Comments on: Board Games That Scarred Me For Life

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By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:06:28 +0000

haha! funny stuff. trivial pursuit was quite disturbing when i first played it. then again, it was advertised as being for 15 year olds and up; i was 10 when i first had a go. learning things like diphallasparatus is when a man has two penises perhaps wasn’t the best way to spend my childhood.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:31 +0000

Damn Jase this was one funny blog post.

Having played several of these games with you as kids, I can definitely attest to several of those lessons learned. I do think that in a lot of these games (particularly the strategy ones) the setup took longer than the actual game in some cases. In the case of another WW2 sim, Avalon Hill’s Third Reich, the instruction manual reminded me of a bad high school reading assignment — you might slog through 100 pages of prose but how much of it did you retain?

I really enjoyed that Talisman game we used to play with BJ though. As well as some of the card games which were a bit simpler.

I’ll have to agree though, as much as I like board games and pen and pencil rpgs, the computer sure as hell makes the micro management a lot easier.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:36:34 +0000

Heh — now that I’ve published this article there is a theme of being a kid frustrated with overly complex rules. Which is why I now prefer video games because the computer takes care of all the tedious dice rolling and hit point calculation stuff. I’m impressed that you have the patience to play the game today — perhaps you just have an excellent DM?

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:30:21 +0000

I still play D&D once a week

(actually didn’t start until pretty late in life… had the rule books but never found a good DM as a kid)

Important life lessons I’ve learned from D&D:

The most logical result of invulnerability is to become a complete asshole because no one else can do anything about it. Superman? It would never happen.

All it takes is one chaotic evil guy in the party and next thing you know everyone’s trying to use “eat the evidence” to cover up the accidental murder of the town guards. This applies to cube dwelling office politics in a way I don’t want to think about right now.