[clue] Gaming

[David L. Willson]

The game system I favor most, Looney Pyramids, is  VERY open and very inexpensive.

But, I also own a few dozen "highly themed, play one way" games, like Fresco and Ticket to Ride.

Variety is the spice of my gaming life. :-)

David L. Willson
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----- CP Constantine <conrad at 1211.net> wrote:
> On 02/19/2012 11:28 AM, Mike Bean wrote:
> > I probably am. I've never actually been to Genghis Con, So it's not like
> > I'm speaking from the point of view of any experience whatsoever, but I
> > guess I just always pictured stuff like Squad Leader and Warhammer40K.
> > Don't get me wrong, I like WH40K conceptually, I just know it's steeped in
> > I can't even guess how much gamer culture, god only knows how much time and
> > money people put into those miniatures. I'm not judging, I just don't have
> > the luxury of same.
> > 
> 
> i can personally attest to Warhammer40k being the reason my parents had
> no disposable incoming in the 80's. I still love the W40K universe, I
> dug painting the miniatures, and I enjoyed playin the game a bunch (even
> though I usually lost miserably - discovering the wisdom of 'no battle
> plan survives contact with the enemy' many times along the way). But
> yeah, Games Workshop went out of their way to extract money from folks:
> the miniatures were expensive, and the official tournament rules were
> full of items designed to improve Games Workshop's bottom line
> (/especially/ the ones forbidding any kind of proxy pieces in play.. if
> you wanted to field a particular unit, you *had* to buy the miniature
> for it - and of course, all the best units in the game system,
> translated to the most expensive miniatures).
> 
> This of course, sucked for many of us teenagers, who would regularly get
> schooled by inferior players with more disposable income.
> 
> Blah-blah-evil-lock-in-proprietary-closed-cultures-making-this-thread-relevant-to-linux-and-FOSS-here
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