Favourites vs FOMO board games and RPGs

[@crapphone7744]

In this Golden Age of gaming, I have had to become highly selective in buying games that I don't have time to play 😅

[@crapphone7744]

Going to join the chorus of those remembering the fun of anticipation of getting a new game on the rare occasions when we could afford it. I remember waiting forever for Avalon Hill's Panzerblitz with baited breath for weeks. I think in part because of the long way it did not dissapoint. Play that game with my best friend until the counter edges were ragged and delaminating.

[@Rich_H_1972]

I have far too many RPGs and boardgames. It actually depresses me because I know I won't have time to ever play most of them. I was happier in my gaming hobby when I was a kid, skint, and had to wring the last drips fun out of the few things I could afford.

[@chrisdonovan8795]

Yes, I was going to write the same thing. I was on the poor side growing up. If my friend had a game, then I didn't need to buy it too. If I had it, my friends didn't need to buy it. When I did buy something, I thought long and hard about it. I would play it, and possibly modify it for as long as I could. Now I buy things just for the CHANCE that I MIGHT have fun sometime in the future. It's wasteful and sad.

[@Mind_of_MATT]

I have ran out of space buying different games. Some I enjoy & some I haven't even played yet. Board games & RPG books. It's a bit ridiculous really. So I can't buy anything new, I just don't have the storage space for it & I don't want to purge games I haven't even played such as the Alien board game.

[@williamswargames]

I'm sorry to ask such a generic question - but what would I be missing out by going with the White Box as opposed to one of the other oldschool revival systems like Labyrinth Lord, Osric, Basic Fantasy? RPGs have always been peripheral to my wargaming and I've only played a couple (one shot Call of Cthulhu, and DungeonWorld) so I don't have all the context that's so obvious to everyone else. I'm very much looking to emulate your WhiteBox + MythicGM experience really, but I don't know what I'm missing by going with a different book!

[@paultice]

That's a very fair question and a lot of it's down to personal taste. White Box is basically Swords & Wizardry but slightly simplified with d6 for all damage and hit dice, and levels capped at 10 for classes so you're not playing superheroes. Any Race can be any class but there is an optional Elf Fighter/Mage which can only go to Level 8. White Box also has optional Ascending Armour class and a single Saving Throw. The tiny book is a complete game but there is an extra little book available on DriveThru called White Box Expanded Lore which gives neat simple rules for Bards, Druids, Hunters, Monks, Paladins, Gnomes and Half-Orcs. And any supplemental material for Swords & Wizardry White Box works with White Box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game as they are basically the same, just FMAG is a little tidier with a more streamlined book. Labyrinth Lord is a close copy of Moldvay/Cook B/X from 1981 and is all descending armour class and demi-humans are their own classes (e.g. an elf is an elf, a dwarf is a dwarf whereas a human can be a Fighter, Magic User, Cleric or Thief). OSRIC is a clone of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition and contains a lot of material including good dungeon generation tables, but I never really got into it as AD&D is not my nostalgia. Basic Fantasy is a great game that's a lot like B/X in how streamlined it is, but with Ascending Armour class, race and class are separate, and everything from supplements to adventures is all free on pdf.

[@midnightgreen8319]

I do love my Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Mutant Crawl Classics as well! It does take work to run though. I have Death in Space ( I need to read it thoroughly) and I have Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland for Post-apocalyptic games, which my group really likes a lot!. But having a couple games that you really like is absolutely all anyone needs. Good video!