General Discussion

one of my goals going into the new year is to have more face-to-face time with my loved ones and less doomscrolling for my own mental health and I've found that I REALLY enjoy having game nights to play tabletop/board games! so basically I wanted to share a couple of my recent favorites and hear from others so I can get some ideas for future game nights hehehe :3

Wyrmspan is my current favorite that I find myself constantly going back to! It's strategic and every time it's set up it's like playing a new game. I guess it's not surprising that when I'm not playing online dragon game I wanna play tabletop dragon game lol?? Also the art is really pretty and it comes with a field guide type thing that has lore about the different species of dragons in the game which is so neat! In a similar vein is Flamecraft which is also dragon-based with amazing art, but it feels more cooperative gameplay-wise, rather than Wyrmspan which is mostly focusing on your own game.

Anyways, tell me about your favorite tabletop/board games!! I'm looking for new games to fill out my collection and keep things fresh so feel free to give recommendations or just gush about your personal fav :)

Wanted to look more into Wyrmspan, might check it out in the future. As far as I know, it's similar to their other game, Wingspan, which I've played (and greatly enjoyed) the digital version of. I love birds.


Anyway, for my own current favourite:

Paleo. It's a cooperative game where each player manages part of stone-age tribe, trying to survive the challenges nature throws at them. Everyone starts with two humans, and these humans can each have one of three abilities, so players must frequently work together to solve tasks.
There are multiple different scenarios of varying difficulty that can be combined. The manual has a list of combinations in ascending order of difficulty to try, but you aren't limited to those specific ones. There's a bunch of add-ons too, but the base game is already quite substantial.
It has a lot going on for a first-timer, but you get into it, it is easy to keep torack of everything. It will, however, always remain difficult. Winning is not guaranteed, because the stone age can be a harsh era to live in. But never give up. Sometimes a beginning looks awful, but your tribe may just have needed some time to get the ball rolling. Each run is different!
It can in theory also be played alone. The way the game works, which each player getting the same amount of cards representing what their humans can do in a day, so the game pretty much balances itself depending how many players there are. For a solo player, that means few humans to start with, but really long days to work with.


I could go even deeper into it, but I'll stop it there. What it boils down to: Paleo good. Cavemen fun.

Monopoly. Hands down.

I've always gravitated towards games that revolve around economies and doing whatever you can to win the game. (If a game has a virtual economy like this one, then I'm likely to play it!)

It should come to no surprise that whenever I suggest playing the game nowadays, people immediately go, "No way! You cheat!"

Do I? Yes.

Everyone benefits in the end, since I usually help the other players out once I've gotten whatever I wanted out of the session.

It's also funny watching others attempting to bribe the banker and/or each other so they don't lose so soon. The best part is when you make up your own rules because you find it boring, and suddenly losing the round means your game piece is sacrificed to some deity that swears to break your opponent's kneecaps.

Monopoly is very fun. 10/10 game. I will trick someone into playing it again with me some day. Yahtzee is also pretty good.

Paleo sounds interesting, so I might check that out.

Betrayal at the house on the hill, in which I played with a Scooby Doo expansion pack and witnessed as one of the players was swallowed by an elevator that took them to hell.

I also enjoyed playing Arkham Horror despite how complex it is and how likely your characters are to meet an ultimate demise.


And for anybody that enjoys Roleplaying tabletop games, I had an amazing time watching the Yogsquest series 1 through 5 on Youtube. Each chapter is a different game, such as Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu. They're a very entertaining crew.

Currently DMing a homebrew ruleset for Subgrubs and Snazzards. Its a homestuck based tabletop game where you play as a troll trying to survive on a deathworld with a brutal dictatorship, despite the dark setting theres lots of room for wacky hijinks to ensue.

My family plays roleplaying games together. Specifically, we're playing Pathfinder 2e. It's how we all keep consistent with seeing each other and interacting.

I met my husband in high school from our gaming group, who I met via his brother, also in our gaming group. From there I met their mom and their sibling. We ended up staying close to each other as adults and game every other weekend. My husband runs a solo adventure just for me as well. I could go on, but roleplaying games really have just had a huge effect on my life.

As for board games, I love good ol' Ticket to Ride. It's a great game to get people introduced to the wider world of board games, but it's simple enough to teach very easily. My family also likes Azul a lot. I recently got Wyrmspan and need to play it more, but the time that I did play it, it was a lot of fun!

oh i've got a few card based ones!! depending on the mood i love spoons, but it can get realllyy competitive, like we have people falling off chairs and getting injured often. if you haven't heard of it, i'd compare it to musical chairs almost? i won't try to explain it because it's much easier to demonstrate irl than to type out online.

i also quite enjoy liar! i think that's what it's called, but i've also seen it called bs? again i won't try to explain it for everyone's sake

Since I don't think anybody has suggested any word games yet, I suggest boggle, bananagrams, and scrabble.

Scrabble can take a bit long sometimes, but boggle and bananagrams are pretty quick and you can learn lots of new words as a result.

Also, a standard 52 card deck of cards is always good since there's so many games they can be used for and people tend to be familiar with them in my experience (so you don't need to spend as much time explaining the rules)