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I haven't played and I don't know anyone who has so afraid I can't comment. I've gotten more into board games and table top recently though, so I'd be curious but yea wouldn't invest unless someone really sold me on it and/or I had people lined up to play.

Yea it's no fun having games you won't ever play. I was gifted a kind of story telling anime themed game for my birthday and I want to play it but barring my partner haven't found anyone interested, and it really wouldn't be interesting without at least 3 people. It's kind of like Cards Against Humanity, it's more like Snake Oil if you know that, but CAH is similar, but yea, requires a judge and would be no fun with just one player and one judge each round. I will play it one day, hopefully. xd

I did get DnD dice for my birthday as well though and I suppose if I was going to have something just sitting around dice would be the best thing as they can be kind of fun to display. My DnD group usually plays other games while we wait for people to show up (this is only my second night hosting so maybe I can trick people into playing tonight), so perhaps you could see if your tabletop group would be interested in giving it a go with you? Might be worth the investment if you definitely knew you had a few interested players.

I did successfully get my DnD group to play the anime game (woo!) even though none are particularly into anime (you really don't need to be for the game though) so hopefully you shall be able to find some similar interest, or at least willingness to try. If you do get it and play it do let me know if it's worth looking into, particularly if non-fandom interested people also get any enjoyment out of it.

Yea I put off buying a lot of games because I worry I won't even get to play them, especially ones that require a good number of people to play. One of my favourite games is called the Great Dalmuti and while you can play it with 4 people it's better with at least 6-8. Another favourite is Avalon but it requires a minimum of 5. I also like Werewolf but that one you can at least play with a normal deck of cards (if you can remember what is assigned to what) so you don't have to invest in the specialty deck, though probably will at some point. I have an avid dislike of Monopoly unless it's Monopoly junior. This is because it just goes on too long and I just eventually get bored and stop caring. I sometimes like a long game but that's not one of them, I guess as it feels very samey every time, and yes people get super competitive about it. But yea even if I was in my country my mom is the only one who might play games unfortunately, although we may try to get my partner's parents to play some games next time as they are curious. They are lovely people but a bit highbrow academics and kind of look down on things they feel are juvenile. And can find they enjoy said things if they can be prompted to give them a chance, but we shall see. Atm there's a board game shop that hosts a game night every Monday so I've had the opportunity to try a lot of new games that way, and that's how my partner and I ended up meeting our current DnD DM and starting a new campaign.

We are currently playing the 5th version of DnD and it's my first time playing so I'm having a ton of fun as I've always wanted to play but everyone I know who does play it has always lived somewhere else. I think Kits was saying she likes Pathfinder, and my partner is curious about it but he hasn't played it either. Our group currently meets weekly and recently split into two groups as there was a core group and a lot of drop ins, so the drops in are going to be with an online group and the core group and a few people who want to be more core group will continue the in person game. Though the DM will be the same for both and the DM's sister will probably go back and forth. But yea, if any of the core people can't find a common date (as the days vary and thus far have never been weekends) and/or are too busy in a week we usually just skip the week. Other than about 3 weeks over summer when there were various vacations going on we have usually never skipped more than a week and have been pretty regular so hopefully that keeps up. Atm I think the thing I'll be saddest about in moving back to the US is leaving my DnD group behind if it's still going. But very motivated now to get a new one in that case.

Board game/card game day is definitely fun. Sorry if I'm repeating myself - I've been ill since Friday and my head is fuzzy - but I met my DnD group at a board game night and we usually start each session out with a casual game of something or other before we begin (sometimes while eating, other times because somebody is going to be an hour or two late) which is nice. Gives me a chance to play more games. No yuugioh dice still but I did buy Zombie Dice and Cthulu Dice on the weekend. I really like both games, and part of why I got them is that they work for two people so it's nice to have some games I can play when it's just me and my partner around. I especially recommend Cthulu Dice and it has modifications for two players to make it even more interesting.

I also really want to get Betrayal at House on the Hill! A friend (who is in CA and thus not local to me, nor would be if I was still living in CA as he's in the south and I'm from up north) posted about it about half a year ago and I've been curious ever since. My DM owns it but yea it'd probably have to come out on a non-DnD night as we are unlikely to have time for both. Definitely plan to get it myself at some point though as it looks and sounds really good.

A lot of people recommend pathfinder, might aim to try that at some point. Our DM likes to draw - he's no brilliant artist but serviceable - so we generally have his hand scratched maps and stuff as we play though he does have actual maps. We only ever use them though when he forgets his own, as he doesn't actually like them. I do miss some people (and/or characters) after the group split but it would have had to happen regardless of size, or else move online (and I'm enjoying the meeting/socialising aspects so don't really want to switch to online), as half the group are still in university and thus at the end of summer were off to other parts of the country. Actually, several of them go to my uni, but they are undergrads so actually have to be living there, whereas I am a PhD candidate and in write up so when my fiance got a job in Wales we moved. I'm glad we moved though, I really like Cardiff and generally only miss friends from where we used to live.

That sucks about someone purposely trashing your house though, who does that? My partner's friend who was visiting tends to accidentally break or make things messy a lot (no breaks luckily, some mess) as he's just a big and kind of klutzy guy, but he never does stuff on purpose. Sucks you had to put up with him but glad to hear he is gone, definitely sounds like he was no loss and nice that your group can carry on as is now. razz

Yea it's a really simple and really cheap game. My fiancé and I combined it with our Warhammer figures so pretended they were the ones losing 'sanity' to Cthulhu which was great fun.

Yay Betrayal! As it's a bigger game I'll probably put that one off until I move back to the states. As I only have a year and a bit left in the UK I tend to try to keep purchases to small items and/or stuff I won't want to keep in a year as international shipping costs aren't fun. I do hope I'll get to play it before then though, guess I can prod my DM and ask for a Betrayal night as he has it.

Yea online sessions won't really solve the time problem, it just is an ideal work around for proximity differences. And it is definitely more fun to meet in person. Hopefully you guys can still figure out semi-regular meetings.

It does suck to have to end a friendship, especially a long standing one, but sometimes it has to be done when it's just not healthy for one or both parties. And he definitely didn't sound respectful. At the very least not a friend I'd want in my home. It's not that hard to bring a bag of crisps or at the very least if you don't have the cash for takeout forgo eating any. We've had drop in people who either forgot to pay (probably legitimately forgot) or didn't really contribute, but that's not okay regular behaviour. But maybe cutting him will encourage him to grow up. I have had one friend I fell out with that I later became friends with again, and in many ways while the falling out was hard it was good for both of us. If he wants friends he'll have to learn to give, maybe he'll be motivated, but if not, that's his problem.

Yea the dice games are good b/c they are simple and can be group games but can also be played with just two people which is nice. I definitely do want more two player games as it is often Tom and I on our own, although I guess that's what video games are for. biggrin

Here is to hoping your old friend grows up a bit. FYI, my broadband provider decided to turn our internet off, for no reason. It was an accident and there aren't even notes to explain why or how the agent did it but even expedited it'll take 4-5 days to turn our service back on (from Monday, as it went out Friday but we couldn't get hold of them until Sunday due to being away). So hoping to have it back by tomorrow but we'll see. Tethering to my partners phone atm, he was away doing field work until today so I've been pretty isolated as I don't have a smartphone but I guess I focused on work a bit more than I might have. Really unhappy though as this is their mistake and they still seem to not be making the effort to fix it. When our current contract is up with them we will probably switch to someone else. Originally we thought a line was done and that's fine, we wouldn't be mad at them for things out of their control. But they did this so we think we are within our rights to be unhappy. Anyhow will stop ranting but that is my explanation for why I haven't been on and will likely be poof for a couple more days.