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Godstorm? is that a rule variation or a new board and peices set they make you buy? Bleh, why does that answer seem so obvious now that I asked?
Problem with D&D now is there are so many add-ons and additional books/rules that you'll find some of it conflicting or really wacked-out in the power scale department. I quit playing around 4-5 years ago. Fond memories until rule arguements cluttered the game.
Call of Cthulhu! Thats creepy as hell, though a friend of mine was able to do a much better job with the Rifts rules set (Paladium?) instead....the Cthulhu rules were very limiting. It was still D20 wasn't it? Or was it all them 10 sided dice that Shadowrun or Wearwolf the Apoc made you use? Wow, I feel geeky now.
The human dynamics of Scrabble are something else. I love the game, but it's very hard to draw into it people who aren't already fans. There is the 'dictionary memorizers' factor - I tend to avoid those types -, but also, many people find the game too competitive, or is that just around me... it's a fact that I tend to beam when making a third "bingo" in a row - I remember hitting two red squares with A-S-P-H-Y-X-I-E, for 270 points in one move... Boy, was my sister peeved!
I did the two red squares once too. I don't remember the word but it had a Z. A nice big score.
A couple of times a bingo with the last seven letters of the game. The opponent is never as happy as I am especially if I was lagging behind.
Or Vampire: The Masquerade, or Changeling: The Dreaming, or Mage: The Ascension, or Wraith: The Oblivian....ah memories.
A triple-triple, you lucky bastard. Well done!
In a two-person game, I'm happy with anything over 400.
Hey, wait a minute, that's not in the dictionary. Asphyxia?
http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/
830! How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever.In French, it is.
Of course.
Mine was in French too, higher scores and more fun.
Yeah, you guys would get higher scores because you use more Qs and such. :) :)
Good for you, Martin!
I like scrabble, but I don't think it's really a game for book-minded, or even word-minded people. It's really about maximizing points and space to yield the highest return. Someone who has memorized all the acceptable two-letter words will do much better than someone who knows how to spell 'paletot'. It's a game that rewards efficiency, memorization and fortune, while remaining ambivalent to creativity, imagination and verve. Maximize property value, minimize artistic expression.
It's about capitalism, bascially.
LOL Catchfire. Screw the rules though. Some of the best scrabble games I played were 'slang scrabble' and 'rude scrabble' where you got double points if the word or slang was considered rude, based on player consensus. Couple that with beer and other party favors and it made for some pretty fun evenings and hilarity of people defending their 'words'. Scrabble can be creative if you don't have any purists clutching their dictionary.
I've always enjoyed discovering new aspects to friends by playing games such as scrabble.
Nothing less than 5 cards. Bah on Texas hold 'em
I'm a lousy chess player. Mme. Bong explains this by telling me I play chess the way I play hockey. I'll let you figure that out.
My mom hears ya. She's quite a bookish person, yet her brother, who doesn't read anything but The Western Producer, but is a math genius (he does things like invent new ways of doing long division for fun, and he's a pretty heavy-duty card player) would always beat her at Scrabble. He could figure out high-scoring math combinations with simple words, which seemed to always win over difficult letter combinations with low-counting squares.
Me, I like games such as "Axis and Allies," "Shogun," "Risk," "Machiavelli" and "The Guns of August." There aren't enough of us out there, I suppose, as Avalon Hill Games went bust.
There is nothing like a good game of Diplomacy.
Well, I won't be the first Monopoly player to uncloak... whoops!
My youngest loves playing Monopoly on the computer. We have several versions and cities.
Damn. I'm still undefeated in my online version of Scrabble. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Eventually, a Scrabble Goddess will notice me and crush me under her boot. Until that day arrives, I'll just have to remain my insufferable self.
Of course, nothing matches chess for longevity and universality.
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Your best post ever !
Damn. I'm still undefeated in my online version of Scrabble.
What is your online version of scrabble?
I played in the NB Blitz chess championship on Saturday. Made it to the quarterfinals before being eliminated 3-0 by the eventual champion.
A few years back, a bunch of us tried to have a babble chess tournament. It fell apart pretty fast, due to troubles getting games played and coordinating players, but I've always wanted to try again. Any chess-heads with the gumption to give this a go?
I played in the first annual babble cat-herding expedition. If I remember correctly, my first result was Jacob Two-Two - Catchfire aka Hooded Fang ended 1/2 - 1/2. My only draw before the cats' irrepressible ability to deherd finally won out.
That's right! That was my only game, I think. I was one of the ones who couldn't get my games played, but in my defense I was going through a messy breakup and a problematic move (house-wise)at the time.
I believe that Papal Bull and N. Beltov were also involved. Should we try again? I'm down if others are.
If such a tourney takes place, then it must be in a single format. For example, all the games must be played on Yahoo, and only on Yahoo, or FICS and only on FICS. The complexities of administering more than one format blew the whole thing apart last time. Furthermore, the likelihood of players dropping out means that such things have to be anticipated.
We could play on Facebook if the competitors did not mind uncloaking to each other.
I wouldn't mind playing on Facebook at all. I just joined and do not understand how the Scrabble works at all.
Nobody seems to be around. There are a lot of questions on how scrabble works on Facebook and so far no answers......
As being uncloaked couldn't care a smidgen.
I don't see how it can be played on Yahoo as Yahoo has literati which is close to scrabble but no specific amount of each letter.
al-Q:
Ah yes, a&a...so many university hours that I probably should have spent studying. Shogun was alot of fun too (it was put out of print a bit back, but recreated as 'Sword of the Samurai'. I think). Fortress America and a few others along those lines were entertaining for a while too.
Do you remember Axis and Allies 2 at all? The board was completely change around, France/vichy France are an actual entity...China too. Problem was they through in so many rules that it became a nightmare to keep track of everything.