, such as Rummy, Uecher, and any variant of poker when the mood strikes.

R-
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Rigon o' the Lakelands, Baron of The Castles & Crusades Society
The Book of the Mind

Scrabble, all the way.

Love that game.

My wife and I don't play much Scrabble anymore, we are both extremely competetive and hate losing to each other. We haven't played in some years.

R-
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Rigon o' the Lakelands, Baron of The Castles & Crusades Society
The Book of the Mind

I get a healty dose of non-rpgs, especailly if you count the games I play with my kids - Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Monopoly Jr., and Go Fish. I try to get a game of Dungeoneer or Diplomancy in when I can...especially Diplomancy, though that only gets going probably once a year.

Cool suggestions everyone.

I noticed several people put Settlers of Catan in their suggestions. Was I wrong in assuming it takes more than an hour to play?

That is the main criteria for this game list.

I don't want to start involved games that we won't finish.

(BTW we played Scrabble last night )

Usually it does. Plus, Settlers of Catan is not a 2 player game.

Another game to swear off on this list if you are looking for games of about and hour long: Battletech.
-O
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> Omote's Advanced C&C stuff <
Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society

we play a lot of cribbage in our family (it's also good for teaching kids to add)

scrabble sometimes, although I have the worst luck with letter draws - try making words worth any points with iiieevo or something like that! My wife loves scrabble.

We have played the Hobbit boardgame a fair amount with our 7 1/2-yr old daughter - the game has almost no strategy - it's all luck. Still, since she likes it, we play it.

any carcassonne variant is also fun.

if we have some time for prep, we play heroscape.

ticket to ride is also awesome.
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I'd also like to throw a vote in for Lord of the Rings (the cooperative board game) by Reiner Kniza. Could be 1-2 hours long, depending on the number of players. One of the best cooperative boardgames made IMO, where all the players play against the board itself. Great stuff.

-O
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> Omote's Advanced C&C stuff <
Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society

Omote wrote:
I'd also like to throw a vote in for Lord of the Rings (the cooperative board game) by Reiner Kniza. Could be 1-2 hours long, depending on the number of players. One of the best cooperative boardgames made IMO, where all the players play against the board itself. Great stuff.

-O

This is a really good game to play as a family. The cooperative nature makes it fun for children since everyone is working together. Arkham Horror (made by the same company) is similar, but obviously a lot darker and probably not a great family game.

Depends on the family. IN our family, we all wear yellow coats.

-O
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> Omote's Advanced C&C stuff <
Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society

Omote wrote:
Depends on the family. IN our family, we all wear yellow coats.

-O

In our family we all wear red, it hides the blood stains.

Ok my list contained severl games that take more than one hour to play sorry bout that. But one game that you should really look at is Wizard's Gambit. 2-5 player non-collectible card game that is a wagonload of fun. Picked it up at Gencon and have had a blast with it.

We used to play a lot of board and card games. After reading these posts, I should try to get our family back to regular gaming fun.

Cribbage

Yahtzee

Spades

Hearts

Tripoley

Pente'

Charades

Pictionary

Life

Stratego

Battleship

and oh yeah, Cathedral!

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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

Axis and Allies(the game that kicked Risk to the curb in the 1980's), Blood Feud in New York(a soon to be out of print mafia game from Eagle Games-highly recommended), War of the Ring(Fantasy Flight), Railroad Tycoon(the Eagle Games version-I'm not even a big RR fan, but I like it), Circus Maximus(early 80's Avalon Hill game-wonderful!), etc. Others I get out once in awhile...Shogun(or Samurai Swords-out of print Milton Bradley), Risk 2210, etc. Hope to buy the War of the Rings expansion, Railroad Tycoon expansion, Twighlight Imperium and expansion, Tide of Iron, Battlestar Galactica board game, Tanhauser, etc.

I play, with some regularity:

Adventurer Card Game

Zombies!!!

Warhammer Quest

Hero Quest

Talisman

Ruins World

Carcassonne

Monkey Arena

Runebound

I forgot to add Risk: Godstorm to my list. Now if I could just figure out how to beat my buddy at it, I'd play more often.

R-
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Rigon o' the Lakelands, Baron of The Castles & Crusades Society
The Book of the Mind

When I'm not playing RPGs I'm busy with wargames (mostly old ones from the 60s, 70s, and 80s). I do also like boardgames like Axis and Allies, Shogun, etc. I like to play other games like Dragon Dice, Zombies!!!, and other Twilight Creations games.

The Egg
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