Bored Games
Aug06
on August 6, 2012
at 6:00 am
Translated by Joe “Dungeon Master” Timberwolf.
I think even casual board game players know all of these “phenomena” very well. 
I was inspired for this strip by a very nice reader who recently gave me the board game for A Game Of Thrones as a present! I so can’t wait to play, but first it seems, I have to read through a manual of hundreds of pages. But I will win this battle! 
I suggest going with german style board games.
Yes, that’s a genre.
Victory-Point based games where no player gets excluded, there is not much player interaction (inter-player-harassment) so everyone can play their nuanced strategies and have fun :3
Just check out boardgamegeeks.com for the top 10 strategic/complex games for stuff like Agricola; Dominion; Thunderstone; Troyes and co,
Give me a good game of chess any time…I have a very cool board that has rooks that elevate the board off of the table, and has mythological beasts for the pieces, The other game that we love is LEFT RIGHT and CENTER, while you *don’t* have to have a board, it gets better when you make your own table to play it on, (that way you can really toss the dice…)
If my friends and I play Agricola it takes 5-6 hrs to get through one game…because everybody is so anal about keeping track of everybody else’s points, etc. and trying to counter each move they try to make. If we add the Farmers of the Moor expansion it’s a 10 hr day. @_@
If you happen to do what i did, on my first night of playing a game of thrones the board game, which was to lose one of the token and not be able to find it, e-mail fantasy flight games, they sent me a replacement token free of charge!
I’m sure you’ll love the game, its very fun.
Can’t wait to play it. We haven’t even gotten around to reading the rules, though.
You keep score??
okaaay… (Just teasing)
When we were little, my mother worked the 3- 11 shift and it was up to my dad to get us ready for bed, and on saturday, our baths, (if we needed it or not) he would line us outside and squirt shampoo in our hair, then turn on the water for the garden hose and run it over us as we scrubbed down (fully clothed which we didn’t think was weird at all) we then ran inside after we were rinsed off, got into our bed cloths and went down into the dining room where he had pretzles in a bowl, and he taught us how to play poker. we would play for pretzles, or chips or cookies, or even rasins, what ever we had, and at the end we would eat the stuff that had been handled by all of us. I don’t think any of us ever got sick.. we didn’t keep score. we just played for fun.